Interface Reading of Genesis 1–9: A Mechanism-Bearing Two-Level Reading of the Creation, Fall, and Flood Narratives

This paper proposes a reading of Genesis 1–9 on which the six days of creation are operationsthat shape God’s own presence into a contact surface (an interface) with the formless-and-void, rather than fabrications performed upon it; on which ha’adam of Genesis 2–3 is thehuman category rather than an individual, assembled from both sides of that interface (dustand breath); and on which the fall is a specified cross-tier exchange — the physical sidereaching above its station while the presence side is simultaneously drawn below its own —whose consequences (death, shame, expulsion) follow from the one transaction. The readingis supported by a falsifiable ordering-inversion signature between Genesis 1 and 2; by atranscendental argument from Genesis 2:25/3:7 (the “nakedness argument”), in which thetext itself supplies a controlled comparison locating the fall’s change entirely in the evaluator;by a close reading of Genesis 5:1–3 as an explicit type-to-token transition protocol; and byGenesis 6:3’s statement of the persistence mechanism in the text’s own vocabulary. Defensesare given against the three strongest objections (Romans 5; the Genesis 5 genealogy; Matthew19:4–5), and the proposal is differentiated from its nearest neighbors (Philo of Alexandria,John Walton, S. Joshua Swamidass). Costs are recorded rather than minimized. The systemsvocabulary employed throughout (“interface,” “staging area,” “coupler”) is declared as amodel brought to the text, with every evidence-bearing observation stated so as to standindependently of it. The paper is deliberately self-contained and answerable to the textalone.