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John is using the metaphor of each of the consonants in each word; heaven שמים and earth ארץ, as they are used in Genesis 1.
John is also demonstrating the metaphor of the number two. From Ge 1:1 it is discerned that there is only one creation, yet it has two parts; heaven and earth. This is not a moral duality which would have good and evil to be equal opposites. Nor is it a mitigated dualism where one of the gods is inferior, but always opposing. It is not a Gnostic dualism of a spirit trapped in a body. And it is not a Hindu dualism where the spiritual is a completely separate universe from the material.
=The Holy God=
The first expression of Biblical dualism is that God is Holy; he is separate, he is different.
John has declared that no man has seen God <ref>[[Joh 1:18]] No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].</ref> Not only has he not seen him, but he cannot see him. This teaching comes from the hidden. God is to men, like water is to the fish, and air is to the bird. The fish cannot see the water; if they could, they could see nothing else. The birds cannot see the air; if they could, they could see nothing else. We are immersed in God!
Some mock the idea that God is so big that he fills the universe. God doesn't fill the universe. God is bigger than the universe! <ref>[[1Ki 8:27]] But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?</ref> When God separated heavenly stuff from earthly stuff, the stuff the universe is made of, the earthly stuff was a void within God. <ref>[[Ge 1:2]] And the earth was '''without form, and void'''; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.</ref> Christians have the idea that God took absolutely nothing, and changed it's nature to be something, then organized the something into stuff. The picture painted by Genesis is that in the beginning there was only God. He was all that there was.
==Three in heaven==
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