Physical light is not inherently good. Storm troopers use laser guns too. Early Church fathers thought of angels as beings made of (material cause) light - like that Star Trek episode were the Enterprise encounters the light people. Satan is also described as appearing as an angel of light.
A modern mapping of Gen 1 to current scientific model ("6 day creation") understands the separation of light and darkness as quark confinement, where light is literally separated from darkness (matter) and the vibrations on the surface of the "deep" at that instant are still visible in the map of the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background).
I like the "6 day" model, because while other argue over whether the universe is 14 billion years old or 6000 years old, I ask what frame of reference are we using to measure said age? Earth frame of reference did not exist for most of the period under discussion. When they respond, "so how old do you think the earth is?" I say, well, in the frame of reference of the CMB, which is uniquely visible from anywhere in the universe, the universe is ~5.5 days old. (CMB FoR days become progressively shorter as the universe expands and the frequency of the CMB decreases).
The 14 billion yr estimate is based on the CMO (CoMoving Objects) FoR, which is a cluster of galaxies moving with roughly the same direction and speed as ours, and afaict is equally valid, but not nearly as interesting.