I decide to read the bible and came across these mistakes?

Question

I only read the first three chapters and with all the mistakes that i have found, should i continue to read it?
Here are the mistakes....
God makes day and night on the first day and the fourth day, he spilts night and day on the first day and the fourth day?
The sun did not exist intill the fourth day, so we float around with no gravity, and no sun.
God did not make water he made the earth which had water?
God made the heavens and the earth, yet the sky (which is a heaven) Was not made intill the 2nd day?
God made water to be in the sky yet he has to send a mist up from the ground to water the earth?
God made land animals on the fifth and sixth day, yet it says that he made them for adam, who wasnt made intill the sixth day....gen 2:18
Am i missing something or seeing something?

Just realized this we werermade in the image of god,
yet we came from dust!!!
LOL
I would just like to also point that water evaportes from the heat of the sun and creates the sky...there is more to that but it would take me awhile to think about it..and i am tried so that aint going to happen, :O

Actually the light is has to be the sun...
on the first day god made day and night also...

God is not light!
Genesis 1:
26 Then God said, “Let "us" make man in "our" image, after "our" likeness.
Not light!!!
Read the bible people...?

Answer 1

Gratvol's pointing you in the right direction -- some of your comments (such as thinking God creating light from darkness is the same as God creating the sun and moon) are misstatements and create some of these discrepancies.

You've also got to think about the style of writing you're reading. What's the point of Genesis 1? It's NOT a research-laboratory description of how God created the world... it's a very generalized, very high-concept view of creation meant to establish some things about God -- such as that he was powerful enough to create everything, benevolent enough to consider it "good" when it was created, and that there was a general order to creation.

The first version walks through the "broad categories" of the world as the listeners would have seen it -- starting with light and dark, then breaking it down further and further until everything in creation (ending with mankind) is covered.

It also is structured to contrast with creation stories of other cultures at the time, in which gods usually had sexual intercourse with each other in order to create the known world.

From this version of creation, we see that Jehovah is very different than the gods of the other cultures.

Anyway, I encourage you to read the text in the way the listeners would have heard it and the context they would have had in their minds. It makes no sense to read a text in a way it was not intended, and results in "errors" like the ones you are bringing up. If you have any questions, feel free to ask...

Answer 2

No, you are missing something.

You are asking several questions, so I don't think that I will bother with answering all of them. After all, if you wanted a serious answer, you would ask an expert in Christian Theology, instead of posting a questions here for amateurs to answer.

There are at least four different answers to your question on the Sun not being created until the fourth day, which do you prefer?

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How could the days of Genesis 1 be literal if the Sun wasn’t created until the fourth day?
by Jonathan Sarfati

We know today that all it takes to have a day-night cycle is a rotating Earth and light coming from one direction. The Bible tells us clearly that God created light on the first day, as well as the Earth. Thus we can deduce that the Earth was already rotating in space relative to this created light.

God can, of course, create light without a secondary source. We are told that in the new heavens and Earth there will be no need for sun or moon (Rev 21:23). In Genesis, God even defines a day and a night in terms of light or its absence.

‘Progressive creationists’ sometimes use the argument that the days are really long periods, although God could have used words for that if He had really meant that (see How long were the days of Genesis 1?). The creation of the sun after the Earth undermines progressive creationists’ attempts to harmonise the Bible with billions of years. So they must explain this teaching away. Some assert that what really happened on this fourth ‘day’ was that the sun and other heavenly bodies ‘appeared’ when a dense cloud layer dissipated after millions of years. This is not only fanciful science, but bad exegesis of Hebrew. The word ‘asah means ‘make’ throughout Genesis 1, and is sometimes used interchangeably with ‘create’ (bara’), e.g. in Genesis 1:26–27. It is pure desperation to apply a different meaning to the same word in the same grammatical construction in the same passage, just to fit in with atheistic evolutionary ideas like the ‘big bang’. If God had meant ‘appeared’, then He presumably would have used the Hebrew word for appear (ra’ah), as when the dry land ‘appeared’ as the waters gathered in one place on Day 3 (Genesis 1:9). We have checked over 20 major translations, and all clearly teach that the sun, moon and stars were made on the fourth day.

The evidence that ordinary days are being referred to is so overwhelming that even liberal Hebrew scholars admit that the author can have had no other intent—particularly when the words ‘evening’ and ‘morning’ are used from the first day. (See The Answers Book Chapter 2, and Six Days? Honestly!)

On the fourth day the present system was instituted as the Earth’s temporary light-bearers were made, so the diffused light from the first day was no longer needed. [Interestingly, after writing this article, I found that Calvin had made the same point (see Calvin says: Genesis means what it says). This shows that once again, skeptics just repeat arguments long ago refuted by Bible believing scholars.]

Answer 3

Good questions, It is good to see somebody thinking and analyzing the bible, I hope the following answers your questions.

1 & 2: How could God produce light on the first day if the luminaries were not made until the fourth day?
The Hebrew word rendered “make” in verse 16 is not the same as the word for “create” used in Genesis chapter 1, verses 1, 21, and 27. “The heavens” that included the luminaries were created long before the “first day” even began. But their light did not reach the surface of the earth. On the first day, “there came to be light” because diffused light penetrated the cloud layers and became visible on the earth. The rotating earth thus began to have alternating day and night. (Genesis 1:1-3, 5) The sources of that light still remained invisible from the earth. During the fourth creative period, however, a notable change took place. The sun, the moon, and the stars were now made “to shine upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:17) “God proceeded to make” them in that they could now be seen from the earth.

3: The earth had water?
see verse 2, the creation of the earth included the water

4: God made the heavens first but made the sky later?
The heavens referred to here are not the literal atmosphere but the rest of the universe, stars galaxies etc, so this is not incorrect

5: God made water in the sky but sent up a mist?
The water in the sky mentioned in 1:6 & 7 is not like we know it today, originally before the flood there was a water vapor layer in the upper atmosphere which served to shield the earth from harmful rays and help create a stable climate, this is where the flood waters came from. 2:5 & 6 shows that no rain had fallen yet and that the way the earth was watered at that time was with a mist that came up from the ground.

6: God made animals on the fifth and sixth days but it says that he made them for adam who was created later?
In regard to Adam’s creation it is good to read carefully what the Bible says. Moses in compiling the book of Genesis referred to written records or “histories” that predated the Flood. The first of these begins with Genesis 1:1 and ends at Genesis 2:4 with the words, “This is the history of the heavens and the earth . . . ” The second historical document begins with Genesis 2:5 and ends with verse two of chapter five. Hence we have two separate accounts of creation from slightly different points of view. In the second of these accounts, in Genesis 2:19, the original Hebrew verb translated “was forming” is in the progressive imperfect form. This does not mean that the animals and birds were created after Adam was created. Genesis 1:20-28 shows it does not mean that. So, in order to avoid contradiction between chapter one and chapter two, Genesis 2:19, 20 must be only a parenthetical remark thrown in to explain the need for creating a “helper” for man. So the progressive Hebrew verb form could also be rendered as “had been forming.”—See Rotherham’s translation (Ro), also Leeser’s (Le).
These two creation accounts in the book of Genesis, though differing slightly in the treatment of the material, are in perfect agreement with each other on all points, including the fact that Eve was created after Adam. So not until after this event did the sixth creative day come to an end. Exactly how soon after Adam’s creation is not disclosed. “After that [Adam and Eve’s creation] God saw everything he had made and, look! it was very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.” (Gen. 1:31) After the sixth creative day ends, the seventh one begins.

Hope this helps

Answer 4

The Bible does not have mistakes. But there are times when one chapter of the Bibles gives you a complete detail of everything and the next chapter of the same book gives you the exact same info but in a very short form, which I can see it confusing to understand.

Lets take the Book of Genesis that you are referring to. Its important that you don't take the sequence of events out of order or else you got some serious problems in natural existence of life.

In the beginning God created Heaven and the Earth. And the Earth was void and without form. We can assume right here that gravity was already in existence because the Earth would not have continued being in the sky, something was holding the planet in place.

First day: Light is created. ("Let there be light.") This light is not the sun or stars, as these are created later. It is described by some as a primordial light. The light is divided from the darkness, and called good by God.

Second day: The firmament of Heaven is created. The waters above it is separated from the waters below.

Third day: Land is created, separated from the waters, and named. The water is also named. Grass, herbs and fruit-bearing trees are created.

Fourth day: Lights are made in the firmament of Heaven, to appear regularly, aiding time-keeping. Two particularly large lights are made, the lesser one the Moon and the greater one the Sun.

Fifth day: Air and sea creatures are created, including "great sea-monsters". They are commanded to be fruitful and multiply.

Sixth day: Land animals are created, and God calls them good. Man and woman are created in God's image. They are told to "be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it." Humans and animals are given plants to eat.

Answer 5

How you know these are mistakes if you were not there. If there was no life on earth yet why does it matter what order he made the sun, gravity, earth, and water? How were we floating around we no gravity if God didn't create man until the sixth day? Heaven is beyond the sky. He didn't have to have the sky there yet. When I do puzzles the sky is always the last part I do but I have the border done. Okay, he made animals before he made Adam even thought they were for Adam. Don't when people are pregnant they buy and make things for the baby even though its not here yet cuz they know its coming.

Answer 6

God made light and darkness on the first day and He called them day and night. He came back on the fourth day and added stars, the moon, and the sun. Note light existed before the sun so we were not floating around in darkness. Besides we were not made yet. Second we don't need the sun for gravity. The earth has gravity of it's own. God made the earth with water already on it. God did not need to remake water that He had already made on day 1. The heaven in day 2 to which you refer is most likely the atmosphere. God made a kind of barrier formed my the the water in the sky that surrounded the earth protecting the earth from harmful UV rays. And God has a plan for man so what's your point?

Answer 7

God made light the first day and separated light from darkness. The fourth day he made the heavenly bodies from which he designed for light to emanate from. There are sources of light which are not light itself.

The sun has effect on gravity, but isn't gravity due to the rotation of the earth on its axis?

God made the earth as in the planet earth as we know the bible also speaks of the "land" which is separate from earth by logical deduction "earth" here is not to be interpreted as land.

I believe there was water above the firmament in order to give protection to the earth. I don't understand how that is nonsensical for there to be water above and below.

God had already decided upon making Adam when He made the animals.

Yes, think and keep on thinking. Once any one of us thinks we know it all we end up missing a lot.

Answer 8

You are confused! Read it again. God created light before He made the sun, moon and stars visible.
God created the heavens and the earth first before he created anything else. God had the right to create animals before he created man. Maybe you should continue to read and study The Holy Bible more deeply with an open mind and without so many doubts. Just take God at HIs word . He knew and knows what He is doing. Learn from HIm. Do not question HIm.

Answer 9

The answer to that is that much of the Bible is not to be read as if it were a history or science book.

Much of it is symbolic.

For example, the "days" in Genesis may refer to stages in a 13.7 billion year old universe.

The light of Genesis 1:3 may be some effect of the big bang.

An ancient philosopher thought that water was the fundamental material of all matter.

"Water" in the context of Genesis could be a symbol of primordial matter.


Much of the rest of the Bible can be treated the same way. For example, the book of Revelation is highly symbolic. It cannot be read as if it were a literal description of things.

In Chapter 1 of Revelation, Jesus is pictured as having hair of snow white wool, eyes that blaze like fire, and a sharp two edged sword coming out of His mouth.

Of course that is not literal.

Commentators who are familiar with the symbolism put the snow white hair as denoting infinite wisdom; the eyes that blaze like fire as His vision seeing into all things; and the sword coming out of His mouth as His word having supreme power.

Answer 10

the problem is people do a pour job translating the meaning of the original Hebrew

the light and earth made on the first day are not the sun and the earth.

it is referring to matter and energy.

as for the heavens it is not the sky but a separation of the physical world from the spiritual one.

your other questions can be answered along these lines.

any more questions feel free to email me