Can You Tell The 1st Day Of Creation And The 4th One?

Question

I feel mixed Up, Since On The 1st Day, God Created "Light" To Separate 'Day' From 'Night', And, On The 4th Day, He Created The Sun, The Moon And The Stars Again To Separate 'Day' From 'Night'. Then, It Seems To Me That He Worked Twice Over The Same Purpose: Separation Between 'Day' And 'Night'.

Sorry, I Meant: Can You Tell Me The 1st Day Of Creation From The 4th One?

Answer 1

the light he created on the 4th day was Jesus, which is why Jesus is called the Light of the World

Answer 2

You've stumbled on an apparent inconsistency that is there to get your attention. Once you explore this seeming inconsistency you will find a truth that causes the veins in the necks of Bible Answer Men everywhere to bulge and almost pop. God said let there be light and there was light. And the evening and the morning were the first day. God used that light to measure His day. Sun wasn't until the fourth day and was created for man's benefit. Man measures his day by the sun. God measured His days by that light He created. Notice that aside from God saying He created the earth, Genesis opens up with the earth already there. Man did not show up until the sixth day. So man's perspective didn't start until then. Once you see that God's days were measured by His light, and you see the process of the earth from barren to blooming, and the fact that God said He sprouted everything, you get the sense of a lot of time here. God's days up to man's creation were large periods of time. Once man came, then the perspective changed. The only thing that man knew was that a day was 24 hours. So the misunderstanding has continued to this very day. Some radio personalities get pretty rabid insisting that God's day was 24 hours. It is not that they are stupid; it is just that they have unteachable spirits. How obvious is this? God started counting days after He created the light. Day and night began with that light. First day, second day, third day... He didn't wait until after He had created the sun to start His days. He started them after He created the light. The sun wasn't created for Him; it was created for us.

Answer 3

If one can believe Genesis, God made the light on the first day and the sun on the fourth. How could the effect have followed the cause?

According to Genesis, the sun, moon, and stars were made on the fourth day of the creation week. There have been many attempts to stretch the creation days into vast periods of time in order to accommodate Scripture with secular science. However, the problem is not with Scripture, but with our attempts to rationalize and understand the creation week, something that cannot be done by finite minds! There are many details of God's creative plan that simply cannot be compromised with current scientific opinion. Some of the unanswered questions are:


How could plants exist on the third day, before the sun was present (Genesis 1:11-13)?
"Light" existed before the sun (Genesis. 1:3). What light source did God use to mark the first three days?
Since the seas were also formed before the sun (Genesis. 1:9-10), why didn't they quickly freeze? Why didn't the "water above" fall to the ground as snow (Genesis 1:9)?
Did the earth initially move in a straight line, or did it orbit the position of the yet-to-be-created sun

An entire book could be filled with such questions from Genesis 1-2. All the answers would be speculative and probably wrong!
The creation week was supernatural and therefore beyond our understanding. God had his own reasons for the order of creation events. We are in no position to question them or to offer suggestions for improvement. Yes, I believe that the days of creation were literal 24-hour time periods. Scholars have shown that this is intended meaning of the text. The week of seven, 24-hour days, so familiar to us, had its beginning at the creation. God could have made everything in six microseconds or in six trillion years, but he chose literal days as a general pattern

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Genesis 1:14-19 "Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth'; and it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. …So the evening and the morning were the fourth day."

An entire book could be filled with such questions from Genesis 1-2. All the answers would be speculative and probably wrong!
The creation week was supernatural and therefore beyond our understanding. God had his own reasons for the order of creation events. We are in no position to question them or to offer suggestions for improvement. Yes, I believe that the days of creation were literal 24-hour time periods. Scholars have shown that this is intended meaning of the text. The week of seven, 24-hour days, so familiar to us, had its beginning at the creation. God could have made everything in six microseconds or in six trillion years, but he chose literal days as a general pattern for mankind.


Exodus 20:11 - "For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it."

The literal creation days also display God's perfect glory and wisdom:

How Could the Writers Have Made Such a Mistake?

Did the author realize that there couldn't have been sunrises and sunsets to mark the beginning of mornings and evenings on the first three days if the sun wouldn't be created until the fourth day?

Well, if there had really been just one author of the creation story, then the answer would surely be, Yes. But, what seems to have happened is that at least two different creation stories taken from two different times and places were blended together over time. One traditional story had the sun being created on the first day, while the other had it being created on the fourth day. Clearer evidence that this is exactly what happened is found in the commentaries,

Creation Contradictions2 and Two Flood Stories3.

This contradiction was noted about seventeen hundred years ago by Origen [1], who is generally considered the greatest theologian and biblical scholar of the early Eastern church, and who wrote around 230 AD:

"What man of sense will agree with the statement that the first, second, and third days, in which the evening is named and the morning, were without sun? " (Quoted in "Mysteries of Adoni", p. 176)


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Origen (ohr-i-jin) was a true believer, so much so that, according to the historian, Eusebius, he took the command in Matthew 19:12 to mean that he should castrate himself, and he did.

2] http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/creationcontradictions.html
[3] http://sol.sci.uop.edu/~jfalward/Two_Flood_Stories

Answer 4

This is part of the structure of Genesis 1. It is actually Hebrew poetry and has to do with concepts of rulership.

There is similar structure in day 2 compared to day 5
And day 3 compared to day 6.

Sometime I'll write up a blog about this.

Pabs

Answer 5

On the 1st day he created light to "Separate light from darkness" NOT day from night... that happened on the 4th day only

Answer 6

The first day has to be taken literally whereas the 4th day you have to interpret what the Bible is saying. But you have to know what to interpret when and you have to know what it is saying when it is interpreted. So, in conclusion, the things written in the Bible have to be taken literally unless they cant be explained in literal terms then you have to interpet what it says to fit what you think should fit in the spot where it goes.
Understand? Neither do I. Thats why I am atheist

Answer 7

So what was Jesus doing between th e4th day of creation, and being born? And why isn't that mentioned in th ebible, and why don't Jews believe you?

I think you just made that up.

Answer 8

Well isn't it obvious? The first 3 days God just flipped his cosmic light switch on and off...duh!

Answer 9

well it tell u he made light not what kind then it gose on to tell u he made lights as in more then one to seperate the sesonsthen it goses on to tell u what the lights were. days ilght being the sun and the moon and stars for night. the stars and there postions tell sesons

Answer 10

i have a book on Genesis from a previous church and that minister thought that the sun did not shine in its full strength till the 4th day...but we have it so we wont freeze!