Mind you, the Sun has no been created yet:
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
2006-10-23 09:58:10 · 24 answers · asked by a sock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe he was "creating" everything on a blueprint first, rather than in actuality.
Bible writers could be so obtuse at times.
2006-10-23 10:03:52 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. The Sun was already created by this time at Genesis 1:1.
2. But the Bible is discussing the creation of things as it would appeared on earth from an earthly point of view. In verse Genesis 6-8 the Bible says there was a divisions between the waters and the waters. It says there were waters beneath the expanse (firmament) and waters about the expanse. The expanse was called the sky( where birds fly), so apparently there was a dense atmosphere of water above the sky through which light was at first impenetrable (like Jupiter's gaseous atmosphere) then more translucent (so that light could be detected from the earth as when light is seen on a foggy day- so you know night from day but can't see the sun or moon.)
3. There are separate Hebrew words to translate light, and light sources. So by day 4 (not a 24 hour day by the way) Genesis 1:14-19 that atmosphere had cleared enough that the the luminaries (Sun, moon, stars) where clearly distinguishable from the Earth.
2006-10-23 17:18:20 · answer #2 · answered by linniepooh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't take scripture out of context; you need to read the entire passage.
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
2006-10-23 17:15:05 · answer #3 · answered by Sheaby 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By calling the light out of the darkness. But this is a different day than what happened when God created the sun and the moon and the stars.
This day has to be a period of time. Peter referred to Genesis often in His letter. He also said that to God a day is like a 1000 years and a 1000 years like a day. Also in the day that Adam & Eve ate of the forbidden fruit they would surely die. There was spiritual death immediately but the physical death didn't happen till nearly 1000 years later.
2006-10-23 17:05:45 · answer #4 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a misunderstanding of the creative days in Genesis chapter one. Those "days" had nothing to do with the creation of the universe, including the celestial bodies like the sun. They were already in existence BEFORE the first creative day started. See Gen. 1:1, 2. The creative days were huge time periods that were used by God to prepare the earth for animal and human habitation. They were not 24-hour periods.
2006-10-23 18:02:32 · answer #5 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That first light wasn't the sun. It was the Big Bang. That created lots of 1st generation suns and planets. Day and night. Some day I'll write up an explanation of the whole chapter.
2006-10-23 17:04:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the bible is a story book and not to be taken literally, unfortunatly Christians and Catholicas take it literally and that's just sad. It should be a book that tells you storites with the goal of teaching a lesson with each chapter. I feel that god didn't literally create daytime or the sun. I mean, if man worte the bible with his hands, wats 2 stop him from altering it for his own benefit or reasoning?.......
2006-10-23 17:12:13 · answer #7 · answered by Tiffaby W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The light within--- he is first talking about the light within the soul, God's light within---then he makes the light of day and the dark of night---
2006-10-23 17:02:47 · answer #8 · answered by yeppers 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll ask Him that when I get to heaven. Remember though that since he created vegitation after that but before the sun how could it have been anything other than seven literal days. Things tend to die without the sun!
2006-10-23 17:09:17 · answer #9 · answered by I-o-d-tiger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the light came from the Lord in Revelation it says there will be a new heaven and earth and there will be no night and there is no sun in the sky for the light comes from the Lord
2006-10-23 17:18:01 · answer #10 · answered by jamnjims 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God separated the light from the darkness, yet, the two dwelt together.
2006-10-23 17:10:54 · answer #11 · answered by dsheppard65 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋