2006-11-06 09:45:50 · 14 answers · asked by a sock 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
and plants before the sun as well. How in the world does anyone seriously believe a literal interpretation of this stuff. It's ridiculous.
2006-11-06 09:55:37 · answer #1 · answered by bc_munkee 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Light was different then. It just sort of kept to itself, like oil in water. If you read the story, "the darkness touched it not", so there was some kind of boundary layer. God probably used that boundary layer to create the firmament to divide the waters, not realizing the problem that would result. So while he was busy separating the dry land from the waters, light was dripping and oozing into all sorts of things and making a mess. And God said, "I better find something to put this stuff in or there won't be any darkness left!" And he made the sun to hold the light and keep it under control. You see, the sun is like a giant shower head that sprinkles light on stuff, only it's frozen light, see, so it bounces and doesn't leak into things. Except the moon. It leaks a little into the moon. That's why it's a "lesser light". And some of it was too scattered to pick up, so there were stars.
And God said it was good...
...enough.
2006-11-06 17:58:03 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because God IS light. He separated the light from the dark in the Beginning. Also, you'll notice that He created the plants on the day before He created the Sun. I think He did this because He knew that thousands of years later, people would try to argue that each day of the Creation was actually millions of years. Those poor plants would have to wait a long time! But the passage of a single day was no problem for them to go without sunlight. God could certainly have supplied them with one day's worth of energy.
2006-11-06 17:57:01 · answer #3 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Lots of fireflys?
Even the Genesis account acknowledges that the Sun was to provide light for the earth. Hence it was not scientific ignorance.
Unfortunately those, who believe that the biblical stories are to be understood in the terms of modern science and history, will always be frustrated with the realities of ancient cultures and their way of portraying events.
2006-11-06 19:08:51 · answer #4 · answered by davidscottwoodruff 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that the New Heaven will have no need for the sun because the Lord will be it's Light.
Blessed Be
2006-11-06 17:52:00 · answer #5 · answered by Celestian Vega 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
"There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever” (Revelation 22:5).
2006-11-06 17:57:26 · answer #6 · answered by Nikki 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He created light......not "day time"........"Let there be LIGHT". Get your facts straight. Is the sun the only thing you know to produce light.....or is it possible that something else could have produced the light?
2006-11-06 17:51:55 · answer #7 · answered by harry_potter_kid 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋
You can't apply logic to this kind of question, if you could it would sink all creationisms answers in a second.
2006-11-06 17:49:00 · answer #8 · answered by Om 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Wow! You're trying to use logic to evaluate a book that was made to teach morality. It's always fun to watch a dog chase it's tail. Keep going...
round and round and round you go!
2006-11-06 17:48:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Because it wasn't an actual day, it was a period of time. Do you honestly think that those people would have understood "millions of years" or "several eons"? I think not.
2006-11-06 17:49:49 · answer #10 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋