Please help me understand how light was created before the sun was, in the biblical account of creation?

Answer 1

you cant understand it. it makes no sense.

its like saying "please help me understand the Loch Ness Monster".

Answer 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.

The Genesis account relates that during the fourth creative “day,” God caused luminaries to “come to be in the expanse of the heavens.” This does not indicate the coming into existence of light itself, since this is shown to have existed previously. (Ge 1:3) Nor does it state that the sun, moon, and stars were created at this point. The initial verse of the Bible states: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Ge 1:1) Thus the heavens with their celestial bodies, including the sun, existed for an undetermined period of time prior to the processes and events stated as occurring during the six creative periods described in the following verses of the first chapter of Genesis.

It should be noted that, whereas Genesis 1:1 states that God “created” the heavens and the earth in the beginning, verses 16 and 17 state that, during the fourth creative “day,” “God proceeded to make the two great luminaries, the greater luminary for dominating the day and the lesser luminary for dominating the night, and also the stars. Thus God put them in the expanse of the heavens to shine upon the earth.” The Hebrew word ‛a·sah′, often translated “make,” can mean simply to establish, appoint, form, or prepare.

Thus the record here states what the already existing sun, moon, and stars now became in relation to planet Earth. On the first “day” light evidently gradually penetrated the cloud layers still enveloping the earth and would have become visible to an earthly observer, had he been present. (Ge 1:3) On the fourth “day” things changed. The statement that “God put them in the expanse of the heavens” on that day expresses the fact that God caused the sources of light, namely, the sun, moon, and stars, to become discernible in the expanse. Their purpose was to “make a division between the day and the night” and to “serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years.” In addition to being signs of God’s existence and majesty, by their movements such luminaries enable man to mark accurately the natural seasons, days, and years.

Answer 3

i do no longer comprehend the question - how does the great bang contradict Genesis? First God creates the Heaven and earth, yet i think of this capacity "creates the universe which includes our earth". 2d, the day and evening on *our* earth is separated. It says God *additionally* creates the celebrities - does not advise that it replaced into created till now the sunlight in our photograph voltaic gadget, it replaced into created *additionally* - in all risk till now our sunlight (that's a action picture star too btw). The time length is to no longer be taken actually because of the fact God is immortal and time isn't something to an immortal i.e. sometime ought to = one thousand days or = one thousand years or = a million billion years.

Answer 4

Maybe the book of Revelation will help you understand it.

Rev. 22:5 when talking about the new heaven and earth says,
5 There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.

This verse tells us that The Lord God can provide a light that comes from himself, or he can turn that light off so that it will be night.

On the fourth day God created the sun to give light during the day, and the moon to give light at night.
The stars were for signs and seasons and for days and years.

Answer 5

God said let there be light and there was light. That is what the word of God said. Look at this situation from God's point of view. Hundreds upon thousands of people have believed God's Word throughout history. The message that you may have eternal life through repentance of your sins and faith in Christ Jesus. Thousands have been murdered, beheaded, burned at the stake, because they believed and would not serve another man made God or renounce Jesus, or believed in countries that don't have freedom of religion. and just in the last 30 yrs society has changed and started being their own God and think that "if God exist he owes me a sign or miracle of an answer as to why he did it this way and not the way I want " hmmm I think you are in for a big suprise my friend.

Answer 6

When God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was formless and void. And darkness was over the surface of the deep. Life cannot exist without light. And as God and Jesus are the light of the World, when God spoke "Let there be light" the darkness that existed, was totally dispelled. Darkeness and light cannot exist together.

Answer 7

There are several thousand known chemical reactions that produce light as a by-product, not to mention the brilliance of God himself.

Answer 8

And God said let there be Light, and there was Light. He spoke the Suns into existence.

Answer 9

Check into it further, it also says night and day was created before there was a sun or even stars. The Bible is just BS.

Answer 10

When light was created...that was the sun.

Answer 11

Do you know what light is? No? OK then. I got light in my room burning off my bulb. I don't have a fiery star in there.