So if God created Earth before he created the sun how did we have days?

Question

What defined night and day if there was no night and day with no sun?

What was the Earth revolving around if there was no sun?

Answer 1

Clarence Darrow asked those questions of William Jennings Bryan at the famous Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Now, as then, the conclusion must be that the Genesis tale is fiction. But there is much stronger evidence for that than this semantic quibbling.

Answer 2

Genesis 1:3 says: And God said, "Let there be light" and there was light. However verse 16 says: God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser to govern the night. Now read God description of the "Holy City"
"The New Jerusalem" Rev. 21:23-24 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light and the Lamb is it's lamp. The nations will walk by it's lamp and the Kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.
These verses make it clear to me that Christ Jesus himself was the first light of this world, before the sun and moon were created.
God Bless You.....Peace.

Answer 3

The earth is flat, the sun revolves around the earth and the stars are fixed to the 'firmament'.

The planets are fixed to spheres in the Ether.

God made the earth about 6,000 years ago.

Proof of dinosaurs: The Bible speaks of the Behemoth.

If evolutionists say we come from apes, why are there still apes?

Men used to live literally hundreds of years in Biblical times.

Jesus was born from a virgin.

He was crucified for our sins.

He resuscitated two days after. He's sitting next to the Lord.

Adam and Eve were the first humans on earth.

But other humans were created by God elsewhere, thus Cain and Abel married them.

The Wrath of God against the Babilonians, Egyptians and Judah proper is totally justified. (Isaiah, Ezekiel)

Jesus didn't cast a stone on the whore, because he was free from sin. His consensuous intercourse with the whore was a pure act of love and forgiveness.

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am I being irritating enough?

Answer 4

Christians have self assurance that the universe became the empty area the position all the count number became accumulated by God and he created the this planet and others , so the suns and planets were created at the same time,the creation became spontaneous and drawing close

Answer 5

Excuse me. go back and read the creation account. " And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that is was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."
Gnensis 1:3-5.

End of question.

Answer 6

he created the earth AND light and dark on the first day. i believe that "day" is symbolic rather than literal though.

1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

sorry to quote the bible. i don't like to do it too often because people complain.

Answer 7

The first verse says: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Couldn't that mean heavens first, then earth? " Let there be light" doesn't have to refer to the sun. Nowhere does it say that.

Answer 8

Gen. 1:3-5 The first light was a light that separated darkness and light, but the second light was, as you'll notice in verse 16 two lights, a greater light (the sun) and a lesser light (the moon and stars).
The first light was light, but the evening was darkness.
Just imagine the sky with no stars or moon. We would be in total pitch darkness without our man made lights. Possibly an awful darkness that's talked about in Exodus, so dark that you could even feel it.

God said, this phrase, which occurs so repeatedly in the account means: willed, decreed, appointed; and the determining will of God was followed in every instance by an immediate result. Whether the sun was created at the same time with, or long before, the earth, the dense accumulation of fogs and vapors which enveloped the chaos had covered the globe with a settled gloom. But by the command of God, light was rendered visible; the thick murky clouds were dispersed, broken, or rarefied, and light diffused over the expanse of waters. The effect is described in the name "day," which in Hebrew signifies "warmth," "heat"; while the name "night" signifies a "rolling up," as night wraps all things in a shady mantle.


For ages, scientists believed in a geocentric view of the universe. The differences between night and day were believed to be caused by the sun revolving around the earth. Today, we know that the earth's rotation on its axis is responsible for the sun's rising and setting. But 4,000 or more years ago, it was written, "Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the day spring [dawn] to know his place? ... It [the earth] is turned as clay to the seal" (Job 38:12,14). The picture here is of a clay vessel being turned or rotated upon the potter's wheel—an accurate analogy of the earth's rotation.

Job 38:12-15

12 "Have you ever given orders to the morning,
or shown the dawn its place,

13 that it might take the earth by the edges
and shake the wicked out of it?

14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal;
its features stand out like those of a garment.

15 The wicked are denied their light,
and their upraised arm is broken.



12-15. Passing from creation to phenomena in the existing inanimate world.

Hast thou—as God daily does.

commanded the morning—to rise.

since thy days—since thou hast come into being.

his place—It varies in its place of rising from day to day, and yet it has its place each day according to fixed laws.

13. take hold of the ends, &c.—spread itself over the earth to its utmost bounds in a moment.

wicked—who hate the light, and do their evil works in the dark (Job 24:13).

shaken out of it—The corners (Hebrew, "wings" or "skirts") of it, as of a garment, are taken hold of by the dayspring, so as to shake off the wicked.

14. Explaining the first clause of Job 38:13, as Job 38:15 does the second clause. As the plastic clay presents the various figures impressed on it by a seal, so the earth, which in the dark was void of all form, when illuminated by the dayspring, presents a variety of forms, hills, valleys, &c.

turned—(Hebrew, "turns itself") alludes to the rolling cylinder seal, such as is found in Babylon, which leaves its impressions on the clay, as it is turned about; so the morning light rolling on over the earth.

they stand—The forms of beauty, unfolded by the dawn, stand forth as a garment, in which the earth is clad.

15. their light—by which they work; namely, darkness, which is their day (Job 24:17), is extinguished by daylight.

high—Rather, "The arm uplifted" for murder or other crime is broken; it falls down suddenly, powerless, through their fear of light.

Answer 9

daisy, if you had actually read the bible you would know that the earth was created before light.

SO anyway obviously the MEN who wrote the bible back then did not know about the solar system...

but i believe christian's interpretation is that a "day" is just what we call it, we dont know the span of time, etc. something like that... like one of god's "days" could have been thousands or millions of years...

...otherwise it makes no sense right? you are sharp!

however doesnt this also leave room for evolution? oops! hehe...

Answer 10

I have mentioned this b4 but really I suggest you understand Genisis is a book written by man who asked and recieved his anser in the form of a vision and wrote that down, so the inspiration being God He is using our ability to understand as His only medium. Picture yourself being the one recieving the vision while standing on earth and the book will spek volumns to you.