In Genesis 1, God divides the Day from the Night, and the evening and the morning were the first day. But it isn't untitl the fourth day that He creates the two great lights to rule the day and the night. So how did He divide the Day from the Night the first time, in a way that caused there to be evenings and mornings before Day Four came about?
Sincere answers only, please. I'm not looking to debate creation with skeptics right now.
2007-04-26 05:21:29 · 12 answers · asked by Free Ranger 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus is often described as light, so in the first one, Jesus was the light... Then He made the sun and the moon
2007-04-26 05:24:28 · answer #1 · answered by Free At Last!!! 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
This is a very, very good question; please allow me to answer it directly from the manuscripts:
There are many people, even Bible-reading Christian people, who do not understand that what you are reading in Genesis one, is NOT THE FIRST CREATION OF THE EARTH. It is the planning and rejuvination of this earth to be made habitable for this flesh age. Yes, I realize Gen 1:1 States that "in the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth"; but that happened eons and eons before you start the second verse.
That first verse only tells you that way back in the beginning, God created everything.
Then when you begin verse two, God is giving you the planning of this earth age.
There are three earth ages in total; you can read of all three of them in 2peter.
What God is rejuvinating is the earth after the great war where satan rebelled, which is called the "katabole", sometimes translated in your regular Bible as "the foundation of the world", but actually it is "after the overthrow of Satan" in the manuscripts.
So you start out with God telling you that he will divide day from night, making that time span for flesh, a twenty-four hour period,
rather than the one thousand years that is a day with God. The actual motion of setting the sun and moon into place could have been done on any of the days, but just happened to have been done on the 4th.
Yes, I realize this is not normally taught, but then we also hear nonsense about the earth only being 6000 years old, too, when actually the Bible is clear that this earth is eons old, and that there was even an entire earth age before this one; same earth, same terafirma, but a change only in the age.
2007-04-26 12:54:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On the first day God created light. By creating light it is inevitable that there would be "light" and "darkness". The light was called "day" and the darkness "night". Just remember that a day is not caused by the presence of the sun or the moon but by the rotation of the earth. So when the earth rotated other parts of the earth gained light while the others have darkness. The light does not necessarily mean that it was the sun. On the fourth day God created the Sun, the greater light, the moon, the lesser light, and the stars.
2007-04-26 12:42:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a process of creation. It didnt happen all in one day. For him to make the sun ( the great light ) He would first need create light, which He did do on the first day...first things first...order, not chaos..it wasnt a big bang either, cause big bangs dont create order, big bangs destroy . If they did create order, then we ought to be able to go to a junk yark and blow it up , stand back and watch as a bunch of cadillacs emerge out of the debris. but no, it doesnt work like that. A cadillac is first thought of, then designed , then the parts get made, then the parts get assembled and then it gets put on the showroom floor, then a buyer comes along and sees it and says...hmmm nice, made by cadiallac huh? But silly man sees all he sees and says, hmmm nice..no one made this right?
2007-04-26 12:38:17 · answer #4 · answered by biblestudent07 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a really wonderful question. I'm not Christian, but I can tell you what Judaism in its classical form teaches:
Day and Night do not have anything to do with the sun. The sun is only the signal for us on earth as to when day and night begin. (In Judaism, we know it is night when all the light has disapeared out of the sky, according to Rabbenu Tam [means Our Master Tam, a sage] or when several stars become visible, according to the Genius of VIlna.
Day is when certain influences, mostly positive are given the power to affect the people on Earth, as G-d deems appropriate through his sovereign will. Night is when certain negative influences have reign, given them from G_d according to his sovereign will. We also believe that at night people's highest soul returns to G_d to be nurtured and refreshed. This happens whether a person goes to sleep at night or not. It's a good idea to go to sleep then, or one is acting without his higher souls help. (You can actually notice this in your own life. People get sillier at night. Make sillier choices. Plans one makes at night seem overly ambitious come day time.)
People, not being able to detect these influences, need a signal when which time is when; so G_d placed signs in the sky. The sun to rule the day, and the moon th night.
2007-04-26 12:29:42 · answer #5 · answered by 0 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This has long been an issue. I seemed to have discovered a brilliant answer a year or so ago but I have greatly neglected the Old Testament until I can learn Hebrew. I don't want to trust the English translation so I want to read the Hebrew and see exactly what the original meaning was.
2007-04-26 12:32:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 1:3 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.
In the book of Revelation it lets us know that the Lord God gives light without the sun...
"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. "
So, my opinion is that when God said, "let there be light" God made the light shine from himself without the sun.
Hope that helps you.
2007-04-26 12:32:23 · answer #7 · answered by Red-dog-luke 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because there's day and night on other planets beside the earth, whereas the lights created on the fourth day were specifically for earth, would be my guess.
2007-04-26 12:30:32 · answer #8 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The days mentioned in Genesis refer to creation periods. They were not 24 hour days as we know them. It's a mistranslation.
2007-04-26 13:29:34 · answer #9 · answered by BigOnDrums 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry I wont repeat Myself this was asked yesterday go check out the answers... God bless
2007-04-26 12:23:59 · answer #10 · answered by Pastor Biker 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋