Genesis question?

Question

Genesis 1:3 says "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." The first reference to stars is Genesis 1:14 "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years", yet Genesis 1:12 says, "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good." So where did the light come from before the stars were "created", and how did the plants live without the stars to produce the light? As most people who took any basic biology course know, plants need light for photosynthesis to produce glucose. Why does the Bible view the moon as a source of light? Genesis 1:16, "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also."

I'm also curious how many people take this account literally.

Answer 1

The Bible has been,burned,banned,buried,etc...and it still stands as THE document to the testiment of Jesus Christ and his Father after 2,000 years.....Blessed be.....John 3:16

Answer 2

This is only a problem if we fail to take into account an infinite and omnipotent God. God does not need the sun, moon, and stars to provide light. God is light! 1 John 1:5 declares, "This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all." God Himself was the light for the first three days of Creation, just as He will be in the new heavens and new earth, “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). Until He created the sun, moon, and stars, God miraculously provided light during the “day” and did not do so during the “night” (Genesis 1:14).

Answer 3

The very purpose and intention of the Holy Book was to introduce to the man how he came about. Both the writers and learners of that time does not possess any scientific knowledge. Since early man does not know anything about the scentific words you just mentioned, even God himself would not dare use the languages we know today for the little mind that early man has.
That period when Genesis was written, it was about the introduction of man's relation to other man and the nature or environments sorrounding him. Our knowledge started with the purpose of knowing where we came from and spirituality was our first experience. We were taught to know there should be someone or something where everything originated. The absence of resources and ability to prove the scientific facts about the earth's origin was proven otherwise by spiritual learnings.
Nature such as the sun and the moon was a complex thing in the universe that made man thought of the existence of God. Genesis is not the only source of information about creation. Other tribes and nations have their own legends of how the earth was created.
Generations will prove to you how it came to glory and how it ended into destructive fate. No empire have live eternally and US may find its time for the same thing like a balloon bursdting for too much progress. When human becomes wicked the world is always affected until it reaches the stage of destruction we cal God's wrath.
Creation was not completed in six days or ended on the seventh day. Just like God, earth and its inhabitants is not a static being but a dynamic becoming. Evolving as man evolves from gross ignorance to the peak of his intelligence and I am hoping that you do not take the Genesis writng as scientific fact.

Answer 4

I take this account curiously. God has what's called the Shekinah glory. When God said "let there be light," His Shekinah glory was what was shining before He created the light. In fact, when this heaven and earth pass away, and God creates the new heaven and earth, His glory will be the only light we will have or need (see Revelation 21:23).

So you see, God's glory was the light until He created the sun to shine for light. Also, it is true that the moon is not literally a source of light, it reflects light given from the sun. However, it does give the appearance of a source of light. If you look up at night, provided it's not a new moon, you can see the moon appearing to shine in the distance. Poets speak of the moon shining, too.

Answer 5

Genesis 1:3 on the first day of creation God said" Let there be light" on this day he divided light from darkness.
Genesis 1:11 God created grass etc on day number 3.
Genesis 1:16 God made two great lights one to rule day and one to rule night.
In answer to your question I refer you to Rev 22:5" And there shall be no night there and they need no candle neither light of the sun for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall reign for ever and ever."
God is light he is the light of the world and the universe it was the light from his person that provided light to the world as performed his creative works on the earth prior to establishing the 2 great lights that rule the day and night.
Hebrews 11:3" Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear"

Answer 6

"Let the earth bring forth grass"

Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). Notice, though, that God lets "the earth bring forth" the plants, rather than creating them directly. Maybe Genesis is not so anti-evolution after all.

etc etc...

Answer 7

Like all religions they each have their creation myths and like all religions we "want" ours to be right. I for one was not on this planet at that time, but I would like to know why Christians can't believe in other religions since Cain married a woman from Nod. If there were people who inhabited a place called Nod, then this gives the perfect opportunity for there to have been people who came before Adam and Eve. Maybe these are the people who evolved from apes so there could be evolution and creation at the same time! Or could we just say that like every theory the theory of the Christians have just as many holes in it as other theories.

I for one believe in the Lord and the Lady who were probably raising their spiritual children in another town farther down the road from Nod.

Answer 8

Max, the first thing God says is "Let there be light." So there was light. If the stars were created later, so what? I personally don't take the account literally, but the first thing there was was light. Maybe this refers to Christ since he is the life and light of the world, but none the less, there was light.

Answer 9

Church people believe all the nonsense in the Bible, for if they start to question one part, where do they draw the line?

They have to believe, for example, that Joshua stopped the sun (for a full day), for that is in the Bible; but how did he do that? And what was the moon doing?

And how come no other cultures in the world, not the Babylonians, not the Chinese, not the Phoenicians, not the Egyptians, not a single one, noticed?

They say evolution is only a theory, for it conflicts with what they "know" to be true, namely, that god did it all with his intelligent design; and he intended humans to be special, blah, blah, blah.

The whole thing is goofy.

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Answer 10

This one guy, I believe his name was Zig Ziggler..weird, anyhow, he came up with this idea. If the earth and everything were being created, there would be a whole bunch of gases and dust in the atmosphere, so God would have created light on that day, but it wouldn't be till about the third day when the dust and gas cleared, and you could look up and distinguish that light as "Oh, it's the sun." Before, there would be light, but you wouldn't be able to make out the sun, it would just show you night and day.

Answer 11

Young Earth Creationists say that the earth was created in six twenty-four hour days. Thus one day without light would not have been a problem for the plants.

~Neeva