In Genesis 1 we are told God created light and seperated it from the darkness. This happening on the first day.
He doesn't bother creating the sun or the stars until the fourth day. He created plant life on the third day by the way. Isn't the sun light needed for photosynthesis?
The question obviously is what was the source of light if the sun wasn't created untill the fourth day?
Let's see you explain this one.
2007-05-30 16:42:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The source of light is God!
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2007-05-30 16:46:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is one that has puzzled me for some time. Why does it say light is created on both the 1st and 4th day? The interesting thing is that it doesn't say the sun and moon specifically were created on the 4th day. It just says a great light and a lesser light. I believe the sun was created when God made the heavens and the earth in verse one. Then He said let there be light, meaning His Spirit of light. He separated it from the spiritual darkness. That is how I interpret the first 5 verses. It is true there has to be photosynthesis to have plant life so the sun existed way before day 4.
I think there is a Spiritual meaning behind this. The great Light which rules the day could mean Jesus who rules heaven. And the lesser light which rules the night could mean humans who bring light into a darkened world. That is one interpretation I've heard which seems to make sense.
2007-05-30 23:57:00 · answer #2 · answered by out of the grey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well personally I dont try to look at the first half of Genesis in a literal way, but if I were to then I would say.
The Big Bang maybe?
That is how the theologian Maimonides describes the first day in his works in the 12th century.
There also other Kabalistic sources that describe the light of the first day as a spiritual light reserved for the righteous.
Thats the Jewish view my friend, I am sure others will supply the Christian one.
2007-05-30 23:46:30 · answer #3 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He himself will be the light in heaven the Bible says so, so I am sure he was probably the light the first four days.
Not a problem for God, If you can create the earth out of nothing, I don't think providing a little light would be to difficult.
Do You?
2007-05-30 23:50:34 · answer #4 · answered by wisdom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are looking at this question from the wrong kind of perspective.
None of us knows how long a day was before the earth was formed, let alone began to rotate, no one knows how long a day is for God at all.
None of us were there when the creation happened, so none of us can truly understand everything that went on or how it happened unless God reveals it to us.
Animals go extinct every day, glaciers are melting every day, people die every day... it is logical to assume that this sort of stuff has been happening all throughout the history of the world which means that the world was different a long time ago. A different world presents different variables to understand, so it is foolish to try to understand things from thousands of years ago with only the perspective of our own present day variables.
2007-05-31 00:01:43 · answer #5 · answered by Super G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 John 1:5 This is the message which we have heard of him and declaired to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.
The source whence all light, whether it be physical, or moral, or spiritual, comes; the Enlightener of the universe. The term denotes luminous clearness, the free and benevolent source from whence flow light, intelligence, purity and blessing, absolutely free from alien intermixture, since
in him there is no darkness at all. Light represents truth, knowledge and holiness. Darkness represents ignorance, error, falsehood and sin.
2007-05-31 00:28:00 · answer #6 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven will be lit by the light of God, not the sun. So it is not impossible to have light without a star.
2007-05-30 23:48:07 · answer #7 · answered by The GMC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be a douche. Look, you can't take everything in the Bible so seriously. I am a strong Christian, but I believe in evoultion. You just have to take some of the stories in the Bible as reminders of how we should be like do not judge others, treat people the way you want to be treated, and love. And even though you speak foul of God, there will be a time when you will need him so don't make fun.
2007-05-30 23:47:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think a plant could go a couple of days without sunlight without dying, and creating light doesn't mean there must have been light. You can invent the idea of light.
2007-05-30 23:51:01 · answer #9 · answered by Don't Fear the Reaper 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See my answer at your other, nearly identical question. But in brief--hooboy, you really got us this time you little scamp! Now **none** of us can sleep at night--the *one* question we've all been afraid to hear for 2000 years until someone was *finally* brave enough to ask it! I'm just a-quakin' in my boots, I am!
What a waste of space.
2007-05-31 01:01:20 · answer #10 · answered by Mark S, JPAA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋