How did God create light on the first day when the sun wasn't made until day four?

Question

Do Bible Bashers believe light comes from somewhere else other than the sun?
Order of creation:
Day 1: Sky, Earth, light
Day 2: Water, both in ocean basins and above the sky
Day 3: Plants
Day 4: Sun, Moon, stars (as calendrical and navigational aids)
Day 5: Sea monsters (whales), fish, birds, land animals, creepy-crawlies (reptiles, insects, etc.)
Day 6: Humans (apparently both sexes at the same time)
Day 7: Nothing

Excuse me but everyone knows God created light. It is the most common fact known about God so how can it be a metaphor or an allegory? He said 'let there be light' and there was, and so on.

It seems to me that if you are going to 'interpret' this basic thing from the bible then maybe all the other things stated in the bible are metaphors too?
Bible Bashers are people who bash/push the bible.

Answer 1

Perhaps light came from the Big Bang as the intense pressure exploded, giving off tremendous heat and light.

Here's my advice to you - if you want to believe in the Bible, don't take it literally. Take the "days" as billions of years, and realize that nothing is created (matter and energy cannot be created nor destroyed).

Answer 2

Why do we continue to question and base God's actions on man's standards?

The Bible says God "created light" on the first day. And yes it was a day because it states the evening and morning were the FIRST day. Evening and morning signify specific time periods and when mentioned with the word "day", it means 24 hours. If it meant anything else, then which time period lasted millions of years? The evening or the morning??

Even if we do base the "light" on man's standards, light can come from hundreds of different sources other than the sun.

God is above man's physical laws and understanding. Once you accept the fact that God can do anything, you realize how futile it is to judge him based on what we know and experience.

The Bible says God created light and that is exactly how it should be read, no interpretation necessary.

Answer 3

Look at creation from the standpoint of astrophysists.

First came the Big Bang - light...and lots of it!
Next came matter - earth or any other matter that was created.
Next came water.
Then the stars (including the sun in the second generation), the moon (all other material bodies).
Then came life, water plants, water creatures, land plants, land creatures, then finally man.

Sound familiar? It should, since it's the same sequence of events described in Genesis 1. The author(s) of Genesis may not have been astrophysists but they didn't do so bad for a bunch of nomadic, functionally illiterate herdsmen.

Answer 4

Light is often used as a metaphor for "understanding" and "order", where darkness is the exact opposite. Considering that Lucifer and crew were given the boot out of Heaven and slammed into the earth at terminal velocity and making of it a void, perhaps the light spoken of by God was His way of saying "Get out of the living room, douchebags; I'm here to clean the place up". Makes sense when you consider that it says that the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the deep. I really don't think that Genesis is describing creation as much as it's describing "re-creation". I believe semantics were flying back and forth between the Landlord and His goofy, unruly tenants.

Answer 5

A friend of mine recently told me that he had once asked his grandmother, a devout christian woman, which light she thought was more important... the sun or the moon. After thinking about it for a few minutes, she said "The moon... it helps us to see at night. That's more important than the sun, because there's already enough light to see in the day-time."

Answer 6

The same is found in Revelations in the New Jerusalem there is no need for the sun, because God is the source of light.

Maybe God created the essence of light but it wasn't revealed yet, because there was no source of light other than himself.

Answer 7

God Himself is the light, and was that light on day 1.

The Bible says, "God is Light, and in His there is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5

Answer 8

I believe light to be more of a force of energy the first day, then the actual heavenly bodies were organized later. Did you mean bible-beaters? Bible bashers are the one's that don't believe the bible and "bash" it.

Answer 9

Light can refer to photons. Photons existed in the primordial universe along with "dark" matter as electrons and protons.

By the way, in the Book of Genesis a "day" --in Hebrew, "Yom", (יום)-- obviously is not 24 hours, because the sun simply did not exist, yet.

Answer 10

My guess is, people living in the Ancient Middle East didn't know that the sun produced light. So when all the men got around to making this **** up, they wrote it wrong accodrding to what we now know. But the is just my theory and according to Christians Theories are bullshit, so what do I know.