Contradiction in the Bible, the sun is created on the 4th day?

Question

According to the Bible, Book of Genesis,

chapter 1, verses 11-13,


It says light is created on the first day where as the source of light 'The Sun' is created on the fourth day. How is this scientifically possible?

I do not wish to quote other Bible contradictions just looking for an answer on this one.

Answer 1

Scientifically speaking, the creation story of the bible is rubbish. It gets not one single fact right. The revisionist answers here - which require you to believe black is blue and 2 + 2 = 5.3 when god says so - rather prove the point.

Answer 2

Light on the first day is referring to inspiration, not a source of light. Try reading the Torah or getting a literal translation of the Bible. The book of Genesis was actually twice as long as it appears in modern times, with a great number of omissions that lead people to believe there are contradictions. All blessings.

Answer 3

No contradiction at all. The 'light' created on day 1 is NOT the same as the Sun nor is the Sun the source of that light. If anything, the Sun was formed from the light of the first creation, not the other way around.

Answer 4

Christ was, is and will be the light of the world. In the end there will be a restoration of all things as they were in the beginning.

Revelations 21
1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
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23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

Answer 5

The Hebrew word for "made" (asah) refers to an action completed in the past. Thus, the verse is correctly rendered "God had made" rather than "God made." This indicates God "had made" the Sun, Moon and stars earlier than the fourth "day."

So, when were the Sun, Moon and stars created? Genesis 1:1 tells us, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." The Hebrew phrase "the heavens and the earth" (hashamayim we ha' erets) refers to the entire universe, entire creation and everything that can be seen or has physical existence. This indicates the heavenly bodies -- the Earth, Sun, Moon, stars and other planets -- were created "in the beginning".

Answer 6

According to the Big Bang theory, light was created shortly after the big bang, even before there was stars, galaxies, or even matter. Light popped into existence with a bang before even matter was created (or the sun for that matter). this "echo" of the creation of light is called the cosmic background radiation, and can be detected with any cheep radio as static.

Since science says that light existed before the sun existed, does science contradict itself? If you say no, then why the double standard?

This was kind of a dumb question.

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You are seriously asking how could electromagnetic radiation (light) exist before the gas-ball called the "Sun" existed?

The sun does not "create" light. There were photons of light bouncing around in the universe long before the sun formed.

Answer 7

Although Genesis chapter 1 describes God's creative works as having taken place over a period of 6 "days," Genesis 2:4 describes this entire period of creation as one, single "day." The term "day" in the Bible is not always a 24 hour period determined by the sun, moon, and stars. Rather, it can refer to a period of time during which an action occurs. One day with Jehovah can be thousand years. (2Peter 3:8; compare John 9:4, Romans 13:12)

Answer 8

Nachmanadies (an early bible commentator) comments that everything was really created on the first day but was only placed in their places on the other days. He learns this from the way one of the hebrew words is written on the first day. Another answer would be that this is not the light of the sun that it is talking about, but rather the light of wisdom, which was then split and hidden away.

Answer 9

contradictions are everywhere, why, great men even contradict ourselves sometimes, as we often do, but who cares right?

but the bible, we cant have that. so anyway to be 'rational' about it, if we can actually, is to see it as this:

day 1 is the creation of the universe. cosmologists have found this out as well as there was this age that we can call the dark age, wherein there is well darkness, & THEN there was light, yes the creation of the 1st stars, the building blocks of the universe.

& then sometime after that, say day 4 (we cannot be precise as to the amount of time involved for day 4 can be 3 thousand, 3 million, or 3 billion years after day 1) is when our own galaxy's star was born, yes the sun.

Answer 10

This is the reason The Qumran Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls observed the Sabbath on the 'Third Day' (Wednesday) and most likely why Jesus thought it lawful to heal people and gather food on Saturday.