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Question

God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be "the evening and the morning" on the first day if there was no sun to mark them?

Answer 1

Because God is also known as the Father of Lights.....


God Himself was the source of light........in the heavens....until He created the sun, moon & stars

Answer 2

This question is very easy, God has a blueprint & in his mind everything has already been created according to his blueprint, Yet he at that time had not placed everything in it's proper order. Gen 1:1 Shows that this earth was void & without form, yet it was created in God's mind, Now read Gen 2:5 And every plant of the field BEFORE it was in the earth, & every herb of the field BEFORE it grew,-------So in God's mind creation was already a complete creation, But God has not yet put everything into motion. So very little verses can make a picture very clear.

Answer 3

Because Lucifer was the bringer of light, and he was there from day 1, though he was too much a secondary character to be mentioned, since the emphasis was on what the main character was doing at the time.

The plot was so simple at the time that mentions of 'angel #1', or 'angel #2' and what they were doing would only have detracted from the overall plot. Secondary characters weren't brought in until they were needed, and mostly even then they weren't fleshed out.

Answer 4

Because apparently the light was indistinct and just generally..... around... back then.

It was only later that god decided that would make things a bit awkward, and decided to put the light "over there" as the sun instead.

Answer 5

Sun is not the only source of light, God himself is light.

Answer 6

It was the glory of God that cover the earth then

Answer 7

You are questioning a work of fiction. Fiction isn't going to make factual sense all the time.

Answer 8

What does Genesis 1 really teach?

Scenario 3 - Stages of creation revealed in six days

Wiseman’s basic argument is that the six days do indeed represent days of 24 hours, but they are not days in which God created the universe, but days in which he revealed truths of his creation to an individual at the dawn of history over a period of six days.

We now know a great deal about ancient writing in Assyria, Babylonia, Ur and Egypt. There are over a quarter of a million cuneiform tablets now scattered in museums around the world, going back to 3,500 B. C. They deal with mundane issues of personal, family, and business matters and well as issues of state. Wiseman gives impressive evidence to show how the whole structure of Genesis fits so well with the way tablets were written in ancient times, tablets that could well have been handed down through several generations. Moses would have been in an ideal position to edit these.

Evidence he assembles to support the view that Genesis describes six days over which God revealed these truths rather than six days in which he created the universe include, very briefly:

The ten-fold “God said”, analogous to the “Ten Words” God spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, which he suggests are God’s revealing of the history of Creation, not the acts of creation itself.
The Hebrew word for “made” which simply means “did”, not “create”. What God “did” was to reveal this particular truth on this particular day.
The writing of each day would be sufficient to write on one tablet. Babylonian accounts of the Creation were written on six tablets.
Babylonians had a tradition of early man being instructed in the truths of creation over six days.
The beginning and end of each tablet fits well with what we know of ancient tablets. Genesis 2:1-4 would be the colophon, which came at the end of a series of tablets.
The giving of names (i.e. “God called”) makes sense if these names were given for man’s benefit. The giving of names indicates that God is telling the story.
The word “rested” in 2:2 would be better translated “ceased”. The early Septuagint (Greek) translation of 2:3 supports the idea that it was not the work of creation, but the histories of creation that God ceased. God ceased his revelation on the seventh day in order to enable man to rest, not himself. Jesus said that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27). If God instituted the Sabbath at the dawn of history, that would explain why it is mentioned several times before Sinai (e.g. Genesis 7:4; 8:10; 29:27, 28; Exodus 16.).
The Babylonians and Egyptians had a tradition of the truths of creation being revealed to the first man. The Jews had an early tradition of these truths being revealed to both Adam and Enoch.
The Hebrew words for “evening” and “morning” would be better translated “sundown” and “daybreak” and simply indicate the period of night between e ach of the six days when man was allowed to rest.
Wiseman points out seven difficulties that are eliminated by the above interpretation:

(1) God giving names—we now see the reason for this. (2) ‘God said’—the whole account was a revelation to man, just as the two final statements of what ‘God said’ are stated to have been. (3) The ‘evenings and the mornings’ are now seen to be, quite naturally, for man’snightly rest. (4) The seventh day on which God ‘ceased’ was for man’s sake. While (5) all the days, including those in the fourth commandment and the seventh day’s rest, are seen to be natural days, there is no need to give these days exceptional duration, and this (6) disposes of the idea that (a) the day of rest was instituted a few hours after Adam had been created (b) that it was the end of a long geological age, or that the seventh day is one of some thousand years. And (7) it resolves the old conflicting ideas about the ‘light’ of day one being present before the ‘sun and moon’ of day four and all its related problems.

Reasons which Wiseman gives for believing that Genesis 1 is very ancient are:

The absence of mythical or legendary matter such as occur in all other accounts of Creation.
All the references in this first chapter are universal in their application and unlimited in their scope. We find no mention of any particular tribe or nation or country, or any merely local ideas or customs. Everything relates to the earth as a whole and to humans without reference to race. Every other account of Creation includes such references.
There is no mention of any event subsequent to the creation of humans.
It is uncontaminated by human speculation.
There is no hint of the worship of sun or moon or the influence of stars, all later developments.
All the facts in the chapter are things humans could not have found out for themselves at the dawn of history. God did not keep them in the dark till later generations.
The simplicity of terms used.
The term “Sabbath” is not used. It is simply “the seventh day”.
No Israelite of a later generation would have used the plurals “us” and “our” of God in verse 26.
The Bible speaks of revelation of such things from the beginning (i.e. Isaiah 40 which contains the statement “Has it not been told you from the beginning? [literally: “from the first”]. Have you not understood since the earth was founded?—v. 21).
Wiseman says:

Genesis 1, disencumbered of its misinterpretations, stands out in its sublime grandeur, its remarkable accuracy, its concise comprehensiveness, quite unique in the creation literature of the world.

Answer 9

Stop making sense. Whenever you make sense it counts as picking on chrisitans. It really hurts their feelings when you say something sensible.

Answer 10

You are a perfect christian. Dumber than dirt.