What day did God actually create the Sun?

Question

King James Version
Genesis 1
Ge 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Ge 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Ge 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Ge 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Ge 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Ge 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.
Ge 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Ge 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Ge 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

As you can tell this simply doesn't make sense, if God created light on the first day and we know that the sun is what gives the light to the earth than why does he again create lights on the 4th day? What day was the sun actually created the 1st or the 4th?

Well since this is quoted from "The Holy Bible" God in this case would be Jehovah.

Also before God created Heaven and Earth wouldn't God have to create time? Unless time was before him then well that would me God wasn't the first thing to exist.

Jnt667: Dude God calls the Light Day read what is in the scripture and you will see, so don't try and cop out with that answer.

jweston2: No but he did two forms of creating light my friend can you not read??? It is right there in the scripture?

Explain to me Day & Night without a Sun??? Without light from the Sun? That is worst attempt at justification I have heard in years.

You are using energy to power a filament in a light bulb that was created by a man. Your arguement is invalid towards the topic. The fact that God created a light on the first day and that light determined day or night, and then repeated the action on the 4th day to make the sun and moon. What would first light be if it determined night and day if not the Sun?

Timmyboy26164: If you say God is capable of anything then you also would agree that God can make mistakes, and that God isn't perfect and that God can commit sin if he is capable of anything. Therefore your theory is another huge contradiction of God try harder next time...

Answer 1

God not creating the sun and moon until the fourth day is a way of showing that god has power over the sun.

Much of the Hebrew bible was written while the Jews were in the Diaspora, because of this much of the mythology and legend is taken from what is local, and familiar to them. Most of what isn't borrowed was written in to refute the mythology of these other cultures. In most of these cultures the sun is a god, by showing that the god of the Jews has power over the sun shows that their god is superior.

Answer 2

The sun, moon and stars were not created until day 4. Some people explain it that God is fully capable of creating light with no source like the Sun and He did it this way to make it known to the first peoples that He is the source of light...not necessarily the sun which many ancient cultures worshipped as the creator or giver of life. Or a more scientific explanation is that the first few creation days were illuminated by a sort of radiation luminescence as a result of the formation of the earth from a formless body and the initial gravitational forces on atomic nuclei until God did in fact create the sun, moon and stars. The rotation cycle of the earth is not dependant on the sun to constitute a single 24 hour timespan but the understanding of a "day" as being the evening and the morning is important for God to explain this time period to people over many generations....early people would not have known that the earth rotates on an axis so their concept of time is gauged by the typical day and night explanation as written in the Bible.
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Answer 3

On the fourth day. It was an established light of the night, set in the boundaries of the firmament. He didn't need to recreate light as you say, but merely to use the light from the first day, and form it to the scope of the Sun, Moon, and stars.

Reply: Sticking to the topic at hand, of whether there are two separate creations of actual light, check the Hebrew. Two different words are used for actual light('ohr) and the objects of light in the heavens(mi'roht). The latter in the singular literally means "out of light" and is used to describe the greater light and lesser light on day four. So this provides sufficient evidence that the light of day four was in fact "out of" the light created on day one.

Answer 4

Really...the sun is what gives light to the earth...interesting...the sun went down hours ago and I'm sitting in light as bright as daylight...guess that's a delusion.

Of course it doesn't make sense...because our perception of the universe is based on the finished product. Yes, on the earth as we know it, the sun is what provides the light that separates night from day. If God could create the sun (something we can't do), how much easier would it have been for him to create a temporary source of light until he was ready to place the permanent one (something we CAN do). The light source for the room I'm in right now (that bright as day one) is a ceiling fan...and when I remodeled this room, that was one of the last things I installed (after painting, installing flooring and trim, etc...)...I used a halogen shop light while I worked until I was ready to install the light fixture.

Answer 5

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Answer 6

For some reason God wanted to distinguish light from sun. Light is the basic prerequisite for all physical life yet the sun had not been created.

Answer 7

Wednesday

Answer 8

Scripture does not SPECIFICALLY say. However, the event in Genesis is simply a REESTABLISHMENT of its purpose on the earth's surface. It was not CREATED on the day he "MADE" them,,,, made here actually means reestablished if one looks it up.

Answer 9

He created it on the 4th day

Answer 10

Gosh, God and my eternal soul were too busy to notice what day it was. What a man! Or at least man's image. (It cuts both ways, doesn't it?)