Do Christians believe that the earth is older than the sun?

Question

In Genesis, God first creates Heaven and Earth, then later he creates the sun. That implies that the earth is older than the sun. Is this what Christians believe?

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=1&chapter=1&version=49

@ wickedawesome
So you are saying that the phrasing in the Bible is wrong? It's like that in every Bible version I have checked. Even if you are right and the current Bible is wrong, the Sun and Moon did not even exist until plants were created, which obviously means that they were created after the earth.

@RW
Where did I ever say that Heaven was the sky? All I asked was if Christians believed that the earth was older than the sun, which is stated in the Bible.

And I can't understand how people can say that they are Christian and NOT believe that the earth existed before the sun. It is directly stated in the Bible that God created Heaven and the earth.

Day One
Watery, formless planet Earth suspended in the darkness and void of space (no stars, no sun, no moon, no planets - except for Earth)
Light
Separation of light from the darkness

Day Two:
Formation of Earth's atmosphere,

Day Three:
Dry land and oceans
Vegetation

Day Four:
Sun
Moon
Stars and other planets.

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-ordercreation.html

Answer 1

Sadly, some Christians actually believe that. Those people are called Creationists.

Answer 2

Excuse my ignorance. I rarely get into debates about evolution, creation, young earth, old earth, blah, blah, blah. But can someone illuminate me on the big deal about the earth and suns age.

I just mean, from the comments of most of the evolutionist here it sounds like this is even MORE preposterous than just believing in creation. So I was just wondering if that was the case or looking for some explanation of why it seemed that that was the tone of the question and many answers.

Answer 3

Some do because it is a common argument against Young Earth Creationism that if the sun was after the Earth then plants couldn't have grown. Depending on how you view the "days", yes some of them do believe that because they will argue that a few days without sun will not kill plants.

Answer 4

This Christian believes when God created the "Heaven", that included the sun- how else could life survive?

Answer 5

the original prhasing of genesis 1:1 is "in the beginning WHEN God created the heavens and the earth", and right away, the thing he says to start creation is "Let there be light"

Answer 6

lol. thats a deliberate misunderstanding right?

in that heaven doesn't mean sky. and earth doesn't mean THE earth. it means this world and the heavenly world.

though I am sure some really dumb ones do think its like that.

edit: btw I'm not Christian, I'm Jewish, which basically means I belive in that particular scripture but not neccesarily in the same way.

the bottom line is that your taking it too literally.

Answer 7

Yes we believe that. And as someone said it is... young earth creationism. But don't take what you here and judge. Research it and look at the science behind it.

Answer 8

No! I never heard of this!
PLEASE, people! All of us are NOT creationists.
The Earth is about 5 billion years old.
Arrghh!

Answer 9

Yes. Only by a few days though.

Answer 10

umm..so, what, are we just supposed to listen to the book of genisis? pppfffttt. MODERN SCIENCE says that the sun was first. that should be enough