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Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
It should be noted that Genesis 1 talks about the history of the earth, or better still, the universe, not an history of God. God has always existed forever, for all eternity. Angels existed too, and Heaven(i.e God's dwelling place) existed. god is Light, and there was light in Heaven. So Genesis 1 is not the first time God would 'see' light or create light. the creation of light in this passage is with respect to the darkness found in earth/the universe. this light came as a result of the darkness, and was used to demarcate light from darkness.

Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Gen 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 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.
Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Gen 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.
Gen 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
these new group of lighting was a process of assigning the sun, the moon and the stars to be in charge of giving light to the earth and heavens/universe. The night here is not complete darkness, as there is a lesser light to rule the night. it's an improvement and delegation on the previous framework and foundation of creation of earth.

Logic Mind:

If I uderstand you well, on the first day god created light in general. then on the fourth day he assigned missions to these lights.
right?

mrmayor:

Question is what KIND of LIGHT was created on the First Day? The Light Was Day and the Dark was Night.

Assigning Missions to Light is exactly not creation is it? The Sun(actually a star), Moon and Stars were created on the fourth day.

Logic Mind:

ok i got you

day one he created day & night
day 4 he created sun, moon and stars.

mrmayor:

No Sir you did not get me, going by the bible story Light was created twice, first on the first day and called Day and Night. On the fourth day Light was created again only this time Energy emitting Star ( Our Sun)and Moon were created. Distinction between Day and Night is Sun Light.

lagerwhenindoubt: Let us step aside from reading the Bible "As is" The First Light could be the Big Bang that wrought the Universe(s) as we don't know it. After all a being like God would not need light to see since all he needed to do was harbor the thought and it came to being. Energy was the First Light

Logic Mind:

If I uderstand you well, on the first day god created light in general. then on the fourth day he assigned missions to these lights.
right?

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vedaxcool:

And again the source of Light the sun could not come after the formation of the earth as the sun is believed scientifically to have been the place of origin of the earth, in other words the sun is believd to have ejected Materials used in the formation of the earth. geneisis is just another big blunder of the Jews, as God could not tbe responsible for this mistake.

aletheia:

If you weren't in such a haste to disprove the bible, application of a little common sense would have shown you the invalidity of your assertion above.
The sun gives light, yes, but is the sun the only source of light? The account is quite clear that light was created on the first day and in no way gives the impression that the sun is the source of that light.Indeed the Hebrew makes the distinction clear by using different words in verse 3 and 16 albeit translated as light in English. In verse 3: אור ('ôr); illumination or (concretely) luminary: - bright, clear, + day, light (-ning) and in verse 16: מארה מאורה מאר מאור (mâ'ôr mâ'ôr me'ôrâh me'ôrâh); properly a luminous body or luminary.

Thus you see that modern science agrees with the bible when it makes a distinction between light and the sun:

Wikipedia:
Light is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is visible to the human eye (in a range from about 380 or 400 nanometres to about 760 or 780 nm).[1] In physics, the term light sometimes refers to electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength, whether visible or not.

Wikipedia:
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. . .The energy of this sunlight supports almost all life on Earth by photosynthesis, and drives Earth's climate and weather.

aletheia: Certain topics will always repeat. . .

From much earlier on NL:


Science believes what science believes, but the Word of Yahweh is sure, settled and established forever! Just a little thought on your part would have shown you that even your science agrees that light exists apart from and is distinct from the sun.

Deep Sight:

Thank you Aleth.

aletheia: Certain topics will always repeat. . .
light exists apart from and is distinct from the sun.

InesQor: I always saw the "Light" in verse 3 as an "enablement" or "framework" prior to other things existing. Like the way you turn on an electric light switch to "enable" you see and do other things.

johnw74:
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

heaven = space, universe.

Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Could it be that the light of genesis 1:3 is the Light of God. God gave His light to the world.

Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Gen 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 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.
Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Gen 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.

In verse one God created the heaven and He gave His light to the world, verse 3.
Now in verse 14 God is putting lights in heaven, the sun moon and stars.
Verse 1 God created the heaven, verse 14 God puts lights inthe heaven, sun moon and stars.

In the beginning the light of the world was God until He made the sun moon and stars, in the end the light of the world will again be God.

Rev 21:23 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.
Rev 21:24 And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

Rev 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

Dantedasz:


This thread is hilarious. The more they wriggle,the tighter the noose....

cheers01....

tpiander:


I think it's the same person going around with different user ids trying to throw underhand jabs: noose, thief, your mama smelling pussy like dead rat, etc.

Grow up, stop giving Nigeria a bad name, doesn't make you look good.

This person watches for my posts, then says something idiotic.

Probably the same one who cloned my moniker and also the one searching for husband, so called.

Desperation sha.