If God created the Sun on the fourth day, how could 4 days have passed?

Question

Also, how could he have created light before the light-source? And how did the plants survive the 3rd day, without the Sun?

Answer 1

Logically speaking, its possible that days refers to measure of time rather than actually rotations or revolutions.

Also, the being which can create a Sun can obviously radiate or generate light at will. He was probably emitting the same light as the Sun so the plants were good.

Answer 2

Good question and the answer can be found in the Hebrew words for light. In Genesis 1:3 the word is “our” also spelled “owr”. It means light. God “turned on” the light to separate it from the darkness. The fact that He called the light day and the darkness night indicates that both were present, but not at the same time.



In Genesis 1:14 the word for light is “ma’our” or “ma’owr”. It means light repository, literally candlestick or chandelier. This indicates that God gathered the light into two specific sources, one for the day and one for the night, to mark days, years, and seasons as well as to light the earth.

Answer 3

Perhaps the earth was being created near where God lives and was using his source of light, and time span of a day (ie: not our sun, but his).



The scriptures say his time is not our time and that a day to him is LIKE a thousand years to us.



Had the thousands/millions of years that constituted "the first day", the "second day", etc, been based off his location and sun then it would make perfect sense.





Perhaps the "fall" of the earth with adam and eve was a literal fall as well, when the planet fell into its current rotation and location.

Answer 4

[Genesis 1:1] 1 "In the BEGINNING God created the heavens and the earth."



It does not specify WHICH beginning, the one of the Universe or the beginning of this Earth and system. I feel inclined to believe it refers to this solar system, because the Universe has 15 billion years of being Created, not the Earth.



Light - not just coming from the Sun, then - might have been in place long before that first sentence in the book of Genesis.



[Genesis 1:23] 23 "There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day." It says this regarding each and every day until the Sixth day. The word "day" means - not 24 hours as many silly people tend to understand, but - a "period", an "epoch" that lasted (judging by the length of the Sixth day) not less than 7000 years each.



The Book of Genesis is a pond that has 1.000.000 meters deep. Be careful swimming in there...

Answer 5

Maybe the creation account in Genesis was told from the point of view of an observer on the earths' surface. Light would be present before the atmosphere cleared sufficiently for the disk of the sun to be seen.

Answer 6

Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation:



Now how are the plants created before light?



You need to read it yourself instead of spouting nonsense from someone else. That way you won't make yourself look like the hind end of a huge mule like you just did.

Answer 7

The first light was the results of Gods presents. God caused light to shine on the earth before the sun came into being. He is the light and the power of its creation. This idea of God as the light is consistent with many ancient sources of which I will name one, J. Neusner, Genesis Rabbah, I, p 29. Psalms 104:2



Also light refers to "enlightenment" of the mind, what is known by us, what we conceive.

Answer 8

The poster who is the Light of Truth has the answer for you so I don't need to answer that.



God is the light source.



In scripture we read of instances where the glory of God shines in darkness.



Moses talking with God on the mount.

A cloud standing guard between Israel and Egypt at the Red Sea. To the Egyptians the clouds were dark and menacing. To the Israelites it was bright at night. Jesus Christ with his three disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration. The glory of God shinning in the tent in the wilderness.



In heaven there is no light there because God is the light.



Does this help?

Answer 9

Genesis 1 is written in the language of Geometry, and it makes absolutely no sense in any other language. It actually creates and image and then a structure.

Answer 10

The first parts of Genesis, from the tale of Creation through the tales of Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, the Tower of Babel, the Great Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Wars of the Kings in which Abraham was involved -- are all based on earlier Sumerian records. The origin of the Biblical seven days of creation is almost certainly the seven tablets on which the Enuma Elish was written. This is evident from the contrast between the first six Babylonian tablets describing Marduk’s acts of creation and the seventh tablet which is dedicated to a general exaltation of the god (and thus a parallel to the Biblical seventh day when God rested).



During the last one hundred years, tens of thousands of clay tablets have been excavated in ancient Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) dating back to 6,000 years ago. Archaeological and linguistic studies trace the origin of the Elohim concept to a Babylonian epic text known as the Enuma Elish, which deals with the creation of the heavens and Earth by a Babylonian God named Marduk. There is amazing similarity between Genesis and the Enuma Elish except that one credits the creation of heavens and Earth to God, whilst the other credits it to Marduk.



The HEBREW, EXILED IN BABYLON, WERE INFLUENCED BY THE ENUMA ELISH, which had been the most sacred Babylonian ritual text for over a thousand years.”



The earliest books of Genesis were handed down from generation to generation by oral tradition, before the Hebrew people developed a system of Phoenician writing, around 1000 BCE. So the Hebrews remembered bits and pieces of the Sumerian texts and wrote them down ADDING THEIR TWISTS AND SPIN ON IT when they learnt how to write.

Answer 11

How could God create planets before the Sun?

Answer 12

That's assuming that the correct interpretation of Genesis 1 is Young Earth Creationism with a vulgarly basic literalism.

Answer 13

He didn't. But the sun is 1 million times the size of Earth, neato!

Answer 14

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