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1 | Did God create light twice? | Gen 1:3 | SHST | 229652 | ||
What are the differences between Gen 1:3 and Gen 1:15? | ||||||
2 | Did God create light twice? | Gen 1:3 | Holmes | 229695 | ||
Hi SHST, What are the differences between Gen 1:3 and Gen 1:15? On the face of these scriptures there seems to be a contradiction. However, they are in harmony. It is necessary to understand, however, the correct sequence of events and not to misread what is actually being said. 1. – “In the beginning” is that period of time BEFORE the first day and stretches back into eternity when there was God and the Word (John 1:1-3). The first day did not begin until God said, “Let there be light” (Gen. 1:3). Therefore, it is clear that the heavens (universe) and earth (planet) existed prior to the first day. This would include the sun, moon, stars and light. Genesis states clearly that a day consisted of an evening and a morning. This required light for this purpose (verse 5). Since the planet earth and the universe existed prior to the light of verse 3, they also existed prior to the first day. How could it be otherwise? There was darkness over the surface of the deep, that is, the waters which covered the earth. It does not say that there was darkness anywhere else. In fact, God had made a “thick darkness its (the earth’s) swaddling band.” (Job 38: 9) The term “swaddling band” implies that there was light outside of this band, otherwise it wouldn’t be a band. Why would God place a “thick darkness” over the waters of the deep on the first day if the first thing that God did was to “let there be light”? 2. – Before God created the earth, He created the Angels. Yet, when the cornerstone of the earth was laid, “the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” (Job 38:7) 3. – In verse 3, God says “LET there be light.” The only purpose stated was to make days. It does not say he created or made the light at that time, but that he allowed the light. The next thing God did, on day 2, was to separate the waters, putting water vapors into the atmosphere around the earth. It would seem that this light was like that on an overcast day, when we cannot see the sun, moon or stars. 4. - Then God separated the earth from the seas and allowed the earth to bring forth vegetation. It appears that the earth already contained the necessary seeds. Note that God let the earth do this, but He “planted” the Garden of Eden. Gen 2: 8 In verse 14 God again states “let there be lights.” This time the lights are made visible. They are for additional purposes as signs, seasons, for days and for years. Again, it does not say God created or made the lights at the time, but allowed them to be visible. Verse 16 is an explanation and expansion of verse 1, the creation of the heavens (universe), which was completed “in the beginning”. For your consideration, Holmes |
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3 | Did God create light twice? | Gen 1:3 | biblicalman | 229705 | ||
There are two things we are wise not to be dogmatic about, the first is the beginning of all things, and the second is the end of all things. Both are outside the sphere of our understanding. We are told that in the beginning God created hashamayim (the heavens) and haaretz (the 'earth' or 'the place'). Now as angelic beings are introduced early on (in chapter 3) it is clear that this includes the heavens where they dwell. Nothing further is said about this creation. We are probably unwise to speak of 'before creation'. That assumes time, but time was created along with the universe. We can speak of eternal time, but humanly speaking that is impossible when looking back. There had to be a beginning. And here we are told that that beginning was in the act of creation. It is true that Jesus does speak of 'before the world was' but that is using human language to describe the indescribable. We simply have to accept things as they are recognising thst we cannot understand eternity. All the emphasis in chapter 1 is on the creation of ha-aretz. And it is soon apparent that this term includes the skies, and the heavenly bodies. Thus it does not strictly mean earth. Eretz is indeed a broad term. It can mean our earth, it can mean dry land as opposed to sea, or it can mean 'a country'. In other words it refers to what finally contains man. Thus prior to the creation of light and dry land it probably indicates 'the stuff of the universe' (it includes sun, moon and stars and the sky). We are told in verse 2 what the stuff of the universe consisted of. It was shapeless and empty and totally lacking in light, although at some stage prior to the creation of light there was 'the deep'. But that is probably intended to indicate simply that there was no land which was liveable on. The whole point of this description is that God was about to work on a 'blank canvas' (shapeless waste and uninhabitable) and create our universe. Darkness was not created. It was simply lack of light. God then introduced light by His word. What had been empty and waste and totally dark suddenly became changed at God's word. Light pervaded our universe. This is probably an indication of the creation of electro-magnetic-waves which are a form of light. Suddenly the stuff of the universe had form and substance. Let God withdraw light and the universe would collapse into nothingness. Holmes is right to suggest that this started the first yom. Thus the first yom did not have an evening and a morning. It started with light. This is a warning not to take evening and morning literally. It clearly simply means beginning and ending. As light had not been separated from darkness until in the midst of this first yom an evening and a morning were previously an impossibility. This also demonstrates that we are not to take the yom pattern as a 'day' in our sense of the term (strictly yom means a period of time). This is confirmed by the fact that times and seasons, days and years were not fixed until the fourth yom. There were no 'days' in our sense of the word before that. It was on the fourth yom that God caused the heavenly bodies to rule the times and seasons, days and years. That means that they had not done so before then. Nights and days as we know them did not exist until then. That was God's purpose in fashioning the sun and the moon and bringing them into play. But it should be noted that God did not create light on the fourth yom as well. What he brought into action were the 'lamps' that gave light for man. Thus there were not two creations of light. |
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4 | Did God create light twice? | Gen 1:3 | azurelaw | 229708 | ||
Thank you for the fine post, sir. Shalom Azure |
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