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1 | Genesis chapter 1 | Gen 1:16 | Truthfinder | 96554 | ||
Hi all. Just curious. On which day was the sun created? Truthfinder |
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2 | Genesis chapter 1 | Gen 1:16 | Morant61 | 96555 | ||
Greetings Truthfinder! Apparently, God created the sun on day four - even though the term 'sun' isn't actually used in the verse. Here is the entire passage of Gen. 1:14-19: "And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.' And it was so. 16 God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning — the fourth day." |
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3 | Genesis chapter 1 | Gen 1:16 | Truthfinder | 96598 | ||
Shalom Tim, What was created when God said, "Bereshit bara elohim hashamaim ve et ha arets"? Gen. 1:1 Also, in verse 3, "yehoo or vahoo or" (Let be light and there was light), what was created? Shalom Truthfinder |
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4 | Genesis chapter 1 | Gen 1:16 | Morant61 | 96622 | ||
Greetings Truthfinder! I would say that verse one refers to the initial creation of the 'stuff' of the universe, but the 'stuff' was as yet unshaped. The following verses deal with God's shaping of His creation. As far as the light of v.3, the term used in not the Hebrew term for 'sun', 'moon', or 'star', but simply 'light'. The verse goes on to distinguish between night and day. So, I would say that light here was much the same as the light of the sun, but the sun simply hadn't been created yet. Time, and the marking of time definitely seems to be the primary thought of the verse. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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5 | Genesis chapter 1 | Gen 1:16 | Emmaus | 96632 | ||
Tim, An interesting question in this regard is when God created the invisible things. Were the invisible but physical things created before the visible and did time begin then? And when did God create the invisible but purely spiritual things such as angels. Since time exists in the relationship between movement and space and the angels being pure spirit do not occupy "space" were they created at the same time as physical things? They are not eternal like God in the sense that they had no beginning, but if they were created before the physical things we cannot rightly attribute a "time" as we understand it to their creation. Next week: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Emmaus |
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6 | Genesis chapter 1 | Gen 1:16 | Hank | 96641 | ||
Emmaus - Your reasoning regarding God's time-frame of creation makes an enormous amount of sense to me, and I believe it is in tune with biblical revelation. ..... But what I await with eager anticipation is next week's installment in which you promise to wrestle with the question, "How many angels (also called 'angles' on this forum) can dance on the head of a pin?" ..... Please let me know the day you plan to post it so we can coordinate our scholarly efforts and make a really big splash, because I am working on a definitive answer to the question, "Who was Cain's wife?" Do you think the forum is ready for this? --Hank | ||||||