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1 | Perhaps I don't understand these verses | Gen 1:3 | bruren777 | 144705 | ||
Genesis 1:3-5 (NIV) And God said "Let there be light" and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He seperated the light from the darkness. God calle the light"day" and the darkness night". And there there was evening and there was morning-the first day. Genesis 1:16 (NIV) God made two great lights - the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. The 3 verses seem to concur, but they also seem to refer to different situations. Can you clear this up for me? Thank you. In Him, Bruce |
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2 | Perhaps I don't understand these verses | Gen 1:3 | Hank | 144706 | ||
bruren 777 ::: The "light" of Gen. 1:3 and the "lights" of Gen. 1:14 are indeed two separate events that occurred at different times; the former on day one of creation and the latter on day four of creation. The "light" of Gen. 1:3 has been variously explained. One of the best explanations I've seen comes from a scientist who is also a committed Christian and able apologist for creationism, Dr. Henry Morris. Writing on Genesis 1:3 and 14, Dr. Morris says: "On the first day [of creation], God had said, 'Let there be light' (Hebrew or). Now He says, 'Let there be lights (Hebrew ma-or). Light energy was activated first [v.3], but now great masses of material (part of the 'earth' elements created on the first day) were gathered together in one of the firmaments, or spaces, of the cosmos -- the space beyond the waters above the space adjacent to the earth. These great bodies were set burning in complex chemical and nuclear reactions, to serve hencforth as light-givers for the earth. The existence of visible light (Gen. 1:3) prior to the establishment of the sun, moon and stars (Gen. 1:16) emphasizes the fact that light (energy) is more fundamental than light-givers. God could just as easily (perhaps more easily) have created waves of light energy as He could have constructed material bodies in which processes function which generate light energy. The first is direct (since God is light), the second indirect." ..... Excerpted from notes on Genesis 1:3 and 1:14: Defender's Study Bible, Annotations by Henry M. Morris, Ph.D: World Publishing. --Hank | ||||||