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Question 433

You know what bothers me LET THERE BE LIGHT and yet on the fourth day (I think) created the sun and the moon. The morning came and the night day one?????

 

 

Answer to Question 433

 

This is a problem that has baffled many Biblical interpreters and scholars. Is this a contradiction? On day one God creates the light then on day four he creates the sun, moon and stars. If the sun was created on the four day then how is there light on the first day? The answer is not to be found in the chain of creation events, but in the purpose of the six days. The sun was actually created on the fourth day, but for technical reasons light and the separation of night and day is also mentioned on the first day. Light is the bases for all order and work and so that God can teach us to work six days and rest on the seventh, he appears as a common worker creating the world in six days. For this purpose it was essential to have a separation of the day from night on the first day, otherwise there would be no day one or day two or day three. There is no contradiction between the first day, where there is light and the separation of day and night from God, and the fourth day where the vessel of light, the sun, determines the day and night, because on the fourth day is revealed the material reason for the separation of the day and night and on the first day the ulterior reason which is God.

 

Same member

So I presume the light was something of his own aura??

 

Reply

No, God is light but in the creation story light is simply mentioned to make a division between night and day so that there could be a first day. It is a way of explaining to us simple people that God created what he did within a specific time of creation. Without defining a period of evening and morning we would not understand that there was a first day or second day.