Light Before The Sun
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How biblical apologists have historically understood the source of light before the sun was created in genesis 1. and god said, “let there be light,” and there was light. and god saw that the light was good. and god separated the light from the darkness. god called the light day, and the darkness he called night. The bible student must deduce that the “light” of genesis 1:3 was not that which subsequently (three days later) emanated from the sun, the moon, or the stars.the fiat of verse 14, “let there be lights,” expresses the same sort of creative activity — out of nothing came something by the command of god — that is affirmed in verse 3.
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A: the first thing to note is that whatever the light was, god divided it from darkness and then defined “day” and “night” based on the distinction (vss. 4 5). moses highlights that “the evening and the morning” were in effect at the end of that first day, even though the sun had not yet been created. apparently, the light was. The question of how there could be light on the first day of creation when the sun was not created until the fourth day is a common one. genesis 1:3 5 declares, "and god said, 'let there be light,' and there was light. god saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5. wrong understanding of text. there is one other possible solution to this problem the bible doesn't say there was light before the sun. it is quite possible that when the author of genesis 1:1 said in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth the phrase heaven and earth included the sun. entire universe. However, other biblical evidence suggests a different explanation for the light on the earth between day 1 and day 4 of the creation week: god could have created the sun and other heavenly bodies before day 4, but “set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth” ( genesis 1:17) on day 4 itself.
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5. wrong understanding of text. there is one other possible solution to this problem the bible doesn't say there was light before the sun. it is quite possible that when the author of genesis 1:1 said in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth the phrase heaven and earth included the sun. entire universe. However, other biblical evidence suggests a different explanation for the light on the earth between day 1 and day 4 of the creation week: god could have created the sun and other heavenly bodies before day 4, but “set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth” ( genesis 1:17) on day 4 itself. The sun's actual light (yellow curve, left) versus a perfect blackbody (in grey), even before that light, there was a soup of matter and antimatter, which annihilated to produce the majority. This light source was enough to allow plants to grow until god replaced his first light source with the sun. of greater concern to the critical literalist is that there was liquid water on earth even before that first light was created: genesis 1:2: and the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
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