From Himself, "The light of the world is Jesus" For lllmatic: Psalms 102:26-27 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 1 John 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. The Bible does say that God does not change, God is eternal, He always has been and always will be, and that God IS LIGHT. If He's light now then He always has been. Don't feel too bad though, most non believers think like you. The thing to do now is go back to the book, and find something else to disagree with. Edit for Gideon, Jesus was most definately on the scene at this time. His body had not been made in Mary, but Jesus was still God at the time. John 1:1-11 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

Good question. It is my opinion that this shows that the story was conceived by those who had no idea what caused day and night. You will note that the Bible says Yahweh created plants on the 3rd day, but the sun they require for photosynthesis wasn't created until the 4th day. You will also note that it talks about a lesser light to rule by night, which strongly hints that the moon produces its own light (like the sun, the greater light). In fact, the moon does not produce light, it merely reflects light.

Conscousness.

The Big Bang?

The first light is a word they could not describe at the time, which is motion. The second light is the light and dark energy produced by the universe. The sun and moon do not play a part in the creation of the universe only in our solar system.

Well, in Lee Strobels 'The Case for a Creator' the claim is made that it was the photon particles that appeared in the Big Bang explosion.

Let there be light, the big bang happened. The secound day he created "sky" - the chemicals that form our atmosphere and everything else, gas's etc. These gass's create the stars and planets etc. The trouble is third and fourth are the wrong way around, misheard perhaps, or even ancient logic overuled, whatever,if they had been said the other way round it would be correct, even scientifically. Say on the third day he made the moon, sun etc and on the fourth he made water, earth and vegitation this is the order in which they did happen scientists tell us. Then the fishes and the birds. Birds predecessor was dinosours and when they left, the age of mammal and ultimately man.

What a great question. And it points to yet one more problem with a literal interpretation.

Photons condensed less than one second after the Big Bang, whereas matter did not form planets nor stars for another several hundred million years. So - light existed first as per Genesis.

He had a little light on his hard hat, silly!

This is part of the story of creation from the Bible. Clearly, as most people have recognised, it is wrong. So the implications for the Bible are either 1 that at least this particular part of the Bible is NOT from God, or 2 that God has some gap in his knowledge to have said/inspired something so wrong. However, one of the characteristics or attributes of God is that He is all-knowing so this rules out option 2 above. One possible explanation for what we're left with, option 1, is that the original information was revealed by God. However, there was a long gap before man wrote it down, and in that gap the information became corrupted in man's memory. Because the information concerned matters beyond man's knowledge at that time they couldn't see that they were writing down corrupted information. It is claimed that the story of creation was revealed again to man but Mohammed, who claims to have received the revelation, has it recorded immediately. Now, if the story is clearly wrong again then, since we have discounted option 2 above, we are left with option 1 but this time applying to the HQ, and because the HQ has the creation story in more than one passage all those passages will be suspect. However, if the story is compatible with the latest findings of science regarding the origins of the universe then it is either 1 an almost impossible coincidence that an illeterate man in a desert had something written down so many centuries back that science has confirmed in modern times, or 2 we have to accept that at least the passages of the HQ about the creation of the universe have a superhuman, divine origin. The three videos below cover the creation of the universe as gleaned from the HQ by the speaker. .

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Funny how human intuition works... Looong before yahweh was a twinkle in abraham's eye people worshipped the sun as the giver of life. Later we find that the sun actually, really IS the reason life can exist on earth. Light turns up before the sun in this particular creation story, then we find out yeah, other stars were born before the sun was - there was light before there was our sun. Trying to take the bible literally and force science to fit though is putting that old book on a pedestal it was never meant to occupy...

1st John God is light, in him there is no darkness

To answer this question, we need to realise that God is the greatest.....the bible did not tell us what the light is since we know it is not the sun but we need to realise that something was shinning onto the earth because of the GOD has to be that source of light. If we look at the book of revelation 22:5 in the bible it will further explain this "There will be no more night, and they will not need any light from lamps or the sun because the Lord God will shine on them. They will rule forever and ever". Hope this has answered ur question :)

Man I cannot for the life of me believe some of these answers. THE answer is Him. P.S.- Adam and Eve didn't start dying until after they were put out of the garden. put that in your hat!!!

Maybe it was the light of creation.Like just before creativity there is chaos.

It says..and darkness was upon the face of the deep.And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.And God said let there be light,and there was light...So maybe the light was in the water!Fire at the earths core?Like volcanos?He called it day and night but nothing of the sun.Yet...THE LIGHT WAS ON OR IN THE WATER.

His brother was holding a flashlight so he could see what he was doing.

From where ever He wanted it to come from.

The light was from God. God is the light of the world. We are children of light.

Pure magic i suppose. That should be no surprise as the entire creation story is magical. But I do wonder how god could 'seperatete the light and the darkness, when he did not create any darkness first.

According to some bible scholars that study Genesis for it's spiritual meaning, that light that was created on the first day is referred to as "the hidden light" - the light that will illuminate hidden things where there will be understanding some time in the future of the source of order in the universe. Reference: The History Channel - History International - episode "The Story of Creation"

Ask any Physicist or astronomer (etc) to tell you what the backbone of all of almost every law of physics and they will tell you it is Light, everything from , space/time to curving of space, to what all molecules are made of E=Mc^2 (relativity)(mass) to how our eyes work spectronomy to televisions, color, red and blue shift of the universe, how energy is converted, absorption refraction reflection. EVERYTHING IS BUILT ON THE CORNERSTONE OF "LIGHT". without the basic fundamentals of Physics, gravity magnetism, Strong, Weak force, enertia, Electromagnetic Radiation (Light), it would be extremely hard to build a universe without this principal. I think it interesting GOD gave Us that information That the cornerstone of the Universe is Light and Most if not All prinipals are based on that..... alright thats my soapbox.hahah

He was talking about the choice of angels and then seperated them according to choice

Is there light on a very cloudy day? Yes. But, can you clearly see that it's coming from the sun? No. Does photosynthesis still take place? Yes. The thick atmosphere didn't allow the sun or moon to be clearly visible, but there was light. Here's why: Note that during this period the word "make" is used, as compared to "create" used in Genesis 1:1. So, God had "created" the heavens, including the sun and moon, but was still organizing (making) things to make life possible on earth.

If you think God can speak stars, planets, animals, etc a into existance, why not light itself?

Grass was growing by the third day...and the stars were mentioned by the fourth day... Yet grass needs sunlight to grow...So it seems the days were not in chronological order...just one day of work ON THAT DAY... Six days of work...with a number of things created on each day...but not necessarily in order. Day one creating the stars would be just ONE of his six days spent creating...

The Hebrew verb used in discussing the sun, moon and stars doesn't mean "to make" as in "to make a thing" or "set/put" as in "to put a thing in a location". The Hebrew verb in both cases means "to appoint or commission" or "to place in a position of authority or honor". The literalists therefore contend that they were all created on the first day, but the command on the fourth day is giving them a specific function beyond just giving light. The interesting thing is that the word for "light" in verse 3 means "illuminator" or "light-giver" (in both the physical and figurative sense) and the words that follow it render it not as a thing but as an agent, and one with a personal relationship with God. (No, it’s not the same thing as “Lucifer” which is how the Septuagint translated the Hebrew for “Morning Star” (the planet Venus), and that passage is simply playing on a presumably false Babylonian myth to make a point to a Babylonian king.) The words used for Sun and Moon are not the typical Hebrew words for them, but both (assuming the author's actually talking about the Sun and Moon) are termed merely "light-shiners" or "radiant-ones" and the stars are termed "blazers/blazing ones" (a term which was often used figuratively of "royal princes"). Drawing on striking parallels with the narrative of Genesis, the Light and Darkness of verse 3 are (at least at one level) allusions to Seth and Cain and their lineages, while the Sun, Moon, and Stars are allusions to Abraham’s sons and their lineages: Isaac, Ishmael, and all Abraham’s later sons by his second wife. (God even promises Abraham that his descendants will be as enumerable as the stars, and that they shall be “a light unto the nations”.) The problem for ardent literalists is that in Biblical Hebrew, almost all nouns are really participles. The root word is an abstract verb, and the noun is an abstraction that gains whatever concrete sense it might have entirely from the context. If one misjudges the context, you will completely misinterpret the Hebrew. If one wants to get "literal" with the Hebrew, the relevant passages read: And said Elohim , "Be Illuminator/light-giver!" and Illuminator was. Elohim looked upon [him] and saw* illuminator was beneficial [for man]. And Elohim separated the illuminator from the darkening-one, and God called to the illuminating, "Warming!” To the darkening He called, "Twisting away!" And there was a slow-and-subtle-concealing, and there was a sudden-and-violent-bursting-forth: the first warming. *the verb translated as "looked upon [him] and saw" is used of interpersonal relationships, not mere observation of an object. It relates to concepts like, "I found favor in his eyes" and "He wouldn't even look at me." ... And Elohim said, "Be! light-shiners in the outpounding of the lofties to separate the warming from the twisting-away and serve as signals/markers to congregatings(festivals, destinies, rendezvous ) and warmings and duplicatings/foldings, and Be! light-shiners in the outpounding of the lofties to give-light to the lowly. And was so. Elohim appointed/commissioned two superior/glorious light-shiners -- the superior/glorious light-shiner to have dominion over the warming and the junior/small/young light-shiner to have dominion over the twisting-away, and the blazers/princes Elohim appointed in the lofties to give light to the lowly and to have dominion over the warming and over the twisting-away and to separate between the light and the darkness and Elohim looked upon [them] and saw [they] were beneficial [for man]. And there was a slow-and-subtle-concealing, and there was a sudden-and-violent-bursting-forth: the fourth warming.

and the earth was without (form) - division. and (darkness) was upon the face of the deep - bodies. and the (Spirit of God) - power of Elohim. (moved) upon the face of the waters - engulfed and trembled or fluttered upon the surface of the universe. and God said - Elohim. let there be light - several things - The Word, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Angels, and the right of choice, and stars. All things lay under the surface of the atmosphere and God cause them to surface according to when they were needed. So the first thing called was the Word, then Jesus, then the Holy Spirit, then the Stars, then the Angels, then the right of chice by the angels.

It came from the star we call the sun but the atmosphere needed to be clear enough to allow the sun to be clearly seen in the sky, which took hundreds of millions of years.   Even now, the sun can't be seen on a very cloudy day but it still gets light during the day, as compared to the darkness of night. Likewise, on a cloudy night, the moon itself can't be seen but there is some illumination. When the atmosphere cleared, the sun and moon could be clearly seen.   If you study the development of the planet, you'll see that this is exactly what happened.

Perhaps the light source was God himself. 1 John 1:5 " This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all." Just a thought.

Yes, you have it exactly right. On the first day, He made light onto the planet. But only on the fourth day he made the "lights" in the sky. It doesn't make sense to us because we assume that light comes from the sun. Well what about God? Does He shine because the rays of the sun reflect onto Him? No, God is light as 2 Corinthians 4:6 says. He was the light, is the light, and will continue to be the light. In verse 11 God places vegetation on the planet...without the sun. Well, what about photosynthesis? Fruit and plants grew without the sun. All things are possible with God.

Couldn't there be another source of light other than these?

If God can do anything then I'm sure he is highly capable of making another source of light. :)