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9 Bible Commentaries on Genesis 1: 3
The sun separates day from night NOW, but not then. Then there was no sun, as a literate person will see if he keeps reading a few verses on. This light created here was a temporary sourceless light that did then what the sun does now.
Commentary by jk
Posted on:
4/21/2008 20:55 pm 
Dear JK, I understand that you have a problem digesting the actual words of the Bible but, by creating your own account of creation, you are actually giving the Bible a vote of no confidence.
The actual words of the Bible are “Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
There is of course only one thing that distinguishes the day from the night, and that is the light from the sun. The Bible couldn’t have been clear about this: the light that God made in the first day is the light that separates the day from the night, not some mysterious rays or energy or anything else that creationists fabricate. It amazes me how people who profess belief in the Bible go out of their way to remake the holy words.
Commentary by Charles FiottPosted on:
4/19/2008 22:21 pm
I don’t mean that light preexisted his saying “Let there be light.” When he said that, light was created for the first time. But light, being made of rays that are absorbed and turned into heat, is by its nature impermanent. It will always exist as energy, but not always be light. The light that he created there by saying “Let there be light” was no permanent source of light but was transient light (raw light separated from source) that was converted upon abortion and therefore is no longer around, at least not as light.
“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2 Cor 4:6) Note that the apostle gives us the inspired interpretation of Genesis 1:3, which is not (as you seem to be saying) that God created a permanent light source, but rather that he commanded raw light to shine out of nowhere, having no source other than himself. In otherwise, this “Let there be light” did not create anything like a star, but God called forth mere and raw light out of non-existence into existence without creating any source whatsoever.
Commentary by jkPosted on:
4/19/2008 21:17 pm
“Let there be light” is a straightforward and unequivocal statement of a permanent creation. Contending that this was “a mere ambient light to temporarily exist until the creation of the sun” is taking unreasonable and excessive liberty with the written word of the Bible. God went through a methodical process, creating one permanent thing after another. Why would he adopt a two-step process to create light as opposed to everything else? Why would he need to? What logical sense would it make? Why would it be part of the creation story if nothing was in fact created yet?
Commentary by Charles FiottPosted on:
4/19/2008 18:14 pm
Since God created the Sun, moon, and stars later, this light could not be light from any of them. In fact, why assume that this light was projected from any body at all rather than mere ambient light to temporarily exist until the creation of the sun? Catching this fact that God created light before the sun, the apocryphal book of 2nd Esdras (also called 4th Esdras) says in 6:40 (Revised Standard Version) “Then thou didst command that a ray of light be brought forth from thy treasuries, so that thy works might then appear.” A ray of light is light itself and not the body that projects the light, which I assume is what the apocryphal writer is saying. He is interpreting this light as just that, light, without any body that is projecting it.
Commentary by jkPosted on:
4/19/2008 17:32 pm
God created light in the first day but didn’t create the sun till the fourth, where the Bible tells us that the sun is the source of light. So what was the source of light in the first three days?
Commentary by CharlesPosted on:
10/8/2007 16:18 pm
When God said :”let there be light”, it hit the universe running at 186,000 miles per second, and it has not stopped.
Commentary by michael meurettPosted on:
9/23/2007 12:35 pm 
God spoke light into existence - nothing grows without light - he created light as the next step to survival. Just as Jesus came to be the light of the world for our salvation.
Commentary by Sharon CoreaPosted on:
6/6/2007 06:41 am 
Stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. So this “temporary sourceless light” behaved exactly like the sun - it shut itself off during the night and was even called “day” by God - and yet it was not the sun? If it walks like a duck and squawks like a duck …
If you are so literate you should have picked up that the Bible writers created the sun twice by mistake. There is no other logical explanation. The Bible doe not say the light was temporary or that it was sourceless. This is all a baseless and irresponsible fabrication.
Again I understand why you’re having such a hard time trying to explain the Bible. It’s way too flawed.