“Then God said, “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. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.” (Genesis 1:3-5).

God then endowed energy into His creation by the power of His Word. Matter was energized and gave forth light. God separated the energized matter from the dark matter and that constituted the first day. Scripture tells us that he later created the sun, moon & stars as ‘HOLDERS’….which would harness that ENERGY. You can read the Word, but unless it is ENERGIZED by the Holy Spirit….

I’d love to continue but am on my way to Service. May God Richly bless you in the reading & understanding of His Holy Word

Commentary by Dr. Black
Posted on: 9/28/2008 13:46 pm

Dr. Black. how do you know that the light of Genesis is actually energy? What evidence do you have?

Commentary by Charles
Posted on: 9/28/2008 11:48 am

That ‘LIGHT’ being referred to is actually ENERGY. The energy that set the world in motion….spinning on its axis if you will.

Commentary by Dr. Black
Posted on: 9/28/2008 11:31 am

Ah I understand. Well in the next few verses that is explained. Basically they’re saying that even though God created light, there was still darkness. They didn’t get much more technical than that. Once you begin discussing the rotation of the earth, then you get into scientific stuff.

Commentary by Mike
Posted on: 9/27/2008 22:20 pm

Mike, my point is that if they want to say that light didn’t come from the sun they would need to explain how it got dark at night.

Commentary by Charles
Posted on: 9/26/2008 10:05 am

No, actually the opposite. The writers were leaning towards the idea that God created light from nothing, it was just there, and that shows that he is all powerful. There was light, it just didn’t come from the sun, but from God, as he created. But a warning: Genesis should not be taken literally, until after Noah, when Abraham begins. None of it actually happened, rather it is a myth that is used to express the Catholic belief of Creation.

Commentary by Mike
Posted on: 9/25/2008 01:59 am

That’s an interesting hypothesis, Mike, but it still doesn’t explain how there could have been three days and three nights without the sun. Was God a blinking light?

Commentary by Charles
Posted on: 9/24/2008 23:13 pm

Actually, the meaning of this is simple. When the ancient Hebrews wrote this section of the bible, and I believe this was written by the Priestly Writers, they were monotheists. They were alone in religious aspects by this characteristic. Most other religions involved polytheism. Now the most important god in any pantheon of the day was the sun god. The hebrews did this to show that God was more powerful than any other god, and by giving god the power to introduce light, and thus stripping that power from the greatest god in the eyes of the polytheists, the sun god, they are able to take a stab at the other relgions, and say that their god, in essence, is the most powerful.

Commentary by Mike
Posted on: 9/24/2008 22:29 pm

Can someone explain the following: “God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn’t make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be “the evening and the morning” on the first day if there was no sun to mark them?”. Some mentioned this before, but I haven’t read a satisfactory answer yet.

Commentary by Edward N.
Posted on: 6/25/2008 11:35 am

Ok, Dr. Black, first of all I am sure you have the wrong translation because the words “let there be light” are followed by a description of the difference between light and darkness and between day and night. Energy does not account for such a distincton.

But let’s for a moment assume that you are right. That all there was at first was energy. That Earth was in virtual darkness for the first three days of creation. That light was not created until the sun came along in the fourth. So how do you explain the existence of grass, herbs, trees and fruit before the creation of the sun? Don’t you agree that it is scientifically impossible for these things to grow without light?

Commentary by Charles Fiott
Posted on: 6/22/2008 12:46 pm