How was the sun created on the fourth day?

[Walking Void]

They would have probably stoned you and kept your teeth.

I bet they fill the room with pot-smoke while You sleep. And then You wake up high.

[CleanShavenJesus]

How was the Sun created on the fourth day if the Sun wasn't created until the fourth day? Four days wouldn't pass without the Sun.

I had read the Bible for decades and never thought of this, to be perfectly frank.

Light and darkness is what denoted the passage of time. ever since the 4th day the sun is the source God uses to produce light.

Light and darkness don't create days.

[Pandas United]

How was the Sun created on the fourth day if the Sun wasn't created until the fourth day? Four days wouldn't pass without the Sun.

I had read the Bible for decades and never thought of this, to be perfectly frank.

Most Christians, except for YEC'ers still living in the 19th century, don't take Genesis 1 to be a literal representation of the physical creation of the universe. After researching Genesis from a historical perspective, I see a story with incredible amounts of theological and existential meaning, not a literalistic account for the mechanics of creation.

[Minimalist]

So all plants would die in one day without light.

Why would plants evolve ( yes, EVOLVE, asshole) photosynthesis in the dark?

[festive1]

How was the Sun created on the fourth day if the Sun wasn't created until the fourth day? Four days wouldn't pass without the Sun.

I had read the Bible for decades and never thought of this, to be perfectly frank.

Light and darkness is what denoted the passage of time. ever since the 4th day the sun is the source God uses to produce light.

This conjures up an image in my head of god creating, while one of his angels holds a flashlight... "No a little higher! To the left! No, right! There!! Just hold the light there!!"

[littleendian]

So all plants would die in one day without light.

Why would plants evolve ( yes, EVOLVE, asshole) photosynthesis in the dark?

Prescience?

[Ben Davis]

How was the Sun created on the fourth day if the Sun wasn't created until the fourth day? Four days wouldn't pass without the Sun.

I had read the Bible for decades and never thought of this, to be perfectly frank.

Most Christians, except for YEC'ers still living in the 19th century, don't take Genesis 1 to be a literal representation of the physical creation of the universe. After researching Genesis from a historical perspective, I see a story with incredible amounts of theological and existential meaning, not a literalistic account for the mechanics of creation.

Hi Pandas, sorry to press you on a derail but I have to point out that the bible was always meant to be taken literally. Why do you feel that you are able to reinterpret the bible in such a way?

[The Grand Nudger]

Most Christians, except for YEC'ers still living in the 19th century, don't take Genesis 1 to be a literal representation of the physical creation of the universe. After researching Genesis from a historical perspective, I see a story with incredible amounts of theological and existential meaning, not a literalistic account for the mechanics of creation.

Perhaps this is what you see because you dearly wish to see it such a way? The creation narrative is intractable from the overall narrative and is used as a reinforcing point for the "power of god" in the same way that leviathan is referenced. That neither the creation narrative nor levaithans are in any way accurate representations of reality is clear to us - but was not clear to the people of the time. Separating theology from cosmology makes sense -to you-...but you won't be able to establish that it made sense to those involved - meanwhile, it's very easy to demonstrate that the two were tied to the hip for the time period. They steadfastly believed in their cosmologies as -both- an issue of theology and mundane fact.

This is one of those cases where people have found it useful to back away from some claim...but the claim being so important as support of yet another claim - they simultaneously wish to retain it's integrity. No dice.

[John V]

How was the Sun created on the fourth day if the Sun wasn't created until the fourth day? Four days wouldn't pass without the Sun.

I had read the Bible for decades and never thought of this, to be perfectly frank.

Uh, God can make light for twelve hours then dark for twelve hours with or without the sun. Duh.

[The Grand Nudger]

Not a very "honest response". You don't know what a god can or can't do, so explaining this to anyone from a position of ignorance is pointless. Quick, ask me how a telephone works - I'll "explain" it to you!