Genesis 1: 14 - 19

¹⁴And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:  ¹⁵And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
 ¹⁶And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
 ¹⁷And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
 ¹⁸And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
 ¹⁹And the evening and the morning were the fourth day

We now come the fourth day. God creates lights in the firmament. This is generally understood to be the stars at night and the sun during the day; but, if we go back we understand that God had already created the stars and light. We are therefore presented with a couple of choices. Firstly that the stars were still undefined or that their light could not be seen on earth (possibly because of the firmament and the water that was above the earth blocking the light). My personal belief is that the water and firmament in the sky blocked the suns rays.

One might ask if it is possible to have plant life without any sunshine and science has proven that it is possible. We have discovered animals and vegetation at the bottom of the ocean floor where there is no light and in caves where there is no light.


The ability to see the stars and lights was created to be for "signs and seasons and days and years". In other words so that we would be able to predict what would happen by looking to the sky and for thousands of years people did and it allowed them to be farmers. It also says that it was for "days". Prior to the fourth day of creation there was no way to have a day on earth, the earth spun; but, you could not tell when a day had passed as a day is based on the sun rising and setting. This is further indication that the first three days were not 24 hour days; but, were instead "God" days, the length of which we cannot determine.


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