jaywill writes:
... what forbids the materials, albiet darkened by some reason, of sun, moon, and stars from being in existence before the fourth day?
Your examples sound more like an argument against creation
ex nihilo than an argument for a created/made distinction.
Of course the materials for clothes and the ingrdients for meals existed before they were "made" into something different. Who is saying that the
materials for the sun, moon and stars didn't exist before the fourth day?
What seems pretty clear is that those materials were not made
into "light-bearers" until the fourth day. Similarly, the skins were not made
into clothes until they were made into clothes. The ingredients were not made
into meals until they were made into meals.
The logic is simple: pre-existence of the
materials does not imply pre-existence of the artifacts
made from the materials.
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