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message 6:
buz writes:
I assume that the glory of God's Holy Spirit furnished the light for planet earth in the first four days before the sun and moon were created.
I always thought this argument was bogus.
Quoting an entire message from our shift key impaired member:
arachnophilia writes:
How do you explain God creating light, and then separating it from drakness on the first day, but then days were not cleary defined until the fourth day?
no, the days are clearly defined from day one. it says evening and morning, and the day's number for every day except the 7th, which god takes off.
are you concered with the sun and moon being created after light and dark are divided? the evenings are mornings were clearly already there beforehand. but god sets sun to rule the day, and the moon to rule the night. and light, apparently, already exists prior to sun.
if you're asking me for an explanation of that, well, i don't know. but that's what the bible says. maybe light from dark was a definition or properties, and day's weren't light until day four? maybe they were, but god created the light? genesis doesn't really elaborate -- anything else is a guess, and probably an ad-hoc interpretation.
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The length of days 1-4 were the same as days 5-7. Morning and evening. Why should we think that day 5 comes along and God decides "I'm going to start making the days much shorter"?
Moose
Added by edit: Buz seems to be saying the sun and moon showed up on day 5 while arach says day 4. It really doesn't mater - The undefined length of days argument is bogus.
Edited by Minnemooseus, : See above.
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