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Originally Posted by armourbearer  Marty, if you read the text literally you will notice that it doesn't speak about the sun but the "light bearer." In biblical cosmology the sun is merely a governor of the day, not the "God" of it. God controls the revolution of time, and He does so by alternating light and darkness. The sun, moon, and stars are merely the markers of this alternation. See also the creation hymns of Pss. 19 and 104. |
Dear Matthew, to me your explanation shows the problem of the so-called "literal" reading of Gen. 1-3. One starts to move into deep contortions of explanation to keep the ship afloat.
If there is another source of light other than the sun creating a "morning" and an "evening" on the first 3 days, then why is the sun created on the 4th day when this other source of light (not explicitly mentioned in the narrative) was doing precisely that same job? If there was a "morning" and an "evening" at the end of the first day, and we don't have a sun, then we're dealing with a very unique "morning" and "evening", which begs the question whether it can be called a "morning" or an "evening". etc. etc.
God bless you.