July 30, 2018 - - Genesis 1:3-5 - - Which came first the sun or light?

And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Genesis 1:3-5 ESV

This morning, as I had my morning jog, I watched the moon's light fade as the sun began to peek over the horizon. A wash of purple and red filled the horizon. Which came first: the sun or light? Re-read the text from Genesis.

"Perhaps one reason God did it this way was to illustrate that the sun did not have the priority in the creation that people have tended to give it. The sun did not give birth to the earth as evolutionary theories postulate; the sun was God's created tool to rule the day that God had made (Genesis 1:16).

"Down through the ages, people such as the Egyptians have worshiped the sun as the pagan cultures around the did. They were commanded to worship the God who made the sun--not the sun that was made by God.

"Evolutionary theories (the "big bang" hypothesis for instance) state that the sun came before the earth and that the sun's energy on the earth eventually gave rise to life. Just as in pagan beliefs, the sun is, in a sense, given credit for the wonder of creation..

"It is interesting to contrast the speculations of modern cosmology with the writings of the earthly church father Theophilus:

On the fourth day the luminaries came into existence.

Since God has foreknowledge, he understood the

nonsense of the foolish philosophers who were going

to say that the things produced on Earth came from

the stars, so that they might set God aside. In order

therefore that the truth might be demonstrated, plants

and seeds came into existence before stars. For what

comes into existence later cannot cause what is prior

to it."

Ken Ham. The New Answers Book 1. Green Forest, AR. Master Books, 2011. pages 102-103

Glorious God, Creator of Light, Day and Night blessed be Your Name. Thank You for the gift of day and night, light and dark, sun and stars. Thank You for the True Light that has come into the world, our Lord Jesus Christ. Spirit Who leads in Truth, guide us by the Word to understand Jesus, strengthen us to obey Him and give us holy delight in the rich blessings of creation. In Jesus' Name we pray~Amen.