Mespo writes:
In the creation account of Genesis, the author manages to get through 3 days before the Sun and Moon are created to light the Earth. If there is a Bible literalist in the house, I would like to know how the phrase "And the evening and the morning were the..." can be used in the first 3 days when there is no physical reference point that a viewer can use to watch an evening and then a morning.
In other words, doesn't an evening an a morning require a rotating planetary orb with an atmosphere to scatter the the light from an illuminating source before that light source appears above the horizontal plane of said orb? (whew)
No problem. The clue to the mystery is in verse 2 where we read, ".....and the Spirit of God moved.....
1. The omnipotent Holy Spirit of God is the multipresent member of the Trinity which/who goes throughout the universe doing what Jehovah wants done.
2. The reason the sun and other bodies of our Solar System where created subsequent to the earth is likely that in order to do/design what God wanted for planet earth required intense heat in order to separate the waters from the earth in order to create a suitable atmosphere for ultimate life on earth as well as to create the desired land topography, dryness etc.
3. Likely the Holy Spirit lightened the whole earth; both East and West hemispheres simultaneously for the day and darkened both for the night, the length of which would be determined by design for the purpose of creation and which would be an undetermined length of time, unknown to us.
4. This would necessitate variable time lengths for each day, relative to the amount of heat and light needed for each stage of creation up through day three, the plant day/era.
BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW.
The immeasurable present eternally extends the infinite past and infinitely consumes the eternal future.