Just one thing that puzzles me that I noticed on number 5 before moving on. Here, god has defined night and day but has not yet created the sun and moon. Is that scripture in the wrong order as it would seem more logical to create the sun/moon before a 24 hour cycle?
I hope I can answer this since I don't believe it got answered due to the interruptions and pride of some. You are correct, the sun, moon and stars weren't made until day 4.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning..." is this single word in Hebrew (בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית) which can be broken down like this: add a space after the second letter and you get בְּרֵ אשִׁ֖ית meaning
Son I make which we know by Jesus, the Son of God, literally.
So God created the heavens and the earth, and now we have a grammatical parenthesis about the condition of the earth in verse 2.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [
was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
So
the earth was without form and void; no shape, no substance, just void, empty. The Hebrew word for
deep is תְּהוֹם t’howm (teh-home')
1. an abyss (as a surging mass of water), especially the deep (the main sea or the subterranean water-supply) What is in the deep, darkness. This abyss is dark, deep and called
waters. The three most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen, helium and oxygen. Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom makes up a molecule of water. Interesting. The way I see this verse is that all the elements, were now present like a bucket of Legos ready to be assembled. Remember God created this in verse 1. It was time to assemble, make everything.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. The word
moved means
to brood, like a bird incubating an egg, fluttering its wings to generate heat. The Holy Spirit was energizing these elements within this great void, the deep.
Notice this verse:
Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Something from nothing, whatever that
nothing was! This will make sense in a moment. So far, we have the manifestation of the Son, Jesus, and that
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.John 1:3. The word
made in this verse is γίνομαι ginomai (ghin'-om-ai) v.
1. to cause to be ("gen"-erate), 2. to become (come into being). We also have the heavens and it says the earth, but wait there is no earth… ah... God was speaking of what He was going to cause to become!
Genesis 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
So in the deep already was darkness and now God created light, but this isn’t the sun because that’s not until day four! We’re still on day one! Energy is light and it was generated by the Holy Spirit brooding. Since the elements were created in verse 1, and because of the Holy Spirit incubating we now have energized elements and light (energy) came into being.
Genesis 1:4 And God saw the light, that [
it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Remember we had darkness already, now we have light, and God divided them. The word
divided is really
to make a distinction. What exactly is this darkness? It’s not evil because everything God makes is good as we’ll see soon. Thinking logically the darkness is the lack of energy, the substrate for the elements. What can you see in the dark? Nothing. (Hebrews 11:3) But it is something. And now we see a phenomenon that scientists are grappling with, something they call, by coincidence(?),
dark matter. Dark matter isn’t a substance per se but something that affects the galaxies through a gravitational pull that cannot be seen.
“Physicists have known the stuff must exist since 1933, when Fritz Zwicky, a Swiss astro-physicist, coined the term to describe a substance which cannot be seen but without which visible galaxies would fly apart as they rotate. The latest results from the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite suggest it makes up 85% of all the matter in the universe.” (1)
Wow! 85% of the universe cannot be seen among that which can be seen. Interesting. Well, God’s word says just that! The word for
darkness in Genesis 1:4 spelled exactly the same, but when used as a verb also means
to restrain! This darkness restrains the light! Awesome how accurate the word of God is! And scientists are observing it, they just can't see the
nothing!
Genesis 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Again we have now the faith being spoken of what will become, Day and Night. The sun still isn’t made yet, so what does this mean. Literally, the illumination is called a
period of time and the word for night is literally a
protective shadow. And this was the evening (first darkness remember) and the morning (the light) ended this period of time. The words
first day is literally
day united, not
first because there is nothing to compare it to, and the word in Hebrew is
not the ordinal number of one.
I hope this answers your question.
Reference:
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http://www.economist.com/news/scien...9-hunt-missing-85-matter-universe-closing-its
Just my 2 cents