God Created Both Light & Its Sources (TMF:359)

Thursday, March 10, 2016
Peace to Live By: God Created Both Light & Its Sources (TMF:359) - Daniel Litton
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       Now we read in Genesis 1:3 and 4: “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.” Note how God created light before he created the actual sources of light. God doesn't create the light sources for the world until Day Four. So, for the first three days God worked under 'rays' of light that he created in the empty space. Neil deGrasse Tyson mentioned in the TV Show 'Cosmos' that, to paraphrase, the light from the stars wouldn't reach the earth for millions of years (see episode four of ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’). But he is in fact incorrect because God created just 'light' first, as rays, before he created the actual objects of light. Now, the use of the words “evening” and “morning” show that this day in question is actual a literal 24-hour day. Someone, again, might wonder how God could do all these things in 'one' literal day. But remember that God is God, and he is far more powerful than our minds, as humans, can even imagine.