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To: RaceBannon

What happened after “ let there be light “ ?
There was light indeed.
Big Bang in other words. That was one tremendous light.
And God separated the light from the darkness.
I.e. created energy and matter and vacuum.


4 posted on 09/07/2014 2:57:14 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: buwaya
Not quite. Genesis 1:2 establishes Earth's surface as the point of view from which to understand the following description. Darkness was over the deep not because light didn't yet exist, but because the impenetrable cloud layer prevented light from reaching Earth's surface (see Job 38:9). So, "let there be light" means let there be light now at the surface, because God caused the atmosphere to become translucent--though not yet transparent--and since the earth was revolving that light was now discernible from Earth's surface as day and night.

The Big Bang occurred ~13.7 billion years ago, whereas our Earth was created only 4.6 billion years ago. So, starlight predated earth by 9+ billion years, and our Sun's ignition as a light source predated Earth by a few million years.

For details, please visit Reasons.org.

8 posted on 09/07/2014 4:24:24 PM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: buwaya

there was no big bang, especially to what you just said

The Earth was created before light, correct?

According to the big bang, nothing was created before the big bang

The Bible is correct


15 posted on 09/07/2014 5:26:47 PM PDT by RaceBannon (Lk 16:31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will theybe persuaded)
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