{"id":14837,"date":"2022-11-10T12:38:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=14837"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:38:10","slug":"genesis-13-how-could-god-create-light-after-the-creation-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/genesis-13-how-could-god-create-light-after-the-creation-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 1:3 &#8211; How could God create light after the creation of the Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Genesis teaches that God created light after the creation of the Earth. However, Earth came about after the existence of stars, which produce light.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Solution:<\/strong> The text doesn\u2019t say that God created light after the Earth (Hebrew bara). Instead, it says, \u201cLet there be light\u2026\u201d Because the language is different, this must refer to the purpose of light \u2013not the existence of it. For instance, the purpose of light was to differentiate day and night (v.5). In other words, the text is saying, \u201cLet there be light for the purpose of telling day from night.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. (Gen 1:3)&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Genesis teaches that God created light after the creation of the Earth. However, Earth came about after the existence of stars, which produce light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}