If God created light on the first day, why did he create its source on the fourth?

The question of how there could be light on the first day of Creation when the sun was not created until the fourth day is a common one. Genesis 1:3-5 declares, "And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He 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." A few verses later we are informed, "And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.' And it was so. God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the fourth day" (Genesis 1:14-19). How can this be? How could there be light, mornings and evenings on the first, second, and third days if the sun, moon, and stars were not created until the fourth day?

This is only a problem if we fail to take into account an infinite and omnipotent God. God does not need the sun, moon, and stars to provide light. God is light! First John 1:5 declares, "This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all." God Himself was the light for the first three days of Creation, just as He will be in the new heavens and new earth, “There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever” (Revelation 22:5). Until He created the sun, moon, and stars, God miraculously provided light during the “day” and may have done so during the “night” as well (Genesis 1:14).

Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12). Much more important than the light of day and night is the Light who provides eternal life to all who believe in Him. Those who do not believe in Him will be doomed to “outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 8:12).

What God created the first day was Day and Night. He provided a light source of some kind, but that part doesn't really matter and the main thing is He separated the dark from light and that was Night and Day, a 12 hour process.

Well, if I were trying to explain it in a way that would fit with the religion, Id say he couldve created *the concept and mechanics of light* on the first day, only later creating its source because until that point, the source was not needed.

But ultimately, that would be reaching a fair bit. Still, best i can come up with.

God did not create light on the first day, He said, "Let there be light." The light wasn't created, it came from his own body. God dwells in light, He is the source of all light. He created the Sun later because He was not going to be on or around the earth forever, and the earth needed its own light source. He created a greater light to rule the day (Sun) and a lesser light to rule the night.(Moon & stars)

The sun is not the source of light, albeit it is the source for most life to exist from.

Though it does produce light, many other things produce light as well.

So we can see that the light that was created may not have had a source.

Light doesn't REALLY come from the stars or sun. The sky is REALLY just a piece of construction paper with little pinholes poked in it, and the light is behind it. No, I'm not serious.

Moe, if 'God is light,' then why did he bother creating light, if he's already everywhere, himself, even in the dark? So has God, the light, left us when it's dark out?

Because many people claim that the Bible should be interpreted allegorically, they assign the first day being "the big bang", and star formation on the fourth.

All well, but vegetation was supposed to be created on the third day, supposedly before the creation of the sun, which makes no sense at all, no matter how you interpret it.

It's simply false in my opinion, we have better ways of explaining how our universe came to be.

Why and how is more like it.

But then again, the moon may have been created before then, because it's a source of light according to the Bible.

God Himself was once the supply of that mild. He separated the sunshine from the darkness and known as the sunshine day and the darkness night time. I rather do not appreciate why that's this sort of tough suggestion for a few folks to seize. North of the arctic circle the solar does not set for months at a time after which it does not upward push for months. Does that imply their yr is only some days lengthy? Of direction no longer. A day is the period of time it takes for the earth to rotate 360 levels. It has not anything to do, rather, with the solar. The solar showing to upward push and set is only a result of it.

Whoever said the sun, moon and stars were the primary source of light. God is light! The other mentioned things are just objects through which it is manefested.