How did God create light before he created the sun
Honest question here...
In Genesis, the first thing God does is look at the Earth , and he sees that its dark. So on the first "day" he says "Let there be light!". He seperates light being the day, and darkness being the night. Now, there is a problem here. The only reason we have "night" on Earth is because the earth rotates and the sun isn't viewable from certain parts of the globe for several hours. But its not until day 4 that God creates the sun. So how did he even have the concept of night and day if the sun wasn't even created yet? Yes, I know hes "all knowing", but the bible clearly states that before the sun was created, there was night and day.
Also, how did he seperate night and day on "days" 1-3 if there was no sun yet? Again, we only have days because of the sun. So how long of a time frame was day 1-3? If you want to use that as an argument for old earth creationism, it really doesn't work. You are asserting that you would know what a day is to God. The bible is using the human concept of day and night to describe how long it took God.
Source: [url]http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=1&chapter=1&version=50[/url]