...and there was light

Genesis 1:3-5 - 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.

There are so many unanswered questions about creation. It's nice to know that I don't have to know all the answers to get to heaven.

It seems that God created most of the "stuff" the universe is made of right at the very beginning and then sorted it all out during the first six days, adding some significant items from time to time.

Light, for instance. At first, there had been "darkness over the surface of the deep." When God first created light, it seems that it must have somehow been mixed with the darkness. Otherwise, why would it need to be separated? I don't pretend to understand how it could be mixed. Was it a sort of universal twilight? Remember too that the sun had not yet taken shape -- that didn't come until the fourth day. There must be some other light in the universe besides that given off by the sun and similar heavenly bodies. I seem to recall reading that scientists had actually measured this light at one time. I hope that story wasn't a fraud like the one that purported to account for the sun standing still for a day and the progression of shadows reversing itself for several hours. (More on those Scriptures in due time.)

How could there be an evening and a morning with no sun? I guess our current definition of evening and morning don't match God's. And did you notice that a day is defined as evening first and morning second? I wonder why that is. Is there any real significance to it or not?

Finally, a rant. To those who say these first six days of creation were longer than our current days, I say this: My God is bigger than your God. I will not limit his power that way. I'm not the first to be surprised that he didn't create the entire finished product in an instant. Why did he give us six days to wonder about? Maybe that question answers itself, hm?