Heavens!! So all that just to have God not make the sun and moon, and stars on the day of creation they are said to be made on!? Wow. That is mental gymnastics at work.
There is no "making" of the stars in the original Hebrew text. That idea was added during the English translations. Some English translations do not include the stars being “made”, such as Young’s Literal Translation:
“And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary — and the stars — for the rule of the night” (Gen 1:16).
The stars are simply described as
ruling the night along with the moon. Not
made.
Well, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If we can wave that magic interpretation wand over one day, one could wave it everywhere I guess. So Adam wasn't really made the same day as animals? Poof...Adam was what, transported into the future, and saw himself being formed of the dust, but it was really long after the animals were made? Heck, one could run amok with that sort of willi nilly speculation, and really make the bible fit their pet theories. One problem, it is crazy talk.
Adam was created in the later part of day six. He could not have witnessed the creation events that occurred before, other than by divinely inspired visions.
Listen to My words: "When a prophet of the LORD is among you, I reveal Myself to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams." (Num 12:6).
But the account that God gave us is composed of six days. The creation order is given, day by day. So one can't fly into the middle of one of these days, and start gluing millions of years in there
I am not flying into the middle of any day. The record of Genesis 1 allows for an interpretation of millions of years to have occurred before day one of creation week. The Bible does not mention millions of years, but it is also not opposed to a millions of years interpretation.
The stars described on day four were not described in the original Hebrew text as being “
made” during the six day creation events, and the earth in its “
formless and empty” state was not described as being "
created" during the six day creation events.
The
earth in its formless and empty state and the
stars were simply mentioned as being present during those creation events. They were not described as being “
created” or “
made”. So the six day creation events in Genesis 1 are not necessarily the original creation of the universe, but may simply be a re-creation of the earth’s biosphere following a global catastrophe. Hence, “
formless and empty”.
just so it jives with so called science.
There are reasons to ignore some of the science, but there is no reason to ignore all of it.
The apostles and Jesus and others in the New Testament refer to the time of creation, and old Testament prophets as well. They didn't say 'Lord of all the earth, and heavens, which were here before the earth was'! You couldn't find a crowbar big enough to pry the creation of the stars and heavens away from creation week.
If Genesis 1 is describing a six day re-creation of the earth’s biosphere following a global catastrophe, then the prophets and apostles and Jesus would simply be referring to that new earth created to be inhabited by new lifeforms, including Man (Adam), after the global catastrophe had left the earth in a “
formless and empty” state (a different state past).
"When You send Your Spirit, they are created, and You renew the face of the earth." (Ps 104:30).
I'm weird.
