Hieronymus
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But these are "God's earth days" which start at sundown, so you have 12 hours dark followed by 12 hours light.The first "day" really was a day I think, with a morning and evening. A real day. Not a 1000 hour day or whatever. Just my own viewpoint (not gospel) So, since it was a real day, it did not start until after light, which I feel sure is from the sun because all six of the days have a morning and evening, and all are normal days.
To this day the Jews start the day at sundown.
This started in Genesis 1 already.
It's a bit confusing semantically that the light is called 'day' while the day starts at sundown, but that's probably clearer in the original language.
From what i understand / remember, the "and" as the first word of verse 3 indicates that it's still the same moment or following directly after the previous sentence, without a gap.This is my view point. So you can see how it follows from that then that verse 1 would be before the first day, not part of the first day. I can't imagine any reason to think verse 1 would be during verse 3 or simultaneous to it.
Like "It was dark and i was riding my bike. And (then) i turned on my headlight to see the road".
I don't know if i'm right either, of course.That seems artificial to impose onto it. It seems more reasonable to me God created the Universe and the Earth, our solar system, and then, later, we have verse 3, and the first of the 6 days is observed in the vision. This is merely my view, however well or not informed. It's not gospel anymore than a view which is different would be. It does fit the text perfectly though.
But i tend to read the text at face value, plus i have studied Genesis 1-3 a little in the past.
It would seem unlikely to me that there was no light in a long period before the first day.
...but then again, i'm not even sure how literally we should take Genesis 1 to 3, or even 4.
Cain being afraid people will kill him, while there weren't any people to kill him, building a city for himself and his wife...
And how about all those hominids?
I don't know what to think anymore, lately..
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