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I see - so you would have written Genesis "differently"???
speculate as you will... you can go to God with your complaint about His text.
In the Bible - "birds fly in the midst of the heavens" -- context matters.
The Bible says that it is light that was created on day 1 for Earth - not the entire universe.
I’m not complaining about His text I’m refuting your ridiculous idea that the heavens and the earth weren’t created in 6 days because the phrase “then God said” doesn’t appear before it when the passage that clearly states that He created the heavens and the earth in 6 days, it doesn’t have to have any specific phrase in front of it to verify that He actually made the heavens and the earth in 6 days. Your trying so hard to twist Genesis 1 to coincide with your beliefs but your not applying the information given in Exodus 20:11 along with it. When you look at Genesis 1 by itself your statement almost sound viable but when you compare it to Exodus 20:11 its a direct contradiction.
In the beginning of the conversation you said that in the beginning God created the universe. You completely omitted the earth from that statement.
You were quoting Genesis 1:1 which says in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Exodus 20:11 says for in 6 days God created the heavens and the earth. And the sun and the moon and the stars were placed where? In the heavens.
Because there are three heavens. Heaven where the throne of God is and where the angels live, heavens the universe, and heavens the sky. Genesis 1:1 says the heavens and the earth were created. Exodus 20:11 says the heavens and the earth and EVERYTHING IN THEM were created in six days and in that 6 day creation process God created the sun and the moon which are not in heaven where the angels live and they’re certainly not in the sky where the birds fly, they’re in the universe. Which means that the heavens, AKA the universe, was created in the 6 day creation process since the word THEM in Exodus 20:11 is referring to the places that everything that was created in the 6 day process. So if the sun, moon, and stars were created during the six day process that means that the word THEM is referring to the universe along with the earth, the seas, and the sky.
