![]() To begin the day in darknessĪnd end it with the light is at any rate much better than to have all days begin and end in the deepest darkness (midnight), as is the case in our present Roman Catholic (Gregorian) calendar. Otherwise the darkness of the night would symbolically triumph over the light of the same calendar day.īiblically there are many more reasons for the beginning of a day after sunset, both in the Old (OT) and New Testament (NT). Prevail first, and then light should prevail over darkness, and not the other way around. Some theologians think that God would not begin a day with darkness but it is more logical that darkness should Besides, the earth was already there before God said "Let there be light". But this is opposed by Lev 23:32, since here already in earlier times the keeping of the High Sabbath of the year was ordered "from evening till eveningĪgain". One that makes the day begin after sunset. That is to say with the morning, and then ended at the end of the following night, and that it was only in the post-exile period (Babylon) that a new method of calculating the day was introduced, There are some theologians who think that in the story of Creation the day began with the creation of light, However, the biblical day begins in the evening after sunset, not from the morning. Otherwise, either the day (summer) or the night (winter) is somewhat longer. to 6 p.m.) are of about the same length, but only on theĭay of the equinox consist of exactly 12 hours each. to 6 a.m.) and day (1st-12th hour = 6 a.m. Since the territory of Israel is relatively close to the equator, night (1st-12th hour = 6 p.m. To understand the Bible, we must think like the Hebrews at that time and not bring today's English definitions into the Bible, which no one knew at the time of Jesus. The Hebrew evening (erev) in its biblical definition comes BEFORE the light day and at the end of the calendar day. ![]() And today's Israelites see it quite the same way, beginning each calendar day (not just the Sabbath) in the evening after sunset. In theĬolloquial language of Israel evening and morning together were "one day".God did not say "and there was morning and there was evening (erev)", but "and there was evening (erev) and there was So the first day of theĬalendar of God consisted of the evening and the morning and all the following days as well. The evening was the beginning of the night and the morning was the beginning of the day. And there was evening and and there was morning, the day one/first" (Gen 1:5). ![]() In Genesis it literally says: "And God called the light day and the darkness night. But the plants and animals onĮarth need the daily physical light of the sun to be able to live. Furthermore, God is a spirit being and does not need the physical light of the sun at all, since the spirit world is a completely different dimension. Paul had even seen a light from heaven during the day (ActsĢ2:6-11). We see an example in the book of Acts where the prison was filled with light at night and Paul was set free (Acts 12:6-7). God can produce light at will and turn it offĪgain. ![]() The "light" mentioned in Gen 1:3 refers to the light of the presence of God (1Jn 1:5), because the sun was made on the fourth day (Gen 1:14-19). Is much more to show that every biblical day begins with the evening (after sunset), as it does in the Israeli calendar to this day. All these theses are not important in our context (day of the resurrection of Jesus). Partly destroyed, whereby the age of the big impacts is usually dated millions of years back. ![]() Weĭo not know all this, but science itself gives many answers, because not only the moon (see the many craters), but also the earth has been bombarded several times by gigantic asteroids and thus Others believe that God destroyed the previous world to create a new better one, as the comparison with the Flood shows. Some churches suspect destruction causedīy Satan's fall and rebellion against God (Is 14:12-14 Ezek 28:14-17). The earth could very well be millions of years old (as the geological strata and science would confirm), but at some point (for whatever reason) destruction and chaos arose (Is 45:18 Jer 4:23).Īccording to this, God would have filled the earth with new life within 6 days, while the skeletons of past creatures were still in the geological layers. The words "desolate and empty" are better translated from the Hebrew meaning "tohu wa-bohu" as "chaos and confusion". God began creation and filled earth with new life. It is not important whether "was" or "became" is written, because no matter which word is used, the fact is that in any case the earth was in a chaotic disordered condition (i.e. In most Bibles the word "was" is usually written because another meaning seemed illogical to many theologians. The word "was" is also translated as " became" in some Bibles (Elberfelder, DaBhaR). ![]()
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