Was the Sun, Moon, and Stars actually created on the fourth day of Creation...

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Assuming a host of arbitrary presuppositions to be true.

Here is what we're told:
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. So God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and also the stars. - Genesis 1:14-16 LSB

On the fourth day, God made the stars to give light upon the earth, and it was so.

But you say, Oh no, that can't be so because we 'know' so much more now than they did back then.

Does it say God created them at that moment or that God made them, at that moment, to rule?

 

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This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John

Καὶ αὕτη ἔστιν ἡ ἐπαγγελία ἣν ἀκηκόαμεν ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀναγγέλλομεν ὑμῖν ὅτι ὁ θεὸς φῶς ἐστιν καὶ σκοτία ἐν αὐτῷ οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδεμία

That the God light is.

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

because God who said, Out of darkness light to shine, From 2 Cor 4:6 I took out the words in italic.

Was that light of Genesis 1:3,4 God showing his presence upon an earth of darkness standing in the water and out of the water? If the light was good, was the darkness also that good? Consider 1 John 1:5 Does that light of Genesis 1:3.4 represent God on the earth? What about the darkness? Is it the darkness of this age that also has a god of this age? Do we see the same of light and darkness in the following/

to open their eyes, to turn from darkness to light, and the authority of the Adversary [Satan] unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me. Acts 26:18


Is what's taking place in Gen 1 :2-30 the down laying of the system [kosmos] through which Acts 26:18 could become a reality? Is, Let there be light a reaction to darkness ie Satan on the earth?

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8

Had the sin of the devil, Satan, caused the earth to become without form and void and darkness on the face of the deep, ie standing in the water and out of the water?

2 Peter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

Gen 1:1 In beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Peter 3:6,7 YLT through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed; and the present heavens and the earth [Gen 1:2-30], by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

Probably should have started a new thread. Oh well.

 

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So we aren’t really living in the present. This is all a projection of what has already happened?

We can only live in our present. Distant things are in our past.

 

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Does it say God created them at that moment or that God made them, at that moment, to rule?

God made them to be lights.