chosenv said:
Hi Enow, I'm new to this site. I have a question maybe you or someone else can answer for me. Genesis 1-3 says, and God said let there be light, but when you go to the 16th verse it he created the sun and the moon. Where did the light come from in the 3rd verse?
I believe from God. Here's why by the scripture. This is a prophesy concerning the future below in Isaiah.
Isaiah 60:1Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.......19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
There is a reference to Jesus being that source of the light and thus was identified as that Light in creation.
John 1:1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
When Jesus took our sins on the cross, there was an unexplainable darkness in history that was recorded by a secular historian, Thallus, in his third book "History of the East Mediteranean" by assuming it was an eclipse, but Julius Africanus, another secular historian corrected him by saying it was unreasonable because there was no eclipse scheduled at that time.
Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
2 Corinthians 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Sin had seperated us from God and so when Jesus the source of that light in the world took our sins upon Himself, then that was the cause of the darkness. What our Creator had done for us reflected in creation.
I cannot imagine how that felt for the Son of God to be seperated like that from the Father, but that goes to show the depths He has gone through to bring us back to God.
So now that we have been reconciled to God, this is the future glory that awaits us of our hope in Christ.
Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
1 Peter 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;
So I am very certain that the light came from God since God is light.
1 John 1:5This 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.