What is light?

[MrLuke]

The other day I was watching the sun set. After the sun had gone down completely it was still quite light everywhere, no real change from when the sun was up. Then I started to think, "does the sun really give us all the light we have?" then I started to think "what actually is light?".

Thinking about that, the account of creation came to mind and in Genesis God created light before He put the sun in the sky!

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And God saw that it was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." Together these made up one day.

And God said, "Let bright lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. They will be signs to mark off the seasons, the days, and the years. Let their light shine down upon the earth." And so it was. For God made two great lights, the sun and the moon, to shine down upon the earth. The greater one, the sun, presides during the day; the lesser one, the moon, presides through the night. He also made the stars. God set these lights in the heavens to light the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. This all happened on the fourth day.

It was 3 days after God had created light that He put the sun and the moon along with the other stars in space!

So my questions are; what actually IS light? And where does it all come from? Sure we know the sun produces light too, but surely, if we are to believe Genesis, light must be something else in it's own right?

[Anne]

Wow, deep thinker.

That's an interesting question........I am looking forward to hearing what others say.

Meanwhile, I'll get out my Bible and see what it says.

Looking forward to this thread.

Your Sister in Jesus Christ

Anne

[refugepsa91]

I can't remember where I read this, but I believe it was concerning the "new earth" after the return of Christ.

Something about there will be no need for light because God will our light. So maybe God's glory was the "first light" I'll look for that chapter and verse again.

Love and Blessings,

Angel

[Joy in the Journey]

I can't remember where I read this,  but I believe it was concerning the "new earth" after the return of Christ.

Something about there will be no need for light because God will our light.  So maybe God's glory was the "first light"    I'll look for that chapter and verse again.

Love and Blessings,

Angel

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Hello,

It's in Revelation -

Revelation 21:22-26

• 22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
  23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
  24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it.
  25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.
  26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.
  

Just thought I'd save you some time

Be blessed my friends,

Tim

[MrLuke]

I can't remember where I read this,  but I believe it was concerning the "new earth" after the return of Christ.

Something about there will be no need for light because God will our light.  So maybe God's glory was the "first light"

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Yeah I did think about that, but then, Genesis says Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And God saw that it was good. - if it was God's own light, He wouldn't have to say 'let it be' to see it and then to notice that it was good if it was His own light, would He?

So it sounds like this first light was indeed created as with the rest of the earth in the beginning.

[refugepsa91]

Thank you Tim....

Luke,

I pondered that too Its a good question, really it is...but I don't know how well it can be answered. I'll think about and debate with my own self for awhile over it..

Love and Blessings,

Angel

[other one]

It is just a theory on my part, but I truly believe that when God said lit there be light..... "BANG" we had what scientists call the big bang.

Once all this came to be the light which is very high energy was transformed into all that we see at night. We have the understanding of turning energy into mass and mass into energy and from this all else came about.

Just a theory of my own to tie a lot of things together.

[refugepsa91]

This is from answersingenesis.org:

The day-night cycle was instituted from Day 1

[Anne]

All understood guys,

But I've been looking through what Luke was talking about, what is the difference "Let there be LIGHT," and "the greater LIGHT to rule by day," I've looked it up in the concordance and I'm still unsure as to the possible difference. Of course I know the greater light is the sun. But what is the first light that was created?

Sorry Luke I have come up with anything yet back to square one.

Your Sister in Jesus Christ

Anne

[Guest Zayit]

Light is the absence of Darkness and Darkness is the absence of Light.

I would tell you what or who the Light is but would be flogged.

So I invite you to read Psalms 112:4

And John chapter 1 1-11

1 timothy 6

John 8:12