Let there be Light?

 Let there be Light?

By Richard P. Joseph

12/7/2025

Genesis 3-5 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. [b]So the evening and the morning were the first day.

This article may elicit more questions than answers but that is what this site is all about, so your comments are welcome as usual.  

Since God is eternal, having no beginning and no end, then the word beginning is really aimed at humans.  However, it is the best way us humans can understand eternity.  Jesus claimed to be the “Beginning and the end”, or in other words, he was the Eternal being Himself.  In other words, Jesus was claiming to be God.  But this article is focused on the word “light”.  

During the first day of creation God created light.  On the fourth day God created the sun and stars.  When God created the sun he used the word “divide” when talking about separating the daytime from the nighttime.  But on the first day he divided “light from darkness”.   To confuse the matter even worse, in chapter two of Genesis, God talks about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  Trust me, I won’t make any conclusions in this article.  In fact I will put a disclaimer out;  

“This article is for entertainment purposes only!”

Approaching Genesis from a scientific point of view, I thoroughly believe that the days are 24 hours long.  Otherwise none of the created plants and animals would survive.  I absolutely believe that God is speaking of 24 hour days.  But there is somewhat of a conundrum in chapter one.

If the sun and stars were created on day four, how did God create light on day one?  My hypothesis is that God created energy on day one, not necessarily light.  Light is, of course, energy.  I am not an ancient Hebrew scholar but I do not believe there is a word for “energy” in that language.  Thinking of the theories of thermodynamics, it would make sense that energy would be the first thing created along with matter.  So, it is my belief that God created matter and energy on the first day which makes perfect scientific sense.  On day four, God organized that matter into stars and our sun in order to divide the day from the nighttime and to perpetuate the life on earth that he just created.  And now for the confusing part!!!

During this process, God prepared a paradise garden to place man in.  In this garden he planted the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  He also planted the tree of life there.  Someone could argue that the light God created was Good and Evil.  But light doesn’t necessarily mean good, it is really the thing that exposes things.  Jesus called for us to do our deeds in the light because we should never be doing things that we are ashamed of.  Criminals operate in the darkness because they are ashamed of what they are doing.  It is really bad that we are now at the point where people are actually proud of their evil deeds and are now attempting to do them in the open.  That is what the PRIDE movement is all about.  It is a push to force a filthy disgusting lifestyle upon the people.  The bad part of it is that most people fell for it.  God is throwing up.  Light comes from Jesus Christ and when he is around he exposes evil.  That is why the world is so set on eliminating Jesus (The light of the world) from the earth.  But I digress.

I think I really wrote this article just to say that I believe God created “energy” on day one.  Once energy is created, everything else is possible.  

Have a nice day!