Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Stars before Earth? Another puzzle from day 4

Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions?
Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone
----while the morning stars sang together                                                                          and all the angels shouted for joy?
Job 38:4-6  NIV

Here is another creation poem, this one from the book of Job.

If we are to take the Bible literalistically, then here (besides needing to explain the meaning of the earth's footings) we have to wrestle with the stars joining angels in singing while God sets the earth's foundation.  In other words, stars created before earth, in contrast to stars created on day 4, the order given in Genesis 1.



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