Genesis 1:16 – What lesser light did GOD create to rule the night???

Question

Dear allen b: The reflected light from the Moon comes from the SUN – Nice Try though!

Answer 1

The lesser light to rule the night was the moon.

Answer 2

Electromagnetic radiation not in the visible spectrum?

Answer 3

The moon and the stars.

Answer 4

1:16 God [thus] made the two large lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the smaller light to rule the night. [He also made] the stars.

Vaya'as Elohim et-sheney hameorot hagdolim et-hamaor hagadol le-memshelet hayom ve'et hamaor hakaton le-memshelet halaylah ve'et hakochavim.

It is quite obvious that the larger of the two lights was the sun and the smaller was the moon.

Answer 5

Many Bible thumping web-sites are adamant that it is the moon, however, the moon is a reflector and is not a light. So, they are wrong...

It is not the stars (as they are also noted in Genesis)

To rule the night (ie be there every night) - there isn't anything that fits the bill - another thing - as stars are so far away, and as the light from them can take thousands and millions of years to reach us - if the world is only 5 or so thousand years old, we should only be seeing the first stars appearing in the sky now, and as the night sky is covered with the little blighters, world must be older than what the bible says......

Answer 6

The reflected light of the Moon.

Answer 7

A light bulb.

Answer 8

The moon

Answer 9

What planet are you from?

Answer 10

the stars

Answer 11

It is called the moon.

It is a lesser light because it is only reflected light.

Answer 12

This is subject to considerable conjecture.

1) The generally accepted choice; the moon.

Problem: The moon is a satellite of the earth that probably was captured some time after the earth was created.

Perhaps: since the earth and the moon actually dance around each other much like a 300 pound man swinging a 100 pound girl at a square dance; they were both created together.

2) Jupiter which is almost massive enough to be sun like but either has not ignited or lost sufficient mass during some celestial catastrophe to no longer burn might have been such a light.

3) Because the Story suggests the existence of something we can only postulate before the flood of Noah both lights are something we no longer have.

Outline:

I) A firmament around the earth.

  A) consisting or a Ice shell that shielded the earth from hard radiation and would have diffused light from the present sun

  B) Two lights that existed within that shell. (highly speculative)

II) Firmament was destroyed by a meteor. Water all crashed to earth.

Answer 13

I see the problem:

The moon is no light at all since it only reflects the sun, and the notion that the stars were created just to light the night is so utterly absurd it must be disavowed.

Answer 14

That would be the dimmed light- the absence of light which creates darkness. Our stars and the moon reflect/shine light not as bright as the sun facing our earth. I find this statement in symbology of battling with good and evil everyday.

Answer 15

The moon. God knew that mankind would think for many years to come when this scripture was first written that the moon generated its' own light. Don't forget this was written from an "Intelligent Designer" for dumb humans.

Answer 16

It was the the moon and the stars.

Answer 17

Stars and for most part the moon; although the moon is not always out at night, and does visit the day.