just trying to understand God's word - and I do put it first in terms of which comes first ? God or scientific experiments. 'in the beginning...' simply means that before we were in existence as we are in the current world we live in. there was no light. therefore - no time. no day. no night. how long was this? i don't know. there was nothing. not even time. so how, can scientist measure this? they can't. there wasn't anything to measure at this point. how long ago was this? longer than 6000 years - scientists tell us. so, i say - ok - let's take genesis 1:1 for what it says. it doesn't say 6000 years ago. there was no day and night between genesis 1:1 and genesis 1:2. 'and the earth was formless and void - was it destroyed to be a new creation? i don't know. do you? if life was on the earth before 6,000 years - according to the bible - this old creation was fossilized and died out during an ice age. perhaps it was the time the dinosaurs lived and also the wooly mammoths. the world was a rather vicious place for a man to be - if the descriptions of these bones and fossils were as they are pictured. perhaps there was no place for man the way he is today. perhaps God created a new heavens and new earth - by allowing an ice age and then flood (when melted) to recondition the earth. only by verse 5 of genesis (after light was created) was there day/night. the beginning of time for us. perhaps in a previous 'beginning' there was another form of light (another sun - or being that was light). if it was satan - he would have lost this light by now. he was created perfect (full of light) - but turned to darkness. thus, he could not sustain anything by heat or light of and by himself. perhaps i'm thinking too metaphysically - or spiritually metaphysically - but i believe that 'Lucifer' once meant 'light bringer.' but, if he is in eternal bonds of darkness - he can no longer have this 'light.'
isaiah 14:12 'how you have fallen from heaven, o star of the morning, son of the dawn! you have been cut down to the earth (sent to the earth - from being at God's throne), you who have weakened the nations! but, you said in your heart, i will ascend to heaven, i will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit on the mount of assembly in the recesses of the north (God's throne). i will ascend above the heights of the clouds; i will make myself like the Most High. nevertheless you will be thrust down to sheol, to the recesses of the pit. those who see you will gaze at you, they will ponder over you, saying, is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, who made the world like a wilderness and overthrew its cities, who did not allow his prisoners to go home? all the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb. but you have been cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch. clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit. like a trampled corpse. you will not be united with them in burial (even though satan may wish to die), because you have ruined your country (the place where he was to rule), you have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoiers not be mentioned forever. prepare for his sons a place of slaughter because of the iniquity of their fathers. they must not arise and take possession of the earth and fill the face of the world with cities.'
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