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I need an explanation for this one
yeah the only way i can square it would be that they're making a distinction between the general "light" available on day 1 - and very well publicised - vs the more specific creation of the sun and moon and stars later on (day 3? maybe ) .
I'm guessing that god probably got bored of having to invoke the voice activated light switch each time , so by day 3, decided to subcontract the sun to do it.
Even if he did forget to do the lights again on day 2 there might have been some emergency grow lights set up that the authors of genesis thought might slow down the plot so skipped over - either way I'm sure the plants'd have been fine for a day.
In the first creation myth I think plants came before the sun.
The creation myth from the bible is theorized to come from mainly 2 different source texts that got spliced together with smatterings of a third text. Basically because they were just... directly ripped and recompiled, the days/orders in which things happen get a bit.... weird. Because each source material has a slightly different spin on events essentially. This is basically a consistent theme throughout most of the books, where the narrator/theme will shift, flip, or straight up contradict previous material.
If memory serves at least.
See these quotes. Notice the order.
Ever hear of photosynthesis? It's how plants grow and "photo" means light in the original Greek
My question is where does it say there were plants before the sun? I know how plants work but I'm also pretty sure the first thing god supposedly did was make the sun. Y'know the whole "let their be light" thing
Yeah, I realised that and deleted my unhelpful reply lol, the deletion must have been slow to federate..
Speaking of unhelpful, my revised reply is as follows: I haven't the foggiest 🤷