Bibliocentrist
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I have never heard or had the interesting thought that God created darkness. My taken for granted understanding is that the darkness ("absence of light") was always there in eternity before creation/time.GerhardEbersoehn said:The Bible says God made the darkness. God made everything He made in the beginning, is also a Bible word. Our thinking cannot go beyond the beginning of the creation of God unless we consult the Bible's word on that also. The Bible word is, "Christ who is the Beginning of the creation of God", meaning He was there _at that time_ because God created nothing but which He created through Christ his Word.
So, to speculate about the length of the First Day of God's creating, is speculation; no more no better. The First Day of God's creation is described with the same words as the others, it consisted of "early" and "late" -- 'boqer' and 'ereb' -- no second longer or shorter 12 times 2 hours. According to the Bible words, of course. If you're a better scientist than what the Bible teaches facts, you beat me at an answer. I would have none.
Yes i can't be sure of how long the first day was. The wording of the first day ["day one" or something like that (can't remember, have to check)] is different to the other six days, and esotericism does have the first age of world was of immense/inderterminate/infinite length, but i assume the day was same length as the other 6 days (and as our days of the week?) If the first day started in evening then the difficulty is there is no begining/start of the night/evening/darkness because the darkness was "eternal" before the light was created. Whereas if the day begins at sunrise/dawn/twilight/morning then the night of the first day does have a set/clear defined length. God said he divided the light and darkness [maybe either/both light from one place (i know this is before sun) &/or earth spinning] called the light day (not morning/boqer) and the darkness he called night (not evening/ereb?).
The "evening"/ereb? and "morning"/boqer is not so definitely clear meaning. It could either be in advance like say 6pm(-6am) & 6am(-6pm), or in arrears like say (6am-)6pm & (6pm-)6am. At least one version i have says "come to be [evening/morning]".
That is just my own opinion anyway.