Observation
September 1, 2021
Does Day Follow Night, or Night Follow Day?
By PhilologosGod’s first creative proclamation was “Let there be light,” so it might seem that the day came first. But then why does the Bible say that "it was evening and it was morning?"
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The Jewish calendar tells us that this Rosh Hashanah we’ll be celebrating our world’s 5,782nd birthday. What it doesn’t say, though, is precisely at what hour our world was born. Will its exact anniversary be this coming Monday night or this coming Tuesday morning?
The Bible is not very clear about this. Here are the opening verses of Genesis: