Creation of Day & Night (Day 1)

Origin of Temporal CycleBiblical Theology

On the first day God speaks light into being, separates it from darkness, and names them—and the canonical text uses that act to teach that time itself is a creature, given by God, marked by evening and morning.

Primary verses · Gen 1:3–5

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William de Brailes thirteenth-century English illumination of the first two days of creation, light divided from darkness.

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“On the first day God speaks light into being, separates it from darkness, and names them—and the canonical text uses that act to teach that time itself is a creature, given by God, marked by evening and morning.”

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