[csense]

"Genesis 1:14 and 1:5 are in conflict..."

Could you please elaborate in detail as to why you think they are in conflict.

[mnehring]

Genesis 1:5 has the light, day/night etc being created before the Earth, Genesis 1:14 has it happening after.

The only conflict occurs if one assumes that the modern English translation is an accurate scientific treaste of the events. I don’t have a conflict because I read Genesis as a pesher (the ‘why’ of Creation and our place in the world.)

[Texas Federalist]

Could you please elaborate in detail as to why you think they are in conflict.

For the reason mnehrling stated. But also, 1:14 says "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years"

So not only does 1:14 speak of the creation of the sun and light, but also explicitly recognizes (in the last clause) that the days could not be divided before then.

[Texas Federalist]

Could you please elaborate in detail as to why you think they are in conflict.

For the reason mnehrling stated. But also, 1:14 says "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years"

So not only does 1:14 speak of the creation of the sun and light, but also explicitly recognizes (in the last clause) that the days could not be divided before then.