Genesis1:5

God was the source of physical light because the stars had not yet been created. I believe that when He created light, it was coming from everywhere because God is everywhere, therefore it did not have to travel to get anywhere.

But for shadows (i.e. darkness) to be possible, light had to be coming from one place, not from everywhere all at once. We know that the Spirit of God is everywhere, and God the Father is often described as a spirit being, but Jesus is more likely to occupy a specific physical location even while away from this earth. His form or “body” would be different, but He may still be in just one place at one time (however, we do not know for sure). Therefore, if light needed to come from one member of the triune God, and come from one place rather than from everywhere, it is a relatively safe assumption to say that Jesus was the source of that original light.

In my opinion, the blob of matter that would become earth was originally not spinning. God created light, then assigned it to Jesus who occupied a specific location somewhere, and then set the earth to spinning. Or we could say that Jesus spoke light into being  but it came from all three members of the godhead, therefore, it came from everywhere all at once. Then it was assigned to Jesus in order to create night and day due to shadows. From the perspective of a specific spot on this planet, there was established a time of daylight and a time of darkness.

On day four of creation week Jesus assigned stars and other heavenly bodies as physical sources of the light He had created. The question, “Was there enough time for light to arrive here from distant stars?” is based on the idea of stars always being the source of their light. My point here is that they could not be the source of light because light was created three days earlier than they were! Therefore Jesus was the source of light and then He assigned it to the heavenly bodies. There was no need to wait for light from the stars to get where it was going because it was already everywhere since it had started out being everywhere all at once.

The text assumes the reader realizes that time has already been set by God and it has begun to do what time does. The passing of time is already happening. With the creation of light, the passage of time is marked and categorized by well-defined and easily recognizable periods of time which God called night and day.

It was not nighttime and daytime that comprised the first day, but rather evening and morning, referring to the transition times between light and darkness. When you notice that the two transitions have been completed (a transition from light to darkness, and then from darkness to light) and you are ready to start the cycle of transitions again, that means a full day has passed.

From this line of thinking we can deduce that the measuring of day one and day two, etc., and the timing of evening and morning, were communicated from the perspective of that one place on earth called Eden. The transition to evening was the first event in time to take place after the creation and separation of light. Is it any wonder then, that God’s followers considered evening-time the beginning of their day? In doing so they were simply mimicking what God had done at the beginning of creation.