You need to put your glasses on and reread the passage again. Or just look at the pictures below.
The firmament is not called the seas. The waters gathered into one (echad, meaning a unity of multiple) place(s) are called "Seas." There was no world-wide ocean like we have today.
The firmament is called Heaven.
The "firmament of the heavens" is not the "firmament called Heaven."
They're not. Nor does scripture say they are.
It says in the "firmament of the heavens," which is not the firmament called Heaven.
There are two firmaments in Genesis 1. You're conflating the first one with the second, and vice versa.
The first firmament (from the latin, "firmamentum"; Hebrew word is "raqia") is the ground on which we stand.
The second firmament (of the heavens) is the sky, space.
This is the second time you've made this straw man now. Stop it. I literally just got done explaining how there IS an "above" on a globe.
So? Doesn't mean it's not a star.
You do realize that the first instance of the word "sun" is in Genesis 15, right?
The word used in Genesis 1 is "lights," PLURAL.
Not "sun" or "stars."
LIGHTS.
No contradiction at all, Dave, because the word "sun" isn't in Genesis 1-14.
Literally, you're wrong.
See below.
No, what has led to the mythification of Genesis is by people rejecting God and proposing an alternate theory of origin for the universe.
Except I can because that's not what has happened.
Here, you tell me if this isn't a good representation of what Scripture shows. [MENTION=4167]Stripe[/MENTION], I hope you don't mind if I borrow your image from the other thread. If you do, let me know and I'll remove it.
https://theologyonline.com/showthread.php?p=5258130
This is what the Bible
LITERALLY says:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so.
2D cross-section of what the earth might have looked like at this point
And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so.
2D cross-section of what the earth might have looked like at this point
And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good. - Genesis 1:1-10
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis1:1-10&version=NKJV
What the surface of the (spherical) earth probably looked like at this point)
https://youtu.be/Hqvroege-Hk
(Credit to Bryan Nickel, who allowed me to use these images from an email chain between him, me, and a few others)
See also
http://kgov.com/hydroplate-theory-and-walt-brown-on-the-global-flood