‘Day 1: In the beginning God created heaven, and earth. And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters. And God said: Be light made. And light was made. And God saw the light that it was good; and he divided the light from the darkness. And he called the light Day and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.   
Day 4: And God made two great lights: a greater light to rule the day; and a lesser light to rule the night: and the stars. And he set them in the firmament of heaven to shine upon the earth, to rule the day and the night and to divide the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Now it is known that St Augustine also had a problem with light created before the sun so would not go along with six literal days of creation. Augustine proposed that all was created complete immediately but presented in Genesis by way of a six-days to emphasise order in His creation.

Before we can go on to the two lights of day 4, let us consider Augustine's proposal. Having first created heaven and Earth in darkness, the Book of Genesis tells us God then created ‘light.’ He then divided this light from the darkness causing what mankind experience as day and night on Earth. Today, science knows what light is, describing it as within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Accordingly, when God first created light, he in effect must have created electromagnetism to provide light throughout ‘heaven and Earth.’ So it was possible for God to create light on the first day.

It was on the 4th day that God created the sun and moon, the sun also to generate light for day on Earth, and the moon to reflect the sun's light on the Earth. The problem as you put it is no problem. Reasd Day 4 above again and it fits the reality for both sun and moon shine light to Earth.

St Basil, in his Hexaemeron, explains why God created light before the sun:

‘However, the sun and the moon did not yet exist, in order that those who live in ignorance of God may not consider the sun as the origin and father of light, or as the maker of all that grows out of the earth. That is why there was a fourth day, and then God said: “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven.”’ (Hm. VI:2)

Mary of Agreda wrote: Moses says that it was void, which he does not say of the heavens, for God had created the angels at the instant indicated by the word of Moses: “God said: Let there be light, and light was made.” He speaks here not only of material light, but also of the intellectual or angelic lights…

 Having first created heaven and Earth in darkness, the Book of Genesis tells us God then created ‘light.’ He then divided this light from the darkness causing what mankind experience as day and night on Earth. Today, science knows what light is, describing it as within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Accordingly, when God first created light, he in effect must have created electromagnetism to provide light throughout ‘heaven and Earth.’

Finally,  Domenico Cassini, by 1680, discovered the stars, sun and planets orbit the Earth by way of cassinian ovals. Later it was discovered that Cassinian ovals are also used for modelling electro-magnetic activity in the case of wires of equal current and direction or like-point charges. In other words Cassini, by way of his oval find (not kepler's ellipses), showed uis all the orbits in the universe are electromagnetic orbits. It later was discovered that Cassini's ovals are related to Phi which in turn is also found in a number of natural spirals are produced such as found in spiral galaxies, the human ear, snails, shellfish, leaf-shapes, flower petals, daisies, cauliflowers, broccoli, sunflowers, pineapple fruitlets, pine cones, curved waves, buds on trees, starfish. The measurement from the navel to the floor and the top of the head to the navel is the golden ratio. Animal bodies exhibit similar tendencies, including dolphins (the eye, fins and tail all fall at Golden Sections), starfish, sand dollars, sea urchins, ants, and honey bees etc.

Thanks Cassini for your years of dedicated service in shedding so much light on the truths of God's creation, especially in the area of cosmology.  From what I can see it appears that your information is in strict accord with that provided by Robert Sungenis in his magnificent little illustrated book, The First Four Days of Creation. 

Again thanks for that Charity. Would you believe I never read any of Sungenis's books or watched his debates. I was involved in this investigation long before Sungenis, ten years before we heard of him. When he made the subject public I was delighted but I wanted to continue my investigation on my own. That way the truth was more likely to be found. If what we both found was a similar truth of history, that would be a better confirmation of the history than two mixing together.  What I was disappointed with was that I thought Sungenis's books and videos would set Catholics alight. It didn't, so that is why I wrote the following;

"Now one would think that to establish the fact that the Catholic Church of the seventeenth century was not doctrinally or scientifically mistaken, would bring dancing on the streets of the Vatican and elsewhere. What a victory it would be for the Church in so many spheres after three centuries of ridicule following the Galileo case if it were made known throughout the world that in fact the Church had protected the integrity of natural science by her 1616 and 1633 adherence to Biblical revelation. Alas, that message has already been rejected by a majority of Catholics; both shepherds and sheep. For over two hundred years now, churchmen have rejected Biblical geocentrism and shared in their ‘embarrassment’ and ‘guilt’ arising from the fact that their predecessors defended a ‘supposedly mistaken’ geocentric revelation as a natural fact also. It is obvious that to acknowledge the fact that the churchmen of 1820 unlawfully ignored a Biblical heresy based on false human reason and science would be a far greater scandal to admit to than a mistaken geocentrism in 1616 and 1633, so they have continued accepting the false accusation that the Church erred in its defence of Biblical geocentrism. This attitude of humility has been carefully cultivated by the Earthmovers in the Church, and continues even now, first and foremost, as a matter of intellectual pride, of preserving and retaining a ‘scientific’ image, trying to defend the new credibility and human respect built up in the wake of that perceived loss of face after the infamous Galileo affair. Not for them the traditional supernatural account of the Creation and all that was taught for centuries by the great Fathers they love to quote out of context when it suits them. Today the Bible must be ‘scientifically correct,’ in line with ‘solidly grounded theories’ and ‘acquired truths’ - as Pope John Paul II called them in 1992 - before it has any credibility in their eyes. They achieve this ‘comfort zone’ by the most blatant abuse of the facts using the authority given to them, they can say, by God Himself, relying on the customary obedience expected of their subordinates. ‘It’s all for the good of the Church’ we hear them say, when it is they, not the Church, that need obscurantism and the peer pressure consensus to remain credible. Such people do not really care about the Catholic Church in this matter more than they prize their personal intellectual pride in ‘scientific’ reasoning and respectability found in their Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the modern world." 

Seriously, is that the fruitcake???

Just by that picture alone, I would highly discount anything he wrote.

Flat earth shill Eric Dubay, who accomplished this:



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Dubay presents 20 pages of such and more antichristian nonsense.

From the wiki article:
Who knew how all of creation was ordered and worked?  Adam.

Who descended from Adam and passed on knowledge to all the earth, post-flood?  Noe.
Who descended from Adam & Noe and was gifted by God to start the Israelite religion?  Abraham.
Who descended from Adam, Noe, and Abraham?  Moses.
Who wrote Genesis and the 5 first books of the Bible?  Moses.

Who would've taught the Israelites about the flat land/domed earth model?  Either Abraham or Moses.

Yeah, i'll trust these guys over the pagan/pedophile Greeks or the pagan/pedophile/freemasonic elites...