What happened on the 2nd day of creation?

Answer 1

On the second day of creation, God created the raqia, or firmament, to separate the waters above from the waters below. According to the "white hole cosmology" developed by Dr. Russell Humphreys and published in his 1994 book Starlight & Time, the firmament includes all of space from the earth's atmosphere to the outer edges of the universe.

(The word raqia and its English equivalent "firmament" suggest solid material, not emptiness and void. This actually corroborates nicely with modern ideas about outer space.)

The "waters above" the firmament, according to Humphreys, probably froze and fractured off into planet-sized balls of ice on the edges of the universe, thus far beyond detection from Earth. This idea comes from Psalm 148:4.

The "waters below" became the planet Earth. (Solid land was created on the third day.)

Recommended reading: Starlight & Time by Dr. Russell Humphreys

Answer 2

Simplifying the accounts given by various trabslations: God created the sun, moon (these two to "rule over" the day and night respectively) and stars, as a means of forming a difference between night and day.

Answer 3

Genesis 1:6-7 say that God made the firmament on the second day. This was an imaginary dome which the ancients thought separated the waters above, the constant source of rain, from the waters below. Later, God would afix the sun, moon and stars as lights into this dome.
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Answer 4

God set the rakia ("firmament") in place. This refers to the atmosphere, to outer space, and to higher realms as well. The same Hebrew word is used for atmosphere (Genesis 1:20) and for outer space (Gen.1:14).

Answer 5

On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.See also:

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Answer 6

Day by day, God created the universe and its contents (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30).Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

• On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
  
• On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
  
• On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
  
• On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
  
• On day 5: God created birds and fish.
  
• On day 6: God created animals and people.
  
• On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
  

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Answer 7

When God made the sun, moon, stars, night, and day. Ali