Gn. 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7And 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. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
On the second day of creation the platform for an expansion fixture of the universe (enclosed by water) was created. Subsequently, passing a couple of time-phase intervals, on the fourth day lights and stars were added (eighth time-phase interval) to it. This is what we refer to as the heaven. After the completion of these steps (intervals one through eight), the crypto-dimension of space-time became potentially recognizable. This firmament (stereoma – Greek Septuaginta, rakiah – Hebrew Masoretic text), and now heaven, is thought of mathematically as a space-time spread or fabric threaded with the processed, initial and void matter and second division of light that God made. To mention some of its properties, it is able to be transformed (e=mc2), stretched, bent and contracted.
The speed of light can be measured but the speed and distance of the expanse cannot. (For one thing, we don't know the exact time that space may accelerate, decelerate or contract. We can use if-hypothesis equations though.) Therefore, the distance of the borders (the upper waters) is indeterminable, even as in relative respect, the initial mass' void face and depth of the first time-phase. The phenomenon of what scientists refer to as billions of years in reference to age and distance is due to the perception of the scientific world, cosmic time scale. In scientific measurement for instance, according to a theory of relativity, a clock on earth would not turn at the same speed as a clock at a point toward the distant end of the stars, and hence, the work that God performed in our earth time during the six days of creation could have amounted to years in exponential terms from relative, cosmic measurements. However, Christians should have better and more genesis-cosmologically designed equations.
In my studies so far, I believe a new measurement invention is needed to account for the seeming change in the speed of light through further distances in space toward the outer water line. A rakiaton (rah-kee-a-ton) is a unit I made up taken from the Hebrew word rakiah for firmament or heaven. It is not a complete measurement unit but at least it starts where time became recognizable by means of the sun, moon and stars. When scientists measure the age of the earth they use the unit of light years concerning distance and time and many today give a more specific number close to 13 billion years plus as to their estimation of the age of the universe.
The problem is here: If light has traveled through space (which is assumed to be still expanding) for a period of approximately 6,000 years (a number I've estimated taken from the genealogical generations in the Old Testament and adding the years after the death of Christ), it would reach its expected distance at roughly 35 quintillion plus miles (multiplying 6,000 years times 186,000 miles per second). That would be, if I did the math and used my calculator correctly, [6,000 * 186,000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365] = 3.5 * 1016, or 35,194,176,000,000,000 miles or 6,000 light years (6,000 * 5.8 *1012 miles per year). That distance approximates to over 35 quintillion miles, not counting its continuous expansion (perhaps from repulsive gravitation or field relational force) or contraction (whichever it may do). Now, if the Andromeda galaxy is estimated at 2.5 million light years away from the earth, that in itself is 416.6 times further ( 2,500,000 / 6,000) than the expected distance.
To account for these calculated differences in distance of the universe, I personally assume since light is expected to be constant (although it is not usually calculated with a rakiaton multiplier or expression especially in solving problems that do not consider time or distance of less than a light year or involving space-time itself), then the rakiaton (a distance of roughly 193,000,000 miles of space with an average density as that between the sun and the earth) with a space-time multiplier (making unknown positive or negative accelerations toward the outward water line) moves light at a much faster rate (the speed of space plus the speed of light), or else that the sun, moon and stars are not a part of the original light and a bang, but rather were set in the heavens on the fourth day of creation by other means and a different architecture than the expected, Hubble, modern scientific, somewhat isotropic and homogeneous reaction supposedly occurring directly from the first light ( or perhaps what they call the big bang) without any further divine invention.
DAY FOUR
14 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: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
An additional work was done unto the existing previous heaven of day three; lights were made in it. They divided the day from the night, and they were for measurement of time (v. 14) among other things. The light that came about on day four was from a specific mass (the sun), but there was no mention of a mass source for the previous light. Before day four, Einstein's equation would not have a calculable time reference. String Theory and its revolutions can't determine the undeterminable. The lights also were a unique, other than the former, way of dividing the day from the night.
So it seems, the earth had vegetation and a heaven surrounded by waters before the stars were made. Once the sun and stars were made, a uniform and measurable rotation of the earth must have begun. Configuration and motion from the heaven became at least partially intelligible. Our universe evolved and advanced from the void to the pronounced. Hence, our maximum probability for discovery would not extend as far back as the fourth night interval (when motion from the heaven was not intelligible). The distance from the earth to the extreme end of the stars extended toward the surrounding waters. Summarizing, time began on day one but measurement of time did not begin until day four (it seems within the eighth interval of twelve night-day creation intervals; perhaps the unique light of day one could no longer be recognized due to the displacement of the new lights, being closer to the earth). Thus, scientific advancement would unlikely be able to research beyond the measurable stars and the principles of physics attributed to them on their day of creation.
God created the heaven and the earth. (Gn. 1:1) The Spirit of God hovered upon the face of the waters. (Gn. 1:2) What we know as matter and energy, and their ability to transform, isn't the complete picture in itself. God moved upon the waters; there is a direct influence from God – a “voluntary Agent” – upon the creation. Merely because we can't express all the physics and mathematics of the things we can't fully understand doesn't mean we can't discern it through faith. None of what scientists perceive as happening to the formation of the heaven and earth could have happened without God's power.
The initial space of the void matter possessed dimensions, and through a process of our creator, filled the space that continues to remain today. Matter has been expanded and conserved but it also has been developed by design. Light itself is a creation through an act of speech of God. (Gn. 1:3) We can see it, but without God speaking it into existence, the world would have never seen light. Nevertheless, we can measure its speed under certain circumstances. So, the matter and energy we recognize today all has its touch of divinity and Providence. The process of creation and life continues through matter and energy transformations and acts of God until this time, even though its establishment was finished in six days.
HAWKING'S “BLACK HOLE” AND “BIG BANG” DEFICIENCIES
They do not promote or reveal the true God, nor formulate the specific days of the creation in regard to movement of time and specific creation
EXISTENCE OF GOD FROM ETERNITY MOVING FORWARD Psalm: 90:2 “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”
MAN IN FUTURE ETERNITY: ACCOUNTABILITY
Man knows there is God from within his soul (natural revelation) and through writing (Torah—special revelation): The spiritual things he discovers through nature are designed to agree with God's written message and direction to mankind
Natural Manifestation: Even the wicked and those who repress divinity know there is a Creator from within themselves