The Beginning of the Seasons Only After
the Flood.
Why God didn't start them after the flood.
A Christian apologetic view says that once upon a time there
was a water canopy above the sky. As Genesis says--
The sky trapped the sun's rays so that there was a year-round
semi-tropical climate. After Noah’s flood, God commenced the seasons--
Genesis 8:22 [God said to Noah] As long as the earth
endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night
will never cease.
But the thing is, the existence of the seasons is already mentioned before
the flood‑‑
Genesis 1:14 God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of
the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark
seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of
the sky to give light on the earth. And it was so. 16 God made two great
lights--the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the
night.
One may wonder what kind of seasons they were. Warm and
cloudy ones with soft breezes? Or hot and cold ones, the usual kind.
The thing is, the earth had seasons before the flood. Despite the apologists.