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1 | Time lapse between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:3. | Gen 1:2 | EdB | 8229 | ||
DocSpock, Your right the gap theory is more than just a pipe dream it is a fairly well known theory made popular by two very popular study Bibles, Scofield's and Dake's. The idea is thought to have come from Thomas Chalmers a Scottish theologian of late 1700's early 1800's. The biggest problem to it is undermines the gospel by allowing death, sickness, killing, and suffering to occur before the fall in the garden. The theory has found favor by many as an effort to reconcile the Bible with ages placed on earth and various fossils and formations found within the earth. All of these are based on carbon dating. Carbon dating is now held in suspect by many scientist as being totally inaccurate on objects older than 4-6 thousand years. |
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2 | Time lapse between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:3. | Gen 1:2 | Hank | 8231 | ||
Ed, I agree with you regarding the "Gap Theory." It's merely another in a long line of theories ostensibly designed to explain the unexplainable mysteries of God's creation. The theory is weak at best; the gap theorists can offer virtually nothing to support their view. I'd sooner accept what the Bible says in plain language than seek to invent theories in an effort to explain what it does not say. The Darwinian theory of evolution, for example, leads down dead-end paths and creates far more questions than it answers. As a matter of fact, I can't think of anything it really does answer definitively. And you're right about carbon dating too. It's been proved highly unreliable not once, but many times. At one time carbon dating was the darling of some scientists who set out to "prove" the creationists wrong and the evolutionists right. It failed them miserably. Is is such a radical statement to say that God created the universe just as He said He did? Do we need to add our varnish to the account to slick it up and make it conform to our notions of how He did it? Not I, brother Ed, not I. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Time lapse between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:3. | Gen 1:2 | Makarios | 8251 | ||
And I would also agree against this theory ("Gap Theory") that can only be based upon speculation and not from the Bible itself. I believe that the earth was created thousands of years ago, not millions. I also believe in the literal 'six days' of creation instead of the 'six periods of time' which would support the "Gap Theory".. I believe that it is a 'stretch' at best, like the "Big Bang" theory and "Evolution".. | ||||||
4 | Time lapse between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:3. | Gen 1:2 | DocSpock | 8258 | ||
So far, I see no scriptural objections, only (you'll forgive me) noises of disapproval. You will observe from my note - if that's what you are commenting on - that 6 literal days are not refuted. The only idea being presented is that rock and water existed in a planetary mass before these 6 days, and were created at an earlier time. Following this view, these six days of re-creation have not been converted into 'six periods of time'. Furthermore, this does not necessarily lend any credibility to carbon dating, since we have no knowledge of what vestiges of the old world, if any, remain, or how long the “gap” was. It is at this point we enter into real speculation. Whatever else you may have read, I do not feel that my comments, at any rate, are “designed to explain the unexplainable mysteries of God's creation”, neither do they deviate from the “plain language” of the Bible – the OT is Hebrew, and so it’s hardly surprising that our English translations can obscure occasionally the meaning, or the harmony between several corresponding scriptures, namely Gen 1:2, Isaiah 45:18, Jer 4:23. Anyhow, these notes have been offered as thoughts, not as didactic doctrine. I have my own queries too, but I think we would do better to express our doubts through scripture. These are my last comments on this topic, and I respectfully submit them to this forum. God bless. |
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5 | Time lapse between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:3. | Gen 1:2 | Hank | 8271 | ||
Dear DocSpock: My comments regarding the "Gap" and other theories relating to the genesis of the universe were not in any manner directed, or intended to be directed, toward you personally. I'm keenly aware that you in your post included a disclaimer and that you are not offering your thoughts as didactic scriptural exegesis. My point was, and is, that as far back as written records can take us, man has gazed into the heavens and wondered how it all began. He has postulated any number of theories born of his desire to understand his origin and the origin of the universe in which he finds himself. Some of his theories presuppose a Creator, some do not. Few, if any, of man's theories are in full accordance with or parallel the Gensis account of creation. My hypothesis is, as a believer in the God of the Bible, that it is enough to take the Gensis account for what it says and be done with it. Secular humanists and skeptics engage in all manner of debates and speculations, but in my view it is a venture into which the Christian should proceed with caution if at all. I believe God still asks of His people as He asked of Job: "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding." --Hank | ||||||