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NASB | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (Elohim) created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. [Heb 11:3] |
Bible Question:
In the Genesis account there is a quetion I would like to ask,I've studied it and I got my opinion..was there a judgment or for a better word a "catastrophe" between verses 1 and 2 "the gap theory" |
Bible Answer: Genesis 1:1 is a summary statement of the initial act of creation. Genesis 1:2: "without form and void" (Heb. tohu, wabohu: "unformed and unfilled") describes the condition of the earth after the initial act of creation. It does not describe a chaotic condition as a result of judgment. Therefore, "was (Hebrew hayetah) without form and void" is correct and should not be translated "became." How God formed and filled the earth is described in verses 3-31. ..... In an attempt to accomodate the supposed evolutionary geological ages in Genesis, theorists postulate a long gap in time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, in which it was hoped these ages could be pigeon-holed and forgotten as far as biblical exegesis was concerned. This gap theory, however, requires a world-wide cataclysm at the end of the geological ages in order to account for the globally inundated and darkened earth described in Genesis 1:2. The cataclysm, in turn, is hypothethically connected with the fall of Lucifer in heaven (Isaiah 14:9-14 and his expulsion to the earth (Ezekiel 28:12-15), though such a cataclysm is nowhere mentioned in Scripture. However, in addition to its obvious contradictions with other important and clear Bible passages (Genesis 1:31; Exodus 20:11), the gap theory is self-defeating geologically. The geological age system (which is the necessary framework for modern evolutionism) is based entirely on the principle of uniformitarianism, a premise which precludes any such world-wide cataclysm and requires the interpreting of earth history by the extrapolation of present slow geological processes into the remote past. The real answer to the geological ages is not a pre-Adamic catacylsm, but the very real catacylsm of the Noahic Deluge which provides a much better explanation of the fossil beds and sedimentary rocks, eliminating all evidence of geological ages and confirming the biblical doctrine of recent creation. ..... Comment: It takes more faith to believe man's far-flung theories than it does to believe God's absolute truth. --Hank |