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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: I want to know what really happened between verse 1 and 2 of Genesis chapter 1 |
Bible Answer: Dear Joe - I've read Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 many, many times in the last half century, and I've yet to "see" anything at all happening between these two verses of Scripture. Mighty things happen in Genesis 1:1 and in Genesis 1:2, but there is no action nor even a hint of action taking place BETWEEN these two initial verses of God's word. There is a period at the end of verse 1 and a capital letter at the beginning of verse 2, and all that is between them is a space, but even these conventions of modern English usage were not in the original Hebrew. ..... My dear Joe, your question sounds as though you may suspect that something mysterious is going on between the lines, as it were. This is what the proponents of the so-called Gap Theory would have us believe, but they can offer no cogent reason to believe their fanciful theory. It is in some measure a paltry attempt to effect a compromise with another preposterous theory, the atheistic Darwinian theory of evolution. But how can two theories, one ostensibly theistic (gap) and the other patently atheistic (evolution) ever be joined in wedded bliss? The truth is that never the twain shall meet. It takes a great deal more faith to believe the flawed reasoning and wild speculations necessary to make even a lick of sense out of the gap theory than it does simply to take God at His word and, as Brad has posted, to believe that the opening words of Genesis mean exactly what they say and say exactly what they mean. And, to take this credibility thing a giant leap forward, it takes far more faith than I've ever been able to muster to believe, as the Darwinians say they do, that man evolved from a microscopic single-celled speck of protoplasm taking a solitary swim in the ooze of a primordial swamp. ..... "In the beginning" who? "God." Did what? "created." Created what? "the heavens and the earth." This majestic verse is a summary statement of all that God did in His six days of creation. If one will truly digest this verse, accept it and all the other "creation" verses that follow it, and believe with all his heart that God is telling the truth about His creation of the universe, he will have no difficulty believing the Bible all the way to the end of the Revelation. If, on the other hand, he reads one verse, i.e., Genesis 1:1, and immediately feels the need to superimpose his half-baked theories on the eternal word of the living God, he will find snags and difficulties at every turn of his journey through the Bible. He will find a thousand other places in Scripture where he feels compelled to insert various and sundry of his pet theories, and he will end up having opinions about everything in Scripture but without really knowing anything about it. --Hank |
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Hank | ||
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