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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] |
Subject: gap therory |
Bible Note: Why? That's the question that needs to be asked, sir. Why, Gary, do you "tend to lean toward" the gap theory? You gave no Bible reference -- no documentation of any kind whatever. So, pray tell me, how on earth can you or any other Forum registrant reasonably expect other registrants to sit up and take notice? They don't know you. You may have ample credentials; you may have more degrees than a thermometer; you may have a thousand and one cogent reasons to believe as you do and be able to back up every single one of them with sound evidence from Scripture itself -- although, in the case of trying to talk Scripture into supporting the gap theory, you may have a tough row to hoe, friend. ..... As for as there being a problem with the translation of the account of the six days of creation, which is what you claim, then I assume you expect the readers of this Forum to believe that all the major translations into English from Tyndale to the English Standard Version got the whole thing wrong. What a pity, too, that all these major translations on which we English-speaking peoples so heavily rely, were so deplorably inept that they couldn't even get the opening few lines of the Bible right. So we appeal to you, sir. Tell us, if you will, how it ought to be. Set us straight so that we no longer will have to depend on the King James Bible or the New American Standard Bible, or any of those other pitiful attempts to translate the ancient tongues into clear English. With the kind of expertise that you seem to imply, we can read the correct version right here on Study Bible Forum. ...... While we're at the business of revising all those error-riddled translations, we may as well change the rendering of the Hebrew word "hayetah" in Genesis 1:2 from "WAS without form and void" to "BECAME without form and void" in order to make the Bible more tolerant of the gap theory. After all, it makes more sense to change Scripture to agree with man's gap theory than to throw out this neat theory simply because Scripture refuses to go along with it. ...... I've never quite understood why God does not, from time to time, revise His written word and at least make some effort to keep it up to date with the inerrant thinking of modern man. Hmmm...could it be that God's thoughts are not man's thoughts? Now that's something to chew on. --Hank |