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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: In the beginning |
Bible Note: Hi Hoth. Thank you for being direct in your question. No, God did not create the earth OR the universe before the first day. This is my solid belief and I will attempt to show you solid proof. Scripture says in Genesis 1:1 that God created the heavens and the earth. Verse 2 describes the creation: The earth was formless and void, etc. Verse 3: Then God said, let there be light, and light was. There is obviously no gap between verse 1 and verse 2, correct? I do not see anything here that resembles a gap between verse 2 and verse 3. Let us simply look at the Gospel of John for a few verses. John 1:1 gives us this information about the beginning: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God and verses 14 explains: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Now going back to verse 3: All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Well, this is just me, but when God "said" did He not speak the Word of God? and did He not create all things through Jesus? God had a plan, and He knows the end from the beginning. Would anyone actually think that the earth is older than the sun by a thousand days or a thousand years? I am just posing these as questions so that you can answer them for yourself. To show the magnitude of His power God's creation on the third day was : the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was] good. And then, on the fourth day was : And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. So, God made fruit trees before He made the sun. There was light before he made the sources of light that we see today. Let me ask you this, If God made Adam as a full grown adult, could He not also make the earth as a full grown earth? Next question is, If death did not enter the world until Adam sinned, then where did all the fossils come from that are supposedly millions of years old? The answer is that fossils come from a cataclysmic event. -Such as a worldwide flood Next question is If we are able to doubt God's Word in Genesis, how then are we able to believe His Word in the rest of the entire Bible? |