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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: The publication "Creation, Chaos, and Restoration" should be looked at with a great deal of discretion, because I have found this teaching of the 'Gap' theory to undermine the Word of God.. Angels definitely are created beings, and are part of the universe that God created. Ezra tells us, "You are the Lord, you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heaven, with all their host.....and the host of heaven worships you." (Neh 9:6; cf Psa148:2,5). Paul includes the angels among that which was created through Christ and for him: Visible and invisible whether thrones or dominions or principalities and authorities (Col 1:16) But the GAP theory teaches that the angels were upon earth prior to the human race, and left behind a damaged environment which needed to be restored. This is reading into scripture ideas of man that deny the accuracy of, or are simply not supported in God's Word. Such as Gen 1:31 when God saw everything He had made, and said it was very good. What this means is that even the angelic world that had been created did not have evil angels or demons in it at that time. Therefore sometime between the events of Gen 1:31 and 3:1 there must have been a type of rebellion with angels that turned against God and became evil. Then came Eve's deception in the Garden, through the serpent who was undermining God's Word, as he said. "hath God really said....?" Please do not fall into the clutches of this same deceptive practice which can only come from the enemy. In Him, keliy |