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NASB | Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and void or a waste and emptiness, and darkness was upon the face of the deep [primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth]. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. |
Subject: The GAP theory could be true. |
Bible Note: Hank, I have been reading the ICR.org for several days now, as you advised. I would like to say right here and now that I love the Lord Jesus Christ and I know that He came down to Earth as the Son of God, and died, and paid the price for my sin and sins. I know that He rose up from the dead, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father, making intersession for me. I also believe, and hope very soon, that Christ will return in glory and that I will rise up to meet him in the air. At this time the Lord will transform my old sinful body into a sinless glorious body like His. From then on I will always be with Him, praising and beholding Him in His glory, forever and ever!!! I would like to state also that I don't believe in ANY form of evolution; and again I say any form. Now with all that said, basically every one of the many different articles that I read on the ICR web, that were written by (qualified conservative Christians,) base their ideas of the GAP theory, and I said theory, on the same premise. There premise is, that a loving merciful God would never be guilty of a creative process that would involve suffering and death of multitudes of innocent animals to arrive millions of years later at a point where the Earth would be ready for the creation of man. Now it is dangerous to try to cast God into our own little finite mold; can the clay say, why did you make me the way you wanted, and not the way I wanted? Also just to mention, there is a cult that says that a loving merciful God would never cast His creatures, into such a horrid place as hell; but we know this is false teaching. ICR says that death came about because of sin, and so the Scripture teaches. They further say that this is not spiritual death but physical death, so as a result, no animals died before the sin of Adam. Now if that is the case, then those qualified writers must believe in evolution and this is why. God created every thing as we have it today, no evolution, maybe minor mutations but not evolution. ICR says that there were no animal deaths before Adam sinned, why do we have snakes with poison, hawks with talons, insects with stingers, sharks with razor sharp teeth, whales that only eat plankton, lions with claws and the list goes on and on? They weren't all designed to eat grass before Adam fell! God created them that way from the start. They were eating each other, and before Adam sinned, they were designed that way; it wasn't evolution. God knew what He was doing, and we don't know why; His ways are above our ways. Some day Christ will straighten it all out when He sets up His kingdom on Earth, I don't know how, but I believe He will do it. Conclusion, ICR didn't convince me of anything yet, there are to many loose ends that don't refute the GAP theory. As for being a hacker, my golf game proves that. I don't think that my looking up has anything to do with stargazing, I would love to see Jesus return soon and we are told to look up; things down here don't look all that great right now. Yours in Christ, CDBJ |