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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: Time lapse between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:3. |
Bible Note: Ed, I agree with you regarding the "Gap Theory." It's merely another in a long line of theories ostensibly designed to explain the unexplainable mysteries of God's creation. The theory is weak at best; the gap theorists can offer virtually nothing to support their view. I'd sooner accept what the Bible says in plain language than seek to invent theories in an effort to explain what it does not say. The Darwinian theory of evolution, for example, leads down dead-end paths and creates far more questions than it answers. As a matter of fact, I can't think of anything it really does answer definitively. And you're right about carbon dating too. It's been proved highly unreliable not once, but many times. At one time carbon dating was the darling of some scientists who set out to "prove" the creationists wrong and the evolutionists right. It failed them miserably. Is is such a radical statement to say that God created the universe just as He said He did? Do we need to add our varnish to the account to slick it up and make it conform to our notions of how He did it? Not I, brother Ed, not I. --Hank |