Subject: Creation and Restoration of the Earth |
Bible Note: You may disagree but all you present is strawman arguments that are only seen to exist to those that want to believe in the Gap theory and Pre Adamic world. Had the Genesis account stopped with Genesis 1:2 there would be a problem in light of so many other scriptures that says God created earth to be inhabited. But the Genesis account doesn't stop at Genesis 1:2 nor is there any indication of a time gap between verse 1 and verse 2. Genesis is an account of the creation of the world. When God gave the account of how He brought the world together from nothing he did so in stages first the initial formation and then enhancements that were made to make the world we know. Verse 1:1 is the big picture, verses Genesis 1:2-chapter 2:7 is a more detailed summary and Genesis 2:8 and on gives a more detailed account. Notice the comment in verse 2:5 and 6 it says God had not made it rain on earth and a mist came up from the ground to water the land. Then move forward to Noah’s flood account, to accomplish what God did there God made the water spew from both the ground and made a down pour rain. Verse 5and 6 said rain never occurred before on the earth. The 2 Peter account can only be the Flood of Noah, as it details two events pertinent to the reader, Noah’s flood and the final destruction of the Earth by fire. There is no mention of the previous flood and if you insist the flood mentioned is the Pre Adamic flood then the account leaves out the most significant flood to the readers, the Noah flood and that I think you have to agree is unlikely. As far as the testimony of Isaiah and Jeremiah both pertain to the present world as that is the only thing that interests the reader. A pre Adamic world would hold like interest to people at the time of it writing. As for Psalms 104:1-10 is the creation story reaffirmed. There is not conflict with it and the Genesis account of creation. There is nothing to suggest a Pre Noah flood nor is anything that suggest that if there was a pre Adamic flood did exist (which it didn’t) that, that flood or Katabola, as you seem to like to call it, was a far worst flood than Noah’s which killed all of humanity except Noah and his family. |