Is anyone familiar with the gap theory?

Question

To clarify---the gap between Gen 1:1 and 1:2. Who can explain?

Answer 1

I think during that gap the dinsours roamed ..but I dont want to argue us as christians need to forget about our little dissagreements and get to work these are the last day if we just stand bye we are going to loose this war!!!thisi earth is not our home its our assinment

Answer 2

The gap theory has been around for several years, but it just doesn't hold water. The theory is that all of the dinosaurs and man's evolvement fell into the gap between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2. Then God created Adam & Eve as a special set of people even though there were evolved people already on the earth. The problem is God says that Adam and Eve were the very first of mankind, and the dinosaurs would have had to exist in darkness because God had not created light until Gen 1:3

Answer 3

Gap theory?
Ok LOL
Genesis 1
1:1 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth.
The cosmos and the firmament
Notice the period at the end of the sentence.
It is completed and done a perfect heaven and a perfect earth.

2 And the earth became without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Ok this is harder- first the AND
It is a Hebraism meaning more said than written.
The word "became" is sometimes written, "was". First God does not create crap, but lets take the word back to the original text.

OT:1961 hayah (haw-yaw); a primitive root [compare OT:1933]; to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary):

KJV - beacon, altogether, be (-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, follow, happen, have, last, pertain, quit (oneself-), require, use.

As you can see for the original text the word Hayah means become or came to pass!

Something happened to cause the earth to be destroyed. Sounds to me like a Great War the fall of Satan.
There are many passages in the bible that hint of such things.

Answer 4

The gap theory is from poker. It says that you need a stronger hand to call an all-in with than you need to raise all-in with, which is why it's often that the first person to make a bet at the pot will take it down, but when a big raiser gets called, they're usually about to lose a big pot.

Bible fundamentalists are great to play poker against, by the way, because they always think that God loves them and will deliver them their 3-outer on the river to suck out.

Ha ha!

Answer 5

Many people have tried to place a gap of indeterminate time between the first two verses of Genesis chapter 1. There are many different versions as to what supposedly happened in this "gap" of time. Most versions of the "gap" theory place millions of years of geologic time (including billions of fossil animals) in between these two first verses of Genesis. This is the "ruin-reconstruction" version of the gap theory.
However, this undermines the gospel as it allows for death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering before Adam's sin. Because most "ruin-reconstruction" theorists have accepted the millions of years dating for the fossil record, they have thus allowed the fallible theories of scientists to determine the meaning of Scripture.

There is no need for this theory. All fossils, dinosaurs etc....fit in to the Bible and a less than 10,000 year old earth!

Answer 6

I am familiar and I think it is a load of poo. Their is no evidence to help prove this argument. I have also heard that their is a gap between all days of creation. WHich if is 1000 years. "Because to God, 1 day is as a 1000 years"
If this was true, Adam would have been over 1000 years old before he ever met his wife. Also we must be consistent in our thinking, because is one day is as a thousand years then Jesus was up on the mountain in the new testament being tempted by satan for 400000 years and he was in the grave for 3000 days.

Answer 7

Genesis 1:1 is when God created the universe. Genesis 1:2 is when God prepared the Earth for human flesh. The Earth was already millions and millions of years old. The dinosaurs lived before Genesis 1:2.

Contact me and I'll explain in more detail.

Answer 8

no the gap theory is crap. there are decades and decades of years since scientists have tried to develope other species from the existent using mutations and no succes. that's what the gap theory is about, abrupt transformations. even evolutionists don't all agree concerning the matter. btw the Bible says God created the species, not that he let some random thing like evolution to cause the developements.

Answer 9

Genesis 1:1 space was created, and God is in the process of creating more than one universe (time/space continuum) - i.e. heavens and earth.
Genesis 1:2 space and time are at this point disassociated phenomenon, God is separated from his creation.
Genesis 1:3 time was created. This is the actual "beginning of our universe.
The source of this creation myth in our Bible is the Torah, which is the fundamental book of scriptures for Judaism, the root of Christianity.
The Torah is kept by Israeli's, and I'm not sure how accurate their copies are when compared to whatever was first written. I do know there are no original surviving copies of any of the gospels, and there have been 30,000 inconsistencies found between copies of the New Testament. We simply don't have the originals or a way to verify the accuracy of any single copy.
In Hebrew, words take on different meanings depending on context, just as in our modern English language.
I think, to start with, that the word "waters" in Genesis 1:2 was a metaphore originally. They didn't have a word for what needed to be described in Hebrew. These are discussions about cosmological events, and the people of Moses time had lost all knowledge of what is beyond our atmosphere. Further on, there is a discussion of "waters" again in Genesis 1:6,7,9,10. Here, I think they are using the same word for two different things.
When God first created the Heavens and the earth, the earth had no form and was void. Also, darkness was on the face of the deep. Let me propose to you that this doesn't refer to deep water, but is the first description of there being any dimension. This had to be "space without time", something we can't imagine in our finite universe.
Well here, let me try to put it chronologically;
Genesis 1:1 God created the phenomenon of space by creating mass, as a form of energy.
Genesis 1:2 This is a description of what it was like before what scientists call the big bang. At this time heaven and earth were not yet separated, and they are not in the same time/space continuum. This describes that at first there was mass with no form, but there was depth to space, and God's Spirit was hovering over the face of the waters. Notice here that God was "hovering over". This is significant, because it is saying God is separated from his created waters. Here again, this doesn't mean water, it may refer to the formless energy which would eventually become matter. But I think the "gap" you're talking about in Genesis 1:2 arises because the earth (all matter in the universe) was still just an idea. Also, the time/space continuums (universes) had not yet been separated. Genesis 1:3 This is where God spoke the first words we know of, and they were "Let there be light" I believe that is what created the phenomenon of time for this universe, or time/space continuum. It also may mean there was a different beginning of time for the heavens outside this universe,God was here, in the beginning of this universe, or time/space continuum. Between Gen1:6,7,8, and 9, there is some confusing discussion about firmament and water. The waters under the heavens called seas, refers to water as we know water. The water above the firmament is not talking about water, but "fluid energy" and water was the only word anyone at the time (i.e. Moses) had that could give meaning to this fluid energy. Notice that in physics, we learn light speed is the upper limit of motion in this universe. Light itself is a boundary condition for existing in our universe. The paradoxes we encounter when studying light are such that it has led me to see Genesis 1:3 as an authentic part of the creation account. Some of the rest is less coherent because I think we lacked sufficient vocabulary to get and save a rational translation. The people copying it wouldn't have fully understood it either, so things also got copied wrong in the eons since it was first written.
Light, water, and heaven are three words which certainly must have various meanings as used in Genesis.

Answer 10

I think the theory is that every 5th store has to be a Gap. Regular Gap, Gap for Kids, Gap for Teens, Gap for Babies, Gap for Toddlers, Gap for Fetuses, Gap for Dogs, Gap for Furries.

Answer 11

There are 2 creation stories presented in the Bible, and the very first chapter presenting God making several things on each separate day are not the oldest text source. In fact, Genesis 2:4 is the oldest part. And, yes they do contradict each other.