Time Gap...?

Question

SoOoOo.... who believes that between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 there was a Gap in time?

1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
2And the earth was 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.


and then in Deuteronomy 32:4 it says
4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

God is light and cannot create anything in a less than perfect state, so a newly created earth from the hand of God shouldn't have been without form and void, and shrouded in darkness

Some believe this is an explanation for the event that throws the Earth into chaos is the fall of Lucifer (Satan) in the events of Revelation 12:7-12 which talks about the Devil being cast out of heaven to the earth

others believe this is where an "old" earth was created and then destroyed

What do you think?

Answer 1

Hmmm...Your seem to be hinting that the meaning of "without form and void and shrouded in darkness" means imperfect. Slow down a second and think! Is an empty canvass an imperfect thing because it is empty? This simply means what the text says it means, it had not been formed, it was empty, and he had not yet created light.

I understand the arguments behind the "gap theory" and they are baseless. An ordinary reading of the text, which is demanded both by the simple sort of folk to whom it was written and by the principle of Ockham's razor, is the correct reading.

Answer 2

I don't think there is any gap. The genious of this creation account is how much it makes sense with our scientific knowledge of astronomy. Creations don't blink into existence in completed form. There is a process; the Genesis story is an account of how the creation happened (the big mystery is how the writer knew!). You are right that God cannot create anything in a less than perfect state, however He was not done with creation when the Earth was still 'unformed and void'. I think it's okay for his creations to be imperfect until he has completed the creation. Because how can you call an unfinished product perfect when it clearly is a work in progress?

Think about it like:
1- 'God created Heaven and Earth' = big bang
2- Earth was without form = The matter in space is in the process of forming planets, stars, etc. The sun hadn't formed yet, so there is nothing but darkness.

Some astronomers also believe where God was (right above the waters) is consistant with the observations of the creation story. If he stood elsewhere, the descriptions in Genesis would not be observable. So, it's kinda impressive that this creation account is more accurate to science than, for example, the some creation stories of Native Americans who believed they crawled out of a hallow tree trunk or fell out of the sky.

Answer 3

Have you ever tried to explain 7 billion years of history in 1or 2 paragraphs ?

You are correct, In the beginning, refers to God created with his Word, but lucifer caused God to stop, The verse God said "let there be light" is God the Father, separating himself from the Darkness of Lucifer. And then God starts again. God made spirits first and then he made the spirits male and female the (physical world) in the Land of Nod, (Asia). The spirits that God brought into the world where born of a virgin by the Holy Ghost. Read Revelation 12

Their Age ended, but God was pleased with these people, so God Spared them. Satan is the destroyer not God.

God created and recreated the world 3 times, it took God) somewhere around 50 million years. God therefore created LORD God (Jesus) But LORD God planted only a garden in the midst of all the destruction. and put Eve therein and her children were to be born of the Holy Ghost. But lucifer created a man of his own (Adam) these are the tares.

Answer 4

the fall of Lucifer (Satan) in the events of Revelation 12:7-12 which talks about the Devil being cast out of heaven to the earth

Answer 5

There is no Gap. The creation is the creation, set in motion by the will of God. The account of creation as written in order and for our understanding. There could not have been an "old earth" which was destroyed because that would mean that there was death before sin. It wouldn't make sense if that were the case.

Answer 6

The world was underwater at the time when Gen 1:2 was written commonly referred to by some as Lucifer's Flood as you point out. The world was created perfect but do to Lucifer's rebellion he was cast out of heaven down to earth where Lucifer corrupted earth. I am not sure that you would call the time between 1:1 and 1:2 a time gap.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I am not sure about your meaning of a time gap, but aside from that, yes I believe that we do not have a fact-based understanding of the measurement of time as its referred to in Genesis.

I think its the same earth...humans and animals left behind a "few" clues.

GG

Answer 9

that christians hate question like this
cause they come up with answers that dont make sense

RE:Thomas Lafferty
an empty canvass an is an empty canvass not a dark canvass
the bible has numerous referances that darkness is evil

you say that "and he had not yet created light." well then god must have exsited in eternal darkness then
because the absense of light IS DARKNESS NOT emptyness
try this experiment
walk in a room that's completly dark and full of things lying about and see how empty it is

Answer 10

I think any such interpretation of the Bible is an admission that the Bible doesn't make sense as written.

If you have to make things up and add it to the Bible in order for its stories to make sense, then why don't you just admit that the Bible stories aren't literally true and study some science to figure out what really happened?