This is a strictly Biblical response to the gap hypothesis. The post assumes all interested will understand the implications of said verses without a great deal of explanation. In short, it is written with the intent of being read by a gapper.
Job38: 2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.
5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
In the above text does it not say "ALL the sons of God"?Would evil, wicked, fallen sons of God be shouting for joy?Exactly when were these foundations laid?
Prov8:22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28 When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
That this covers "before" Gen1:1 and goes up to the "foundations of the earth" is 100% without controversy.Now examine the following:
Gen1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Gen2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Notice that Day,Night,Heaven(1st and 2nd),Earth,Seas,and Woman???Notice that they are all in capitals???Know why???Because previosly to them being named they never existed!!!Pretty cool or what?!?!In the light of GOD'S word lets look at the following:
2Peter3:3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water(Which is exactly what Gen1:6-1:10 is describing):
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
The text says the WORLD was overflowed with water(see 2PETER2:4,5),never the less the heavens were MOST DEFINITELY affected. Read the following:
Gen7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Talk about going to 7:11 for a big gulp!!!!!HEY ALL YOU GAPPERS, THATS A LOT OF WATER!!!
Check this out!
Rom8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Did you catch it????Those silly heavens went through another traumatic experience even BEFORE the flood, it was called the FALL OF MAN, NOT SATAN.
A TEXT OUTSIDE IT'S CONTEXT IS A PRETEXT
Praise God I am not "willfully ignorant"
Mark10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Y'all catch that, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION
Rom3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
...let God be true, but every man a liar...
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