I have written several blogs on the Biblical account of creation vs. the humanistic or evolutionary theory. Without a proper understanding of Genesis and the true account as recorded in scripture we are left with a confusing array of information on origins. Since I am not a scientist……in fact I simply hated chemistry in High School… I feel free to quote more knowledgeable people than myself.
But I do know this. God thought enough of His creation to pass down to us in the simplest words…..His grand design for this world and the human kind that He created from the “ground up”!
The Gap theory might appeal to those Christians who want to believe that evolutionary science might not be all wrong while at the same time still using Genesis in their belief system of creation.
Basically the Gap theory is this: that millions of years passed between Genesis verse one and verse two.
“The earth was without form, and void”.(Gen 1:2) The Gap people translate the verse, “the earth became without form and void”. One little word…….big difference. In short the Gap theory teaches that Day One was not really Day One.!! (Acts and Facts, Creation Research Society, Oct 2012).
Gap theorists believe that the phrase “in the beginning” was a world that existed millions of years ago. Then God destroyed that world and began a new one and that the earth became without form and was void of any life.
The big picture concerns us…you and me. Are we part of God’s original creation plan or are we products of the evolutionary tree…is your uncle a monkey??
In other words……perhaps God had pre-Adamite races. He destroyed them and started again……..well they didn’t do any better the second time did they?
Why do Christian theologians try to compromise belief in the accuracy of scripture to accommodate the scientific community?
I for one do not want to “bridge the gap”. I read my Bible as reliable. God doesn’t need man’s ideas on His creative processes.
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