We each have our own ideas about the Creation story.  Even many Believers, assume that God is allowed to be involved with millions and millions of years of creation.  Did God really use evolution to come up with the perfect man made in His image?  Really?  Is that how you believe?

Since we assume science can answer most of the questions about the beginning of mankind, we let them have their say.  I rarely encounter or read of the scientific community believing in the Divine creation account.  When reading the National Geographic magazine or Smithsonian magazine, or visiting a Natural History Museum, we see these amazing relics from ages past.  That huge T Rex………he was 12 million years old!! 

There is a society called Creation Research Society and several others, who stand firm on the Creation story as found in Genesis.  Very few pastors and teachers want to touch the subject.  They are fearful of not being scientifically educated.

However, without a proper understanding of Genesis, and man’s betrayal of his original design, we must also omit the idea of sin.  For without the first sinners, then we really don’t need a Savior either.   

Since I am not a scientist (I hated Science in High School!) I feel free to quote more knowledgeable people than myself.  But I do believe this.  That God created man in His image and that the original humans betrayed His grand design for mankind. 

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 use Genesis in their belief of the Creation.

Basically, the Gap theory is this: that millions of years passed between Genesis verse one and verse two. 

“The earth was with 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 2021)

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 earth became without form and was void of any life. Did God make a mistake the first time and corrected it later? 

The big picture concerns us.  Are we part of God’s original creation plan or are we a product of the evolutionary tree…….was your uncle a monkey?? 

In other words, perhaps God had pre-Adamite races.  He destroyed them and started again.   
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 millions of years in His grand design for mankind, the heavens, or the earth we inhabit. God doesn’t need man’s theories.  We were not the result of some accidents in the great distance past.  
We can’t take a jaw bone and believe it came from a lady named Lucy who lived 15 million years ago!

We aren’t accidents!  We are a special creation by God who has designed us for His purposes and in His image. 

                                                Yes, you are I are very special!!!