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Isaiah 45:18; "For thus saith the Lord That created the heavens;
God Himself That formed the earth and made it; He hath established it He created it not in vain, He formed it to be inhabited: "I am the Lord; and there is none else."
He didn't create it in vain, he formed it to be inhabited and it was.
Yes, it was, by Adam and Eve and us their descendants.
Adam-
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned--
Eve-
Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
"I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light
Refers to the creation before God said: "let there be light".
"I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly."
Notice how the the mountains trembled and the hills moved lightly? This is what we consider "our big bang" This is why you can look at maps today and it looks like everything used to fit together. God basically shook the earth in his anger. No more life, dinosaurs, etc. God didn't make the mountains tremble and the hills move during Noah's flood.
The global flood caused earthquakes and the moutans rose. You have no scriptural basis to make the claim that that verse is about some other world, its this world.
"I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled."
Again, this is not Noah's flood. We had Noah and his family.
Jeremiah 4:26 "I beheld, and lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by His fierce anger."
Jeremiah is about the sins of Judah and Jerusalem and the Lord's judgment on the people, not Noah or some other creation.
It was paradise until Satan's downfall.
It was paradise until man disobeyed God, Adam brought in sin.
In Job we have a deeper study if one wants to dive into it.
Job 38:4 "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
God is asking Job where were you if you have understanding?
Job 38:5 "Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?"
Job 38:6 "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;"
Job 38:7 "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for Joy?"
So we see the morning stars sang together after the foundations were fastened.
Job 40:15 "Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox."
God is telling Job he made the behemoth at the same time he made Job, think about that.
And anyone reading God's description of the behemoth knows we are not talking about a water ox. No ox has the tail of a cedar tree.
Of course its not a water ox, its a dinosaur. Because dinosaurs which are really dragons lived with man, which is why all cultures have tales about dragons. Job is a descendant of Adam.
But there was definitely an age before this one. And it makes sense.
That makes zero sense and none of those verses says its some other creation. It's this creation, which is why they find dinosaur bones they are another extinct animals among many. In fact if God had made a previous creation there would be no bones or fossils of dinosaurs here to dig up.
God made one world, man fell into sin and Jesus came one time to die for our sins. Or does this so called first creation of yours have men doomed to hell with no saviour? Or ape-men? God's practice run that he needed to wipe out and build on again and called it "very good' No creation built on billions of dead bones would be called 'very good'.
Again, nowhere in there does it indicate some previous creation. Job lived here, many generations ago not on some other creation. So did dinosaurs for that matter, God made them 'along with man' on day 6.
Job 40:15
"Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you and which feeds on grass like an ox.
day 6
Genesis
24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so.
ALL land walking animals including Behemoth and other dinosaurs.
And then Adam
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
All made on day 6.
This creation is the one and only.
Exodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.