Debunking the "Gap Theory"
thebibleistruth,
1. I don’t agree with Mike Riddle and this is why.
The conjunction and is used to connect about 200 separate acts of God in Genesis 1 and 2. They are all equally independent and important.
2. The word “was” in Verse 2 is from the Hebrew hayah which means to become not to be.
It is translated became 67 times (Genesis 2:7; 19:26; 20:12; 24:67; Exodus 4:3-4; Numbers 12:10 etc.)
It is also translated in scripture for becamest, Came and came to pass, become and Dake has more and the scriptures with them.
So it it false to say that the gap belief misused language for support.
3. He said it undermines the gospel putting death before sin.
This is ridiculous because God created everything perfect in Genesis 1 and the Luciferian kingdom on earth.
Ezekiel 28:15 Satan sinned and that is why death came into the world. This started the Great Confrontation between the devil and God.
The devil has an eternal body and could not die.
God will not share his glory with anyone.
There is no undermining the gospel for the cross is what would destroy the devils aspiration to replace God. Genesis 3:15 was the first Messianic prophecy about the victory of the cross.
4. It doesn’t make God’s very good death and decay. If that was true then the same could be said when Adam and Eve sinned.
5. All the earth was not populated, not even as much after the flood and after Peleg.
The flood was upon the earth; rain upon the earth 40 days and nights ; increased greatly on the earth etc. The waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole Heaven was covered.
Under the whole Heaven was covered and do I have no problem believing it was the whole earth but that argument means nothing biblically as much as an argument about geology.
6. Hebrews 11:3: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Genesis 1:10 and God called the dry land earth.
Of earth means dry land then the original earth in Genesis 1:1 would have been dry land.
The waters under the Heaven was already present and earth became visible when the waters were gathered and the dry land appeared.
This doesn’t sound like Hebrews 11:4 making something out of nothing.
There is no contradiction about reconstruction or restoration.
7. There is nothing that says how long of time between verse 1 and verse 2. So biblically the word is not trying to side with old or young earth views. It doesn’t compromise millions of years necessarily especially not in the context of evolution.
8. He said it contradicts Jesus words in Mark 10:6 and then misquoted it by saying it proved dinosaurs were in there when it said nothing of the sort in the verse or the context. But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. The context is about divorce between man and woman.
9. The video was not convincing at all. Dake shows scriptural examples and that man was trying to use more of what he read to be the supreme definition of the Jewish word to be an open and shut case.
Ezekiel 28-1:19 shows the Luciferian kingdom on earth before he sinned and before Adam and Eve was created. Jerry Kelso.
