Artfuldodger
Senior Member
How do you know this is what the enigmatic thinks? Did you private message or sumtin.
I think he lives around Albany somewhere, not Enigma! I'm not sure what this was about, just guessin'.
How do you know this is what the enigmatic thinks? Did you private message or sumtin.
your earlier post said there was a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:3 where Gods spirit moved on the waters.
Genesis 20:11 doesn't allow for any time span that was not accounted for between 1:1 and today.
20:11 says all things were created in 6 literal days, with no time gap.
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.
You can't have creation in 1:1, a gap of time, and then finishing of creation if there is only 6 days, and those 6 days are accounted in the text.
your earlier post said there was a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:3 where Gods spirit moved on the waters.
Genesis 20:11 doesn't allow for any time span that was not accounted for between 1:1 and today.
20:11 says all things were created in 6 literal days, with no time gap.
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.
You can't have creation in 1:1, a gap of time, and then finishing of creation if there is only 6 days, and those 6 days are accounted in the text.
Well is creation being re-created now through Christ? If it is the case... then the days of the gentiles...span centuries? Why would a day in the first days of the original creation be different? I don't know... Peter says that a day or time for the Lord is not exactly as we account days for man... or am I incorrect?
And besides, many books in the Bible are poetic ie: not meant to be literal only... why would the creation account be different from one of the bible's poetic books?
except that in Genesis, the word used for day is used through out the remainder of scripture to mean a literal 24 hour long day. And every other time the Bible uses the term evening and morning were a day, it means a literal 24 hour day. Why is Genesis 1 and 2 different???
Why do we need the term day, evening and morning to mean something besides 24 hour day? The only reason is we don't have faith enough to believe God is capable of creating all He did in that time frame. The reason for the unbelief? Science looked at some rocks and fossils and said that looks like it is 100 million years old to me, and Christians bought the story. The whole bait, hook, line and sinker.
except that in Genesis, the word used for day is used through out the remainder of scripture to mean a literal 24 hour long day. And every other time the Bible uses the term evening and morning were a day, it means a literal 24 hour day. Why is Genesis 1 and 2 different???
Why do we need the term day, evening and morning to mean something besides 24 hour day? The only reason is we don't have faith enough to believe God is capable of creating all He did in that time frame. The reason for the unbelief? Science looked at some rocks and fossils and said that looks like it is 100 million years old to me, and Christians bought the story. The whole bait, hook, line and sinker.
Actually..young earth creationism is very new to Christianity. It comes from Ellen G White, a false prophetess of the seventh day Adventist... Even Schofield the dispensationalist uses old earth references in his Bible notes.
Dake came up with the old earth / gap theory while he was serving time for violation of the Mann act. Transporting a child across state lines for sexual gratification.
From what I've read so far.. Scofield beat him to it, but I'll look into it. The early church didn't make much of it from what I've read so far. Augustine seemed to disagree with 24hr days.. But he didn't know the earth was round at the time.
I think there's like five different theories I've read so far.
It's not speculation, it is all in who you choose to believe.
You can take scripture and believe that God is big enough and powerful enough to convey to us how He created things, or you can believe that God had to hide, shadow and deceive the facts from us so what we could only believe a bit of what He said in scripture, and that we have to depend on the ever changing opinions of science to come to the right conclusions as to what really happened.
I find it interesting when science unlocks the mysteries of God. God never told us the building blocks to life considering the physics and chemistry of what we are surrounded by. He left it up to society to figure it out.