Originally Posted by
Alabama358
Good morning Cheer,
I strongly disagree and will pass on the whole God has destroyed the earth twice to try to deal with rebellious fallen whatevers Gap theory thing
Lets start with...that is NOT what Genesis:1 says, but your right it is a great example of something... mans ability to torture scripture to get it to say something not intended.
That is more like a slightly re-worded quote from Cyrus Ingerson Scofield notes from a Scofield study bible. (The same Scholar/teacher/expert/theologinon/Lawyer so called blahblahblah.. standing on the shoulders of other national treasures like John Nelson Darby, James Hall Brookes, James Inglis and the like that all helped promote works like the Gap theory, Pre-trib rapture, Dispensationalism and such...
A brief Google search of the Late Great Mr. Scofield will turn up stuff like
In 1866, he married Leontine LeBeau Cerrè, a member of a prominent French Catholic family in St. Louis.[6] Scofield apprenticed in the law office of his brother-in-law and then worked in the St. Louis assessor's office before moving to Atchison, Kansas, in late 1869. In 1871, Scofield was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives, first from Atchison for one year and then from Nemaha County, for a second. In 1873 he worked for the election of John J. Ingalls as senator from Kansas, and when Ingalls won, the new senator had Scofield appointed U. S. District Attorney for Kansas—at 29, the youngest in the country.[7] Nevertheless, that same year Scofield was forced to resign "under a cloud of scandal" because of questionable financial transactions, which may have included accepting bribes from railroads, stealing political contributions intended for Ingalls, and securing bank promissory notes by forging signatures.[8] It is possible Scofield was jailed on forgery charges, although there is no extant evidence in the public records.[9]
Perhaps in part because of his self-confessed heavy drinking,[10] Scofield abandoned his wife and two daughters during this period.[11] Leontine Cerrè Scofield divorced him on grounds of desertion in 1883, and the same year Scofield married Hettie Hall von Wartz, with whom he eventually had a son.[12]
What Genesis:1 actually says...
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
What Genesis:1 Does Not say...(but if we are going to annotate scripture with THE GAP theory, lets do it up right)
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the earth was without form, and void;When I say "void, bôhûw, bo'-hoo" what I am really saying is that my creation was hijacked by a group of fallen/rebellious/evil demons for millions/billions of years...
so as a remedy I had to destroy everything and then created man in my image and gave him dominion over the world.
Only that didn't work because those darn stubborn fallen/rebellious/evil Giants came back again,
so I had to destroy the world a second time by means of the Great flood during the time of Noah... but come to think of it that didn't work out either because those stubborn Giants are still around throughout the old testament.
Nevertheless this is the reason for your Carbon Dated Billion year old fossils.
I don't think I will use my Prophets of the Old Testament nor my Son or his disciples in the New Testament to give any clear teachings on this matter... but have no fear, somewhere in the 18th century AD, I will provide you with some scholars to help you connect the dots and properly align Scripture and your modern day "Science so called" and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
The above mocking was just in fun to try to illustrate just how goofy and ridicules it is to try and force things like "THE GAP" into scripture that isn't there.
There is a reason...
It is not taught in the Old Testament
It is not taught by Christ
It is not taught by Christ's disciples
I think I have spurred this horse until the knees buckled and have little to no chance of swaying anyone that has fully bought in on the subject at hand, (my illustration was geared more for folks sitting on the fence or completely new to the subject) so I probably wont have much more to say and will wait for a more profitable subject to come along.
Happy Hunting...