Gap Theory

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The Gap Theory is to accommodate evolution

2 And the earth was without form, and void

"In the beginning" is an introduction

"the earth was without form, and void"

This does not include "the heaven".

Assume the earth was water and mud and rocks

stretching out for thousands of miles.

"without form"

and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

This is still "without form"

3 And God said, Let there be light:

Is the sun created here.

verse 14 "to rule by day"?

"to rule by night" moon?

and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good:

assume this started spinning like a top

and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day,

a spinning ball of water and mud would have day and night

and the darkness he called Night.

And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God said,

Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters,

firmament is heaven (atmosphere and space)

It looks like there was water above the atmosphere

and water below the atmosphere

and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament,

and divided the waters which were under the firmament

from the waters which were above the firmament:

and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven.

And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said,

Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place,

Like a spinning top

the water below the atmosphere gathered together unto one place

and let the dry land appear:

the centrifugal force of the spinning top

caused the land to appear centered around the equator

and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth;

and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas:

and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said,

Let the earth bring forth grass,

the herb yielding seed,

and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,

whose seed is in itself,

upon the earth:

and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass,

and herb yielding seed after his kind,

and the tree yielding fruit,

whose seed was in itself,

after his kind:

"after his kind" did not change from one group to another

and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said,

Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven

to divide the day from the night;

Is this the same light as in verse 3?

and let them be for signs,

and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven

to give light upon the earth:

and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights;

Is this the same light as verse 14?

the greater light to rule the day,

Is this the sun?

and the lesser light to rule the night:

Is this the moon?

he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven

to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the day and over the night,

and to divide the light from the darkness:

and God saw that it was good.

19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

20 And God said,

Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,

and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

21 And God created great whales,

and every living creature that moveth,

which the waters brought forth abundantly,

after their kind,

"after their kind" not evolving

and every winged fowl after his kind:

and God saw that it was good.

22 And God blessed them, saying,

Be fruitful, and multiply,

and fill the waters in the seas,

and let fowl multiply in the earth.

23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

24 And God said,

Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind,

cattle, and creeping thing,

and beast of the earth after his kind:

and it was so.

25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind,

and cattle after their kind,

and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind:

and God saw that it was good.

26 And God said,

Let us make man in our image,

after our likeness:

and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air,

and over the cattle, and over all the earth,

and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God created man in his own image,

in the image of God created he him;

male and female created he them.

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28 And God blessed them,

and God said unto them,

Be fruitful, and multiply,

and replenish the earth,

Some want to use "replenish" as repopulate. Not true.

and subdue it:

and have dominion over the fish of the sea,

and over the fowl of the air,

and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

29 And God said,

Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,

which is upon the face of all the earth,

and every tree,

in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed;

to you it shall be for meat.

"meat" is food, not animal flesh

They can eat flesh only after the great flood.

30 And to every beast of the earth,

All animals were vegetarian.

and to every fowl of the air,

and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

wherein there is life,

I have given every green herb for meat:

"green herb" for food

and it was so.

31 And God saw every thing that he had made,

and, behold, it was very good.

And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished,

and all the host of them.

2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made;

and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

3 And God blessed the seventh day,

and sanctified it:

because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

2344 BC Great Flood 1656 to 1657 years after Adam.

There were not any mountains.

Check how high the water rose and covered the mountains.

And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days

and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail;

and the mountains were covered.

the ark rested in the seventh month,

on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

7/17/2344 BC

in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

40 days sent forth a raven

7 days, again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;

7 days, sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

six hundredth and first year,

in the first month, the first day of the month,

the waters were dried up from off the earth:

1/1/2343 BC waters were dried up from off the earth:

2/27/2343 BC Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

as they journeyed from the east,

that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

c 2124 BC

A great earthquake as never seen before or since,

caused the earth to divide and created the mountains.

Probably the city of Atlantis is under water

The earth shifted and climate change.

broke the earth into parts

and the pieces moved many miles apart.

Peleg lived 239 years. From 1757 years after Adam to 1996.

"the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided;"

This division was also the confusing of languages and the consequent scattering of peoples from Babel.

Many people were trapped on these islands of land.

This event to be the division of the North and South American continents

from the European and African continents by the Atlantic ocean.

God confused their language,

so that they would not be able to understand one another.

The dispersion of people across the earth was generally along extended family lines.

This creation of different languages was thus a sudden, miraculous event.

Hungarian is not an Indo-European language.

Basque, the language of a group of people in present-day Spain,

is from another language family altogether.

Each language is totally unrelated to any outside of its group.

Some of the most ‘primitive’ tribes speak languages with extremely complex grammar.

The Sino-Asiatic language family, which includes Chinese, Japanese and Korean,

gives no evidence that it descended from a ‘common ancestor’ language

with any of the Indo-European ones—or any other language from another family.

Estimates of the number of different ‘language families’ vary, and are difficult.

But they are generally in the vicinity of some 8 to 20 (commonly 12 or 13).

A small number of languages,

separately created at Babel, has diversified into the huge variety of languages we have today.

Mountains were formed and as the crushed, thickened, buckled, and sediment-laden continents sank into the mantle

sea level had to rise in compensation.

Sea level is about 1000 meters higher today than it was before the flood.

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