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The Gap (#6): Common Objections To The Gap
By greg | July 18, 2008
Common Objections To The Gap: What do the anti-gappers say? [pdf & mp3]
by Greg Kedrovsky
In this study we take a look at the ten most common objections to the teaching of a Gap between Genesis 1.1 and 1.2:
- Romans 5.12 teaches that sin and death entered our world through Adam, not through Lucifer.
- Exodus 20.11 says that God created the world and all thing in it during six 24-hour days.
- Historically the word “replenish” in Genesis 1.28 means “to fill,” not “to fill again.”
- Thomas Chalmers invented the Gap Theory in 1814 as a way to harmonize the Genesis account of creation with the teachings of evolution (and the evolutionist idea of the earth’s long life).
- According to Ezekiel 28.13-15, Satan was created on a specific “day.” How could that have happened before Genesis 1.2 when the first day mentioned in Scripture is in Genesis 1.3-5?
- According to Isaiah 14.14, Lucifer rebelled when there were clouds and stars. If there weren’t clouds and starts until after the fourth day of creation, how could Lucifer have rebelled in a “Gap” between Genesis 1.1 and 1.2?
- According to Ezekiel 28.13-17, Lucifer existed in his unfallen state in the Garden of Eden which was not created until the sixth day, in Genesis 1.24-31. How could he have fallen between Genesis 1.1 and 1.2 if he was in the Garden of Eden in his unfallen state in Genesis 1.24-31?
- The “Gap Theory” undermines the simplicity and authority of Scripture.
- The existence of a Gap would imply a “three-earth” theory, and yet Revelation 21.1 says that the “first earth” will exist until it is destroyed by fire at the end of the Millennium.
- In Genesis 1.31 God says that “every thing” that He had made was “very good.” If Satan had already fallen, God could not have made this statement.
Most if not all of the quotes and objections in this lesson are taken from the booklet entitled The Gap Theory by Dr. Kent Hovind and Stephen Lawwell, and the Answers in Genesis web site which contains material by Charles Taylor and Ken Ham.
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