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Subject: Gap question and its implications
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purest1 12.10.11 - 11:49pm
A lot has been said and the debate rages on between scientific evolutionist old earth findings and the bible-creationist young earth stance. Its interesting to hear the rebutals against the evolutionist view posed by the christian young earth creationism advocates. While recognising those views I still feel creationism is unnecessarily made vulnerable to ridicule by many of our friends. * +

purest1 12.10.11 - 11:59pm
The image of an earth and universe created barely 6 to 10 millenia ago with all pre-historic life co-existing with modern life is striking. While some may feel they have to take it on faith, when accurate science shows the image to be false, what happens? Is it true that fossils aren't really as old as science says, or did hominids live with modern man at a point? Is earth really very old? * +

purest1 13.10.11 - 12:04am
The questions, if not properly answered, will turn away any rational person who understands the geological and archaelogical reasons for a billions years universe and earth and for an era of pre-historic life-forms long before we appeared. This is where gap theology/theory depending on how you view it comes in. While not guaranteeing that it can explain everything, I believe it explains enough. * +

purest1 13.10.11 - 12:10am
The gap question is based primarily on Genesis 1:1-2 and a few other scattered places. It can explain why its possible for earth to be 4.6 billion years old and have had life for millions of years and how modern life dates to only 6 to 10 millenia ago. The gap question ties in fossils and modern life-forms in a creationist package. Old earth, young life as it exists today. * +

purest1 13.10.11 - 12:15am
''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.'' * +

purest1 13.10.11 - 12:22am
The assumption most of the times has been that verse 2 immediately follows the theme of verse 1, vis-a-vis the formless and desolate state of earth is how God made it. But is that really the case? Or could there be an indefinite break in time between 1 and 2? A natural reading will show that 1 describes a time known as 'the beginning', the same 'beginning' referenced in John 1:1. Verse 2 however * +

purest1 13.10.11 - 12:26am
makes a sharp break from the theme and describes earth long after the 'beginning'. It became desolate and void. Something cataclysmic had caused the once inhabited earth to come to this state. We get only faint suggestions about what caused earth to become like this, forcing God to destroy it and flood it over. * +

9362 13.10.11 - 12:27am
If god created earth,who created god? * +

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