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Just what little bit of quick reading I did at ChristianAnswers.net, and AllAboutCreation.org, I don't like it. It "undermines the gospel as it allows for death, bloodshed, disease, and suffering before Adam's sin. Because most "ruin-reconstruction" theorists have accepted the millions of years dating for the fossil record, they have thus allowed the fallible theories of scientists to determine the meaning of Scripture." <-- quoted from ChristianAnswers,net.
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This quote here already has an inaccurate representation of what I wholeheartedly believe the Bible to teach. Those who believe in what some like to label "The Gap Theory" generally believe in the three world ages. In a nutshell, this is the second age and there is yet another to come. The first involved Satan's attempt at the overthrow of God. All of this is documented in
Revelation 12 which covers the largest amount of time of any single chapter in the Bible. It goes from the woman with twelve stars to the dragon in heaven (cast 1/3 of the stars) on to our blessed Messiah Jesus the Christ and on to the war in heaven where Satan is cast out and becomes a woe to those of this earth. This is an obvious timeline.
There was no bloodshed because there was no blood to be shed nor disease to be had because there was no flesh. So the quote has already demonstrated that the author doesn't even understand the gap theory let alone the authority and the knowledge about it to condemn it. I don't like personal attacks because there is one Judge, but I know false doctrines when I see it and how can something be discounted when it is not even properly understood.
Job 38:7
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
(Just documentation for the stars of
Revelation 12.)
They once all sung together but that changed when Satan drew a third of them. Hence the reason we are here because everyone must be born innocent of woman to grow and either love God or not in this corrupt world. We needed a Savior because we were so bad at it.
Finally, just let me say that I have a hobby of collecting arrowheads. I have one point which I have seen dated 10,000 years old with my own hands. I've seen dinosaur fossils firsthand and I actually have one. God's wonderful Word does not go against logic. He gave us the common sense to know something when we see it. God clearly alludes to a dinosaur in
Job 41 so I know it existed and the Bible documents it. All beasts were taken aboard the ark so where did the dinosaur's go? God did not create this world in vain as is documented above.
These are relics of a past age.
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Probably the greatest problem with the Gap Theory is that it makes God responsible for the creation of evil.
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Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
I've heard "wow" or "oh" so many times when I've quoted this verse. This is, of course, referring to evil as in a calamity.
Guess what. God still created Lucifer with either belief you hold! God gave us freewill and obviously some cannot handle it.
God ran this world long before we were here. Man is different from beast and that's documented when man was given dominion over them.