Doctrine of Creation
13 Feb '15 04:241 editSonship and I have been discussing the Gap Theory on another thread that deals with an imaginary gap of millions or even billions of years between verse one of Genesis and verse two. Here is a repeat of my last post on that thread. Perhaps you can learn something from it:
--- I am sure Satan would be happy to add billions or millions of years between the first two verses of Genesis, but it simply is not there. There is nothing to indicate that the earth is anything but vacant (empty - void) and unfinished (without form) and covered with water. Then the spirit of God moved over the water and began forming it into a place that could be inhabited by living creatures.
God did not pass any kind of Judgment on the earth until after the sin of man.
(Genesis 3:17-19 NASB)
But Satan wishes to deceive the very elect into believing otherwise and to believe his lie (the lie).
Arthur C. Custance has been deceived by his education in anthropology to believe in millions of years of pre-historic times; and he ever warns us of his possible goal by saying again in his introduction the follow words:
Of primary importance for Satan is to deceive you in to believing a lie.
You have already seen how the Septuagint version that was translated from the Hebrew to Greek during the time the Greeks were controlling the Jews is translated into English. That Greek translation was done by 70 Jews and is NOT just one person's opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint
I have indicated in my first paragraph how I believe the King James Version accurately compares with the Greek Septuagint version by using different words having the same meaning which are called synonyms. So let us reason this out.
Looking up the word "VOID" in my Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, I see the first meaning of "VOID" is 1. containing nothing; empty; and 2. unoccupied; vacant.-- Syn. See EMPTY.
Then looking up the word "FORM" I see 1. The shape and stucture of anything; figure. 2.a. A body, esp. of a human being. b Archaic. Pleasing external appearance; beauty. Syn. See MAKE.
The KJV says "WITHOUT FORM AND VOID" which compares very well with "UNSIGHTLY AND UNFINISHED" of the SEPTUAGINT when one takes the archaic definiton of "FORM" and the synonym "MAKE" to mean "NOT MADE INTO A PLEASING APPEARANCE" because it is unfinished.
If we look up the Hebrew words used in the Strong's Concordance we see that the first word translated "without form" is 8414 TOHUW and gives several meanings and among those are: empty place, without form, and nothing. And the second word translated "void" is 922 bohuw from an unused root (mean. to be empty) -- emptiness, void.
From the above analysis, I see no need to makeup any gap of time to place between the first two verses of Genesis. It makes perfect sense without that if one understands the definitions of the words.
--- I am sure Satan would be happy to add billions or millions of years between the first two verses of Genesis, but it simply is not there. There is nothing to indicate that the earth is anything but vacant (empty - void) and unfinished (without form) and covered with water. Then the spirit of God moved over the water and began forming it into a place that could be inhabited by living creatures.
God did not pass any kind of Judgment on the earth until after the sin of man.
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life. "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return."
(Genesis 3:17-19 NASB)
But Satan wishes to deceive the very elect into believing otherwise and to believe his lie (the lie).
Arthur C. Custance has been deceived by his education in anthropology to believe in millions of years of pre-historic times; and he ever warns us of his possible goal by saying again in his introduction the follow words:
I must repeat something which I said earlier, namely, that the question of whether Genesis, Chapter one, can be squared with modern geological theory is of secondary importance.
Of primary importance for Satan is to deceive you in to believing a lie.
You have already seen how the Septuagint version that was translated from the Hebrew to Greek during the time the Greeks were controlling the Jews is translated into English. That Greek translation was done by 70 Jews and is NOT just one person's opinion.
The title and its Roman numeral acronym LXX refer to the legendary seventy Jewish scholars who completed the translation as early as the late 2nd century BCE. As the primary Greek translation of the Old Testament, it is also called the Greek Old Testament. This translation is quoted in the New Testament, particularly in the Pauline epistles, and also by the Apostolic Fathers and later Greek Church Fathers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint
I have indicated in my first paragraph how I believe the King James Version accurately compares with the Greek Septuagint version by using different words having the same meaning which are called synonyms. So let us reason this out.
Looking up the word "VOID" in my Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, I see the first meaning of "VOID" is 1. containing nothing; empty; and 2. unoccupied; vacant.-- Syn. See EMPTY.
Then looking up the word "FORM" I see 1. The shape and stucture of anything; figure. 2.a. A body, esp. of a human being. b Archaic. Pleasing external appearance; beauty. Syn. See MAKE.
The KJV says "WITHOUT FORM AND VOID" which compares very well with "UNSIGHTLY AND UNFINISHED" of the SEPTUAGINT when one takes the archaic definiton of "FORM" and the synonym "MAKE" to mean "NOT MADE INTO A PLEASING APPEARANCE" because it is unfinished.
If we look up the Hebrew words used in the Strong's Concordance we see that the first word translated "without form" is 8414 TOHUW and gives several meanings and among those are: empty place, without form, and nothing. And the second word translated "void" is 922 bohuw from an unused root (mean. to be empty) -- emptiness, void.
From the above analysis, I see no need to makeup any gap of time to place between the first two verses of Genesis. It makes perfect sense without that if one understands the definitions of the words.
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