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Why do some Christians believe in the Gap Theory?
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Why do some Christians believe in the Gap Theory?
BrotherTony > 11-02-2021, 07:48 PM
My father was a Christian who believed in the Gap Theory. I am not one who does. We often had some interesting discussions on the subject, but I could never bring myself to follow that ideology. One of the biggest arguments that was used by many I've come across who hold to this ideology was that there had to be a longer time between the creation of the universe/angels, and the earth to account for the fall of Satan and his minions. The second one used was that man had to have lasted in the Garden of Eden for some time before falling into sin by eating of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Anyone here have any input on these things? -
RE: Why do some Christians believe in the Gap Theory?
admin > 11-03-2021, 06:54 PM
I happen to hold my own version of the gap theory. It is much simpler.
Gen 1:1 doesn't detail the beginning of all things. Just the beginning of God's work in humanity.
There is no way to determine the amount of time that passed unto the beginning that Genesis 1:1 references. -
RE: Why do some Christians believe in the Gap Theory?
BrotherTony > 11-04-2021, 09:42 AM
I can understand that position. I find it hard to believe that the angels fell within just a few days from the first day of creation. And I also find it hard to accept that man fell on the seventh or eighth day of existence like some of the pastors I've sat under preach! To me, that's totally unfeasible. -
RE: Why do some Christians believe in the Gap Theory?
aleshanee > 11-05-2021, 07:00 AM
i think it;s because many christians have bought into the idea that we have to have an answer for everything...... there can be no mysteries...... if science asks us a question we can;t answer then we must somehow reconcile that science to the bible.... or else reconcile the bible to science.... and our answers have to be consistent... ...never mind we are trying to appease a bunch of scientists that can;t keep a consistent answer for more than a few months at a time before changing it...
i believe in a young earth.... .. but i also leave it open that many things could have happened.. and a lot of time could have gone by, that we don;t have a record of..... coz, fact is.. the bible does not tell us everything about everything.... it couldn;t.... ..unless it was made up of books without end that took up all the space on earth and then some.... one thing it does tell us is that the earth was a very different place prior to the flood of noah.. ..vastly different... even in the way it functioned... than how it is now.. and it was also different even from that, prior to the fall... ... both the fall and the flood changed things on earth in ways science only pretends it can understand.......
i believe most christians don;t take that into consideration when they think about earths history and the history of mankind on it.... even though they read through the passages that tell about those changes all the time.... they see the natural earth the way it is today and imagine it wasn;t that much different in the beginning... .. ...... meanwhile scientists try to explain what they think they are seeing in the fossil while ignoring the bible altogether... .... ....i see it as a part of faith, being willing to accept that some things are a mystery, ...and will remain a mystery... at least for now...... -
RE: Why do some Christians believe in the Gap Theory?
BrotherTony > 11-05-2021, 01:36 PM
(11-05-2021, 07:00 AM)aleshanee Wrote: i think it;s because many christians have bought into the idea that we have to have an answer for everything...... there can be no mysteries...... if science asks us a question we can;t answer then we must somehow reconcile that science to the bible.... or else reconcile the bible to science.... and our answers have to be consistent... ...never mind we are trying to appease a bunch of scientists that can;t keep a consistent answer for more than a few months at a time before changing it...
i believe in a young earth.... .. but i also leave it open that many things could have happened.. and a lot of time could have gone by, that we don;t have a record of..... coz, fact is.. the bible does not tell us everything about everything.... it couldn;t.... ..unless it was made up of books without end that took up all the space on earth and then some.... one thing it does tell us is that the earth was a very different place prior to the flood of noah.. ..vastly different... even in the way it functioned... than how it is now.. and it was also different even from that, prior to the fall... ... both the fall and the flood changed things on earth in ways science only pretends it can understand.......
i believe most christians don;t take that into consideration when they think about earths history and the history of mankind on it.... even though they read through the passages that tell about those changes all the time.... they see the natural earth the way it is today and imagine it wasn;t that much different in the beginning... .. ...... meanwhile scientists try to explain what they think they are seeing in the fossil while ignoring the bible altogether... .... ....i see it as a part of faith, being willing to accept that some things are a mystery, ...and will remain a mystery... at least for now......
I totally agree! There are many things that we can't reconcile with the Bible...but that doesn't make the Bible any less true, nor God any less God. Science always seems to have a way of trying to complicate things and make them into things they are not. I'll take God's Word over science any day.
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RE: Why do some Christians believe in the Gap Theory?
aleshanee > 11-07-2021, 12:26 PM
without faith in God.... man tries to make himself God... it was the original sin of satan to imagine he could be like God and even take His place in heaven..... ...so it comes natural that when they reject the existence of God and start looking at the world around them they imagine how it would have come about had they done it and been in charge of it;s creation themselves..... .....incapable of believing in God with the power to do it all in 7 days they imagine it must have taken billions of years....
scientists will all say that good science is based on what you have witnessed first hand... yet when it comes to this issue they ramble endlessly and attempt to wax eloquent about events no human ever in existence witnessed.... one of their biggest arguments is that the earth shows signs of age.... extreme age as they put it.... . as if they couldn;t fathom the idea that extreme events in the life of the earth... (the fall.. flood of noah... etc)... could not have aged the body of the earth in a way not much different than how extreme events prematurely age the body of man..... or that God could have created the earth with some characteristics of age already in place just as He created adam as a full sized man, already grown....
i think sometimes christians forget.. or maybe fail to understand... just what it is we have said we believe when we proclaimed faith in Christ.. and the word of God.... and that is where we begin to fall into traps like extreme gap theory and macro evolution... .... not saying that every christian who believes in a version of gap theory has fallen into a trap... ...but some have.... i had to refrain from getting too hard nosed on this subject when arguing with friends and classmates years ago in college...... but i still love discussing creation and the young model vrs the billions of eons philosophy.... .