Featured Information passed on concerning Genesis 1:1

Yes, I was in a KJVO church in the Boston area an the 60's. Ockenga teaching was the brunt of many a sermon at our local church. We would do outdoor preaching in the Boston Common within shouting distance of Park Street Church. Nothing they could do cuz we were in the Common. Though we didn't preach when they were having services.



HankD

 

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. This says who (God) what (heavens and earth) and when (pre-creation only God existed in Three Persons. The initial condition, with only God existing is described in verse 2, the earth (or possibly land) did not exist, and light did not exist and God exists in an unknown realm. Water, waters, the deep, the surface and so forth all being used metaphorically to refer to the unknown realm in which God existed alone.

Some say that this view of Genesis 1:2 (shapeless and empty equaling none existence) does not account for the water, but that objection holds no water if water is simply a metaphor for the unknown, which it is. This view allows the earth to be formed out of the unknown on the third day.

Basically the Gap Theory is based on reading between the lines of scripture (verse 1 and verse 2 of Genesis Chapter 1) in order to explain what the Bible does not explain. My problem is simple, we should base our theology on what the Bible says, and not on what it does not say.