D-31. Arguments AGAINST the GAP THEORY! DOWNLOAD to SAVE as a PDF Doc to read OFFLINE. D-31. Arguments AGAINST the GAP THEORY! For those who may have never heard of the “Gap Theory”, it is a teaching that Genesis 1:3-31 is God RESTORING the earth that BECAME void and empty by the JUDGMENT of God FLOODING the earth to destroy its wicked inhabitants of a previous AGE of the earth. Now, there are different “versions” as to HOW this previous age is taught, which has caused some confusion as to WHY some Christians believe that the Bible ITSELF teaches us of a PRE-ADAMIC AGE. In other words, the arguments AGAINST an AGE of the earth before God created Adam are NOT VALID arguments. And the purpose of this study is to show my readers WHY all of the arguments AGAINST an OLD earth are not valid arguments. Let me begin by saying that a dear brother in our Lord Jesus Christ sent me no less than four links to websites that argue against the earth BECOMING without form and void in Genesis 1:2. So I will take some quotes from each of those websites, which by the way are Trinitarian websites. And then I will explain WHY all their arguments do NOT prove a YOUNG earth that was supposedly created in six 24 hour days. Please understand that I do indeed believe that God created Adam around 6,000 years ago. And thus, the HUMAN race as we know it is only around 6,000 years old. But the earth ITSELF is much older than just 6,000 years old. I will number the arguments to make it easier to go back over them as separate arguments. Then under each numbered argument, I will give my REBUTTAL explaining WHY the argument is NOT valid. Argument #1 AGAINST an OLD earth. That the word "replenish" in Genesis 1:28 in the King James Version does not mean, "refill?" (Researched by Dr. Charles Taylor, linguist with the Creation Science Foundation of Australia). Some have used the word "replenish" to support the Gap Theory, which makes it necessary for God to refill the earth after "pre-Adamites" perished due to Satan's fall. Does "replenish" really mean "refill?" 1. The Hebrew word translated "replenish" simply means "fill"—not "refill"! The Hebrew word occurs 306 times in the Old Testament and in not one instance does it mean, "refill." 2. The Latin prefix "re" originally meant "again," but then it lost this meaning. At the time the King James Bible was translated in 1611,"replenish" was just a scholarly word for "fill." They almost certainly came to use it because an old word, "plenish," was dying out. 3. An examination of the Oxford English dictionary shows the English word "replenish" was used to mean "fill" from the 13th to the 17th centuries. In no case, during these five centuries does it mean "refill." 4. In the 17th century, English scholars began trying to restore original meanings to words and prefixes, so "re" in English once more came to mean "again." Today, most words with "re" do mean again, such as "rewrite," etc. There are other instances, however, as in "replete," where there is no such meaning. In the King James Version, Genesis 1:28 means "fill the earth," not "refill the earth"! My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #1 is NOT valid! Now, when Trinitarian Christians sincerely believe that the King James Bible translators have translated a word “incorrectly” because it does not agree with their doctrine of the Trinity, then they argue that the KJV should have NEVER been translated that way! But when Biblical Unitarian Christians are simply correcting a “BAD” translation so that the Bible ITSELF does NOT contradict ITSELF, then we are wrongly accused of CHANGING God’s word to fit our own personal interpretation. Let me show you what I mean by this. Above, I have quoted an argument from a Trinitarian article taken from a Trinitarian website to show you how they feel that it is alright for THEM to CHANGE a word in the KJV because THEY feel that a certain verse is a “BAD” translation that MISLEADS Christians. Now the article itself is giving THEIR arguments AGAINST a teaching by other Christians who sincerely believe that they are teaching the TRUTH. And that teaching is called the “Gap Theory” by Christians who are AGAINST an OLD earth. And thus, the Christians against an OLD earth must argue that God MADE the earth without form and void. In other words, they must argue AGAINST the earth BECOMING without form and void by God’s JUDGMENT of a FLOOD that covered the mountains the SAME as the FLOOD in the days of Noah. Therefore, THEY call what other Christians teach about an OLD earth as being a “GAP THEORY” But, we who believe in an OLD earth, call this teaching concerning Genesis 1:1,2 the “Luciferian Flood”. For you see, we sincerely believe that the very reason that God created mankind was to JUDGE Satan and the fallen angels guilty as charged. And thus, God CUTDOWN the heavens and the earth in Genesis 1:1. And in Genesis 1:2, the earth BECAME without form and void. Remember that I said that there are different VERSIONS of this teaching of a pre-Adamic AGE. Some Christians who believe in an OLD earth “interpret” Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 SEPARATELY. And thus, they have a “GAP” of an unknown time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. But God has shown me to interpret both verses together as one thought. God reminded me of a Bible study that I did many years ago on Isaiah 45:7. Let us go ahead and read that verse of Scripture first, and then I will explain its true meaning. Isaiah 45:7. “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” Somehow I knew in my heart that God does NOT CREATE EVIL. And when I asked God about this verse of Scripture, He said, “Look up the meaning”. I thought that God meant to look up the meaning of the English word “create”. And I said to myself, why, what is the point, the word create means create, what else could it mean? And God said to me again, look it up. So I looked up the Hebrew word “bara” translated as “create” and found that it ALSO means CUTDOWN. So Isaiah 45:7 SHOULD read as follows. A more CORRECT translation of Isaiah 45:7. “I form the light, and CUTDOWN darkness: I make peace, and CUTDOWN evil: I the LORD do all these things.” Now, this translation AGREES with the verses of Scripture that clearly teach us that God is GOOD and in Him is NO darkness at all. This translation ALSO agrees with the CONTEXT of Isaiah 45:18, which I will discuss in my rebuttal under argument number two. But some Christians who wrongly believe that God ORDAINED all evil in the world accuse me of CHANGING God’s word to fit my own beliefs. But in truth, all I am doing is HARMONIZING the Scriptures to AGREE with the Scriptures. With that being said, let us get back to the Hebrew word “translated” as REPLENISH in the KJV. As you have already read above, the Christians who argue against an OLD earth use Genesis 1:28 claiming that it is a “BAD” translation in the KJV and it should be translated as FILL the earth. Is that argument VALID? In other words, is it valid to say that to FILL something can NEVER mean to REPLENISH something? What I mean by my question is that when a glass of water BECOMES empty and you FILL that glass of water, what are you doing? You are indeed FILLING the glass but you are ALSO REPLENISHING the water that used to be in the glass. Now, what if the water in the glass was BAD water and you deliberately EMPTIED the glass of water to get rid of that BAD water so that you can have a FRESH NEW glass of water? And then, you FILLED the same glass with water? What would you be doing? You would be REFILLING the glass with NEW water. So then, the Hebrew word “mala” which does indeed mean to FILL, carries the MEANING of to fill AGAIN. We all know and understand that during the FLOOD of Noah that every animal and human being were destroyed except for 8 people and the animals on the Ark. And in Genesis 9:1, God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and REPLENISH the earth. This is the SAME Hebrew word “mala”, which again does indeed mean to FILL, but we KNOW that it also carries the meaning of filling the earth AGAIN with people. So then, it is NOT impossible for the Hebrew word “mala” to mean REPLENISH as God’s INTENDED meaning in Genesis 1:28? YES! Absolutely it is not only possible, but that is what actually happened as you will see as you continue reading this study in God’s word. And thus, argument #1 against an OLD earth is NOT a valid argument. So let us move on to argument number two. Argument #2 AGAINST an OLD earth. Mention should be made here that some modern advocates propose a Gap ONLY for the purpose of attempting to account for Satan's fall. Many others hold it to ALLOW for evolution and an old earth, thereby ACCEPTING both evolution of the previous world and creation of the present world. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #2 is NOT valid! Now, I cannot say what the REASONS are for WHY other Christians believe in an OLD earth. I can only say WHY I myself believe that the Bible ITSELF teaches of an OLD earth that God CHANGES as a garment is changed, according to Psalm 102:26. Let us go ahead and read that passage of Scripture. Psalm 102:25,26. “Of OLD have You laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of Your hands. 26. They shall perish, but You shall endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shall You change them, and they shall be changed:” Now, this is actually a prophecy of the heavens and the earth yet future CHANGE when God creates the NEW heaven and the NEW earth at the end of the Millennial reign of Jesus. But the fact that God can destroy the earth in His judgment of FIRE and then RESTORE the earth or CHANGE the earth to make it new again as garment is changed, clearly teaches us that God can RESTORE the earth after His judgments of the TWO separate FLOODS. Yes, I said TWO separate FLOODS, the Luciferian FLOOD in Genesis 1:2 and Noah FLOOD in Genesis 7:6. For you see, it makes no sense for God to tell us that He laid the foundation of the earth, and then give us a PROPHECY that the work He just did shall PERISH. That would CONSEQUENTLY mean that God CREATED EVIL and He purposely created the earth so that He could DESTROY it with FIRE. Now, as I said before, I ONLY show my readers “BAD” translations that CONTRADICT the Bible ITSELF. In other words, I point out that the English phrase in Genesis 1:2, “And the earth WAS without form and VOID” is a “BAD” translation. In other words, when you read Genesis 1:1 and verse 2 together as one thought as it is TRANSLATED in most Bibles, then one has to interpret those two verses as God purposely created the earth without form and void. But that “TRANSLATION” CONTRADICTS other verses of Scripture in the Bible that clearly teach us that God did NOT create the earth without form and void. And thus, Genesis 1:2 SHOULD read as “And the earth BECAME without form and void” because that TRANSLATION in the KJV CONTRADICTS Isaiah 45:18,19. Let us go ahead and read that passage of Scripture as well. Isaiah 45:18,19. “For thus says the LORD that created the heavens; God Himself that formed the earth and made it; He has ESTABLISHED it, He CREATED it NOT in VAIN, He formed it to be INHABITED: I am the LORD; and there is none else. 19. I have NOT spoken in SECRET, in a dark place of the earth: (Or I have not spoken in secret of the WASTED CONDITION of the earth) I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you Me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.” Now, clearly seeing in Isaiah 45:18 that God did NOT CREATE the earth in VAIN, which means VOID, then the “translation” in the KJV of Genesis 1:2 CONTRADICTS what we KNOW that God is saying in Isaiah 45:18. So all that I am doing is showing my readers that by using OTHER meanings of the Hebrew words in Genesis chapter 1 to have the AGREE with the rest of God’s word is NOT changing the Scriptures to fit my own personal belief. It is like God somehow KNEW that there would be a CONTROVERSY among Christians over Genesis 1:1,2. For you see, in the CONTEXT of verse 18, God tells us WHY He did NOT create the earth in vain. In verse 19, we see a clue that God did NOT speak in SECRET at the time of the DARK place on the earth. And in Genesis, 1:26 we read, “Let us make MAN in our image after OUR likeness and let THEM have dominion…and over all the earth” God is speaking to His angels, the Elohim. Then God made MAN and the Son of MAN a little LOWER or inferior to the angels, according to Psalm 8:5, Hebrews 2:6-9. Let us go ahead and read Psalm 8:1-6. Psalm 8:1-6. “O LORD our Lord, how excellent is Your NAME in all the earth! Who has set Your GLORY above the heavens. (Or Yahweh, Your Lord, how excellent is Your NAME in all the earth! Your Lord has set Your GLORY above the heavens seated in heavenly places above the angels. MAN and the Son of MAN is God’s INTENDED GLORY, but all men have FALLEN SHORT of God’s GLORY that He INTENDED for ALL humans. And that is why God DESIRES all men to be saved. God takes NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked. They are a casualty of the WAR that Lucifer wages against God) 2. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings (Or according to the CONFESSIONS of faith in Jesus out the the mouths of babes in Christ who drink the milk of your word) have You ORDAINED strength because of Your ENEMIES, that (Or in order THAT) You might still the ENEMY and the AVENGER. (The Hebrew word translated as “avenger” literally means the punishment of DEATH, which will ALSO be destroyed in the like of fire along with Satan, the fallen angels, and all who rejects God PLAN of Salvation to be saved by Him, HIS WAY) 3. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ORDAINED; 4. What is a man that You are mindful of him? And the Son of MAN, that You VISIT him? 5. For You have MADE him a little LOWER than the angels, and have CROWNED him with GLORY and HONOR. (So that EVERY knee will bow down at the NAME You have GIVEN the Son of MAN, Jesus. You CROWNED him with glory and honor so that every tongue with confess he is your Lord to Your GLORY, according to Philippians 2:8-11) 6. You MADE him to have dominion over the works of YOUR hands; (After the cross and resurrection, according to Acts 2:36 and many other verses of Scripture) You have put all things under his feet:” And God did all of this to STILL His ENEMIES, Satan and the fallen angels. Now, let us go back and read the CONTEXT of Isaiah 45:18 where God did NOT create the earth in VAIN and read Isaiah 45:7 again. Remember that I already explained that the TRANSLATION in the KJV of verse 7 CONTRADICTS the CONTEXT in Isaiah 45:18. A more CORRECT translation of Isaiah 45:7. “I form the light, and CUTDOWN darkness: I make peace, and CUTDOWN evil: I the LORD do all these things.” So then, as you can see, I do NOT have an agenda to try and prove the man-made theory of evolution. I do NOT have an agenda to try to prove that the angels existed BEFORE God created Adam. And I do NOT have an agenda to prove that the earth is an OLD earth that was created LONG before God created Adam because I NEED an OLD earth to fit my own belief. But rather, I am fitting my old belief to what the Bible ITSELF actually teaches us when God’s word is CORRECTLY translated to AGREE with ITSELF! Now, does an OLD earth ALLOW the fossil evidence on the earth to be much older than just 6,000 years old? Yes, but that is NOT my agenda. Does the evidence of the fossils being OLDER than 6,000 years old PROVE the theory of evolution? NO! Absolutely NOT! So then, all that an OLD earth proves is that the fossil COULD be much older than 6,000 years old, but that is NOT the reason that I believe that the Bible ITSELF teaches us of an OLD earth. Therefore, argument #2 against an OLD earth is NOT VALID! In other words, to argue that the ONLY reason that Christians believe in an OLD earth is to COMPROMISE the Bible to AGREE with science is NOT a valid argument. That argument does NOT prove a YOUNG earth. And it wrongly accuses Christians of ACCEPTING the theory of evolution and that the fossil record GRADUALLY built up in layers over millions of years. No Christian that I am aware of ACCEPTS the theory of evolution as the WAY that God created Adam. And that brings us to argument number three against an OLD earth. Argument #3 AGAINST an OLD earth. The "Lucifer's Flood" concept destroys the reason the Gap Theory was first proposed. Gap theorists accept the earth as very old (billions of years), because evolutionists claim that the fossils containing rocks were supposedly laid down over millions of years. To account for the fossil record that is thus said to pre-date man, some Gap theorists propose that the fossil-containing sediments were formed by "Lucifer's Flood" (as described above) which supposedly occurred between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 millions of years ago due to the fall of Satan. By doing this, they are saying that the fossil record was formed by a catastrophe. But this means they have just destroyed the very reason they wanted a gap in the first place—the idea that the sediments were formed slowly over millions of years; thus the earth is very old. This is a major inconsistency. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #3 is NOT valid! NO! The very reason for an OLD earth has NOTHING to do with WANTED the theory of evolution to be correct. Every Christian that I am aware of that teaches and OLD earth also teaches AGAINST the man-made theory of evolution. Do you see how this argument is based upon the FALSE assumption that OLD earth Christians WANT the slow progression of evolution to be correct. The TRUTH of the matter is that we believe the earth is OLD because an OLD earth AGREES with what the Bible ITSELF teaches us. In other words, it makes no sense to try to cram the creation of the angels into what some Christians call the creation “week” in Genesis chapter 1. For you see, there is NO mention of God creating the angels in Genesis 1:3-31 when God supposedly created the earth in the eternity past, which to THEM who believe in a young earth is only 6,000 years ago. But in Job 38:1-13, the Bible itself teaches us that the angels rejoiced and shouted for joy when God TRIUMPHED over Lucifer and the fallen angel with a FLOOD over the earth. And thus, the angels already existed when God RESTORED the earth in Genesis 1:3-31. Can you not see that God created man and the Son of MAN a little LOWER than the ANGELS? And that means that the angels ALREADY existed long before God created Adam. So yes, MAN was created around 6,000 years ago, but that does NOT dogmatically mean that the EARTH was created around 6,000 years ago. Please read Job 38:1-13. “Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, (Or Yahweh answered Job concerning the HURRICANE) and said, (Look up the meaning of the Hebrew words for yourself and you will see that I am only using the OTHER meanings so that Scripture agrees WITH SCRIPTURE) 2. Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? (Or Job, who is this Elihu, which means the god of Him, who covers my PLAN of Salvation by saying no man can know and understand the Almighty. Job) 3. Gird up now your loins like a man; (You think like a WARRIOR concerning my PLAN) for I will demand of you, and answer you me. (The name “Job” means hated and he will return) 4. Where were you WHEN I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. (There was NO man yet created when God laid the foundations of the earth) 5. Who has laid the measures thereof, if you know? (Or who has APPOINTED the EXTENSION thereof? Or who EXTENDED the earth to have an appointed time before the earth shall PERISH in the FIRE of My judgment to CUTDOWN and destroy all evil for all eternity future) Or who has stretched the line upon it? (Or who has OVERTHROWN the RULE OVER it) 6. Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? (Or WHAT? Are the controllers thereof to SINK?) Or who laid the cornerstone thereof; (Or who LAID or TAUGHT the cornerstone thereof. This is a hidden PROPHECY of the Son of MAN, Jesus, becoming the HEAD cornerstone to rule over the earth in the world to come. But WHEN did Yahweh lay His cornerstone?) 7. WHEN the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? (Or WHEN did all of the above take place? When did Yahweh lay the FOUNDATIONS of the earth? It was WHEN morning stars TRIUMPHED together and the sons of God shouted for JOY. Now WHY did the angels shout for JOY? The same reason that WE will give thanks to Almighty God in Revelation 11:15-18 WHEN God and His Warrior King OVERTHROW the WICKED and Yahweh set His Son Jesus to be the King over the earth for 1000 years) 8. Or who SHUT UP the SEA with doors, when it BROKE FORTH, (Or GUSHED forth) as if it had issued out of the womb? (And FLOODED the earth WHEN God laid the CORNERSTONE, His PLAN of Salvation) 9. WHEN I made the cloud the garment thereof, (And darkness was upon the face of the DEEP, the FLOOD over the earth covering the mountains and the earth BECAME without form and VOID) and thick darkness a swaddling band for it, (Or when I wrapped the earth is several layers of THICK clouds of darkness all the way around it) 10. And break up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, (Or bring to BIRTH by reason of my DECREES, set bars and doors. Or these are my FOUNDATIONAL RULES for the earth and the sea that I am BIRTHING or TRAVAILING into place. In other words, God foresaw that mankind would CORRUPT themselves by obeying the voice of His enemy, Satan. So God allowed room for another JUDGMENT by a worldwide FLOOD over the mountains in the days of Noah) 11. And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further: and here shall your proud waves be stayed? 12. Have you commanded the morning since your days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; (Satan is the morning star, according to Revelation 2:28 and Isaiah 14:12. For you see, the name Lucifer means morning star. And the dayspring is the LIGHT that God created in Genesis 1:3, according to Luke 1:78) 13. That it (The LIGHT) might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?”
So then, who were the WICKED that were shaken OUT OF the earth WHEN God FLOODED the earth BEFORE God created Adam. Where was MAN when all of this took place. The answer is that God had not yet created the human race, not even the first man, Adam. And thus, the wicked shaken out of the earth were the PREVIOUS inhabitants of the earth who had skeletons SIMILAR to human skeletons. And that is WHY the fossil record SEEMS as IF man MIGHT have evolved over millions of years. But WHERE is the MISSING LINK? There is NO so-called missing link, because God REPLENISHED the earth with a NEW species of beings called the HUMANS, translated as MAN in the KJV. So NO! Argument #3 is NOT a VALID argument against an OLD earth. For you see, the entire Universe COULD have been created in a blink of an eye, but that creation was NOT just 6,000 years ago. We just read in Job 38:1-13 that God FLOODED the earth so that the WICKED might be shaken out of it. And that happened WHEN God LAID the CORNERSTONE, His PLAN of Salvation, the Lamb SLAIN from the FOUNDATION of the earth, God’s SECRET weapon to destroy His ENEMIES, Satan and the fallen angel. And the sons of God, the good angels UNITED and TRIUMPHED. And the stars, again, the good angels, shouted for JOY! WHAT? Are the controllers over the earth made to SINK? Now think about what happened to the wicked in the FLOOD of Noah? They drowned and SANK to the bottom of the DEEP. And that is what happened to the WICKED inhabitants on the earth in the previous AGE when Lucifer was once a GOOD angel that God SET as a watcher over the earth BEFORE Lucifer was filled with PRIDE and waged war against God. Please read all of the studies under the heading >>>Q-0. WHY are we HERE?-Is God at WAR?<<< But for now, let us move on to argument number four against an OLD earth.
Argument #4 AGAINST an OLD earth. The Flood of Noah's day MUST have been only a local or tranquil event. If the fossil record is explained on the basis of either "Lucifer's Flood" or the evolutionary ages, then the flood of Noah's day must have left virtually no trace. Thus, Noah's flood must have been just a local event or a tranquil flood that did no geologic work. This is the reason most ardent Gap theorists insist Noah's flood was just a local event. However, Genesis depicts Noah's flood as a catastrophic event that covered the whole world. It was not a local flood, and it certainly was not a tranquil event. (Read Genesis 6-9.) If the Gap theorist wants to explain the fossil record with a catastrophe, why not do it with one the Bible does talk about (Noah's flood) rather than one it doesn't talk about ("Lucifer's Flood")? My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #4 is NOT valid! As you can see the first FOUR arguments are actually the SAME argument based on the FALSE assumption that MOST Christians who believe in an OLD earth WANT the fossil records to prove evolution. But yet, every Christian that I am aware of who teaches an OLD earth, teaches AGAINST the fossil records as being any kind of proof for the evolution theory. In other words, MOST Christians who believe in an OLD earth teach that the fossil record was the result of a worldwide catastrophic FLOOD that happened when God CUTDOWN the WICKED ruling over the earth. Now, not all OLD earth Christians translated Genesis 1:1 in the same WAY that God has shown to me, but the end result is the same by having a “GAP” of an unknown period of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. And that gap of time allows the earth to have BECOME without form and void so that in HARMONIZES with Isaiah 45:18. And for that reason, I am not going to spend any more time refuting the arguments based on the fossil records as being WHY Christians believe in an OLD earth. The TRUTH of the matter is that we believe in an OLD earth because the Bible itself has a LOT to say about the OLD earth as you will see as you continue reading this study in God’s word. And thus, argument #4 is NOT a valid argument. For you see, the Bible DOES have a LOT to say about TWO FLOODS. Please read the study called D-28. The PRE-ADAMIC LUCIFERIAN FLOOD! But for now, let us move on to argument number five. Argument #5 AGAINST an OLD earth. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #5 is NOT valid! In my rebuttal explaining WHY argument #5 is NOT a valid argument, I will use THEIR own argument to refute their so-called NEW mountain of “SCIENTIFIC” evidence for a YOUNG earth much younger than the 4.5 BILLION year old earth claimed by other scientists. Now, how MUCH younger than 4.5 BILLION years they never show, say, or even try to explain from the evidence of science. And that tells me that they could know something from that NEW science they cannot disclose. Otherwise, it would disprove their whole argument for a young earth using SCIENCE as their proof. But what they DO openly say still DISPROVES their so-called mountain of new scientific evidence for a young earth that is younger than 4.5 BILLION years old. But again, they never say how much younger. In other words, IF they had rock solid scientific evidence that the earth could NOT possibly be older than 6,000 years, then you can be absolutely sure they would post that new evidence on the front page and on every page of their arguments against an OLD earth. But they do not. Here is a quote from a different Trinitarian website openly admitting that no one can prove by SCIENCE how old or how young the earth is. The problem is, as we consider the topic of origins, all so-called “evidence” must be interpreted. Facts don’t speak for themselves. Interpreting the facts of the present becomes especially difficult when reconstructing the historical events that produced those present-day facts, because no humans have always been present to observe all the evidence and to record how all the evidence was produced. Forensic scientists must make multiple assumptions about things they cannot observe. How was the original setting different? Were different processes in play? Was the scene later contaminated? Just one wrong assumption or one tiny piece of missing evidence could totally change how they reconstruct the past events that led to the present-day evidence. Again, I can care less HOW MUCH older that the earth is OLDER than 6,000 years old. All I know for SURE is that the GENEALOGIES of man ONLY date the AGE of the human race and NOT the AGE of the earth itself. In other words, it makes NO sense to argue that God created the entire Universe EXCEPT of JUST the earth. And then, God supposedly created the earth without form and VOID, which CONTRADICTS Isaiah 45:7. Now WHY do say that God created the entire Universe EXCEPT for the earth? How else could the angels have existed and for Lucifer to have a THRONE if NOTHING was created BEFORE God created the earth? How could Lucifer have said that he would ascend above the CLOUDS in Isaiah 14:14, IF there were no CLOUDS until Genesis 1:6-9? Can you not see that IF God created the angels at the SAME time that God created Adam during a literal six 24 hour day span of time, then that would mean that God created ONE THIRD of the angels to be EVIL. So then the very thing that God is AGAINST as His ENEMY, he had to have created that way IF the earth is only 6,000 years old. But if the earth is OLDER than mankind, then that allows for God to have created the angel PERFECT in the DAY that he created them. And thus, God is JUST to JUDGE Satan and the fallen angels by the MAN who he ORDAINED and raised from the dead, according to Acts 17:29-31. Here is another quote from that same Trinitarian website using NEW scientific evidence that the DINOSAURS were made extinct by a FLOOD! But WHICH flood? Were the dinosaurs drowned during the flood of Noah or during the Luciferian FLOOD before God created Adam? Several Teratophoneus curriei dinosaurs, which belong to the same family as the bigger Tyrannosaurus rex, have been found in Utah, USA, buried and fossilized together. According to science writer Tom Whipple, “These dinosaurs were, the scientists concluded, killed together in a single event, probably a flood.”1 We agree. There you have it, the shortest article on our website! Of course, there is more to the story. The flood hypothesis is but one of the ideas put forward by the scientists, although it is the preferred one.” Now, according to the Bible ITSELF in Genesis 6:19, God brought EVERY living thing of ALL flesh, TWO of every sort into the Ark to be saved. So WHERE are the DINOSAURS if they lived on the earth with Adam to the days of the flood of Noah? The TRUTH is that the dinosaurs lived during a PREVIOUS age of the earth and they were destroyed during the Luciferian FLOOD before God created Adam. Let us move on to argument number 6 against an OLD earth. Argument #6 AGAINST an OLD earth. The Gap theorists believe that there was animal death before Adam, but the Bible teaches adamantly there was no death before Adam. To accept death before Adam is to destroy the foundational message of the cross. On the basis of a number of passages of Scripture (e.g., Romans 5:12, I Corinthians 15:21), it is understood that there could not have been sin or death before Adam. I Corinthians 15 makes it plain that this is physical death, not just spiritual death. This is consistent with the fact that Genesis 1:29 and 30 teach us that the animals and man were originally created vegetarian. In Hebrews 9:22, we are told that "without the shedding of blood there is no remission" of sin. In other words, God introduced death and bloodshed because of sin as the means by which man could be redeemed. If death and bloodshed of animals (or man) existed before Adam sinned, then the whole basis of atonement—the basis of redemption—is destroyed. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #6 is NOT valid! The TRUTH of the matter is that sin entered into the WORLD and DEATH because of sin. Now we all know that this PRESENT world is NOT the SAME world as the WORLD to come when Jesus returns. So we KNOW that the word “world” means one specific AGE. And thus, the word “worlds” in the PLURAL means different AGES. Hebrews 11:1-3 teaches us that the WORLDS were framed by the word of God. Therefore, to try and argue that it is impossible for there to have been ANOTHER AGE before God created Adam is absolutely absurd. Isa_40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: Isa_44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; Zec_12:1 The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Argument #7 AGAINST an OLD earth. “The most obvious and straightforward reading of Genesis 1 provides a prima facie case that Moses, under the direction of God, intended to write a literal historic account of what God had revealed to him (or to his antecedents), and not a cryptic message with clues for the super-intelligent. In other words, if God had meant us to understand that there was a gap of billions of years between verses 1 and 2, involving so many details about Satan, sin, judgment, punishment, re-creation, etc., we might reasonably expect that He would have provided the author with at least some of these alleged details. He did not. Nor are they to be found anywhere else in the Bible.” My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #7 is NOT valid! The phrase “prima facie” means based on the first impression; accepted as correct until proved otherwise. Now, IF God had INTENDED His word to be read strictly a “literal” word for word “HISTORY”, then WHY did God HIDE so many HIDDEN PROPHECIES within the historical accounts. God gave us His Holy Spirit to TEACH us the HIDDEN things of God, according to Job 12:21,22, Daniel 2:22, Isaiah 28:9-11, Matthew 10:26, Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21, Luke 12:2, 1 Corinthians 2:7-16, and many other verses of Scripture. Now, where do you think all of those “so MANY DETAILS of Satan, sin, judgment, punishment, re-creation, etc…these alleged details” came from, IF they did not come from the Bible itself? For you see, argument #7 CLAIMS that there is NOTHING ANYWHERE in the Bible that speaks of these so-called “alleged details”. Obviously, the Trinitarian author of this article must not read the Bible to know the Scriptures that clearly teach us about Satan and the JUDGMENT of Satan and his angels. Please read the following verse of Scripture and then do your own “cross-reference” Bible study. John 16:11. “Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.” If there is nothing anywhere in the Bible about Satan and the fallen angel as this Trinitarian author claims, then who did Jude KNOW about the angels bound in chains reserved for the Day of Judgment, according to Jude 1:5,6? Let us go ahead and read that passage of Scripture to put you in REMEMBRANCE of the JUDGMENT awaiting the ANGELS. Jude 1:5,6. “I will therefore put you in REMEMBRANCE, though you ONCE KNEW THIS, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. 6. AND the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the JUDGMENT of the great day.” Let us move on to argument #8 against an OLD earth. Argument #8 AGAINST an OLD earth. “Orthodox Jews and conservative Christians have always read Genesis 1 as literal history. Prof. Davis Young, a theistic evolutionist geologist, admits: ‘It cannot be denied, in spite of frequent interpretations of Genesis 1 that departed from the rigidly literal, that the almost universal view of the Christian world until the 18th century was that the Earth was only a few thousand years old. Not until the development of modern scientific investigation of the Earth itself would this view be called into question within the church.” My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #8 is NOT valid! And during the dark ages of the church, Christians WRONGLY believed that the EARTH was FLAT until modern scientific investigation of the earth did that view of a flat earth was called into QUESTION. But Christians HUMBLED themselves that they could be wrong about their “interpretation” of the Bible that the earth was FLAT. Please read all of the studies under the heading >>>Ff-0. Does the Bible teach the Earth is FLAT?<<< So then, new REVELATION from God exposing FALSE teaching of church TRADITION does NOT prove that new revelation is not from Almighty God. In fact, Daniel prophesied that in the last days that KNOWLEDGE would INCREASE and our LIGHT would SHINE as the BRIGHTNESS of the firmament. Daniel 12:3,4. “And they that be WISE shall SHINE as the BRIGHTNESS of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 4. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be INCREASED.” And the subject of the CONTEXT is the knowledge of God’s word that will turn many to righteousness. So, NO! Argument #8 is NOT a valid argument. It is not a valid argument to say that new revelation from God is NOT from God, when God told Daniel to prophesy that knowledge would INCREASE in the end of days. And clearly, the coming of Jesus is very near in our day. Let us move on to argument number nine against an OLD earth. Argument #9 AGAINST an OLD earth. “If the being who became Satan had already rebelled! And if there were billions of ‘Lucifer-flood’ fossils with the marks of disease, violence, death, and decay, corresponding to the perishing of an entire pre-Adamic race and the extinction of a complete world of animals, with Adam and Eve walking around on top of buried fossils, how could God have called all this ‘very good’?” My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #9 is NOT valid! Is there sickness and disease in THIS PRESENT world? Will there be sickness and disease in the NEW earth after this present earth PERISHES in the fire of God’s final day of WRATH to destroy all EVIL? NO! Absolutely NOT! The NEW earth will be PERFECT once again. So why is it so hard from some Christians to see that God DESTROYED a PREVIOUS WICKED age and RESTORED the earth to be made perfect once again in Genesis chapter 1? Please consider that God laid the CORNERSTONE at the foundation of the earth for the very purpose of REMOVE the WICKED from the earth. So we only have two choices, God either CREATED the WICKED in Genesis 1:1 or God CUTDOWN the WICKED in Genesis 1:1. Which translations AGREES with Isaiah 45:18? To me, God CUTDOWN the wicked FIRST, and then God RESTORED the earth to be habitable once again for the PURPOSE of JUDGING Satan and the fallen angels. Let us move on to argument number 10 against an OLD earth. Argument #10 AGAINST an OLD earth. ‘Was’ [Hebrew hayetah] in Genesis 1:2 is translated ‘became’ by gappists, giving the reading, ‘And the earth became [or had become] without form and void.’ Gap theorist A.C. Custance devotes nearly 80% of his book Without Form and Void, including 13 Appendices, to advocating this translation, especially with the pluperfect, ‘had become’. However, recognized grammarians, lexicographers, and linguists have almost uniformly rejected the translations ‘became’ and ‘had become’.11 It is a basic exegetical fallacy to claim that because Strong’s Concordance lists ‘became’ as one of the meanings of haya, it is legitimate to translate it this way in the particular context of Genesis 1:2. It is simply grammatically impossible when the verb haya is combined with a waw disjunctive—in the rest of the Old Testament, Waw + a noun + haya (qal perfect, 3rd person) is always translated, ‘was’ or ‘came’, but never ‘became’. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #10 is NOT valid! Is not the Strong’s concordance a “recognized” grammarian of the Hebrew and Greeks words? YES it is well recognized and widely accepted as being accurately correct in defining the Hebrew and Greek words into the English language. And since BECAME is one of the meanings of the Hebrew word “hayah” then argument #9 is NOT a valid argument to try to prove a YOUNG earth that is not one day older than 6,000 years old. But let us ASSUME that BECAME is too strong of a word using THEIR argument that it can only mean “was” or “CAME”. We have already learned that the Hebrew word “bara” ALSON means to CUTDOWN. So let us use that meaning instead of create in verse 1 along with the meaning “CAME” in verse 2. A more CORRECT translation of Genesis 1:1,2. “FIRST God CUTDOWN the heaven and the earth. 2. And the earth CAME 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.” So then, after God CUTDOWN the earth to rid it of the WICKED the earth CAME without form and void. Now to me, CAME and BECAME are saying the SAME thing. So again, argument #9 is NOT a valid argument because the translations WAS without form and void right after God just CREATED it CONTRADICTS the SCRIPTURE in Isaiah 45:18. Let us move on to argument number 11 against an OLD earth. Argument #11 AGAINST an OLD earth. Gappists overlook the words of Jesus in Mark 10:6, ‘But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.’ The Lord Himself obviously did not envisage any significant gap between Genesis 1:1 and the creation of Adam and Eve. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #11 is NOT valid! Again, we are reading TRANSLATIONS of the original Greek text. Please notice that Jesus did NOT say IN the beginning of creation. But rather Jesus said FROM the beginning. Now, the Greek word translated as “from” also means BECAUSE OF the beginning of creation. And the Greek word translated as “beginning” literally means FIRST. So then, BECAUSE of the FIRST creation God made them male and female. Also, the word translated as creation means CREATURE. Jesus is the FIRSTBORN of every CREATURE. So then, from the beginning of the CREATURE God made THEM male and female. And the root meaning of creation means FORMATION. So then, in the original formation God made THEM male and female for this REASON, a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife…therefore, what God has JOINED together, let no man put asunder. There is nothing in the context to dogmatically demand that Jesus is speaking about the beginning of the creation of the entire universe in the eternity past. Now, I personally believe that the first time that the Hebrew word “bara” should be translated as CREATED is in Genesis 1:27 when God CREATED Aleph Tav Messiah Jesus MAN. And the other two times in Genesis, 1:1 and in Genesis 1:18, the Hebrew word “bara” SHOULD be translated as CUTDOWN. Please read the studies called D-29. A FRESH NEW LOOK at GENESIS 1:1, D-29. A FRESH NEW LOOK at GENESIS 1:1, and D-28. The PRE-ADAMIC LUCIFERIAN FLOOD! So no, argument #11 against an OLD earth does NOT prove a YOUNG earth. Let us move on to argument #12. Argument #12 AGAINST an OLD earth. Exodus 20:11 says that God made all things in heaven and earth in six days. This must therefore have included the angels, all originally created good or holy (Colossians 1:16, Jude 6). Job 38:4 & 7 suggests that the angels (‘sons of God’) were present when God laid the foundations of the earth, i.e. created it on Day One (Genesis 1:1), before He created light. Angels, being spirit beings, don’t have eyes with human retinas, and so presumably can see in the dark even as God can. This raises the question as to when these beings rebelled to give rise to Satan and his demonic followers (2 Peter 2:4, Jude 6). This was surely not possible before God pronounced everything as being ‘very good’ near the end of Day Six (Genesis 1:31). Some gappists say that there was not enough time after Day Six and before the events of Genesis 3 to allow for this rebellion. So how long was it? We do not know how long it was after Day Six (or Seven?) that the temptation of Eve occurred (Genesis 3). We can suppose that it must have been before Eve became able to conceive (Genesis 4:1), as Cain had a sinful nature, so he must have been conceived after the Fall of his parents. Let us therefore suppose that there was only a week between Day Six and the (human) Fall. Is this enough time? Consider:... Those who say, ‘It wouldn’t have been enough,’ and so opt for a gap before Genesis 1:2, are applying human standards of reasoning… …Why would it take a long time to incite others to join the rebellion? A few hours, or even a day or two, of rabble-rousing has often been sufficient to transform ordinary citizens into a lynch mob–cf. the Jerusalem crowd at the trial of Jesus. God’s subsequent expulsion of the angels who thus sinned from His presence could also easily have occurred within a very short time afterwards—maybe even minutes or less. We conclude therefore that the time needed for the rebellion of the angels does not require there to be a ‘gap’ in Genesis 1 between verse 1 and 2, and such a notion conflicts with everything being described by God as ‘very good’ at the end of Day Six. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #12 is NOT valid! WHAT? Has this Trinitarian Christian given an angel an eye examination to make a CLAIM that angels do not have eyes with human retinas? Can you not see his HUMAN reasoning? He ASSUMES that when God SAID let there be LIGHT that the light is PHYSICAL light. Genesis 1:3,4 is a PROPHECY of Aleph Tav Messiah Jesus being the light of the WORLD. Again, there is no mention of the angels being created, formed, or made in Genesis chapter 1, because the angels ALREADY existed BEFORE God created MAN. WHO do you think God was talking to in Genesis 1:26 when God said, “Let us make man in OUR image and after OUR likeness.” Keep in mind that WHEN God laid the CORNERSTONE the angels shouted for JOY! And God made man and the Son of MAN a little LOWER than to angels to JUDGE the angels. Therefore, the angels had already rebelled and waged WAR against God BEFORE God created Adam. Again, this whole argument is based SOLELY on the ASSUMPTION that just because God created everything VERY GOOD in Genesis 1:3-31, then it is impossible for there to have been any sin BEFORE the sin of Adam and Eve in the garden. That is like saying that WHEN God creates the NEW earth very good then it is IMPOSSIBLE for there to have BEEN any sin BEFORE the new earth is created. Just because God RESTORED to the earth and called everything the He RESTORED to be VERY GOOD does NOT mean that there was no sin BEFORE Adam sinned. Also, this Trinitarian sarcastically asks if one week is enough time for Satan to have persuaded ONE THIRD of the angels and the answer is absolutely NOT! Lucifer had gathered much wealth from TRADING and committed MANY sins, according to Ezekiel 28:14;18. So NO! One week is NOT enough time to do all of that. Let us move on to reason #13 against an OLD earth. Argument #13 AGAINST an OLD earth. The gap theory must redefine the “very good” of Genesis 1:31 because God would have to place Adam, as a very late arrival, in a world that had just been destroyed! Adam would have been walking on the graveyard of literally billions and billions of dead creatures, including the dinosaurs, over which he had never exercised dominion. God would have placed him in a world that would be the domain of a fallen and wicked being (i.e., Satan). This is contrary to the clear teaching of Scripture, as we shall see. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #13 is NOT valid! Again, Satan could have been God’s ENEMY thousands of years before the good angels triumphed over Satan and his angels to IMPRISON him and the fallen angels to the confines of the atmosphere of the earth during a PREVIOUS AGE. And when Satan accused God of creating him flawed, then God said, “Let us make man in our image after our likeness” to see if what I create is the reason you waged war against my throne. And just to make sure, I will make man a little LOWER or inferior to you angels. And if even one human can like without sin, then my NAME will be cleared and I will destroy in this fire that I have prepared for you and your angels. Now, before God created Adam He RESTORED the earth to be habitable once again. But Proverbs 8:30,31 leads me to believe that there were SOME PARTS of the earth that were not habitable IF the KJV translation is correct. So the words, “very good” do not dogmatically mean PERFECT. There is a PROPHECY of Jesus in Deuteronomy 32:4 that says his work is PERFECT. So if God INTENDED Genesis 1:31 to mean PERFECT instead of very good, then surely God would have used the Hebrew word the means perfect. Let us move on to argument #14 against an OLD earth. Argument #14 AGAINST an OLD earth. The gap theory teaches the existence of pre-Adamic men and women who were destroyed by Lucifer’s flood. Consequently, any human fossils that are found (e.g., the Neanderthals, the hobbits, the Cro-Magnon people, etc.) are considered to be pre-Adamites who have nothing to do with mankind today, even though some of these so-called pre-Adamites are identical to us. This teaching also implies that these pre-Adamites did not possess an eternal soul and so could not be saved. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #14 is NOT valid! Who says that God MUST SAVE what He created? Now, I believe that God feels obligated to save any human who seeks to be saved. For you see, God created humans to JUDGE His ENEMY, Satan and the fallen angels. And when Satan CORRUPTED man to the point that God found only EIGHT souls who had not been corrupted, it REPENTED God that he had to destroy every man and beast to start over again. Destruction UPON destruction PAINS God’s soul, according to Jeremiah 4:19-23. God takes NO PLEASURE in the death of the wicked. And I feel that these verses of Scripture teach us that God LOVES mankind while we were yet sinners and He is pleading with the lost to REPENT so that they will NOT perish. The fact is that God did not HAVE to save us either, but I am glad He did! So no! Even if the pre-Adamite had no soul God could have saved them if He so CHOSE to save them. And maybe He did save the righteous inhabitants IF there were any. No one can no fore sure because not very much is said about the ANCIENT people. Let us move on to argument #15 against an OLD earth. Argument #15 AGAINST an OLD earth. If Lucifer’s flood was God’s judgment against Satan, and the earth was razed to become “without form and void,” then why did this flood not destroy the fossil record as well? What about Noah’s flood? Noah’s flood was also a judgment on the earth, and it is used throughout the Bible as an example of God’s judgment on man. Lucifer’s flood is never mentioned once. How can someone believe that Noah’s flood was somehow less impactful, geologically speaking, than an un-mentioned flood, while claiming a literal interpretation of Genesis? If God created a perfect heaven and earth, then all life on Earth must also be perfect. If this “perfect life” was the source of the fossils buried by a supposed Lucifer’s flood, and sin entered this world by Satan’s rebellion, why do these same fossils show abundant evidence for disease and deformities? The presence of disease and deformities in fossils proves that all things could not have been perfect and that sin was already present before the flood that buried them (Noah's worldwide Flood). If sin was present before God’s judgment of Satan, then either the Bible is wrong or the gap theory is flawed. My REBUTTAL explaining WHY argument #15 is NOT valid! Now, I sometimes also have used the argument that “either the Bible is wrong or the Christians who believe this or that have errors of interpretation”. So I can understand being frustrated when other Christians disagree on how other Christians interpret the Bible. So all I can do is show you why I believe what I believe. So here are some possible answers to the many questions in argument #15 against an OLD earth. Question 1. If Lucifer’s flood was God’s judgment against Satan, and the earth was razed to become “without form and void,” then why did this flood not destroy the fossil record as well? What about Noah’s flood? Answer to question 1. First of all, if a worldwide flood DESTROYS the fossil record, then there would be NO fossil record. So, I am assuming that the question is what are there not TWO fossil records? Who is to say that the fossil record cannot possibly be from TWO different floods? Perhaps some fossils are from the Luciferian flood while some other fossils are from the flood in the days of Noah? And it could very well be that God Himself wants to PRESERVE a fossil record as a WITNESS of what took place during the AGE of Lucifer’s reign over the earth during the ante-deluvian or pre-Adamite age. I do not see that this question proves a young earth or disproves an OLD earth. Question 2. Noah’s flood was also a judgment on the earth, and it is used throughout the Bible as an example of God’s judgment on man. Lucifer’s flood is never mentioned once. Answer to question 2. One reason for why Lucifer’s flood may not be mentioned specifically by NAME is that it is not an example of God’s judgment on MAN. God set BOUNDARIES that Satan cannot cross. And thus, only what is COMMON to man is allowed, according to 1 Corinthians 10:13. Now, as far as more than just one flood NEVER being mentioned is simply NOT a true statement! The word “floods” in the PLURAL is found in many passages of Scripture. Please read the study called D-28. The PRE-ADAMIC LUCIFERIAN FLOOD! Question 3. How can someone believe that Noah’s flood was somehow less impactful, geologically speaking, than an un-mentioned flood, while claiming a literal interpretation of Genesis? Answer to question 3. Now, I myself have never said that one flood was worse than the other flood. In fact, in the past I have never even used the fossil records as a method to prove the two floods. But, the more that I study this subject I may start using the fossil records that SUPPORT what the Bible itself teaches. Question 4. If God created a perfect heaven and earth, then all life on Earth must also be perfect. Answer to question 4. NO! It must be ASSUMED that every LOWER creation that God created to inhabit the many planets in the Universe MUST have been created just as perfect as it is in HEAVEN. The only being that God specifically said He CREATED perfect in Lucifer. So we can assume that all of the angels were created perfect since Lucifer is an angelic being. The Bible says that God MADE the Son of MAN, Jesus PERFECT after the cross and resurrection. So all we can say for sure is that God did NOT create any angel or human being for the purpose to REBEL against Him. Question 5. If this “perfect life” was the source of the fossils buried by a supposed Lucifer’s flood, and sin entered this world by Satan’s rebellion, why do these same fossils show abundant evidence for disease and deformities? Answer to question 5. There can be sickness, disease, and deformities in the fossil records for many reasons. Now, he or she does not say just how ABUNDANT the abundant evidence shows for disease and deformities. Does EVERY single fossil record show disease and deformity? Were any of the fossil records damaged by the flood and are wrongly interpreted to be caused by sickness, disease, and being born deformed? Let us ASSUME that over half of the fossil records show disease and deformities and the scientist did NOT error when they came to this conclusion. Does that prove a YOUNG earth? Does it disprove an OLD earth? NO! It does not prove either. For you see, it must be ASSUMED that every LOWER creation to inhabit the planets MUST be just as perfect as it is in HEAVEN. But let us again ASSUME that God created everything that He has ever created, He created completely PERFECT. And let us assume, as this brother in the Lord has assumed, that the ONLY reason for ANY type of sickness, disease, and being BORN with a DEFORMITY is the result of SIN. And this argument is only made for the very reason to argue AGAINST and OLD earth. Question 6. The presence of disease and deformities in fossils proves that all things could not have been perfect and that sin was already present before the flood that buried them (Noah's worldwide Flood). Answer to question 6. Again, this argument is only made for the very reason to argue AGAINST and OLD earth. What kind of picture does that assumption paint of Almighty God the creator? Is God the AUTHOR of sin? Why did God ALLOW all of this fossil evidence? Did it take billions of years to form all of this fossil evidence? Or could this ABUNDANT fossil evidence have been the result of just a FEW years of Satan messing around with genetics and DNA that CAUSED all these diseased and deformed animal fossils. And perhaps God Himself purposely PRESERVED this fossil record for a WITNESS or as evidence to be used against Satan’s on the final Day of Judgment. Just look at how many DEFORMED mice are in the labs of scientists today. And all these deformities and DISEASED animals are the result of cloning and other EXPERIMENTS that have happened over a few decades. My point is that if one argues that SIN is the CAUSE of EVERY single sickness, disease, and babies being BORN deformed, then they CONTRADICT the SCRIPTURES. Please consider these verses of Scripture that clearly teach us that each person will die for their OWN sins, Deuteronomy 24:16, 2 Kings 14:6, Jeremiah 31:29-30, and Ezekiel 18:4,20. In closing, I want to remind my readers that according to Isaiah 45:18, God did NOT create the earth without form and VOID. So HOW did the earth get that way in Genesis 1:2 IF the earth was originally created just 6,000 years ago and God created EVERYTHING PERFECT? WHERE did Satan come from if God created him PERFECT on the day that God created him AND that DAY was on one of the SIX days in Genesis chapter 1? In other words, IF God created the entire universe in a blink of an eye us 6,000 years ago, then WHERE did EVIL come from in Genesis 1:2? I implore you to read all of the studies under the heading >>>D-0. The BIBLICAL Unitarian VIEW of Jesus<<< And also read all of the studies under the heading >>>Q-0. WHY are we HERE?-Is God at WAR?<<< For you see, God is at WAR and I feel very strongly that Jesus is going to return very soon in a FLAMING FIRE taking vengeance on those who do not know God and those who do NOT OBEY the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the only way to bring an END to Satan and the fallen angels’ REBELLION against God so that there will be NO MORE WARS in the eternity future. Thanks for reading, and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the TRUTH of the WHOLE word of Almighty God. And to me, the truth concerning who Jesus TRULY is, according to the Bible ITSELF, is the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus. So, for ALL of the studies on the Biblical Unitarian view of Jesus, please click on the subject heading >>>D-0. THE BIBLICAL UNITARIAN VIEW of JESUS!<<< And for the SUBJECT on the true foundation of the church, please click on the subject heading >>>C-0. THE TRUE FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH!<<< This way you can just send ONE link to those who you want to share the TRUE sound Biblical FOUNDATIONAL teachings of the church that Jesus and his Apostles taught in the first century church.
Your brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Mark.
My heartfelt prayer is that all Christians RETURN to the TRUE FOUNDATION of the church that is taught by the very Apostles of Jesus in the first century. So let us all come into the UNITY of the faith and return to what Jesus and his Apostles taught us in SIMPLICITY in the New Testament.
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To me, the best way to know the ONE true God in ONE person is to know who Jesus TRULY is according to the WHOLE word of Almighty God. So please read ALL of the studies under the heading >>>N-0. WHO is JESUS ACCORDING to the BIBLE?<<< and you will see that the Bible itself teaches us that Jesus was CREATED by his God and Father. And if you have any questions related to the correct meaning of certain verses of Scripture on this subject of who Jesus is please read all the studies under the two headings >>>U-0. VERSES used for THE TRINITY!<<< and >>>V-0. VERSES used to TEACH that Jesus PRE-EXISTED!<<< These two headings have ALL of the studies that I have on who Jesus truly is according to what the Bible itself teaches us in simplicity. I compiled these three headings to make it easy for my readers to send just one, two, or three links to those you desire to help understand what the Bible itself teaches concerning who Jesus is in the LIGHT of the WHOLE word of Almighty God. If you have any questions, please feel free to write to me. My contact email is MarkatAMatterOfTruth@Gmail .com. Thanks again for reading and may God bless you richly as you continue to seek the truth of the whole word of Almighty God.
Your Brother in our Lord Jesus Christ, Brother Mark.
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