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The Gap Is Not a Theory: An Examination of the First Chapter of Genesis

by Jack W. Langford

What has been called the “Gap Theory” was a popular and consistent explanation of the first chapter of Genesis among fundamental, evangelistic Christians up through the mid-1900s. With the rise of Young Earth creationism, the gap theory was simply pushed to the background and ridiculed as a past effort to satisfy the claims of modern evolutionary science. In effect, the new teachers buried this doctrine with the debris of Noah’s flood deposits.

However, we shall see in this study that the YEC effectively left the biblical record of Genesis 1 and leaped into the realm of pseudo-science to claim that Noah’s flood deposited all of the sedimentary strata of the whole earth. In addition, they pontifically assert that the whole heavens and earth are only about 6,000 years old. This study is going to prove that the YEC are the very ones who do not take the Scriptures literally.

This study will prove conclusively that Moses did not make the blunder of either stating or inferring the earth is only 6,000 years old. There is an abundance of biblical evidences that indicate that the Gap is not a theory, but a fact!

In this study you will find that certain of the prophets and an apostle were inspired of God to look back in time, even to the backside of Earth’s history. We shall be surprised to find that the past is as captivating as the future. In fact, as we better understand the past, we shall better comprehend the future.

The cover picture on this book is from two pages of the Jewish Sarajevo Haggadah, as seen in the Sarajevo Museum in Spain. This work was done in 1400 AD. The pictures on each page are to be read in the Hebrew manner from right to left. The pictures graphically depict the six-day activity of God in preparing the earth for man’s habitation. Two things are to be noted . . . first, these six days are preceded by a scene of the earth in a chaotic condition as described in the second verse of Genesis 1 (first frame, upper right hand corner). Second, on the first day light was made and nothing else (third verse of Genesis 1, second frame). Obviously, this six-hundred year old work was not influenced by modern scientific theories, rather it represents a long standing interpretation in Judaism.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section One

An Examination of the First Chapter of Genesis

1. “How Readest Thou?”
2. Introduction
3. First – The Text
4. Second – The Light
5. Third – The Voice of God
6. Fourth – The Spirit of God
7. Fifth – The Six Days
8. Sixth – The Heavens
9. TESTIMONIES – Ancient Testimony: Modern Testimony: Modern Confusion
10. Exodus 20:11
11. The Six Days – Living Literature – Practical To Us – The First Three Days – The Second Three Days
12. Summary
13. Figure 1
14. Figure 2

SECTION TWO

An Examination of the Second Verse of Genesis 1

15. Concerning the Hebrew Grammar

16. The Actual Scene on Earth

17. Without Form and Void

18. Contextual Definitions

19. 2 Corinthians 4:3-6

20. The Testimony of Others

21. In Summarizing This Testimony

SECTION THREE

Lucifer: Son of the Dawn – A Study on Ezekiel 28:11-19 and Isaiah 14:12-17

22. Introduction

23. Lucifer’s Creation

24. Lucifer’s Position

25. Lucifer’s Fall

26. Lucifer’s Judgment

27. The Mystery of Rahab and Leviathan

SECTION FOUR

Answering Objections to the Gap

28. Introduction – Defining the Gap

29. Objection Number 1 to Number 20

30. Appendix 1: What is the Scientific Record For The Catastrophe of Genesis 1:2

31. Appendix 2: What is the Scientific Record For Noah’s Flood

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252 pages