Rightly Dividing the KJB Study Blog: Responding to Scriptural Objections to the Gap Theory

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Responding to Scriptural Objections to the Gap Theory

Response to the main scriptural objections to the Gap Theory.

1.) Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. The “young earth creationists” say that if the Gap Theory were true, then God is calling a fallen Satan good (they also say that it calls the fossil record of death good, but not all Gap Theorists believe that there were animals killed during Lucifer’s flood). This sounds good on the surface, but if you look at the verse in context the “everything that he had made” is the everything he just made in the 6 days. Lucifer was created prior to the 6 days just like the angels (Job 38:7, Ps. 104:4). The verse does not say that God called everting He had ever made throughout eternity good. The context is the 6 days.

The “young earth creationist” logic would be like saying the apostle Paul never did wrong to any Jews because in Acts 25:10 he said, “to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest”. When in fact, Paul did wrong to many Jews. He had many Jews killed for believing on Christ (Acts 9:1). Every verse has a context and to cherry pick phrases out that sound like they support your argument is not good Bible study.

2.) Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. The “young earth creationists” say that the Gap Theory cannot be true because everything was made in 6 days and they say that the Gap Theory teaches that God made it some time previously and then did more work during the 6 days. This is a misrepresentation of the Gap Theory. Gap Theorists believe that the heavens and earth “which are now” were made in 6 days. We believe it was created in Genesis 1:1, destroyed in Genesis 1:2, and re made in 6 days during the creation week.

3.) Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. “Young earth creationists” say that the Gap Theory cannot be true because Mark 10:6 says that the beginning of the creation was the 6 day creation week. However, the context of the “beginning of the creation” is the creation of male and female, not the earth.

4.) Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: “Young earth creationists” say that the Gap Theory cannot be true because it puts death before Adam’s sin when the Bible says that sin entered the world through Adam. This is obviously a misunderstanding of the verse. Because Lucifer obviously sinned before Adam because he shows up in the garden as a fallen creature casting doubt on the word of God (a sin) and lying to Eve (a sin). Eve sinned before Adam when she ate the fruit first (1 Tim. 2:14). Adam was the head of the wife and head of the human race, so it is him that is responsible for bringing sin into the world of mankind.

5.) Revelation 21:1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. The “young earth creationists” say that there could not have been an earth before the one we are on now because the one we are on now is called “the first earth”. This is yet again a misrepresentation, because Gap Theorists believe we are on the same physical earth, just that it was destroyed with a flood and reconstructed in Genesis 1:1-3.