GAP Theory

What's to explain? He said it. I believe it. That settles it for me.

Why do I need rescuing when I believe exactly what Moses said?

You copy and paste an argument then, by your above statement, you prove you did not understand what you copied and pasted!

I don't believe the author was making a contrast (not contract) between the heavens and earth. Nor do I accept any part of the gap theory as true.

You have no arguments. You don't understand what I wrote. You don't understand the material you copy and pasted from the work of others.

There is a single unifying thought in all of your postings. "You don't understand."

 

Yeah, that is basically what I said. "Here is what happened that we are going to talk about - verse 1."

"Here are the circumstances at the beginning of our narrative - verse 2."

"Here is how it unfolded - verses 3 ->."

Yes, I know.

Yes, we all know that. It is what we (or at least I) have already proved could not have happened for it would violate the Hebrew grammar.

No, you have a textual problem. You can't read it!

"Young earth creationist?" How young? When did Genesis 1:1 take place? And where does the bible say when Genesis 1:1 took place? Please post the verses that say "Genesis 1:1 took place in 4004 BC" or words to that effect.

Once again you fail to understand the very simple Hebrew statement.

I am going to do you a favor. If you will do what I ask you will come to understand the Hebrew a bit better. Dallas Theological Seminary is the "Harvard" of the Evangelical Seminaries. I am going to help you by having you sign up for and take a course from Dallas on Genesis. It is free. No cost to you. I've already paid for it.

Go to https://courses.dts.edu/ and scroll down to:

Genesis
Genesis Genesis is a ten-week course taught by Dr. James Allman, DTS Professor of Old Testament Studies. This course will take you on a journey through the book of Genesis concentrating on the creation narrative and the patriarchs.

Then click on: Get Started and follow the instructions.

You will learn about waw-disjunctives, waw-connectives, the days of creation, and why the gap theory is impossible.

Psalm 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

Proverbs 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul.

 

Yes, because you don't understand.

Again, if you understood the significance of the waw-disjunctive you would not make foolish statements.

Where?

Chapter and verse, please.

Ah hah! Another place you don't understand. The famous, or infamous, Annales Veteris Testamenti, a Prima Mundi Origine Deducti, una cum rerum Asiaticarum et Aegyptiacarum chronico, a temporis historici principio usque ad Maccabaicorum initia producto, of Bishop James Ussher. 22 October 4004 BC, 6 PM. LOL! Those lists of names are not genealogies. They are ethnologies. In fact there are several generations between many of the "begats." They are there to show the descent of Mashiach.

Princeton professor William Henry Green wrote a highly influential article in Bibliotheca Sacra entitled "Primeval Chronology" in which he strongly criticised Ussher. He concluded: "We conclude that the Scriptures furnish no data for a chronological computation prior to the life of Abraham; and that the Mosaic records do not fix and were not intended to fix the precise date either of the Flood or of the creation of the world. http://www.genevaninstitute.org/syl...rimeval-chronology-by-dr-william-henry-green/

The conservative theologian B. B. Warfield reached the same conclusion in "On The Antiquity and Unity of the Human Race," commenting that "it is precarious in the highest degree to draw chronological inferences from genealogical tables." [Princeton Theological Review, 1911.]

Nothing. Nothing.

 

Yes, of course. But I can't help but notice you couldn't answer my question. Here it is again. "Please post the verses that say "Genesis 1:1 took place in 4004 BC" or words to that effect."

I will warn you one time and one time only. Do NOT lie about what I believe.

Again you demonstrate the inability to understand the rather simple Hebrew grammar. The waw-disjunctive does not allow any logical or chronological connection between verse 1 and verse 2. The bible does not say when verse 1 took place. But, as it is used as a title for the Book of Genesis (by the way, "Genesis" is the Latin translation of the Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית‎‎, Beresit, meaning "In [the] beginning") it seems obvious to me that verses 2 and following are what is being introduced in verse 1.

And I explained, which you failed to understand, why you cannot make such a dogmatic statement due to the Hebrew grammar in question.

We have ethnologies. Not chronological genealogies.

Again, take the DTS course I suggested. It will help you greatly in your understanding of Genesis.

 

Well, we've found another topic you know nothing about. B. B. Warfield was the champion of the Conservative group at Princeton, who kept Princeton from capitulating to Modernism. It was only after his death in 1921 that the seminary fell into apostasy and the Conservatives left to found Westminster Seminary.

No, you made a statement. You said, "You're a gap-theorist." That is a lie. You have already been told I am not a gap theorist and that the gap theory is impossible, but you posted the lie anyway. Don't do it again.

You are.

When you have been corrected and you continue to tell the same untruth, I don't know what else to call it.

 

I know. You didn't know what a waw-disjunctive is!

And the context includes the waw-disjunctive!

Yes. He said the same thing I said.

No, he doesn't. We said exactly the same thing. But again, you demonstrate the inability to understand some rather simple concepts regarding Hebrew grammar and syntax as well as Hebrew literary styles.