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Gap Theory - the poll --- II
- Thread starter percho
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We know there are gaps in the ethnologies. The same ethnology in two different places in the bible have some different names between entries.
Speculation about "cavemen" - let us not forget that birds, with a tiny brain, unable to read a single word, unable to say a single word, barely having enough "smarts" to escape a cat wanting to eat them, weave complex nests that a human macrame or knitting expert, couldn't duplicate. Same for spiders making complex webs. So, who's to say God didn't make primates with hands, able to use fire or draw, while not being men at all?
OTOH, the farthest object we can see with the unaided eye is the Andromeda Galaxy, so far away it takes light over a million years to reach us from it. I believe God has allowed us to determine the speed of light & roughly measure the distance to celestial objects for a reason. I believe this indicates an age for the universe much-greater than 10,000 years.
OTOH, the farthest object we can see with the unaided eye is the Andromeda Galaxy, so far away it takes light over a million years to reach us from it. I believe God has allowed us to determine the speed of light & roughly measure the distance to celestial objects for a reason. I believe this indicates an age for the universe much-greater than 10,000 years.
If we are indeed "alone" in the universe and the earth is the theological center of the universe (where The Word became flesh) then God could have stretched the light beams from Andromeda to reach us to be seen by mankind.
Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Even more likely the primal universe was designed outside the time continuum in such a way that we see the universe as mature yet not in our time oriented reality.
e.g. Adam under the same schema was created as a mature man in a moment of "time".
ibid the wine at the wedding at Cana, the fish at the feeding of the 5000.
Just saying.
HankD
Isaiah 42:5 Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
Even more likely the primal universe was designed outside the time continuum in such a way that we see the universe as mature yet not in our time oriented reality.
e.g. Adam under the same schema was created as a mature man in a moment of "time".
ibid the wine at the wedding at Cana, the fish at the feeding of the 5000.
Just saying.
HankD
Felipe Rios
Member
The Gap Theory is Heresy! I used to believe it.
There is nothing heretical about the Gap theory,
BUT...
...its abuse of Biblical Hebrew is grammatically flawed
...its abuse of physical evidence is scientifically flawed
...its abuse of physical evidence is scientifically flawed
The Gap Theory was an early attempt to explain the world we observe and align it with what the bible says about how the world was made.
Being wrong doesn't make it heretical - just wrong.
Rob
Felipe Rios
Member
I kind of agree with you.
I know a French Lawyer (Born in the US, of British descent, but now living in France) much different than that. He has 11 earned degrees in philosophy, library science, theology, and law.
His degrees include: a BA with honors in Philosophy from Cornell University (Phi Beta Kappa),
Bachelor of Library Science and Master of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley
Bachelor of Divinity and a Master of Sacred Theology from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio.
Bachelor of Laws from La Salle Extension University, Chicago.
Master of Philosophy in Law from the University of Essex, England.
A Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
A Th.D. Doctorat d'Universite, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
Master of Laws and Doctor of Laws in canon law from Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales (one of the top 100 universities in the world.)
He is licensed to practice Law in all 50 states and before the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as being licensed to practice law in England, France, and before the International Court of Justice in the Hague, the Netherlands.
Not to mention he speaks 17 languages fluently.
He's kinda a smart guy. He invited me to participate in an annual seminar he conducts at his conference center in Strasbourg, France every summer. I had to decline. I was afraid my head would explode from all that thinking!
Do you mean John Warwick Montgomery?
Yes. I spent several hours with him in San Antonio last year at the ETS annual meeting. Even in his 80's the man's mind is extraordinary.