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Then there's Dake's theory of a creation, a ruin, and a recreation: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was (Dake="became") without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep."

"The earth BECAME without form and void" = some kind of catastrophe.

(1) earth created (2) became with form and void (3) God does some recreating (Let there be light....etc.)

[ovrtaxt]

Yeah, the old Dake's bible. I have one, and used to use it when I first got saved as my main bible.

That's pretty much the gap theory.

[ovrtaxt]

To elaborate, the use of 'became' in v. 2, plus the word 'darkness' is a double whammy.

Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

The word 'darkness' and 'vain' in the above verse are the same word. Follow the logic, and you have God stating that Gen. 2 is not the first instance of creation.