[1forall]

there is a break in the narrative between v1 and v 2..

Lets assume Mr. Custance is correct in saying there is a break (a length of real time) between v1 and v2..

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

What I gather from this break would be that God said what He did, then He describes in better detail how He did it on a day-to-day basis.

Bottom line is this: if the "break" or any other time-adding theory takes away from the fact that Adam's sin originated death (as described in Romans 5), there is no consequence for sin (if death was already taking place), no need for a Savior to remove the punishment for sins and the Gospel of Jesus, in fact the entire Bible, is reduced to a "feel good" story.

[Seven_0]

Bottom line is this: if the "break" or any other time-adding theory takes away from the fact that Adam's sin originated death (as described in Romans 5), there is no consequence for sin (if death was already taking place), no need for a Savior to remove the punishment for sins and the Gospel of Jesus, in fact the entire Bible, is reduced to a "feel good" story.

I realize that Romans 5 puts the blame on Adam. How is it that the Genesis account seem to intimate that both Satan and Eve sinned before Adam?

"The thought of a ruined condition of the earth succeeding its original creation...is required by the typical view" (F. W. Grant).

[guitarplayer1953]

Who or what type of creations is not discussed. Yes death came by Adam, yet in the book of Jude it mentions angles who had left their first estate which can be interpreted as leaving their heavenly bodies and are now in chains. Who are these angles and why did they want to take on flesh? When it says that the sons of God which has been interpreted as being angles wanted to and did couple with the daughters of man. Some believe that demons are disembodied spirits from the pre Adamic age. Who knows.