[Just mythoughts]

Here are just a few of the problems with the gap theory you believe in: The idea that the geological ages took place between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 is refuted in God's Ten Commandments, in which God said, “In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is” (Exodus 20:11). God was telling people that the pattern He set at creation, of six days work followed by a day of rest, was to be the pattern for mankind's working week. Note that this verse in Exodus covers both Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. In six days God made “heaven and earth” (Genesis 1:1), and “the sea, and all that in them is” (Genesis 1:2 onward). There is no room for a gap, because this statement in Exodus covers both Genesis 1:1 and the verses after it … all in the six days! The Bible says there was no sin or death until humans caused them to come into the world. But the gap theory would have billions of years of suffering and death, represented by the fossils and rock layers in the earth's crust, which are supposed to identify the geological ages. The gap theory proposes that at the end of the geological ages Satan sinned, was cast down to earth, and there was a great cataclysm. So the geological ages with countless deaths recorded in them would have occurred before either Satan or humans sinned, which is the opposite of what the Bible says. The whole concept of the geological ages is based on the evolutionary assumption that things have continued the same in the past as in the present. Therefore there is no room in the geological ages system for the cataclysm interrupting the processes that gap theorists need. This is why no geologist would accept the gap theory. The gap theory is an unfortunate compromise position taken by those who either don't understand the implications of the theory or don't love Scripture enough to take the Bible on what it clearly says. The gap theory is unscientific, unscriptural, and absolutely unnecessary.

Moses is the one who penned Genesis and was as well the one God elected to teach these unlearned newly free slaves out of Egypt. And IF Moses was going to be teaching them about how long Methuselah 'lived' and how that by Genesis 6 the Heavenly Father said I will shorten the time span of flesh living upon this earth. Then that would be by necessity mean the difference in what a day with the LORD means versus what a day means to flesh beings.

And that would also mean that Moses who penned Genesis 1:1 and 2 would have had to explain to these unlearned in the WORD that there had been two different floods for two totally different reasons.

The Bible does NOT say sin first took place with 'flesh' it say that 'the' Adam was the first flesh to sin.

We in these flesh bodies were NOT in flesh bodies when Satan rebelled. At Christ tells Nicodemus in John 3 that just to 'see' the kingdom of God one must be born from above. Christ did not say that all that are born in flesh would enter the kingdom of God but they would see it. As we are told in Revelation about those 7,000 that would be instantly killed at the return of Christ. Those are the ones who polluted the 'daughters' of 'the' Adam in Genesis 6 and those who the book of Jude among other places describe.

Those dinos left the evidence that this earth is millions upon millions of years old, else Noah would have been required to have built a bigger ship to house them when the polluted bloodline to Christ was removed from this earth.

[Boogieman]

Personally, though I tend to fall in with the YEC crowd, I believe there is room for debate on some of the points you are bringing up. The well-known 6,000 year chronology of the Bible only takes us back to Adam, the first man. Beyond that, we have a few paragraphs of Genesis, and some other assorted verses with which to try to patch together what occured before the era of man.

It seems obvious to me that the angels were created before man, yet I do not know exactly when this occurred. Yet, as Satan appears in the Garden, seemingly fulfilling the role of “the Accuser” in the earliest days of man, it seems sensible to believe his fall occured before the 6 days of creation, which I believe are literal days and not eras.

If there seems to be some history regarding God’s angelic creation that is not yet fully revealed to us, and if we can make a reasonable assumption from Scripture that some important events involved in that creation occured before the era of man, then I don’t see grounds to condemn anyone simply for speculating about the possibilities of previous creations or cataclysms.

However, I think, even if one theorizs some life may have existed before the Genesis creation event, that life must surely (excluding the angels) have been extinguished before the current creation. So, I believe those who attempt to use “gap theory” to give a more ancient lineage to man or beasts currently living, must be mistaken in that regard.