gap theory

¹¹For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all the things that are in them, and so he rested on the seventh day. For this reason, the Lord has blessed the day of the Sabbath and sanctified it.

¹⁸For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens, God himself who formed the earth and made it, the very Molder of it. He did not create it to no purpose. He formed it so that it would be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. ²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters.

²³I gazed upon the earth, and behold, it was empty and brought to nothing. And I gazed upon the heavens, but there was no light in them. ²⁴I watched the mountains, and behold, they trembled, and all the hills were shaken. ²⁵I looked, and there was no man. And all the flying things of the air had gone away. ²⁶I gazed, and behold, Carmel was a desert, and all its cities were destroyed before the face of the Lord, and before the face of the wrath of his fury.”

³By faith, we understand the world to be fashioned by the Word of God, so that the visible might be made by the invisible.

⁴Where were you, when I set the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. ⁵Who set its measurements, if you know, or who stretched a line over it? ⁶Upon what have its bases been grounded, and who set forth its cornerstone, ⁷when the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful noise?

⁵You founded the earth upon its stable base. It will not be bent from age to age. ⁶The abyss, like a garment, is its clothing. The waters will remain standing above the mountains. ⁷At your rebuke, they will flee. At the voice of your thunder, they will dread. ⁸The mountains ascend, and the plains descend, to the place which you have founded for them. ⁹You have set a limit that they will not cross. And they will not return to cover the earth.

⁵But they willfully ignore this: that the heavens existed first, and that the earth, from water and through water, was established by the Word of God. ⁶By water, the former world then, having been inundated with water, perished.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. ²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. ³And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became. ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. ⁵And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. ²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. ³And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became. ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. ⁵And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day. ⁶God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”

⁵But they willfully ignore this: that the heavens existed first, and that the earth, from water and through water, was established by the Word of God.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters.

²²The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything, from the beginning. ²³I was ordained from eternity, and out of antiquity, before the earth was formed. ²⁴The abyss did not yet exist, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters yet erupted. ²⁵The mountains, with their great mass, had not yet been established. Before the hills, I was brought forth. ²⁶Still he had not made the earth, and the rivers, and the poles of the globe of the earth. ²⁷I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;

³⁰You will send forth your Spirit, and they will be created. And you will renew the face of the earth.