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Some people believe there was a FLOOD ( because of sin and chaos),  and a TIME GAP between Genesis 1:1-2. The original language suggests NO SUCH THING. 

Gen 1:2 And the Spirit of God MOVED #7363 upon the face of the waters.

 Let’s look up the word “MOVED” in Genesis 1:2 where it says the Spirit of GOD moved upon the face of the waters? It’s Stongs # 7363 TO BROOD, by Implication, to be relaxed. Brood (v) means to sit on and cover as a fowl on her eggs for the purpose of warming them and hatching chickens, OR as a hen over her chickens to warm and protect them (Noah Webster 1828 Dictionary).

How could all that sin, chaos, and destruction happen while GOD was Brooding over HIS Creation? The original language illustrates the handywork of a loving GOD carefully creating this brilliant environmnet we call earth.

One of the other verses used by Gap proponents is Job 38 but it suggests the same intimate concern and care that Genesis 1:1-2 does. Job 38:8-9 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, The word Swaddlingband is Strongs Concordance #2854 a swathing cloth. (which is a cloth wrapped around an infant). Notice also verse 38 GOD likens it to a BIRTH – issued out of the womb And then HE places a swaddling band / cloth on HIS Creation. 

None of theses verses are indicative of Chaos, Sin, Judgment, or a GAP. The fact that GOD, IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY, decided to make the world with water on it already is not indicative of a flood, chaos or sin. It just shows how HE made it. There’s a planet out there that is a ball of GAS. Is that indicative of judgment, sin, chaos, etc, or is it just how GOD made that planet?

For one to determine that there was a flood and a gap and pass that off as doctrine and truth is unfounded Biblically and adding to scripture. Show me in Genesis 1 where that FLOOD is, and that Gap, because the original language says no such thing. In fact, the original language demonstrates the love and care that a mom has for her new born babe. The Gap Theory says there was chaos, sin, and judgment. Only one can be TRUE and it is Written.

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