“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God..."
                                                   Hebrews 11:3
The Gap Theory of
Creation























                                In the beginning...?


If we want to delve into the obscure side of religious teaching, we have to
start at the beginning. Most of us were taught that God created the world in
6 days, then rested on the 7th. For centuries we have accepted this time
frame as absolute truth, even at the time when men first translated the
Bible into English. We have trusted that the men who first translated our
Bible into English made no mistakes in their translation. However,
probably the best way to truly understand the Bible is to look at it in it's
original Hebrew. What if the original language of the Bible could, perhaps,
say something different than these modern English translations?

The translators authorized by King James were, no doubt, under the
assumption the world was created in six days. This is probably something
they and their ancestors had always been taught. Therefore, when they
translated the Bible from Hebrew to English, they believed they placed the
correct words for what they thought was right.

Words of the Hebrew language - as common in many languages - often
have a variety of possible meanings. The translators of the King James
Version of the Bible (the first major English translation) could easily have
used English words that best "fit" into their traditional assumption of the
creation, as well as other stories. Take these verses for example:


"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."                      

                        Genesis 1:1 KJV


The next verse states:


"And the earth was without form, and void..."                                      

                        Genesis 1:2 KJV


According to C.I. Scofield, Thomas Chalmers, and other biblical scholars,
the second verse of Genesis tells us that something dramatic may have
happened in the time span between the first and second verses. Were the
King James translators accurate in their translation? As stated earlier,
Hebrew words can say more than one thing. With that in hand, lets attempt
to see if these translators did indeed translate these words correctly, or
could they have tried to "fit in" the translations to what they always
thought was creation.

In Genesis 1:2, the use of the word was (from the Hebrew hayah)
indicates that something more may have happened than the King James
translators believed. According to Strong's Concordance, a great guide to
Hebrew words, this word primarily means to be, to come to pass, to come
about and fall out. Did the earth begin the way it was stated in Genesis 1:2
or did it become that way?

The words without form are translated from the Hebrew tohuw, which
means to lie waste, that which is wasted, and a place of chaos and
confusion. The Hebrew word for void is bohuw, which means a state of
waste or emptiness. If we combine the other meanings of these two
Hebrew words, we may have another possible meaning for this verse:


"And the earth came to be a place of chaos, and
waste."                              

                     -or-

"And the earth had fallen from its original form, and became a
place of chaos and waste."


The question remains - was the earth created "without form and void" - or
did something happen to make it that way? If we look at the verse as it
was written in the original Hebrew, we could surmise that something of
great importance happened in the time span between the first two verses of
the Bible.

We read in Genesis 1:1 that God created the heaven and the earth (the
word heaven in the Hebrew is singular). However, we read at the end of
the six-day creation, "the heavens and earth were finished, and all the
host of them" (Genesis 2:1). Now, we have "heaven" as a plural? Whats
going on? Is it possible that heaven was created, and subsequently
destroyed, and replaced by at least one other heaven?

Why would God create a world that was formless and void? Isn't creation
considered a finished product?


"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."

                    Isaiah 45:18 KJV


The author of this article believes the Bible never contradicts itself,
therefore, Isaiah 45:18 tells us God made the earth and established it "not
in vain - but for habitation." Could there have been a previously
"established world" that God destroyed for some reason? Did God create
another world to replace the original one? In Genesis 1 we read that God
created new lights in the sky (our sun and moon). Could these have been
part of a brand new "heaven" above?


"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of
them."            

                     Genesis 2:1 KJV


The author believes the planet earth, in the wording of Genesis 1:1, was
created by God. There was as well an organized, harmonious order of the
earth - the world - also was created by God at the same time. According to
this original Hebrew wording, it would seem that God was not satisfied
with the previous world. Our current world was formed from the ashes of
the former’s indistinguishable ruin, “re-worked” again by God (in Genesis’
six-day creation) into our present world. The earth stayed the same, but
there were (at least) two harmonized arrangements, known as worlds,
fashioned by God by this time.


The following verses of the Bible seem to reinforce this multiple-world
theory:


“Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…”

                  Hebrews 1:2 KJV


“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of
God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do
appear.”

                 Hebrews 11:3 KJV


II Peter 3 also reinforces this theory


II Peter (KJV)
3:3: "Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water,
perished.
3:4: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same
word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of
judgment and perdition of ungodly men."


Many scholars believe this verse only referred to Noah and his flood.
Could these verses describe the world before our present one? There are
other verses that seem to argue against this as being the "Flood of Noah":


II Samuel (KJV)
22:2 “And he said, The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my
deliverer;
22:3 … thou savest me from violence.
22:5 When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of
ungodly men made me afraid;
22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven
moved and shook, because he was wroth.
22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness
was under his feet.
22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters,
and thick clouds of the skies.
22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; and
discomfited them.
22:16 And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations
 of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the LORD.”


Psalms (KJV)
18:1 “I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
18:4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly
men made me afraid.
18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of
the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness
was under his feet.
18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about
him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed,
hail stones and coals of fire.
18:13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest
gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he
shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations
 of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD.”


In the flood of Noah, we have no record the earth shook and trembled, no
hail stones. In the words of Genesis 1:2, we recall:


"And the earth was without form, and void..."                                      


The above verses seem more like they describe an earth that ended up
"without form and void," in the early part of Genesis, rather than only 40
days and nights of Noah's rain. There is so much more evidence for this in
the book The Rise of Mystery Babylon.























The question remains - would a creator create something that was already
demolished? According to Genesis 1:28, God instructs Adam to "be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth..." Why would Adam need
to replenish a brand new world? Could our world be the result of a
reformation of a past world? As you'll see, this will now set the stage for so
much more of the early parts of Genesis to be "re-interpreted", or looked
at differently. Is everything else the same as what we were always taught,
as well?

When the Bible was translated into English, did the translators - for
whatever political or other reason - cover up or purposely omit facts about
creation? Untold Adam and Eve may tell us more.







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