[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Biblestudent

The problem is when we call things we do not know as "strange doctrine", or when we choose to believe passages we want to believe and reject the other passages we do not want to believe.
Is the gap fact a "new doctrine" to you?

Show me where I'm choosing to believe some passages and rejecting others.

So you know when the angels were created and when they rebelled? Is this stated in the Bible? If not isn't it strange doctrine? You know there's a gap "fact" even though it's not stated in the Bible. Again, isn't this strange doctrine?

You try to prove the gap theory with facts like I was born sometime many years ago, I haven't yet died and the Bible states it is appointed unto man once to die; therefore there's a gap there and therefore the creation gap theory is a fact.

You keep stating as a fact that animal life exsisted before man. I beleive you're right; they were made on the 6th day, just before man. What proof do you have otherwise?

Even Dr. Reagan has to twist unrelated verses to try to bolster the theory. If we knew the gap theory was fact I could use his argument to show that Abel was something else in a previous life before he was reborn to become a shepherd.

What questions is your gap "fact" going to answer? Are you going to appease the scientists and scholars of our day who are calling themselves wise? (Rom 1:22) You think if we come to some kind of an agreement with them they'll suddenly recognize that it was God that created everything?

If you're seeking answers to the "problems" of geological evidence, evolution, etc., I again suggest you read books such as An Ice Age Caused by the Genesis Flood and check out those other sites I mentioned.

God created the heaven and the earth. "Created" means called the material out of nowhere, it didn't exsist before. Then He formed it; took the material and shaped it. Then he made the other works of creation; fashioned them out of the material he had created on the first day.

At least that's what I believe no matter how much we play word games with "created", "form", and "made".

Of course one objection is always, "Wouldn't he have created it with perfect form instead of creating it and then forming it?" How am I to say what He would have or should have done? Couldn't He have done in one instance what He did in six days? God had his reasons, and I believe it's at least partly for our instruction. Why did God rest on the seventh day? Do you think He had to because He was tired? Do we know the ways of God to such an extent that we know how He must have done things?

I think if it is truth, it will answer questions. But there have been many questions posted that receive no answer. Why is that so?

Are we to know everything? Are there to be no mysteries with God? Does your gap fact allow you to understand all of God's ways? It appears that you do, but I can't make that same claim.

Again, I challenge you to show me what passages I'm purposely rejecting as you claim. I also challenge you to prove the gap "fact" as it appears you're claiming that you can, unless you just "know" all these things without any proof other than serpentine arguments.