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Genesis 1 |
(1:1-2:3) "In the beginning" The first of two contradictory creation accounts. Compare with Genesis 2:4-25 in which the order of events is entirely different. The two creations Who created heaven and earth? When was the universe created? The Gap Theory (1:1-2:3) The Genesis 1 account conflicts with the order of events that are known to science. In Genesis 1:1, the earth and "heaven" are created together "in the beginning," whereas according to current estimates, the earth and universe are about 4.6 and 13.7 billion years old, respectively. In Genesis, the earth is created (1:1) before light (1:3), sun and stars (1:16); birds and whales (1:21) before reptiles and insects (1:24); and flowering plants (1:11) before any animals (1:20). The order of events known from science is in each case just the opposite. (1:3-5, 14-19) "Let there be light" (1:6-8) The Firmament (Heaven) (1:11-13) "Let the earth bring forth grass" (1:14) "Let them be for signs" (1:16a) "God made the two great lights." (1:16b) "He made the stars also." (1:17) "God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light
upon the earth." (1:20) "Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl." (1:24) "Let the earth bring forth the living creature." (1:25) "God made the beast of the earth." (1:26a) "Let us make man in our image." (1:26b) "Let them have dominion ... over all the earth." (1:27) "Male and female created he them." (1:28) "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have
dominion over ... every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (1:29) "I have given you every herb ... and every tree ... for meat." (1:30) "To every beast ... I have given every green herb for meat." (1:31) God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." |
| 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. | |
| 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. | |
| 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. | |
| 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. | |
| 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. | |
| 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. | |
| 1:7 And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. | |
| 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. | |
| 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. | |
| 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. | |
| 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. | |
| 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. | |