Let me start out by saying How I came to be a Christian:
In my teenage years I was exploring a lot of Eastern religions looking for truth. Though I grew up in a Lutheran church and was confirmed, I never really read the bible.
One day a relative of mine who was a Presbyterian minister was trying to convince me to go to church. I thought, " No way, Christians are a bunch of hypocrites. I'm not going to church".
Then he suggested that if I don't go to church I should at least read the Bible.
I had just finished reading the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, so I thought, "Why not. I will probably find a lot of unscientific stuff in there I could laugh at".
But I was amazed to find it was a better explanation of the universe than anything else I had read.
I also thought, "This must have been written by God because who else would make this up? It doesn't make anyone look good".
Jesus said "…And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 NKJV
Jesus also said "…For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." John 18:37 NKJV
The Bible says that those who "Don't receive the Love of the truth" will be deceived by Satan.
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2 Thess 2:9-11 NKJV
That is the why I found it so disturbing that so many Christians were deceived by the scam-demic and took the experimental poisonous DNA altering shot, wore the masks, and cancelled church just because the media and their doctors told them to. We must always search for truth. As Christians we should NEVER blindly believe the mainstream media, the government, our doctor, or even our pastor or our denomination. That's idol worship. And where in the Bible does it even suggest that we should inject our children with over 25 injections of vaccines before they are 15 months old to keep them healthy? One of which actually modifies our DNA from what God created. The Bible says "the life of the flesh is in the blood" Lev 17:11 So why do we pollute our blood? We should read the Bible from cover to cover and over and over again, and ask God to show us the truth. I can't find even one example in the Bible of anyone being healed by a doctor. We should seek the Lord Jesus first and only go to a doctor if God tells us to.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Rom 12:2 NKJV
Answers in Genessis insists that the universe is only 6000 years old.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Then starting with verse 3 God creates (or some would say recreates) the heavens and the earth. Why is the earth "without form and void" before it was created or recreated? Some say there was life on this planet before, either animal or angelic, but Satan so corrupted it, that it had to be recreated. This is called the gap theory.
These 2 shorter videos provide an explanation:
and
If the gap theory is not true that only leaves us a few possibilities
1. The bible is in error listing a formless, void and dark earth before the earth was created
I don't believe the bible is in error.
2. We are incorrect about the speed of light
Being an amateur radio operator, I use the speed of light every time I calculate an antenna length for a specific frequency, so I don't believe it could be in error
3. God created the light in motion
That doesn't make sense because it would mean that the things we are seeing didn't really happen. In other words God created an illusion. That would make God a deceiver.
4. Adam lived longer than 930 years. Because he didn't begin to die until the fall, possibly the 930 years is counted from the fall, not from his creation.
If this is the case, I doubt if it was millions of years, but it could be
5. The stars are not millions of light years away because the flat earth theory is true.
I say why I believe the earth is NOT flat here. link
Overall, I think the gap theory explains what doesn't seem to make sense in the Bible and I don't understand why Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis is so adamantly against it, unless it's just too hard to admit he might be wrong about this. NONE of us likes to admit we might be wrong. The gap theory does NOT suggest evolution and evolution just doesn't make sense as I explained here link. I still believe the Bible. I became a Christian when I saw that there is no better explanation for the world as it is, than the explanation the bible gives. I believe the bible is the word of God.
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Truth
I became a Christian because I was searching for truth and found it.
Jesus said "…And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 NKJV
Jesus also said "…For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." John 18:37 NKJV
The Bible says that those who "Don't receive the Love of the truth" will be deceived by Satan.
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2 Thess 2:9-11 NKJV
That is the why I found it so disturbing that so many Christians were deceived by the scam-demic and took the experimental poisonous DNA altering shot, wore the masks, and cancelled church just because the media and their doctors told them to. We must always search for truth. As Christians we should NEVER blindly believe the mainstream media, the government, our doctor, or even our pastor or our denomination. That's idol worship. And where in the Bible does it even suggest that we should inject our children with over 25 injections of vaccines before they are 15 months old to keep them healthy? One of which actually modifies our DNA from what God created. The Bible says "the life of the flesh is in the blood" Lev 17:11 So why do we pollute our blood? We should read the Bible from cover to cover and over and over again, and ask God to show us the truth. I can't find even one example in the Bible of anyone being healed by a doctor. We should seek the Lord Jesus first and only go to a doctor if God tells us to.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Rom 12:2 NKJV
The Age of the Earth and of the Universe
That being said, I believe the Bible, I believe Adam and Eve were the first humans created approximately 6,000 years ago and that we are all descendants of them.
If this were not true the whole bible would be a lie, because the genealogies in both the old and new testaments go back to Adam and Eve, and Eve "was the mother of all living." Gen 3:20 NKJV.
I also believe this because evolution doesn't make sense (as I explained here). I also believe that the flood was a real flood that covered all the earth.
But I never understood how if the universe is only 6,000 years old, why are we seeing light from planets millions of light years away? It just doesn't make sense.
An Answers in Genesis video tries to explain this in the first half of this 50-minute video, but never really does.
After discussing several theories and dismissing all of them he finally just says that it was a miracle. I believe in miracles but I also don't believe that God wants us to shut off our brains.
Answers in Genessis insists that the universe is only 6000 years old.
The gap theory
Genesis Gen 1:1-2 says:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Then starting with verse 3 God creates (or some would say recreates) the heavens and the earth. Why is the earth "without form and void" before it was created or recreated? Some say there was life on this planet before, either animal or angelic, but Satan so corrupted it, that it had to be recreated. This is called the gap theory.
These 2 shorter videos provide an explanation:
and
If the gap theory is not true that only leaves us a few possibilities
1. The bible is in error listing a formless, void and dark earth before the earth was created
I don't believe the bible is in error.
2. We are incorrect about the speed of light
Being an amateur radio operator, I use the speed of light every time I calculate an antenna length for a specific frequency, so I don't believe it could be in error
3. God created the light in motion
That doesn't make sense because it would mean that the things we are seeing didn't really happen. In other words God created an illusion. That would make God a deceiver.
4. Adam lived longer than 930 years. Because he didn't begin to die until the fall, possibly the 930 years is counted from the fall, not from his creation.
If this is the case, I doubt if it was millions of years, but it could be
5. The stars are not millions of light years away because the flat earth theory is true.
I say why I believe the earth is NOT flat here. link
Overall, I think the gap theory explains what doesn't seem to make sense in the Bible and I don't understand why Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis is so adamantly against it, unless it's just too hard to admit he might be wrong about this. NONE of us likes to admit we might be wrong. The gap theory does NOT suggest evolution and evolution just doesn't make sense as I explained here link. I still believe the Bible. I became a Christian when I saw that there is no better explanation for the world as it is, than the explanation the bible gives. I believe the bible is the word of God.