{"id":1187,"date":"2008-12-28T00:56:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T00:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2008-12-28T00:56:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T00:56:32","slug":"on-gap-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"On Gap Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 1:2 mentioned that \"...the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep\".\n<\/p>\n<p>Gap theory uses this verse to explain certain mysteries, such as the dinosaurs, mysterious warfare between God and the Devil-such as that of John Milton's fantasy in Paradise Lost, etc.\n<\/p>\n<p>I would think it is interesting. But I wouldn't agree that the Bible provides sufficient information to indicate any evidence of such theory. Therefore, it could also be said that God had the earth created in a very infant state, which requires decoration and care.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs for a mysterious warfare such as that in Paradise Lost, one can take it as an anthropomorphic interpretation of what actually goes on in the spiritual realm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd the age of the earth is another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genesis 1:2 mentioned that \"...the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep\". Gap theory uses this verse to explain certain mysteries, such as the dinosaurs, mysterious warfare between God and the Devil-such &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}