Gap Theory

7 passages

1. Genesis 1:1

   In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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2. Genesis 1:2

   Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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3. Exodus 20:11

   For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

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4. Isaiah 45:18

   For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens—He is God; He formed the earth and fashioned it; He established it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited: “I am the LORD, and there is no other.

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5. Romans 5:12

   Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.

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6. Genesis 1:28

   God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

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7. Genesis 1:31

   And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

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