https://youtu.be/c71ApsI06t0

There are many who shun the idea of Gap Theory, simply because of translational error across the vast majority of available translations.

Here’s the timeline:

1) In [the] beginning, the Father made the Heavens and the Earth. This was a complete act. We are told He made them, not that He was making them. His making [of them] is complete in this verse.

2) They (though with particular emphasis on Earth) existed as completed for an unknown span of time.

3) Then, the war in Heaven breaks out. This is where the true original sin occurred: the birth of pride within the mind of Lucifer. This war would understandably have been massive, such that it could conceivably have destroyed the Earth below. Satan would have metaphorically been the greatest meteorite to have ever been impacted into the Earth, and this impact destroyed the Earth as it was when it was a completed creation as per Genesis 1:1.

4) Then, the Father remade Earth to be specifically suited for the habitation of His next Creation: Humans, a creature made in His own image.

5) From there, we have the rest of the account of Creation, which, as many don’t know, is far more literal than is popularly believed. See r/BiblicalCosmology (please defer any related questions there).

So, Gap Theory is not only plausible, it is the plain truth, as per both Isaiah 45:18 and by sheer common sense and Spiritual discernment. And the only reason that people believe they have a leg to stand on ‘in regards to shooting down the idea’ stems from the fact that all the major translations have erred and not been clear about the original Earth having been destroyed [via the war in Heaven], save for a footnote in the NIV.

I also hold a [controversial] view that expounds upon Gap Theory. I believe that existence is cyclical, that the beginning and the end are the same. Instead of a book with a beginning and an end, I believe the Father’s Word to be better effectively equated to a [literary] Rolodex, with Genesis 1:1 and Revelation 21:1 describing the exact same type of event. Revelation 21:1’s usage of the word “new” could be more realistically equated (not read: replaced with) as “next.” As such:

“Then I saw a new/the next Heaven and a new/the next Earth.”

Since they would of course both still indeed be new, the terms would both be applicable, but with “next” being more properly descriptive of the reality of things.

Anyway, this is all to say that there are great misunderstandings in the Father’s Word, many of them being in the very first chapter.

May the Father bless you all.

-Will