The Gap Is Not a Theory!

by Jack W. Langford

What has been called the “Gap Theory” was a popular and consistent explanation of the first chapter of Genesis among fundamental, evangelical Christians up through the mid 1900s. With the rise of Young Earth Creationism, the gap theory was simply pushed to the background and ridiculed as a past effort to satisfy the claims of modern evolutionary science. In effect, the new teachers buried this doctrine with the debris of Noah’s flood deposits. However, we shall see in this study that the YEC effectively left the literal Biblical record of Genesis 1 and leaped into the realm of pseudo-science to claim that Noah’s flood deposited all the various sedimentary strata of the whole earth. In addition, they pontifically assert that the whole heavens and earth are only about 6000 years old. This study is going to prove that the YEC are the very ones who do not take the Scriptures literally. This study will prove conclusively that Moses did not make the blunder of either stating or inferring the earth is only 6000 years old. There is an abundance of biblical evidences that the Gap is not a theory, but a fact! In this study you will find that certain of the prophets and an apostle were inspired of God to look back in time, even to the “backside of earth’s history,” We shall be surprised to find that the past is as captivating as the future. In fact, as we better understand the past, we shall better comprehend the future.   The cover picture is from two pages of the Jewish Sarajevo Haggadah, as seen in the Saravejou museum in Spain. This work was done in 1400 CE. The pictures on each page are to be read in the Hebrew manner from right to left. The pictures graphically depict the six-day activity of God in preparing the earth of man’s habitation. Two things are to be first, these six days are preceded by a scene of the earth in a chaotic condition as described in the second verse of Genesis 1 (first fame, upper right hand corner); second, on the first day light was made and nothing else ( third verse of Genesis 1, second frame). Obviously, this six hundred year old work was not influenced by modern scientific theories, rather it represents a long standing interpretation in Judaism.

254 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 21, 2011

Reviews

[Hal Campbell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well done!

Excellent research and presentation. The author obviously spent diligent periods of time giving opposing views their due, for a level playing field in his presentation.
















did a great deal

[Adonis Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Phenomenal defense and exposition of Gap Creationism. I learned a lot from this.

[lindsay rushton · Rating 3 out of 5]

9/2/19 Author gives great arguments on why the rapture could occur on Pentecost. He also goes into basic Escatology 101. Yet, it is so wonderful to read about this over and over again. There in lies our hope.

[local · Rating 3 out of 5]

picked this up from a goodwill a while back, I like the first 1/3rd but it kind of goes off the rails with the other 2/3rds of the book

[David Houston · Rating 5 out of 5]

Presents clear information on this subject.