Bonus Devotional on Creation. The Four main ways that sincere believers can view Genesis chapter 1.
“So, I'm talking about creation, and I want to share with you what I'm aware of, the four main ways that sincere believers can view Genesis chapter 1. The first way, the most obvious way, is what's called the six-day creation, or sometimes it's called the Young Earth Theory. The belief that God created the earth in six literal 24-hour days, that it was about 6,000 years ago that it was created.
Most of the fundamentalist type groups strongly adhere to that theory. Next theory is called the Gap Theory. This one used to be very popular.
It's hardly anybody believes it anymore, because it's kind of goofy. But it's the belief that there was a large gap of time between Genesis 1.1, God created the heavens and the earth. And then, excuse me, Genesis 1.2, where it says the earth was null and void, and without form was null and void.
And this belief says that this was the era of the dinosaurs and the giants and all kinds of crazy stuff, and that God actually recreated the earth a second time around, something like that. Anyway, as I said, not too many people still believe it[…]”
From Sermons by Steven G. Dyer: Creation Devotional - 3min, May 22, 2025
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