I realize the Bible seems to make astonishing statements. But Creation IS astonishing. Life IS astonishing. The things Jesus said and did are astonishing . The wonderful words of life are astonishing. And I am helped by these things in a way nothing else ever has
@@Faust2Dr Thats like taking all the pieces of a watch and shaking up in a bag and waiting for time to put it together and make it into watch! A watch needs a watch maker. God spoke the world into existence by his almighty power and took the dust of the earth and formed man then he breathed life into him. Check what science says about the chemical composition of our bodies and see it is the same as the dirt! And he made everything in 6 days and rested on the 7th to give us our week as he doesn't operated in time, he made it for us. He is eternal and decides how everything would be and his science does not show this earth as being more than 6000 years old or that man has evolved for he keeps repeating the same old mistakes over and over again through civilization until he destroys it. We are at that point again where only a Red Sea miracle will save the planet and change culture to put us back on the right track. Man without God is hopeless, just wicked and greedy. We were made to worship God and if we don't we worship ourselves or money, or fame and power or every other vise that satin leads you to believe will make you happy and successful. If you come to the end of that and loose your own soul what have you gained? You will be separated from God forever in torment, just as the devil wants for you... to be with him forever and that won't be pleasant. So ask God to make himself and the truth known to you and you will be surprised at how he does it! Jesus is the light of the world and if you follow him you won't walk in darkness but have the light of life in you to guide you to eternity with him in a new kingdom the way God designed it before the fall of man. Blessings to you.
@Dr Considering it aledgedly takes place over billions of years, plus the relative short lifespans of humans, eyewinesses are by necesity, few and far between, making the aledged requirment of direct observationrequired by scientic endeavor impssible.
If he was truly after truth he would honestly and without bias compare truthfully both Young Earth Creationism and The Gap Theory in a truthful way investigating which one is correct,but he distorts the truth about the Gap Theory.He is too biased toward YEC because he has invested so many years to it.
@@lionzion1879 it's hard to understand because you're not explaining it you're too vague what specify did he claim that makes him a con artist give at least one thing please
@@lionzion1879 Apparently, science is filled with conmen and scams but that's the thing. You don't like to talk about it. Ken Ham in the context of this video discussed the gap theory in this video and how it doesn't work with the bible. He doesn't need to show any evidence of that to you.
@@MineABear saying with confidence that the oldest evidence we have is from trees dating back 4000 years. Claiming the earth is 6000 years old. This guy is ignoring the evidence that typically surpassed that time frame.
You helped me believe the bible is true, which, in return, helped me realize God is real. I never really thought about religion or God until I saw your videos. Now I read my Bible every day and have made it my purpose to get to know God and his son Jesus. Thank you for sparking my interest in the bible. Ken Ham rocks.
Thank you Ken Ham for stressing the importance of a bible based view of creation without forcing the acceptance of a millions of years timeframe. God is all powerful and doesn't need the gap theory.
@Tuokool nothing would convince you against what you ARE indoctrinated to believe, not even evidence, I'm well aware of that, you say your not indoctrinated, yet who told you gods existed in the first instance, and how come out of all the supposed gods to believe in you accept the one of your culture. You accuse me of saying your indoctrinated while with usual evangelical fundamentalist hypocrisy and double standards you claim to know I'm angry, and lack faith in everything,. If any god was proven to exist I would not need to be forced to accept it, I would accept that irrefutable evidence, that's all.any believer has ever asked you claimants for, and it's something you have never delivered. How many millions have you Christians killed in attempting to force all to believe in your supposed god. Again you claiming and other atheist assert something came from nothing, I have never made such a claim and no of no other atheist that has, the only ones I know of that make such a stupid claim are you theist nutters, "everything had an origin but my believed in god, special pleading " and never an iota of evidence to back your ridiculous claim. If any god was proven to exist it would be common global knowledge. If you were really interested in gaining knowledge of where every thing came from how about asking cosmologist, astrophysicist, botanist, biologist, bio chemist and other experts in that field, instead of swallowing what your uneducated charlatan teachers like your pastors and pseudo scientific nutters like Ham feed you with and which you readily like the gullible until you are swallow up. Atheism is a simple answer to a simple question, it's not an ideology, a religion, a belief system, it's merely a statement that one does not accept theist claims of their gods existing, theist claim,allege, assert , " MyGod exist" an atheist is merely one that responds " Ido not believe you" ,nothing else can be attributed to any atheist.
Mr Ham you came to my church many years ago in Athens Georgia Athens Georgia. I have followed your teachings probably 40 years. I have also followed a Bible teacher Les Feldick (Through the Bible). He was the finest Bible teacher I have ever known. He did have a theory about the gap theory. He was very adamant that it was possible. He also taught creationism and you might think about that. By the way my church is Prince avenue Baptist church in Athens Georgia. I know how busy you are but please follow up. We can ask Jesus when we meet in heaven. You are a blessing to so many.
Great video! I'll add another thing that I originally heard presented from Dr Bill Barrick's Hebrew Grammar lectures: In Genesis 1:2 it uses the word "hayah" which is in the QAL Perfect Static Stative meaning it is a state of being (is/was), and the only way it could be an Imperfect Dynamic Stative (state of becoming) is if the following word started with a Lamed prefix, but in Genesis 1:2 it does not, making it a Static Stative "to BE" (in this case "was") and to "EXIST." To put it simply: The Hebrew text really does NOT in any possible way, shape, or form, allow for any hint of a possibility of a gap theory of the world "becoming" over "millions of years", and is emphatic in that it "was."
Wanna have fun with evolutionists? Have them explain the existence of sheep! It is a studied, proven fact that without protection and care, sheep cannot survive. So, how did they come to be without us being at a level of intelligence to understand their benefit to us, causing us to farm them? Seriously, have them research and explain how sheep evolved. It's impossible without a Creator and direct placement under a pre-established knowledge.
Here's your prooblem: tohu va bohu is only used of judgement. So God didn't create the earth in a state of judgment. Go study that. Margin of the NASB allows "became".
Excellent explanation. I have friends who believe in the gap theory, though they’ve never heard of the gap theory per se. Thanks for pointing out Exodus 20:11. It emphasizes the point that Genesis 1:1 is part of the six days of Creation, rather than prior to them.
@_Robot Considering that although truth can be suprressed, but cannot be destroyed, all one needs to do, and wait the truch to ptove unself, because it will. No need for aguments. Debates or chalenging one another.
Remember the atheist formula: insult God insult Christians insult Christianity = they win the argument. Makes zero sense. Moist Robot is a regular atheist.
It wasn't about no entropy, it was about that God evidently miraculously preserved anything that didn't need to exhibit entropy (prevented any injuries or disease, etc. and may have preserved manmade objects if we had stayed unfallen long enough to make any, like the sandals in the 40 years wandering), and removed that effect at the Fall (thus allowing for natural evils, etc.).
@@logicianbones That's a MUCH better way to state it. All 4 laws of classical thermodynamics were in effect in the garden (0,1,2 and 3); otherwise life is impossible. That God continually sustained and supernaturally fixed the errors, now we're in full agreement. Unfortunately, what was said was sloppy and to someone who has actually worked with the equations of thermodynamics, absurd.
Hi Ken. I was curious about the theory that Genesis 1:1 can be interpreted from the Hebrew as a dependent clause, as in "When God was creating the Heavens and Earth" and then the theory in Genesis 1:2 that the Hebrew word WAS as in "the earth WAS without form" is actually a Hebrew word that means to become, or became? I totally believe in the Supernatural, which is kind of why I'm open to the gap theory. I'm not married to it, or against it, just open to it.
We hear God calling through that “gap” don’t we😊? It’s amazing the perspective that can be understood when we place the scriptures about Satan’s dominion into the gap. Particularly when we see mankind given dominion in the six day creation and Satan trying to usurp that dominion through men. He is trying to get it back. And then Yeshua assuring our salvation through becoming a man. I admire God, what a plan!
Yes, but time doesn’t exist in the spirit realm where YHVH incarnate in Christ and the holy angels dwell, and the other spirit beings that dwell there. YHVH created time, matter and space for this physical world alone. Spirit beings are not bound to the physical laws of this world, only the creatures YHVH made to live on Earth are bound to the physical laws of this physical realm. We don’t understand how God can reveal Himself to us as Father, Son, and Spirit, and yet also say that He is only one God, because we have no experience with beings from the spiritual realm, as we are bound to this physical world as long as we’re in these flesh bodies, and this is where some believers in Christ become conflicted with the triune nature of YHVH, because His nature, as an eternal spirit being, is beyond anything we’ve experienced on earth. We are made in God’s image, triune beings who are body, sòuI, and spirit in one person, but we can’t separate our body from our sòuI, from our spirit. Since we can’t separate the parts that we consist of, body, sòuI, and spirit, and we don’t have the power of omnipresence, being multiple places at once, like YHVH can, then we have a hard time rationalizing how YHVH can be in the spirit realm, and on the earth at the same time, like He was in Genesis 19, and like He was when He was incarnate in Christ, and other times in scripture, because it’s beyond our finite understanding. It’s like people who have had supernatural experiences with ghosts, or other paranormal experiences, and people who have never experienced those things, nor have they known anyone who has had paranormal experiences, they often have a difficult time believing the stories those who have had paranormal experiences share with others. However, the people who have had supernatural, or paranormal, experiences will never forget it, and they don’t need anyone to believe them, because they know what they saw. If you look at how scripture describes our physical world, you understand that the spirit world is much larger and all around us, but YHVH has hidden it from our eyes for the most part. According to scripture, those invisible spirits that are all around us, they also watch us. Sometimes they try to engage with humans, but God’s Word says we are not to try to communicate with the spirits beyond the veil, because there’s malevolent spirits who deceive humans into thinking they are “angels of light”. This is why we run from the occuIt, because it’s wicked in God’s eyes. The beings across the veil also know who belongs to YHVH through Christ, and who doesn’t.
@Redeemed at YHVH….No we have to understand the difference between the millions of years that are being touted versus the Bible and the literal thousands of years when man has been on earth. We don’t have to know about time in another realm. Just that God created the earth in 6 literal 24 hour days with humans, animals, birds etc. That is the argument…creation or evolution. It can only be creation and a young earth.
@@Redeemed.of.YHVH.thru.Christ the same could've claimed by schizophrenics. Have you any idea where YHWH originated, that supposed god was one of near hundred sons of El, theSun god, and Ashera the moon goddess, the brother Of Yam and Baal among others all.worshipped as gods before the Hebrews became monotheist, YHWH was also called "Lord" he was polytheistic Hebrews god of storms and war, he was morphed into El be moving Elohim plural of El, it's claimed he had an affair with Ashera his mother to do so, your early as atheist as I am, there are thousands of gods worshipped today by millions, that you deny exists, and with no more evidence that they don't exist than you have of the one you claim exist, I just refuse to.accept because you have no evidence to show your believed god exists one more god than you do.
@@Desert-edDave demonstrate outside of time, that there was a time before time,that there is such a thing as outside of space or matter, that there ever was such a thing as nothing. You have as much chance of evidencing any of that as you have of demonstratably evidencing your believed god. Name any one and prove they were born with any knowledge, you cannot, all are born devoid of what knowledge even is, they are born with only the instinct to piss and shit themselves, suck a tit and tell for attention, religions , gods existing just like racism is taught, and of them religion taught is the more evil.
was at First Bpt Ch "conference" on the corner of Broadway and Central, albuquerque...when you were here as a young whippersnapper with CRI.... also, my grandson was a rmmate at pbc, FL with a beloved of urs....continue to be well and mighty in the Word and Even so, come Lord Jesus.
How grateful I am to be able to benefit from the work of today's Bible- believing men and women of science.. and to have good resources and organizations to recommend for others
@@SenhorTudo The bible warns about adding or taking away from the word of God.My conscience is clear as a Christian that believes the Gap Theory is the true and only correct biblical interpretation when it comes to creationism. Day Age old earth creationism and Theistic Evolution are wrong too.
Ken is right. The bible didnt mean a million years. If it meant a million years it would have said a million years. But the people who wrote the bible didnt have the foggiest idea how old the Earth is. It would have been impressive if they did, but instead, just wrong again.
Explain how your creation story has the trees and plants created before the sun and moon? How do you account for a 6000 year old earth when you should know, as an Aussie, that aboriginal people have been there alot longer than that? How do you avoid such evidence?
Very good point! The aboriginal people have been a functioning and coherent group for tens of thousands of years. Are they lying Ken? Or are you just full of it?!!! (PS. We know the answer!)
Why is your thinking so bounded? God can create and he did create in the order that is recorded in the bible.And yes there was no sun,moon and stars before the 4th day,meaning God provided other source of light.Drum roll ...God is light him self,but if you read more in detail his word will find that God himself does not need light and can operate in any darkness perfectly fine...unlike the human. The reason God gave the lights in the sky was for seasons(moedim,that translates as appointed times) and seasons.We are supposed to meet with God on the appointed times that is Sabbath,and the festivals.
Keep The Faith! 💪 Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and Self control. (Galatians 5and 6) Practice those things walk in the Spirit of Truth and glorify God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Ah! My playlist I’m sorry I’m commenting on the previous upload. I’m leaving it here anyway. Brother Ken Ham has been a warrior for Christ as long as I can recall. He glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ and his Word. We have peace with God by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ let’s change the world brothers and sisters! Liked the upload much respect for all that take a stand for Jesus Christ. 👏👏👏
So if the Universe is only 6000 years old...how can we see the Andromeda Galaxy which is 2.5 million light years from Earth? There wouldn't have been enough time for the light to reach us?
We don't know yet. We do know several possible models of distant starlight have not been disproven, like Dr. Russel Humphreys' time dilation model, which enjoys a lot of support. It also uses Earth reference frame language so even without time dilation there's a "time zones" model also mentioned in their Answers book IIRC that would have more distant galaxies made earlier in their own reference frame but Earth's frame wouldn't consider them "now" until their light reaches Earth, so basically God hadn't yet created closer in yet.
@@mashah1085 Your question is for God, not me. I am no authority and neither are you. Right? Man likes to be their own authority and it leads them to error.
For reference in your future discussions, when reading Genesis chapter 1 read the 1st 5 verses all together and the 5th verse ties the 1st 4 verses together. The real nail in the coffin for that is the verses in Exodus 20:8-11. The oldest man only lived to be 969 years old. That eliminates the possibility other scripture some folks often reference a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day to God. If that is read in context these reference the level of patience God has for His creation of human beings and some in their defiance of Him.
I like what you’re saying here. But then I realize I’ve lied to myself and others. So I’m going to offer that all that matters is Jesus/Yeshua and receiving salvation from Him so that one day I can quit lying to myself and others. But accepting Him means a certain amount of intellectual honesty, which I think is what you are saying here. God bless 🙏❤️
@@navion1946 why dont you make it simpler and work on stopping lying to yourself and others? Isnt it kind of strange to neglect that, and even deliberately??
He teaches that light was created in transit , and and the physics of the universe changed after the fall , and the flood . He only uses science when it supports his position, but when it doesn’t it’s man’s fallible ideas.
I have never heard anyone who believes in six 24 hour days of creation address the fact that the sun, which is the basis of measuring days and years, was not created until “day” four.
And it wasn’t created on day it was there on day 1. Plants and vegetation released oxygen in the atmosphere and now on day 4 the sun moon and stars are now visible distinct objects, and are for animals and humans to use as time markers to use as days seasons and years.
The Hebrew word create(bara) is only used three times. Day 1 ALL physical matter. Day 5 soulish (nephesh) creatures,and day 6 Humans (spiritual beings).
@@rhovey1059 the word create is not used , but the phrase (let there be). The frame of reference in genesis is from the viewpoint of an observer on the surface of the planet looking to the heavens. And the phrase ( God made ) two great lights is used in the Hebrew form past tense.
@@Terrylb285 the phrase , “God made” would always would always be past tense being that make is past tense of “to make.” If the phrase were intended to refer something previously made before it was referenced, then the pluperfect tense (God had made) would have been used.
It's indeed more controversial than any eschatological teaching ... specifically if you believe if you try to reconcile with Darwin. But again for you to believe in the gap theory you must then explain the idea of death existing before sin. Specifically, Adam's sin...
The gap theory is that there may be a long time between Genesis 1:1 & Genesis 1:2. This does not mean that time must be millions of years, nor that anything in particular happened during the gap, except that at the end of the gap, the earth was tohu & bohu. The theory does not require the translation of "became" in 1:2 instead of "was." The theory does not imply that evolution took place during the gap.
The gap theory doesnt belittle God nor make Him less God. He is Eternal and taking 13.2 billion years to create/restore Earth is just like Him and gives us bread crumbs for a trail leading back to His event. I believe in a 6 day (24 hrs) restoration of the Earth just like He had to restore me when I was destroyed by sin.
Problem is there's no evidence for any of that. Creating miraculously is also just like him (water to wine, feeding of the thousands, etc.). How do you know which "like him" to apply? Well, we do -- the one he SAID.
The light from distant stars is billions of years old. The Bible refers to ancient civilizations. It took millions of years for the elements to make life to be available for the creation of man. It wasnt until 10 to the minus 42 seconds that it was cool enough for sub atomic particles to bond to begin to form elements following the Event of God's beginning of time. God took every subatomic particle that He created and compressed them into a sphere the size of a period and created the events that was so controlled by Him that the elements could form over time. It's easy to say He blinked and everything was here, but then no trace of Himself for man to discover and give Him the glory. His eternal nature is displayed in His creation.
@@logicianbones Look up the term "without form and void" in the Bible. It is used in Gen 1:2 and Jer 4:23. God chose to use that term in Jer 4:23 as a cross reference verse to Gen 1:2. Jer 4:23 the earth is "without form and void" following a divine judgement from God. God did not create the earth without form and void, that is ridiculous. I do not believe that there is a gap between Gen 1:1 and 1:2 to support the "science falsely so-called" camps claims of millions and billions of years. The gap between Gen 1:1 and 1:2 could have been 5 minutes or an extremely long time but the fact remains that the term "without form and void" is a Bible term used following judgement. He learn more about creation from the book of Job and Psalms than we do in Genesis. For example in Job 38 the angels where there shouting for joy when Jesus Christ was creating the universe.
@lwm20 if something is created, that means if is fully functional, and done, right? So yes, between God's original creation of earth and it becoming formless and void, something happened to change that fully functioning state. Satan was cast down to earth and given dominion of earth and all that was upon it. Also says that Satan ruled over the kingdoms on earth. All that happened befoee verse 2 and before God introduced man as we know it
Wow. Well said! The Gap theory is an example of humans desperately trying to use a human way of thinking to make the bible "work". 🤦🏻♀️ We don't need to fix the bible!! Some things we cannot completely comprehend or explain because we are not God. And that's okay! This is where faith comes in.
Why was the herb yielding seed in the ground if it wasn't there before the first major deluge? This is not an argument, just an honest question. I am a believer and do not think the gap theory discredits anything in the Bible.
Hey Ken do you drive a car because the whole of the FOSSIL Fuel industry works on an old earth because if they didn't you would be walking everywhere or riding a horse if you were lucky. Here is another on ever hear of the HEAT PROBLEM of energy released by an old vs a young earth and how this planet would have been incinerated many times over if it were 6,000yrs old- please explain that.
The only thing I can think is main stream science is wrong about the carbon dating and the earth is no where near as old as they claim I'm not a scientist so idk but I do know that atheists go to extremes to disprove the Bible
The scientific revolution was born out of a Christian belief that the universe was orderly. Today, data from fossils and carbon-14 are ‘leaning toward’ the creation event, not away from it. Soft tissue in fossils, carbon-14 in diamonds, the existence of short term comets and fossilized tree trunks through deep layers of sediment with no sign of erosion between the layers. These all create havoc for incrementalism. Do you ignore this science? Explain how the ‘Cambrian explosion’ came into being, the incredible complexity of the cell, how DNA was encoded with ridiculous quantities of information, the incomprehensible instantiation of life itself or why the universe is embarrassingly fine-tuned for life. Naturalism has painted itself into a corner by denying what the pioneers of science sought out from the start of their enterprise…their Creator.
Carbon-dating is filled with speculation and inconsistencies. The math equation (Final mass = Initial mass/2^n) is easy enough for a middle school student to equate, but it's the data that's entered into that equation that's in question. Scientists often guess (wildly at times) as to the conditions of life millions of years ago when the enter values for Initial mass. Also, half-life decay is predictable, but was not even discovered until the early 1900's. Estimating millions of years for the potassium K-40 isotope decay might be a good guess based on current models, but again, we only have a 100+ year snap-shot into a million year process. It's circular logic to REQUIRE millions of years to PROVE millions of years!
@@robertfleischmann4119 Also radiocarbon which he mentioned is strongly AGAINST the possibility of millions of years (C14 in basement level diamonds as the most clear example), and fossils (require fast burial) etc.
Read up on all that at their site. It's debunked that any of that supports Old-Eartherism. Just because a lot of Old-Earthers tell you otherwise over and over doesn't make that true.
5:15 _Third_ Commandment. I = vv 2-6. II = v 7 III = vv 8-11 IV = 12 V = 13 VI = 14 VII = 15 VIII = 16 IX + X = 17 (or more precisely Dt 5:21) But yes, Fulcran Vigouroux and Cardinal Wiseman could have used a concordance a bit more often, they kind of missed Exodus 20 and Mark 10.
Ken, I found a podcast of yours recently and since have inundated my days with listening to your podcasts. I am soooo grateful to you for weeding out false doctrine brought about by scientists over the ages. It all makes sense now. God’s calling on you to correct “the science indoctrination” is amazing. A while back, God called me to put together and publicize “Operation yaats (counselor).” I am a retired LMFT of 25 years (retired in 2019 because the American Psychological Association forced therapists to affirm LGBTQ and social justice. I chose NOT to renew my license because God’s counsel comes first in my life not “man’s crafty counsel.” God took me back to the Hebrew of the scriptures, especially Genesis. He wants a teaching specifically about His nature as Counselor through the eyes of Hebrew scriptures in Genesis and accounts of Jesus pointing out logic-only reasoning resulting in faulty conclusions (dialogizomai) v. Full-orbed reasoning using both sides of the brain, including temporal lobes where insight/revelation is activated to result in correct God-authored conclusions (dianoia). God is certainly on the move to rebuilt His ekklesia. God bless you, Sir.
@@Flintlock1776 Accusations of indoctrination by someone who believes that the earth's life evolved while the moon got chaotically captured close resulting in massive deadly tides and only gradually moved out to its current location, and thinks he is a talking ape, and believes in talking parrots he imitates. That's cute.
@@aprilmcgeown2253 It's going to take more than an incantation and a Bronze Age deity to convince me that something demonstrably false is actually true because a 2000 year old myth and a youtube preacher says it is.
@@marcj3682I would be more impressed by Exodus 19: 11: “And by the third day let them be ready; for on the third day, the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people.” Yeah. That didn’t happen. Conveniently, the Lord didn’t come down, but instructed that only Moses and Aaron, should come up to make their way to the Lord, but not the priests and the people, lest the Lord come upon them “suddenly.” Whatever that means. Sounds ominous. Anyway, Moses went down and told them some stuff. As, the Church Lady used to say, “HOW CONVENIENT!!!”
@@davidt51 That's debunked. 7th day was a Sabbath, God rested from work, but Jesus says he's working and has been until now. The argument is made by twisting a passage in Hebrews and the fact that Genesis doesn't say the seventh day ended, but that's a crazy standard as if it did, then you would think we're in the 8th day. Do you really want the Bible littered with "Oh by the way, that day ended, and then so did the next day" for every 24-hour period over 4000 years? Think it through...
So you’re saying, God created the Earth in chaos. Please explain Jerimiah 4:23-25 when was that? Certainly, that’s not Noah’s flood. And yes Adam was the first man to sin, but please tell me where was Lucifer thrown? You’re skipping over way too many points.
Well said. He's also ignoring Satan was no longer Lucifer by the time Eden was created. So...was Satan already in the Earth prior to as Genesis clearly indicates? According to Ham, this insinuiates Lucifer fell during Noah's flood? That's not sound doctrine. Typical Ham being a ham.
Jer 4:5 Declare in Judah and make it heard in Jerusalem and say, “Blow the trumpet in the land; Call out, make your voice full, and say, ‘Gather yourselves, and let us go Into the fortified cities.’
7 A lion has gone up from his thicket, And a destroyer of nations has set out; He has gone out from his place To make your land a desolation. Your cities will be turned into ruins Without inhabitant.
Orthodox Christians have always taught that we are currently living in the 8th Day of Creation; it dawned when Christ our God rose from the dead. The 7th Day of Creation therefore began at the end of Genesis chapter 1, and continued through the entire Old Testament, ending with the original Paschal narratives in the Gospels. So we have no idea how many thousands or millions of years are condensed into the beautiful poem in Genesis chapter 1.
Ken forgets that the 20,000 fossil sites show that life was wholly different between layers. Physics, chemistry, and geology age the rocks. The existence of layers themselves is not the rationale for millions of years.
@@logicianbones The reality can't be debunked... All he does is pure manipulation and lies, wake up to reality! Read any book about manipulation and see for yourself!
There are some people who say that mans sin only brought human death not animal death. Thats how they try to get around the death before sin issue. So they say that the animals were already dying before adam sinned
Going back to the original language often helps if there is a dispute over what a verse in the Bible means. The Hebrew word for "day" in the Old Testament is the word "Yom", and like our English version of the word day it can be used in a different context, such as "it certainly is a hot day outside". But, in the Old Testament, whenever the word Yom is used with either the words evening and morning, or with a number, it always means a literal 24 hour day. The place we see most of the versions of a Gap is between verse 1 and 2 in Genesis. Verse 1 is a statement that says that there was a beginning and the heavens and the earth were created by God. So, how much time is between verse 1 and 2? If there had been creation over hundreds of millions of years within a gap between vs. 1 and 2 then that doesn't fit with how the account of creation, and what happened that allowed death and sin into the world after God first created a perfect world. Death and destruction doesn't occur until Adam sinned, and that brings us to the most important point. Before Christ became flesh and dwelt amongst us (John 1 vs. 1 to 14), the Jewish people lived by the law and there were over 600 laws they had to obey. Jesus (also referred to as the 2nd Adam) came to fulfill the law and not do away with it when He died for our sins as the perfect sacrifice on the cross. It was the main reason why he came and His purpose was also to proclaim the Kingdom of God and how He was the way to access that Kingdom. If we are a Christian it doesn't mean that we will live a life without problems. In fact we are told that "in this world we will have many problems, but to be of good cheer for I have overcome the world". We still are living in an imperfect world where bones will still break and hearts will still break. The Apostle Paul, in the book of Romans, states that he is glad that we have the law, otherwise how would we know what sin is, but that sin can now be forgiven. Accepting Christ into your life and beginning a relationship with Him is all that is required to begin that journey, and there are other videos that discuss how to best do that and grow in the faith. But, Ephesians 2: 8 - 9, explains that we are saved by grace (undeserved favor) through faith (the evidence of things not seen) and not by works (being a good person, even going to church, etc.), it is a gift from God. There is nothing we can do to "earn" our way to heaven. The reward of that walk with Jesus, amongst other things while we are on this planet, is the assurance we shall have in the Kingdom of Heaven for eternity. I try not to judge others, because I've had my share of very public face plants and I'm far from perfect, which has given me a better appreciation for the grace and love of Christ. I wish you well in your journey and it took me over 25 years of going back and forth before I finally came to the point where I had seen too much not to believe (as the song says). Please be civil because I do not argue and hitting people over the head with the bible or stating other facts from ancient historians, etc. will not help if the person is not in a position where they are ready to accept Christ. Those things help when answering honest questions, but you must come to the point where you are ready to believe. Blessings in your journey.
I hear you, he reveals himself to be a man. Complete with misconceptions about the Word. He is so focused on his thesis that the gap is man trying to mix the Word of God with the world’s ideas that he is incapable of seeing the entirety of the Bible (which teaches the gap). Let us have grace for brother Ham but seek the truth from God. 🙏❤️
Also, the sun, moon and stars were created on day 4, so whatever some people say happened in "the gap" happened in a cold dark universe; and by cold i mean cryogenic cold
OK - Two things going on here... 1) 6 days would only be 6 thousand years, not millions. But more importantly - 2) This verse (2 Peter 3:8) is showing us that God is outside of time and space. It's not a reference to our own concept of time, but rather God's presence beyond our reality. God know the beginning from the end. Our short life span on Earth is but a fleeting moment in God's existence. In fact, it is impossible for humans to comprehend "infinity". God IS infinite. There are no bounds and no limits. It's amazing to research the history of the universe from ancient times to modern technology. Aristotle believed that our "universe" was contained inside a glass bubble called the Celestial Sphere. At one point, people believed that the sun and the moon were the same size and actually within our reach (the story of Icarus). Next, Galileo discovers that the "universe" was much bigger than we previously thought by using his primitive telescope in the 1600's. It wasn't until the early1900's that we discovered that the universe extended WAY past our own Milky-Way galaxy. With the Hubble Deep-Field image taken in 1995 once again showed how ridiculously vast the universe actually was. Now, with James Webb, we see even further into the deep recesses of the universe... with no end in sight! My take-away is this - Just when we think we've reached the limits of our understanding and perception, God shows up even further out than we could have possibly imagined. The universe HAS to be boundless - otherwise it puts limits on God. Which there are none.
“a day IS LIKE 1,000 years” not is a thousand years. The Hebrew word yom plus a # (i.e. the first day or day 1) always means a literal 24 hour day. “And the evening and the morning was the first day”.
I agree. I lean towards god created them before day 1. As said in job when god laid the foundations of the earth the angels sang. But answers in genesis says they were created between day 1-3. Which directly contradicts the verse in job.
Bless your lil heart!! It’s safe to say it’s pretty naive to say something does exist. It’s like saying something can’t happen. Ironically that’s when it normally does happen. If I’m wrong , well I’m no better off than you. But if your wrong well , I feel even more sorry for you. People don’t want there to be a god , they’d rather lay in their sin like pigs in the mud. I appreciate your input tho.
"Research" has been speculated many times over - filled with inconsistencies and numerous guesses. The biggest accumulation of errors is found in fossil "radio-carbon dating". Sure, the math equations are irrefutable, but the data entered into those equations are hypothetical and speculation at best. Variable are often loosely thrown into the equations with a per-determined outcome. If a scientist wants to convince the public that the earth is millions of years old, he'll find some evidence (often wrapped in a complicated math equation) that "proves it. However, when you unwrap the evidence, you'll find that most of the "proof" was speculation about conditions they claim are millions of years old. It's circular logic. You have to HAVE millions of years to PROVE millions of years.
Thank you for these thoughts. While I can see your faith based logic. I think that the material of our universe was already there, created perhaps eons ago by God, but in Genesis He gave it form AND purpose and created new life .
Hebrew word for day is YOM, it has 4 different meanings . Part of a day , all of the daylight hours, 24 hours , and period of time . This is an interpretation debate on how long are the days. The Bible doesn’t tell us how old the earth is. Science heavily supports earth as 4 billion years old . So since the word day(YOM )in Hebrew can mean a long period of time , this interpretation can be compatible with an old earth view.
Good day brother, have you ever heard The late Chuck Missler on the subject " The gap theory between Genesis 1:1 &2? He was a bible scholar and didnt derive his understanding from a man. Ive heard him on the subject and he opens up The Hebrew to explain his teaching.
Amen! I can't see why people want to put all that time in between v1 & v2. It's apparent to me, even when I was 6th or 7th grade that v2 is just re-iterating what v1 just said. Lots of narratives speak this way!
Calculating force of earth under all that water that's a lot and a lot of pressure so much like pressure caused implosion in that homemade submarine? And so lines appear more quickly? Like when people put glued layers of wood under pressure to stick them together? I dont get fermament part english not first language i find that hard to understand to draw out get it?
"And the Earth" could also mean that the earth at this point, before the creation of man had endured this even that caused it not be "Good" but without form. This could also explain this creature, the serpent who deceived Eve. Where did this creature come from? Ez. 28:13 would suggest that this creature, the zenith of creation, was in the Garden of Eden, before pride brought it down. Therefore, the Biblical narrative would point to the possible of this "interval" between verse 1 and 3. The goal is not to build in millions of years, nor the need for death to intervene, but for a logical sequence for the first 3 chapters of Genesis.
So when was Satan cast to earth? He had to have been there prior to the creation of Adam. Also, in the NASB there is no “and” as you showed on the screen. Verse two starts with”the.” So it is two separate statements not a contrition of verse one.
Isiah 45:18 - For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
The biggest problem with the gap theory for me is the plain statement that the plants were created the day before the sun, moon and stars were created.
The day is determined by rotation of the earth, year the orbit around the sun, the moon roughly based on orbit of the moon. But there's no basis for a 7 day week. It would make more sense for a 5 day week as it goes into 365 days evenly. There is only one reason for a 7 day week and it's given in Exodus 20:11
This man must have sat in my junior church class when I taught creation. Practically sounds like me explaining this exactly to the kids, minus the Aussie accent😂
Light existed BEFORE the sources existed. That's a weird concept to grasp, but this is what the Bible teaches us. The light just existed before being focused and emitted from the sun/stars.
On a video over the weekend, an actor who has gotten saved recently, had a dog on with him and he said that dogs, man’s best friend, had been here for 75000 years? He needs to start reading the Word of God!’
I thought the gap theory might be valid until I read that verse in Leviticus - no room for doubt there. Speaking of Noah's flood - I have a question - what about the aquatic life? The scripture specifically says all the animal life on the land and in the air died but no mention is made of the life in the seas, lakes and rivers. I doubt that Noah had aquariums on board the ark. So what is going on with that?
If years had been significantly different, the Earth would need a faster or slower rotation speed, so either it would gradually fly away from the sun, fall into the sun, or would need to be orbiting further out (colder) or further in (warmer). There's zero evidence of any of that, obviously. It doesn't say when hell was made, possibly as late as the first death of someone unsaved or a demon imprisoned possibly. Though God foreknew the need for it.
There’s this book called the Book of Enoch. It’s in the Ethiopian Bible. In the second part of that book, it talks all about the science of God. It says that a year is 364 days. There’s available versions online, you can google it if you want to (I think you would be interested).It’s super insightful into understanding the more technical questions, like about the sun and its positions, and other sciences; where people go when they die (before we all stand before God) and understanding the events of Genesis with much greater detail.
God didn't create Hell Satan did . And God doesn't send anyone to Hell Satan takes them there after they have rejected God . God tries to prevent that happening by persuading us to be closer to Him. If He fails then we go to Hell !
Any gap theory is unnecessary. When programmers create a video game world, do they create each character as an embryo and plant each tree as a seed? No, programmers will program in people of various ages and an already grown tree.
There are 109 Hebrew waw consecutives ("and" coordinating conjunction) which make 1 longer running sentences, a polysydenton like a string of pearls of one whole necklace. Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:4 is one creation event covering only 7 Days. It's one complete whole story of Creation by God of the heaven and the earth in 6 literal days and God resting and admiring His creative work of the 7th Day.
I love you Ken Ham because you are the greatest Apologist I've Ever heard and you have a huge heart for God and Truth. Thank you and God bless you and your family. 🙌🙌🙌❤❤❤
I know someone who believes, through their Bible study, that, yes, God created the earth in 6 days and rested on the seventh, but we don't know how long Adam and Eve lived in the garden before they fell. So, they concluded that is where a large span of time can come from. Also, we don't really know how old Adam was because they believe that he didn't start aging until he was kicked out of the garden. I completely disagree with all of this and as Ken said, this puts death before the fall of man. I try to explain it to them, but they insist that they did a study on it and I can't convince them. Thank you for a great video. God bless.
Adam lived 930 years, he started aging in years from the day he was created, not from the fall. “Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.” Genesis 5:5 ESV There’s no way to get millions of years in there if the person reads their Bible.
@@MB-qy1op I could be wrong, but I feel like you refuting me. Trying to prove me wrong, when I absolutely agree with you. 930 from the day he was created. I don't believe there is a mysterious time frame. Also, when I said, "we don't really know how old Adam was..." I was quoting them. Not stating what I believe. I believe that God says what he means and means what he says. If I'm wrong and misunderstood you, then I apologize. I've just been corrected so many times for being right and agreeing with someone and it's frustrating. Yes you read that correctly.
Moses did not write verses, he wrote an account lineally. The verse and chapter breakdown is less than 500 years old. So saying God split the first two sentences is nuts.
I realize the Bible seems to make astonishing statements. But Creation IS astonishing. Life IS astonishing. The things Jesus said and did are astonishing . The wonderful words of life are astonishing. And I am helped by these things in a way nothing else ever has
Evolution is astonishing too - the wonder of nature developing over billions of years. It also has the advantage of being true!
@@Faust2Dr Thats like taking all the pieces of a watch and shaking up in a bag and waiting for time to put it together and make it into watch! A watch needs a watch maker. God spoke the world into existence by his almighty power and took the dust of the earth and formed man then he breathed life into him. Check what science says about the chemical composition of our bodies and see it is the same as the dirt! And he made everything in 6 days and rested on the 7th to give us our week as he doesn't operated in time, he made it for us. He is eternal and decides how everything would be and his science does not show this earth as being more than 6000 years old or that man has evolved for he keeps repeating the same old mistakes over and over again through civilization until he destroys it. We are at that point again where only a Red Sea miracle will save the planet and change culture to put us back on the right track. Man without God is hopeless, just wicked and greedy. We were made to worship God and if we don't we worship ourselves or money, or fame and power or every other vise that satin leads you to believe will make you happy and successful. If you come to the end of that and loose your own soul what have you gained? You will be separated from God forever in torment, just as the devil wants for you... to be with him forever and that won't be pleasant. So ask God to make himself and the truth known to you and you will be surprised at how he does it! Jesus is the light of the world and if you follow him you won't walk in darkness but have the light of life in you to guide you to eternity with him in a new kingdom the way God designed it before the fall of man. Blessings to you.
@Dr Considering it aledgedly takes place over billions of years, plus the relative short lifespans of humans, eyewinesses are by necesity, few and far between, making the aledged requirment of direct observationrequired by scientic endeavor impssible.
@@mrtadreamer - are you saying something can only be true or real if it can be observed by humans? Some things take time, but are still real.
@mrtadreamer direct observation is in no way a requirement of science.
Most science doesn't involve a direct observation.
Thank you Jesus for the wisdom you have given brother Ken.
Thank you Ken for keeping us informed and encouraging us to stand on the word of God.
If he was truly after truth he would honestly and without bias compare truthfully both Young Earth Creationism and The Gap Theory in a truthful way investigating which one is correct,but he distorts the truth about the Gap Theory.He is too biased toward YEC because he has invested so many years to it.
@@lionzion1879 what has he said that makes him a con artist, or are you just making a Boogie man out of him?
@@lionzion1879 it's hard to understand because you're not explaining it you're too vague what specify did he claim that makes him a con artist give at least one thing please
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Apparently, science is filled with conmen and scams but that's the thing. You don't like to talk about it.
Ken Ham in the context of this video discussed the gap theory in this video and how it doesn't work with the bible. He doesn't need to show any evidence of that to you.
@@MineABear saying with confidence that the oldest evidence we have is from trees dating back 4000 years. Claiming the earth is 6000 years old. This guy is ignoring the evidence that typically surpassed that time frame.
Line on line, precept on precept. Absolutely correct. Well done sir.
You helped me believe the bible is true, which, in return, helped me realize God is real. I never really thought about religion or God until I saw your videos. Now I read my Bible every day and have made it my purpose to get to know God and his son Jesus. Thank you for sparking my interest in the bible. Ken Ham rocks.
God bless you Ken for your years of defending Christianity and the Bible and putting the truth out there for all to have access too it. 🙏
Thank you Ken Ham for stressing the importance of a bible based view of creation without forcing the acceptance of a millions of years timeframe. God is all powerful and doesn't need the gap theory.
Thank you for your systematic and faithful approach to understanding God's Word. God bless, Miles
Our God spoke it all into existence.
What a powerful God we serve.
Do what no one has ever done, PROVE IT
@Tuokool nothing would convince you against what you ARE indoctrinated to believe, not even evidence, I'm well aware of that, you say your not indoctrinated, yet who told you gods existed in the first instance, and how come out of all the supposed gods to believe in you accept the one of your culture. You accuse me of saying your indoctrinated while with usual evangelical fundamentalist hypocrisy and double standards you claim to know I'm angry, and lack faith in everything,. If any god was proven to exist I would not need to be forced to accept it, I would accept that irrefutable evidence, that's all.any believer has ever asked you claimants for, and it's something you have never delivered. How many millions have you Christians killed in attempting to force all to believe in your supposed god. Again you claiming and other atheist assert something came from nothing, I have never made such a claim and no of no other atheist that has, the only ones I know of that make such a stupid claim are you theist nutters, "everything had an origin but my believed in god, special pleading " and never an iota of evidence to back your ridiculous claim. If any god was proven to exist it would be common global knowledge. If you were really interested in gaining knowledge of where every thing came from how about asking cosmologist, astrophysicist, botanist, biologist, bio chemist and other experts in that field, instead of swallowing what your uneducated charlatan teachers like your pastors and pseudo scientific nutters like Ham feed you with and which you readily like the gullible until you are swallow up. Atheism is a simple answer to a simple question, it's not an ideology, a religion, a belief system, it's merely a statement that one does not accept theist claims of their gods existing, theist claim,allege, assert , " MyGod exist" an atheist is merely one that responds " Ido not believe you" ,nothing else can be attributed to any atheist.
@@jelly7310 and then goes missing . Oh art the God of hide and seek
Mr Ham you came to my church many years ago in Athens Georgia Athens Georgia. I have followed your teachings probably 40 years. I have also followed a Bible teacher Les Feldick (Through the Bible). He was the finest Bible teacher I have ever known. He did have a theory about the gap theory. He was very adamant that it was possible. He also taught creationism and you might think about that. By the way my church is Prince avenue Baptist church in Athens Georgia. I know how busy you are but please follow up. We can ask Jesus when we meet in heaven. You are a blessing to so many.
Brilliant and devastatingly impactful content. Thank you.
Great video!
I'll add another thing that I originally heard presented from Dr Bill Barrick's Hebrew Grammar lectures:
In Genesis 1:2 it uses the word "hayah" which is in the QAL Perfect Static Stative meaning it is a state of being (is/was), and the only way it could be an Imperfect Dynamic Stative (state of becoming) is if the following word started with a Lamed prefix, but in Genesis 1:2 it does not, making it a Static Stative "to BE" (in this case "was") and to "EXIST."
To put it simply: The Hebrew text really does NOT in any possible way, shape, or form, allow for any hint of a possibility of a gap theory of the world "becoming" over "millions of years", and is emphatic in that it "was."
Wanna have fun with evolutionists? Have them explain the existence of sheep! It is a studied, proven fact that without protection and care, sheep cannot survive. So, how did they come to be without us being at a level of intelligence to understand their benefit to us, causing us to farm them? Seriously, have them research and explain how sheep evolved. It's impossible without a Creator and direct placement under a pre-established knowledge.
Speaks of evening & morning & day one, day 2, each differentiated from the other. Plain enough
Really? Lot's wife BECAME(hayah) a pillar of salt. And the earth BECAME(hayah) without form and void.
Here's your prooblem: tohu va bohu is only used of judgement. So God didn't create the earth in a state of judgment. Go study that. Margin of the NASB allows "became".
@@randy.starkey I don’t have a problem because the Hebrew grammar is crystal clear. The problem rests on you being eisegetical.
Thank you. May the Lord bless you.
Excellent explanation. I have friends who believe in the gap theory, though they’ve never heard of the gap theory per se. Thanks for pointing out Exodus 20:11. It emphasizes the point that Genesis 1:1 is part of the six days of Creation, rather than prior to them.
Thank you for this info. I believe in our Lord's Word - not man's word. Excellent Video
TRUTH WILL PREVAIL ☝️💖
Thank you Ken.
And so it does with the bible continually proven wrong and believers becoming more and more disassociated with reality.
@_Robot Considering that although truth can be suprressed, but cannot be destroyed, all one needs to do, and wait the truch to ptove unself, because it will. No need for aguments. Debates or chalenging one another.
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Good luck with that.
How long you thinking of growing your beard?
Remember the atheist formula: insult God insult Christians insult Christianity = they win the argument. Makes zero sense. Moist Robot is a regular atheist.
It does prevail but you won't find it here.
No sin and death. No entropy.
Incorrect, wo entropy you can have no chemical or physical processes. No breathing, no digestion, no movement of any sort..
No atrophy🙌
It wasn't about no entropy, it was about that God evidently miraculously preserved anything that didn't need to exhibit entropy (prevented any injuries or disease, etc. and may have preserved manmade objects if we had stayed unfallen long enough to make any, like the sandals in the 40 years wandering), and removed that effect at the Fall (thus allowing for natural evils, etc.).
@@logicianbones That's a MUCH better way to state it. All 4 laws of classical thermodynamics were in effect in the garden (0,1,2 and 3); otherwise life is impossible. That God continually sustained and supernaturally fixed the errors, now we're in full agreement. Unfortunately, what was said was sloppy and to someone who has actually worked with the equations of thermodynamics, absurd.
Hi Ken. I was curious about the theory that Genesis 1:1 can be interpreted from the Hebrew as a dependent clause, as in "When God was creating the Heavens and Earth" and then the theory in Genesis 1:2 that the Hebrew word WAS as in "the earth WAS without form" is actually a Hebrew word that means to become, or became? I totally believe in the Supernatural, which is kind of why I'm open to the gap theory. I'm not married to it, or against it, just open to it.
We hear God calling through that “gap” don’t we😊? It’s amazing the perspective that can be understood when we place the scriptures about Satan’s dominion into the gap. Particularly when we see mankind given dominion in the six day creation and Satan trying to usurp that dominion through men. He is trying to get it back. And then Yeshua assuring our salvation through becoming a man. I admire God, what a plan!
The only millions of years that exists in the Bible is God has always existed as the Ancient of Days. That's it.
Yes, but time doesn’t exist in the spirit realm where YHVH incarnate in Christ and the holy angels dwell, and the other spirit beings that dwell there. YHVH created time, matter and space for this physical world alone. Spirit beings are not bound to the physical laws of this world, only the creatures YHVH made to live on Earth are bound to the physical laws of this physical realm. We don’t understand how God can reveal Himself to us as Father, Son, and Spirit, and yet also say that He is only one God, because we have no experience with beings from the spiritual realm, as we are bound to this physical world as long as we’re in these flesh bodies, and this is where some believers in Christ become conflicted with the triune nature of YHVH, because His nature, as an eternal spirit being, is beyond anything we’ve experienced on earth. We are made in God’s image, triune beings who are body, sòuI, and spirit in one person, but we can’t separate our body from our sòuI, from our spirit. Since we can’t separate the parts that we consist of, body, sòuI, and spirit, and we don’t have the power of omnipresence, being multiple places at once, like YHVH can, then we have a hard time rationalizing how YHVH can be in the spirit realm, and on the earth at the same time, like He was in Genesis 19, and like He was when He was incarnate in Christ, and other times in scripture, because it’s beyond our finite understanding. It’s like people who have had supernatural experiences with ghosts, or other paranormal experiences, and people who have never experienced those things, nor have they known anyone who has had paranormal experiences, they often have a difficult time believing the stories those who have had paranormal experiences share with others. However, the people who have had supernatural, or paranormal, experiences will never forget it, and they don’t need anyone to believe them, because they know what they saw. If you look at how scripture describes our physical world, you understand that the spirit world is much larger and all around us, but YHVH has hidden it from our eyes for the most part. According to scripture, those invisible spirits that are all around us, they also watch us. Sometimes they try to engage with humans, but God’s Word says we are not to try to communicate with the spirits beyond the veil, because there’s malevolent spirits who deceive humans into thinking they are “angels of light”. This is why we run from the occuIt, because it’s wicked in God’s eyes. The beings across the veil also know who belongs to YHVH through Christ, and who doesn’t.
God exists outside of time, there is no 'millions of years' anywhere in existence.
@Redeemed at YHVH….No we have to understand the difference between the millions of years that are being touted versus the Bible and the literal thousands of years when man has been on earth. We don’t have to know about time in another realm. Just that God created the earth in 6 literal 24 hour days with humans, animals, birds etc. That is the argument…creation or evolution. It can only be creation and a young earth.
@@Redeemed.of.YHVH.thru.Christ the same could've claimed by schizophrenics. Have you any idea where YHWH originated, that supposed god was one of near hundred sons of El, theSun god, and Ashera the moon goddess, the brother Of Yam and Baal among others all.worshipped as gods before the Hebrews became monotheist, YHWH was also called "Lord" he was polytheistic Hebrews god of storms and war, he was morphed into El be moving Elohim plural of El, it's claimed he had an affair with Ashera his mother to do so, your early as atheist as I am, there are thousands of gods worshipped today by millions, that you deny exists, and with no more evidence that they don't exist than you have of the one you claim exist, I just refuse to.accept because you have no evidence to show your believed god exists one more god than you do.
@@Desert-edDave demonstrate outside of time, that there was a time before time,that there is such a thing as outside of space or matter, that there ever was such a thing as nothing. You have as much chance of evidencing any of that as you have of demonstratably evidencing your believed god. Name any one and prove they were born with any knowledge, you cannot, all are born devoid of what knowledge even is, they are born with only the instinct to piss and shit themselves, suck a tit and tell for attention, religions , gods existing just like racism is taught, and of them religion taught is the more evil.
was at First Bpt Ch "conference" on the corner of Broadway and Central, albuquerque...when you were here as a young whippersnapper with CRI.... also, my grandson was a rmmate at pbc, FL with a beloved of urs....continue to be well and mighty in the Word and Even so, come Lord Jesus.
Thank You!!!!
How grateful I am to be able to benefit from the work of today's Bible- believing men and women of science.. and to have good resources and organizations to recommend for others
This isn't science. This is people twisting facts to promote their agenda.
You have got to be kidding.
@@Flintlock1776 Exemplifying what a trite response is.
Deuteronomy 4:2"You shall not add to the Word of the Lord ... nor take away from it."
Ken Ham and others are going to be in trouble.
@@abelcainsbrother BIG trouble!
@@SenhorTudo The bible warns about adding or taking away from the word of God.My conscience is clear as a Christian that believes the Gap Theory is the true and only correct biblical interpretation when it comes to creationism. Day Age old earth creationism and Theistic Evolution are wrong too.
Very well stated and communicated sir. Thank you!
Ken is right. The bible didnt mean a million years. If it meant a million years it would have said a million years. But the people who wrote the bible didnt have the foggiest idea how old the Earth is. It would have been impressive if they did, but instead, just wrong again.
Just found you this morning!
All praise and glory to God!
Thank you sir! ❤🙏👆 0:25
The Bible doesn't really say what went on before the universe's creation. So we really only can account for the time starting with In the beginning.
Or you can believe the lies that nasa told you
Thank you Ken Ham.
Explain how your creation story has the trees and plants created before the sun and moon?
How do you account for a 6000 year old earth when you should know, as an Aussie, that aboriginal people have been there alot longer than that? How do you avoid such evidence?
Very good point! The aboriginal people have been a functioning and coherent group for tens of thousands of years. Are they lying Ken? Or are you just full of it?!!! (PS. We know the answer!)
How do you know the aboriginal people have been there a lot longer than that?
@@williamjpellas0314well, maybe there's actual archeological evidence to prove that they've been there for thousands of years?
Why is your thinking so bounded? God can create and he did create in the order that is recorded in the bible.And yes there was no sun,moon and stars before the 4th day,meaning God provided other source of light.Drum roll ...God is light him self,but if you read more in detail his word will find that God himself does not need light and can operate in any darkness perfectly fine...unlike the human. The reason God gave the lights in the sky was for seasons(moedim,that translates as appointed times) and seasons.We are supposed to meet with God on the appointed times that is Sabbath,and the festivals.
@@eliculross9771 what other sources of light was the trees getting? You can't be serious if you believe everything was created in 6 days,
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Self control. (Galatians 5and 6) Practice those things walk in the Spirit of Truth and glorify God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ah! My playlist I’m sorry I’m commenting on the previous upload. I’m leaving it here anyway. Brother Ken Ham has been a warrior for Christ as long as I can recall. He glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ and his Word. We have peace with God by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ let’s change the world brothers and sisters! Liked the upload much respect for all that take a stand for Jesus Christ. 👏👏👏
So if the Universe is only 6000 years old...how can we see the Andromeda Galaxy which is 2.5 million light years from Earth? There wouldn't have been enough time for the light to reach us?
We don't know yet. We do know several possible models of distant starlight have not been disproven, like Dr. Russel Humphreys' time dilation model, which enjoys a lot of support. It also uses Earth reference frame language so even without time dilation there's a "time zones" model also mentioned in their Answers book IIRC that would have more distant galaxies made earlier in their own reference frame but Earth's frame wouldn't consider them "now" until their light reaches Earth, so basically God hadn't yet created closer in yet.
God stretched out the heavens after he created the light.
@@dontaylor1701 Are you being sarcastic? Or do you think the Andromeda Galaxy was only a few 1000 light-years away when it was created?
@@mashah1085
Your question is for God, not me. I am no authority and neither are you. Right?
Man likes to be their own authority and it leads them to error.
@@dontaylor1701 Then why did you post a response then when questioned on it, decide to dodge?
Thank you for that explanation.
I have heard of this theory before and had many questions on how they came up with this conclusion.
Thank you. I was once indoctrinated into believing there were millions of years crammed between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.
Everyone has been indoctrinated into believing the Earth is a ball that moves and spins. It is not what the scriptures teach.
For reference in your future discussions, when reading Genesis chapter 1 read the 1st 5 verses all together and the 5th verse ties the 1st 4 verses together.
The real nail in the coffin for that is the verses in Exodus 20:8-11. The oldest man only lived to be 969 years old. That eliminates the possibility other scripture some folks often reference a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day to God. If that is read in context these reference the level of patience God has for His creation of human beings and some in their defiance of Him.
@oldtimerlee8820
Now you are manipulated by this individual...
I was shocked to find out that my father believed in the Gap Theory, when I was 50 I found out!
@@ancataut7891 The word 'manipulation' doesn't mean what you think it does. Grab a dictionary and learn the words before trying to use them.
What REALLY matters in life is not lying to ourselves and others. There is no time for anything else.
I like what you’re saying here. But then I realize I’ve lied to myself and others. So I’m going to offer that all that matters is Jesus/Yeshua and receiving salvation from Him so that one day I can quit lying to myself and others. But accepting Him means a certain amount of intellectual honesty, which I think is what you are saying here. God bless 🙏❤️
@@navion1946 why dont you make it simpler and work on stopping lying to yourself and others? Isnt it kind of strange to neglect that, and even deliberately??
Thank you for speaking the Truth...( also for the wonderful Creation Museum 😊) God bless you!...
Do you know the meaning of the word truth?! What about manipulation and its components?
We worship the God of the impossible!❤
Love it 🙏🏽 Thank you Ken
i wounder how Mr. Ham responds to galaxies formation . are all things in the universe only 6000 light years away ??
He teaches that light was created in transit , and and the physics of the universe changed after the fall , and the flood . He only uses science when it supports his position, but when it doesn’t it’s man’s fallible ideas.
Thank You Ken.
I’m just curious what Heaven, earth, and time frame are represented in Rev 12:7-9?
I have never heard anyone who believes in six 24 hour days of creation address the fact that the sun, which is the basis of measuring days and years, was not created until “day” four.
And it wasn’t created on day it was there on day 1. Plants and vegetation released oxygen in the atmosphere and now on day 4 the sun moon and stars are now visible distinct objects, and are for animals and humans to use as time markers to use as days seasons and years.
The Hebrew word create(bara) is only used three times. Day 1 ALL physical matter. Day 5 soulish (nephesh) creatures,and day 6 Humans (spiritual beings).
@@Terrylb285 i do not think that is what it says
@@rhovey1059 the word create is not used , but the phrase (let there be). The frame of reference in genesis is from the viewpoint of an observer on the surface of the planet looking to the heavens. And the phrase ( God made ) two great lights is used in the Hebrew form past tense.
@@Terrylb285 the phrase , “God made” would always would always be past tense being that make is past tense of “to make.” If the phrase were intended to refer something previously made before it was referenced, then the pluperfect tense (God had made) would have been used.
It's indeed more controversial than any eschatological teaching ... specifically if you believe if you try to reconcile with Darwin. But again for you to believe in the gap theory you must then explain the idea of death existing before sin. Specifically, Adam's sin...
Didn’t Lucifer’s sin result in death?
Thank you Dr. Ham for the clarification, it was very much needed; I had the Gap theory misinterpreted. :)
Love this man & others like him i thank God for them God is great, God is good.
Where did he get his doctorate from, a joke shop, it's certainly not from any universally acreditted educational establishment.
@@derekardito2032 Ken Ham obviously cut his doctorate from a cereal box
The gap theory is that there may be a long time between Genesis 1:1 & Genesis 1:2. This does not mean that time must be millions of years, nor that anything in particular happened during the gap, except that at the end of the gap, the earth was tohu & bohu. The theory does not require the translation of "became" in 1:2 instead of "was." The theory does not imply that evolution took place during the gap.
You make perfect sense Ken. We need to believe the Bible.
Ken Ham convinced me bible believers are deluded.
Millions of Christians do believe the Bible without ignoring scientific realities.
Go buy another Nasa shirt though
Why should I *believe* the Bible when I can have a world view that is based entirely on falsifiable evidence?
Gap theorists believe the bible and they are Christians too.
Praise the Lord
The gap theory doesnt belittle God nor make Him less God. He is Eternal and taking 13.2 billion years to create/restore Earth is just like Him and gives us bread crumbs for a trail leading back to His event. I believe in a 6 day (24 hrs) restoration of the Earth just like He had to restore me when I was destroyed by sin.
Problem is there's no evidence for any of that. Creating miraculously is also just like him (water to wine, feeding of the thousands, etc.). How do you know which "like him" to apply? Well, we do -- the one he SAID.
The light from distant stars is billions of years old. The Bible refers to ancient civilizations. It took millions of years for the elements to make life to be available for the creation of man. It wasnt until 10 to the minus 42 seconds that it was cool enough for sub atomic particles to bond to begin to form elements following the Event of God's beginning of time. God took every subatomic particle that He created and compressed them into a sphere the size of a period and created the events that was so controlled by Him that the elements could form over time. It's easy to say He blinked and everything was here, but then no trace of Himself for man to discover and give Him the glory. His eternal nature is displayed in His creation.
@@logicianbones Look up the term "without form and void" in the Bible. It is used in Gen 1:2 and Jer 4:23. God chose to use that term in Jer 4:23 as a cross reference verse to Gen 1:2. Jer 4:23 the earth is "without form and void" following a divine judgement from God. God did not create the earth without form and void, that is ridiculous. I do not believe that there is a gap between Gen 1:1 and 1:2 to support the "science falsely so-called" camps claims of millions and billions of years. The gap between Gen 1:1 and 1:2 could have been 5 minutes or an extremely long time but the fact remains that the term "without form and void" is a Bible term used following judgement. He learn more about creation from the book of Job and Psalms than we do in Genesis. For example in Job 38 the angels where there shouting for joy when Jesus Christ was creating the universe.
@lwm20 if something is created, that means if is fully functional, and done, right? So yes, between God's original creation of earth and it becoming formless and void, something happened to change that fully functioning state. Satan was cast down to earth and given dominion of earth and all that was upon it. Also says that Satan ruled over the kingdoms on earth. All that happened befoee verse 2 and before God introduced man as we know it
AMEN 🙏.
Thank you Ken,
His Living Word continues to warm hearts.
Wow. Well said! The Gap theory is an example of humans desperately trying to use a human way of thinking to make the bible "work". 🤦🏻♀️ We don't need to fix the bible!! Some things we cannot completely comprehend or explain because we are not God. And that's okay! This is where faith comes in.
what about the herb yielding seed already being in the ground?
What about it?
Why was the herb yielding seed in the ground if it wasn't there before the first major deluge? This is not an argument, just an honest question. I am a believer and do not think the gap theory discredits anything in the Bible.
Ken Ham is a hilarious comedian, he even says that he has the birth certificate of the universe, gees he is the best😅.
Hey Ken do you drive a car because the whole of the FOSSIL Fuel industry works on an old earth because if they didn't you would be walking everywhere or riding a horse if you were lucky.
Here is another on ever hear of the HEAT PROBLEM of energy released by an old vs a young earth and how this planet would have been incinerated many times over if it were 6,000yrs old- please explain that.
So…. What are you saying Sir? We ignore fossils and carbon dating and (every other) science-leaning evidence?
The only thing I can think is main stream science is wrong about the carbon dating and the earth is no where near as old as they claim I'm not a scientist so idk but I do know that atheists go to extremes to disprove the Bible
The scientific revolution was born out of a Christian belief that the universe was orderly. Today, data from fossils and carbon-14 are ‘leaning toward’ the creation event, not away from it. Soft tissue in fossils, carbon-14 in diamonds, the existence of short term comets and fossilized tree trunks through deep layers of sediment with no sign of erosion between the layers. These all create havoc for incrementalism. Do you ignore this science?
Explain how the ‘Cambrian explosion’ came into being, the incredible complexity of the cell, how DNA was encoded with ridiculous quantities of information, the incomprehensible instantiation of life itself or why the universe is embarrassingly fine-tuned for life. Naturalism has painted itself into a corner by denying what the pioneers of science sought out from the start of their enterprise…their Creator.
Carbon-dating is filled with speculation and inconsistencies. The math equation (Final mass = Initial mass/2^n) is easy enough for a middle school student to equate, but it's the data that's entered into that equation that's in question. Scientists often guess (wildly at times) as to the conditions of life millions of years ago when the enter values for Initial mass. Also, half-life decay is predictable, but was not even discovered until the early 1900's. Estimating millions of years for the potassium K-40 isotope decay might be a good guess based on current models, but again, we only have a 100+ year snap-shot into a million year process. It's circular logic to REQUIRE millions of years to PROVE millions of years!
@@robertfleischmann4119 Also radiocarbon which he mentioned is strongly AGAINST the possibility of millions of years (C14 in basement level diamonds as the most clear example), and fossils (require fast burial) etc.
Read up on all that at their site. It's debunked that any of that supports Old-Eartherism. Just because a lot of Old-Earthers tell you otherwise over and over doesn't make that true.
5:15 _Third_ Commandment.
I = vv 2-6.
II = v 7
III = vv 8-11
IV = 12
V = 13
VI = 14
VII = 15
VIII = 16
IX + X = 17 (or more precisely Dt 5:21)
But yes, Fulcran Vigouroux and Cardinal Wiseman could have used a concordance a bit more often, they kind of missed Exodus 20 and Mark 10.
Ken, I found a podcast of yours recently and since have inundated my days with listening to your podcasts. I am soooo grateful to you for weeding out false doctrine brought about by scientists over the ages. It all makes sense now. God’s calling on you to correct “the science indoctrination” is amazing. A while back, God called me to put together and publicize “Operation yaats (counselor).” I am a retired LMFT of 25 years (retired in 2019 because the American Psychological Association forced therapists to affirm LGBTQ and social justice. I chose NOT to renew my license because God’s counsel comes first in my life not “man’s crafty counsel.” God took me back to the Hebrew of the scriptures, especially Genesis. He wants a teaching specifically about His nature as Counselor through the eyes of Hebrew scriptures in Genesis and accounts of Jesus pointing out logic-only reasoning resulting in faulty conclusions (dialogizomai) v. Full-orbed reasoning using both sides of the brain, including temporal lobes where insight/revelation is activated to result in correct God-authored conclusions (dianoia). God is certainly on the move to rebuilt His ekklesia. God bless you, Sir.
Top man !
Accusations of indoctrination by someone who believes that the earth was created in 6 days, 6,000 years ago, and that serpents talk. That's cute.
@@Flintlock1776 ask God to show you the truth yourself and see what happens!
@@Flintlock1776 Accusations of indoctrination by someone who believes that the earth's life evolved while the moon got chaotically captured close resulting in massive deadly tides and only gradually moved out to its current location, and thinks he is a talking ape, and believes in talking parrots he imitates. That's cute.
@@aprilmcgeown2253 It's going to take more than an incantation and a Bronze Age deity to convince me that something demonstrably false is actually true because a 2000 year old myth and a youtube preacher says it is.
Somehow people who claim to find a gap between Gen. 1: 1 and Gen. 1: 2 ignore Exodus 20:11.
However, we are still in the seventh day
"Somehow they ignore Exodus 20:11."
What do you mean?
@@marcj3682I would be more impressed by Exodus 19: 11:
“And by the third day let them be ready; for on the third day, the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai, before the eyes of all the people.”
Yeah. That didn’t happen. Conveniently, the Lord didn’t come down, but instructed that only Moses and Aaron, should come up to make their way to the Lord, but not the priests and the people, lest the Lord come upon them “suddenly.” Whatever that means. Sounds ominous. Anyway, Moses went down and told them some stuff.
As, the Church Lady used to say, “HOW CONVENIENT!!!”
Exodus 19:16-20 clearly states that he did. It caused them to tremble.
@@davidt51 That's debunked. 7th day was a Sabbath, God rested from work, but Jesus says he's working and has been until now. The argument is made by twisting a passage in Hebrews and the fact that Genesis doesn't say the seventh day ended, but that's a crazy standard as if it did, then you would think we're in the 8th day. Do you really want the Bible littered with "Oh by the way, that day ended, and then so did the next day" for every 24-hour period over 4000 years? Think it through...
So you’re saying, God created the Earth in chaos. Please explain Jerimiah 4:23-25 when was that? Certainly, that’s not Noah’s flood. And yes Adam was the first man to sin, but please tell me where was Lucifer thrown? You’re skipping over way too many points.
Well said. He's also ignoring Satan was no longer Lucifer by the time Eden was created. So...was Satan already in the Earth prior to as Genesis clearly indicates? According to Ham, this insinuiates Lucifer fell during Noah's flood? That's not sound doctrine. Typical Ham being a ham.
Chaos is a pagan idea.
Jer 4:5 Declare in Judah and make it heard in Jerusalem and say,
“Blow the trumpet in the land;
Call out, make your voice full, and say,
‘Gather yourselves, and let us go
Into the fortified cities.’
7 A lion has gone up from his thicket,
And a destroyer of nations has set out;
He has gone out from his place
To make your land a desolation.
Your cities will be turned into ruins
Without inhabitant.
13 Behold, he goes up like clouds,
And his chariots like the whirlwind;
His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are devastated!”
Orthodox Christians have always taught that we are currently living in the 8th Day of Creation; it dawned when Christ our God rose from the dead. The 7th Day of Creation therefore began at the end of Genesis chapter 1, and continued through the entire Old Testament, ending with the original Paschal narratives in the Gospels. So we have no idea how many thousands or millions of years are condensed into the beautiful poem in Genesis chapter 1.
Ken forgets that the 20,000 fossil sites show that life was wholly different between layers. Physics, chemistry, and geology age the rocks. The existence of layers themselves is not the rationale for millions of years.
Not "forgets", knows it's debunked. They cover all of that on their site. This is just one short video about one topic.
@@logicianbones No. It's not debunked at all.
@@logicianbones
The reality can't be debunked... All he does is pure manipulation and lies, wake up to reality! Read any book about manipulation and see for yourself!
There are some people who say that mans sin only brought human death not animal death. Thats how they try to get around the death before sin issue. So they say that the animals were already dying before adam sinned
"Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool."
Voltaire
“Atheism began when the first non-believer became an edgelord”
Me
@@Deinz1024
It would have been better for you to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubts.
Going back to the original language often helps if there is a dispute over what a verse in the Bible means. The Hebrew word for "day" in the Old Testament is the word "Yom", and like our English version of the word day it can be used in a different context, such as "it certainly is a hot day outside". But, in the Old Testament, whenever the word Yom is used with either the words evening and morning, or with a number, it always means a literal 24 hour day. The place we see most of the versions of a Gap is between verse 1 and 2 in Genesis. Verse 1 is a statement that says that there was a beginning and the heavens and the earth were created by God. So, how much time is between verse 1 and 2? If there had been creation over hundreds of millions of years within a gap between vs. 1 and 2 then that doesn't fit with how the account of creation, and what happened that allowed death and sin into the world after God first created a perfect world. Death and destruction doesn't occur until Adam sinned, and that brings us to the most important point. Before Christ became flesh and dwelt amongst us (John 1 vs. 1 to 14), the Jewish people lived by the law and there were over 600 laws they had to obey. Jesus (also referred to as the 2nd Adam) came to fulfill the law and not do away with it when He died for our sins as the perfect sacrifice on the cross. It was the main reason why he came and His purpose was also to proclaim the Kingdom of God and how He was the way to access that Kingdom. If we are a Christian it doesn't mean that we will live a life without problems. In fact we are told that "in this world we will have many problems, but to be of good cheer for I have overcome the world". We still are living in an imperfect world where bones will still break and hearts will still break. The Apostle Paul, in the book of Romans, states that he is glad that we have the law, otherwise how would we know what sin is, but that sin can now be forgiven. Accepting Christ into your life and beginning a relationship with Him is all that is required to begin that journey, and there are other videos that discuss how to best do that and grow in the faith. But, Ephesians 2: 8 - 9, explains that we are saved by grace (undeserved favor) through faith (the evidence of things not seen) and not by works (being a good person, even going to church, etc.), it is a gift from God. There is nothing we can do to "earn" our way to heaven. The reward of that walk with Jesus, amongst other things while we are on this planet, is the assurance we shall have in the Kingdom of Heaven for eternity. I try not to judge others, because I've had my share of very public face plants and I'm far from perfect, which has given me a better appreciation for the grace and love of Christ. I wish you well in your journey and it took me over 25 years of going back and forth before I finally came to the point where I had seen too much not to believe (as the song says). Please be civil because I do not argue and hitting people over the head with the bible or stating other facts from ancient historians, etc. will not help if the person is not in a position where they are ready to accept Christ. Those things help when answering honest questions, but you must come to the point where you are ready to believe. Blessings in your journey.
This video destroys Ken Ham
Hmm... He looks ok to me, he just put out another video and he looked about the same.😂🤣😅
I hear you, he reveals himself to be a man. Complete with misconceptions about the Word. He is so focused on his thesis that the gap is man trying to mix the Word of God with the world’s ideas that he is incapable of seeing the entirety of the Bible (which teaches the gap). Let us have grace for brother Ham but seek the truth from God. 🙏❤️
@@gi169Ken Ham claims in the title to “destroy” the gap theory. He does nothing of the kind. Hence the statement.
@@navion1946
Is that right... Hmmm...
Also, the sun, moon and stars were created on day 4, so whatever some people say happened in "the gap" happened in a cold dark universe; and by cold i mean cryogenic cold
1 day is a thousand years
OK - Two things going on here... 1) 6 days would only be 6 thousand years, not millions. But more importantly - 2) This verse (2 Peter 3:8) is showing us that God is outside of time and space. It's not a reference to our own concept of time, but rather God's presence beyond our reality. God know the beginning from the end. Our short life span on Earth is but a fleeting moment in God's existence. In fact, it is impossible for humans to comprehend "infinity". God IS infinite. There are no bounds and no limits.
It's amazing to research the history of the universe from ancient times to modern technology. Aristotle believed that our "universe" was contained inside a glass bubble called the Celestial Sphere. At one point, people believed that the sun and the moon were the same size and actually within our reach (the story of Icarus). Next, Galileo discovers that the "universe" was much bigger than we previously thought by using his primitive telescope in the 1600's. It wasn't until the early1900's that we discovered that the universe extended WAY past our own Milky-Way galaxy. With the Hubble Deep-Field image taken in 1995 once again showed how ridiculously vast the universe actually was. Now, with James Webb, we see even further into the deep recesses of the universe... with no end in sight! My take-away is this - Just when we think we've reached the limits of our understanding and perception, God shows up even further out than we could have possibly imagined. The universe HAS to be boundless - otherwise it puts limits on God. Which there are none.
“a day IS LIKE 1,000 years” not is a thousand years. The Hebrew word yom plus a # (i.e. the first day or day 1) always means a literal 24 hour day. “And the evening and the morning was the first day”.
I’d love to hear your opinion on the timeline of angels being created.
I agree. I lean towards god created them before day 1. As said in job when god laid the foundations of the earth the angels sang. But answers in genesis says they were created between day 1-3. Which directly contradicts the verse in job.
@@davidpiot8098 Did anyone ask you?
The angels pretty much existed before God created the world.
@@davidpiot8098 Well that's original.
Bless your lil heart!! It’s safe to say it’s pretty naive to say something does exist. It’s like saying something can’t happen. Ironically that’s when it normally does happen. If I’m wrong , well I’m no better off than you. But if your wrong well , I feel even more sorry for you. People don’t want there to be a god , they’d rather lay in their sin like pigs in the mud. I appreciate your input tho.
You can make a nice living from this nonsense.
If the Earth was destroyed between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, why did a sun, moon and stars need to be created on Day 4?
30 seconds in and a bare faced lie. The age of the earth comes from _research,_ not atheism. Why do you knowingly lie, Ken?
"Research" has been speculated many times over - filled with inconsistencies and numerous guesses. The biggest accumulation of errors is found in fossil "radio-carbon dating". Sure, the math equations are irrefutable, but the data entered into those equations are hypothetical and speculation at best. Variable are often loosely thrown into the equations with a per-determined outcome. If a scientist wants to convince the public that the earth is millions of years old, he'll find some evidence (often wrapped in a complicated math equation) that "proves it. However, when you unwrap the evidence, you'll find that most of the "proof" was speculation about conditions they claim are millions of years old. It's circular logic. You have to HAVE millions of years to PROVE millions of years.
Thank you for these thoughts. While I can see your faith based logic. I think that the material of our universe was already there, created perhaps eons ago by God, but in Genesis He gave it form AND purpose and created new life .
The gap theory is based on Genesis 1:1-3. Nothing to do with atheists.
An argument founded upon a false premise no matter how logical will result in a false conclusion .
Sorry Ken, you'll never convince me that dinosaurs shared the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve and then were destroyed in the Flood.
How long was a day in the creation ?
Hebrew word for day is YOM, it has 4 different meanings . Part of a day , all of the daylight hours, 24 hours , and period of time . This is an interpretation debate on how long are the days. The Bible doesn’t tell us how old the earth is. Science heavily supports earth as 4 billion years old . So since the word day(YOM )in Hebrew can mean a long period of time , this interpretation can be compatible with an old earth view.
Ken Ham a gift to us from the Lord. Grateful
Good day brother, have you ever heard The late Chuck Missler on the subject " The gap theory between Genesis 1:1 &2?
He was a bible scholar and didnt derive his understanding from a man. Ive heard him on the subject and he opens up The Hebrew to explain his teaching.
Amen! I can't see why people want to put all that time in between v1 & v2. It's apparent to me, even when I was 6th or 7th grade that v2 is just re-iterating what v1 just said. Lots of narratives speak this way!
What authority does Lucifer had to command flood? Only GOD's word of authority command the Great Flood.......
Calculating force of earth under all that water that's a lot and a lot of pressure so much like pressure caused implosion in that homemade submarine? And so lines appear more quickly? Like when people put glued layers of wood under pressure to stick them together?
I dont get fermament part english not first language i find that hard to understand to draw out get it?
I told my BIL that if he didn't nees to believe in the truth of 7 days, why would he believe in anything. God can do anything.
Summary: Filling the gaps with magic.
"And the Earth" could also mean that the earth at this point, before the creation of man had endured this even that caused it not be "Good" but without form. This could also explain this creature, the serpent who deceived Eve. Where did this creature come from? Ez. 28:13 would suggest that this creature, the zenith of creation, was in the Garden of Eden, before pride brought it down. Therefore, the Biblical narrative would point to the possible of this "interval" between verse 1 and 3. The goal is not to build in millions of years, nor the need for death to intervene, but for a logical sequence for the first 3 chapters of Genesis.
So when was Satan cast to earth?
He had to have been there prior to the creation of Adam.
Also, in the NASB there is no “and” as you showed on the screen. Verse two starts with”the.”
So it is two separate statements not a contrition of verse one.
Isiah 45:18 - For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
People should be very careful making things up and adding them to scripture just to make scripture "fit" with man's opinions/theories.
The biggest problem with the gap theory for me is the plain statement that the plants were created the day before the sun, moon and stars were created.
The day is determined by rotation of the earth, year the orbit around the sun, the moon roughly based on orbit of the moon. But there's no basis for a 7 day week. It would make more sense for a 5 day week as it goes into 365 days evenly. There is only one reason for a 7 day week and it's given in Exodus 20:11
This man must have sat in my junior church class when I taught creation. Practically sounds like me explaining this exactly to the kids, minus the Aussie accent😂
Why does it have to be millions of years? Could any length of time exist between those two verses?
Do you believe God created the universe?
Amen
You make some valid points. Just please explain "THE LIGHT" , day and night, but no sun, moon, and stars for 2 days?????
Light existed BEFORE the sources existed. That's a weird concept to grasp, but this is what the Bible teaches us. The light just existed before being focused and emitted from the sun/stars.
God is the light
On a video over the weekend, an actor who has gotten saved recently, had a dog on with him and he said that dogs, man’s best friend, had been here for 75000 years? He needs to start reading the Word of God!’
Why are you bothered by a person believing in reality?
@@avishevin1976 Nothing has been here for 75 thousand years! I know about reality!
@@melvinhunt6976
You are contradicting yourself. The Earth alone is a few billion years old at this point.
@@avishevin1976 the earth is somewhere around 8000 years old! Possibly 10,000 !
@@melvinhunt6976
Why are you bothered by the notion that the Earth is older than a number that is never mentioned by your Bible?
Without faith it is impossible to please God. Faith begin in Genesis 1.
I thought the gap theory might be valid until I read that verse in Leviticus - no room for doubt there.
Speaking of Noah's flood - I have a question - what about the aquatic life?
The scripture specifically says all the animal life on the land and in the air died but no mention is made of the life in the seas, lakes and rivers.
I doubt that Noah had aquariums on board the ark.
So what is going on with that?
Which verse in Leviticus?
@@navion1946 Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.
@@lw216316 okay, I’m aware of that one but that’s Exodus not Leviticus.
Sorry , got that mixed up with another verse . at my age the memory is not what it used to be. The truth of the verse is still the same.
How do we know a biblical year was the same as what we know a year to be today? And when did God create hell ?
If years had been significantly different, the Earth would need a faster or slower rotation speed, so either it would gradually fly away from the sun, fall into the sun, or would need to be orbiting further out (colder) or further in (warmer). There's zero evidence of any of that, obviously. It doesn't say when hell was made, possibly as late as the first death of someone unsaved or a demon imprisoned possibly. Though God foreknew the need for it.
There’s this book called the Book of Enoch. It’s in the Ethiopian Bible. In the second part of that book, it talks all about the science of God. It says that a year is 364 days. There’s available versions online, you can google it if you want to (I think you would be interested).It’s super insightful into understanding the more technical questions, like about the sun and its positions, and other sciences; where people go when they die (before we all stand before God) and understanding the events of Genesis with much greater detail.
God didn't create Hell Satan did .
And God doesn't send anyone to Hell
Satan takes them there after they have rejected God .
God tries to prevent that happening by persuading us to be closer to Him.
If He fails then we go to Hell !
Any gap theory is unnecessary. When programmers create a video game world, do they create each character as an embryo and plant each tree as a seed? No, programmers will program in people of various ages and an already grown tree.
There are 109 Hebrew waw consecutives ("and" coordinating conjunction) which make 1 longer running sentences, a polysydenton like a string of pearls of one whole necklace. Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:4 is one creation event covering only 7 Days. It's one complete whole story of Creation by God of the heaven and the earth in 6 literal days and God resting and admiring His creative work of the 7th Day.
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I know someone who believes, through their Bible study, that, yes, God created the earth in 6 days and rested on the seventh, but we don't know how long Adam and Eve lived in the garden before they fell. So, they concluded that is where a large span of time can come from. Also, we don't really know how old Adam was because they believe that he didn't start aging until he was kicked out of the garden. I completely disagree with all of this and as Ken said, this puts death before the fall of man. I try to explain it to them, but they insist that they did a study on it and I can't convince them. Thank you for a great video. God bless.
Adam lived 930 years, he started aging in years from the day he was created, not from the fall. “Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930 years, and he died.”
Genesis 5:5 ESV There’s no way to get millions of years in there if the person reads their Bible.
@@MB-qy1op I could be wrong, but I feel like you refuting me. Trying to prove me wrong, when I absolutely agree with you. 930 from the day he was created. I don't believe there is a mysterious time frame. Also, when I said, "we don't really know how old Adam was..." I was quoting them. Not stating what I believe. I believe that God says what he means and means what he says. If I'm wrong and misunderstood you, then I apologize. I've just been corrected so many times for being right and agreeing with someone and it's frustrating. Yes you read that correctly.
Moses did not write verses, he wrote an account lineally. The verse and chapter breakdown is less than 500 years old. So saying God split the first two sentences is nuts.