Whatever Genesis 1:2 reveals would have to be within the six days. Scripture cannot be broken.
That's right, with the 1st day starting at Gen.1:2, not Gen.1:1.
The only reason the gap theory was introduced was because Christians felt compelled to find a way to concilliate scripture with what they mistakenly thought was undeniable science. They saw Genesis 1:2 as a way to get around this, but we should be believing scripture, not trying to find loopholes in it.
Well, that's an idea some folks borrow from men's traditions about it, while not fairly addressing the Scripture details in question. Some of men's traditions long ago falsely tried to associate it with Darwinism, evolution theory, and from the general boost by19th century science. Men's traditions have also used that idea with those who see the Gap in Genesis as only trying to create an agreement to explain scientific discovery, while not sticking to how Genesis is actually written. I see science as supporting God's Truth about it, not the other way around. God's Word is always... first and foremost with me, even with Scripture which science doesn't yet agree with. It's man's field of science that is evolving, not God's Holy Writ.
There is not a single shred of evidence that the universe is old. Radiometric dating is only useful if and only if it could be established that the conditions we see today have been constant backwards through time. And the speed of light is only a problem if you assume the secular model for how the universe was created.
I thought you might have been interested in discovery per God's Holy Writ, instead of going outside the relevant Scripture. But I guess not.
But why Christians would accept a secular model that is based on assumption, over and above the scriptural explanation handed down to us by God, is beyond me.
You mean "over and above the" '
traditional' "scriptural explanation", don't you? It's simple; one is a tradition of men, the other is not.
As for assumptions that the Gap idea in Genesis 1 is a "secular model", can you find me any field of modern science that teaches it? If you say Darwinism, evolution theory, etc., that cannot apply, for no model of modern science covers it that I know of. Yet, some discoveries by science does... support it as the Scripture is written.
Like the scientific method, Almighty God doesn't tell lies...but with Almighty God we can cut straight to the chase. He listed, within Genesis, a certain status of the planet when his active force surveyed it. It was void...it was in darkness on the side of the watery deep...
Yet that void idea is not what God's Word teaches in Genesis 1:2, because the Hebrew for "without form, and void" is not meant in that way, which other relevant Scriptures also backs up. If God's Word is allowed to interpret God's Word on that event, it will not lead to assumptions that the condition of the earth was in a vapour state of nothingness at Gen.1:2.
Certainly, Almighty God created the heavens and the Earth in the first place, but there is a lot of scientific data he knew we couldn't possibly understand for a few thousand years and he had ordained that we would have to follow the full extent of the path leading to the knowledge of 'good and evil' first. That is where we are now, at the end of that path, and it is time to learn the meat behind God's teaching, because many are letting the milk turn sour, and that is a blasphemy against Jesus Christ.
What makes you think the Gap idea in Gen.1 isn't the real strong meat teaching of His creation per His Word? Just becaue of what others... say, without really going into the Scripture in-depth?