Let's read the king James Bible to see what you are overlooking here..
Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void;..............
Without form means the earth wasn't even there if you wish to know the meaning of void as opposed to how modern day people use void to mean. Therefore the first verse was the general topic while the following verses was explaining how this was done.
Genesis 1:2..............and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
The Word of God created the light to establish the 24 hour day.
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Now the "Earth" is a water planet with an upper atmosphere on the second day. That was all that was divided; hence no land mass.
Genesis 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Now the Earth has substance added to the water planet to create a land mass to appear out of nowhere on the third day but not only that, plant life emerged spontaneously because He spoke it into being just as He did with the land mass.
So God can create anything out of nothing by speaking it into existence. That is how I am reading the Bible. There was nothing there when God began to create the heavens and the earth when the earth was without form and not just void.
So there is no gap between verse 1 and verse 2 when verses 2 onward is about how verse 1 came about since the heavens were not created until the fourth day.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
So by speaking that there be lights in the Heavens to govern the earth for that purpose, then there were no lights in the heavens before that day.
So the earth did not exist at all that first day. All that was there was water everywhere before He divided the water in creating a water planet and the upper atmosphere the second day so there was no flood when land was not created yet on that water planet that second day..
In my last post, I addressed all that you said in the previous post. Now, you address nothing I said, but instead just go on with your theory of creation.
I'm not just going to buy what you say. You must respond to what I have said. If you can't respond to what I have said, then your position is weak. Which it appears at this time.
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