The real evidence of Genesis 1 with the "dry land" is that the dry land was already... there, underneath the waters that covered it. That automatically presupposes an earlier creation of the land (earth) that was under those waters which God later moved around to make the land appear.
Gen 1:2
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
(KJV)
The Hebrew phrase "without form, and void" ACTUALLY means 'lie waste, and undistinguishable ruin' (Strong's no. 8414 & 922). It does NOT mean a state of 'nothingness' in the Hebrew. A simple comparison of the word tohuw ("without form") throughout God's Word will show it is used for something gone into ruin, into a state of vanity. For something to do that it has to first... have been in a different, or better condition before going into ruin.
Notice the "face of the deep" and "face of the waters" are first mentioned there with that "without form, and void" state. That immediately removes any idea of a 'nothingness' outerspace vacuum condition.
If that part is first understood per the Hebrew, the next verses about the waters and land fall into place easily...
Gen 1:6-10
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
These "waters" are the same "face of the deep" and "face of the waters" mentioned in Gen.1:2. They are at a specific location, covering the earth. That's where these waters are, and where God is separating them. With this first dividing, He is separating those waters in two parts to create a "firmament" (sky atmosphere around the earth).
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.
Here He actually creates the sky atmosphere around the earth using part of those waters from the first division. The rest of the waters He left where they were. Where were all those waters again before He did this? Upon the earth, covering it all. Notice Gen.1:2 says the "earth" was a waste and an undistinguishable ruin (per the Hebrew for "without form, and void"). The earth was already there at Gen.1:2. So at this point, part of the waters were taken up above the earth and the sky formed around it, the rest of the waters He left were still covering all the earth. That means a whole lot more water was on the earth than today's seas, because when He did this first division of waters, what was left on the earth's surface was still enough to totally cover it.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
OK, the sky ("firmament") is formed, the rest of the waters left still covering all the earth.
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.
(KJV)
The waters He left on earth at that point are those "waters under the heaven". That "heaven" is put for the sky atmosphere around the earth, the "firmament" He formed from part of those "waters" in the previous verses. These waters here are the portion of waters He left on the earth that covered it all still. Here He moves those waters that were left upon the earth, and it makes the "dry land" underneath appear. And these waters on the earth He calls "Seas". This is not a creating of land, i.e., the Earth. It is a naming of the Earth for this world. The earth was already created at Genesis 1:1 before it became 'a waste and a ruin' ("without form, and void").
What our Heavenly Father is actually showing us there, is that the Perfect heavens and earth that He first created at Gen.1:1 had become a waste and a ruin and He ended that time with a flood over all the earth, similar to the time of Noah's flood, excepting there was nothing left on the earth. He literally destroyed the works on that old earth. The fossil record just so happens to agree perfectly with this event.
Both evolutionists and young earth creatioinists totally disagree with this, so arguments that try to put this in either of those categories is moot. Neither group has followed how these Scriptures are actually written, even within the KJV Bible.
As we're supposed to do with study of God's Word, we are to seek out two or more witnesses to establish God's Truth in His Word. Are there other Scriptures that point to this? Yes. Apostle Paul gave a description of it which many miss...
Rom 8:16-25
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
OK, Apostle Paul established the subject time there being about the world to come under Christ Jesus; not this present world, but the one to come, even God's Eternity of the future. That's the future glory he is speaking of, and our relation to it in Christ.
Rom.8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
The creation waits for the future time of the manifestation of the sons of God. Remember, the subject time Paul placed this in is for the world to come, not this one we are still in today. That KJV word "creature" is Greek ktisis, Strong's defines it as 'original formation' (Strong's no. 2937). It is the very same... Greek word for "creation" in v.22 further below. The Message is that even the 'creation' is waiting for the world to come when we as the sons of God will be manifested according to that future glory under Christ Jesus. Apostle Paul further continues to define that future state of the sons of God later here also, so there's no mistaking the world to come he was talking about.
All these other examples of KJV "creature" here in Rom.8 is the same Greek word ktisis put for the "creation".
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him Who hath subjected the same in hope,
This verse by Paul requires you to stop and think. Paul says the creation ("creature") was made subject to vanity; stop. Think about that. Just HOW was the creation made subject to vanity??? What kind of vanity?
The Greek word for "vanity" here is matalotes (Strong's no. 3153: from base 3152 which means 'empty, i.e. (profitless)'. It is in the same... idea of vanity of the Hebrew word tohuw that is translated "without form" in Gen.1:2 and per Jer.4:23 and Isa.45:18, etc.
How would that vanity apply during today's world for God's creation? How many think that how God's creation is today is already perfect, and is going to be in the same condition for the future world to come? According to Apostle Paul here, God placed His creation in a state of vanity for this present world, and He subjected it to the same hope as we have for the future glory of the world to come.
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
That next verse removes any doubt that this is what Paul's Message there is about, the creation itself having been put in a condition of vanity, in "bondage of corruption", and is in the same hope we have for the future world to come under Christ Jesus.
So the next question is, just WHEN was it that God put the creation in "bondage of corruption"? in a state of "vanity"? made subject to the same hope we have for the future manifesting of the sons of God in the world to come?
Well, if you read the Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 1:10 Scripture how it is actually written, you just learned when God did that to His creation, revealing that He originally created the heavens and the earth in a Perfect condition in the beginning, before it became a waste and a ruin, and He brought a flood of waters upon it to destroy the time of old prior to Adam.
Apostle Paul isn't finished describing this yet...
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
God's whole "creation" (ktisis) groans and travails in pain even until now??? How's that? Do you REALLY think the four seasons and weather on this earth, which causes much of its vegetation to die and wither, and animals to flee, with barren areas where nothing will grow, and 3/4 of the earth's surface covered with water still, is how God originally made His creation??? That's exactly what the secular world wants us to believe, i.e, that this earth has always... been like that, created like it is now, and will forever be like that. In reality, even the creation is in a state of "bondage of corruption" like Paul said. And he was comparing that bondage of corruption to OUR condition in the flesh! The comparison is to one like bondage of death.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Not only does the "creation" seek a release from the bondage of corruption God put it in, in hope, but WE ourselves also do LIKEWISE groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, i.e., the "redemption of our body". What body is Paul talking about there? Not a redemption of our flesh bodies, but a redemption of our "spiritual body", the body of incorruption Paul detailed in 1 Corinthians 15. That's the body of the world to come, not this flesh body we have today that gets sick and dies, feels pain, hot, cold, etc.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
(KJV)
If you don't see the world to come manifested yet, then you still wait for it, and have hope for its coming. What you can already see established, you don't have hope for, because you see it manifested. That's all Paul is saying there, pointing to that redemption coming with the glory of the world to come, not yet today, but after Christ's future return. The "creation" waits in that same hope also with the future manifesting of the sons of God and both our release, and its release, from the bondage of corruption God has placed this present world in.
By understanding these Scriptures, our Heavenly Father is giving His servants a small peep of what His future creation is going to be like, after He frees it from the bondage He put it in prior to Adam. The Jeremiah 4:23-28 Scripture is another peep similar to what Paul covered here in Romans 8 for those in Christ Jesus. In Jeremiah 4, God shows about the sky atmosphere He formed back at Genesis 1, and how it is responsible for the vanity of corrupt weather conditions around today's earth. He also showed that He did not make a full end back then, and for this reason the earth would "mourn" with the heavens above (sky) being black, pointing to the earth's weather of storm clouds (Jer.4:28).
If you've understood this, then good for you, The LORD has opened your eyes to see it, and you should have some grasp of how God's future eternity is going to manifest with a perfect creation, not in the condition of the earth that it's in today.
Gen 1:2
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
(KJV)
The Hebrew phrase "without form, and void" ACTUALLY means 'lie waste, and undistinguishable ruin' (Strong's no. 8414 & 922). It does NOT mean a state of 'nothingness' in the Hebrew. A simple comparison of the word tohuw ("without form") throughout God's Word will show it is used for something gone into ruin, into a state of vanity. For something to do that it has to first... have been in a different, or better condition before going into ruin.
Notice the "face of the deep" and "face of the waters" are first mentioned there with that "without form, and void" state. That immediately removes any idea of a 'nothingness' outerspace vacuum condition.
If that part is first understood per the Hebrew, the next verses about the waters and land fall into place easily...
Gen 1:6-10
6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
These "waters" are the same "face of the deep" and "face of the waters" mentioned in Gen.1:2. They are at a specific location, covering the earth. That's where these waters are, and where God is separating them. With this first dividing, He is separating those waters in two parts to create a "firmament" (sky atmosphere around the earth).
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.
Here He actually creates the sky atmosphere around the earth using part of those waters from the first division. The rest of the waters He left where they were. Where were all those waters again before He did this? Upon the earth, covering it all. Notice Gen.1:2 says the "earth" was a waste and an undistinguishable ruin (per the Hebrew for "without form, and void"). The earth was already there at Gen.1:2. So at this point, part of the waters were taken up above the earth and the sky formed around it, the rest of the waters He left were still covering all the earth. That means a whole lot more water was on the earth than today's seas, because when He did this first division of waters, what was left on the earth's surface was still enough to totally cover it.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
OK, the sky ("firmament") is formed, the rest of the waters left still covering all the earth.
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.
(KJV)
The waters He left on earth at that point are those "waters under the heaven". That "heaven" is put for the sky atmosphere around the earth, the "firmament" He formed from part of those "waters" in the previous verses. These waters here are the portion of waters He left on the earth that covered it all still. Here He moves those waters that were left upon the earth, and it makes the "dry land" underneath appear. And these waters on the earth He calls "Seas". This is not a creating of land, i.e., the Earth. It is a naming of the Earth for this world. The earth was already created at Genesis 1:1 before it became 'a waste and a ruin' ("without form, and void").
What our Heavenly Father is actually showing us there, is that the Perfect heavens and earth that He first created at Gen.1:1 had become a waste and a ruin and He ended that time with a flood over all the earth, similar to the time of Noah's flood, excepting there was nothing left on the earth. He literally destroyed the works on that old earth. The fossil record just so happens to agree perfectly with this event.
Both evolutionists and young earth creatioinists totally disagree with this, so arguments that try to put this in either of those categories is moot. Neither group has followed how these Scriptures are actually written, even within the KJV Bible.
As we're supposed to do with study of God's Word, we are to seek out two or more witnesses to establish God's Truth in His Word. Are there other Scriptures that point to this? Yes. Apostle Paul gave a description of it which many miss...
Rom 8:16-25
16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
OK, Apostle Paul established the subject time there being about the world to come under Christ Jesus; not this present world, but the one to come, even God's Eternity of the future. That's the future glory he is speaking of, and our relation to it in Christ.
Rom.8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
The creation waits for the future time of the manifestation of the sons of God. Remember, the subject time Paul placed this in is for the world to come, not this one we are still in today. That KJV word "creature" is Greek ktisis, Strong's defines it as 'original formation' (Strong's no. 2937). It is the very same... Greek word for "creation" in v.22 further below. The Message is that even the 'creation' is waiting for the world to come when we as the sons of God will be manifested according to that future glory under Christ Jesus. Apostle Paul further continues to define that future state of the sons of God later here also, so there's no mistaking the world to come he was talking about.
All these other examples of KJV "creature" here in Rom.8 is the same Greek word ktisis put for the "creation".
20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him Who hath subjected the same in hope,
This verse by Paul requires you to stop and think. Paul says the creation ("creature") was made subject to vanity; stop. Think about that. Just HOW was the creation made subject to vanity??? What kind of vanity?
The Greek word for "vanity" here is matalotes (Strong's no. 3153: from base 3152 which means 'empty, i.e. (profitless)'. It is in the same... idea of vanity of the Hebrew word tohuw that is translated "without form" in Gen.1:2 and per Jer.4:23 and Isa.45:18, etc.
How would that vanity apply during today's world for God's creation? How many think that how God's creation is today is already perfect, and is going to be in the same condition for the future world to come? According to Apostle Paul here, God placed His creation in a state of vanity for this present world, and He subjected it to the same hope as we have for the future glory of the world to come.
21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
That next verse removes any doubt that this is what Paul's Message there is about, the creation itself having been put in a condition of vanity, in "bondage of corruption", and is in the same hope we have for the future world to come under Christ Jesus.
So the next question is, just WHEN was it that God put the creation in "bondage of corruption"? in a state of "vanity"? made subject to the same hope we have for the future manifesting of the sons of God in the world to come?
Well, if you read the Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 1:10 Scripture how it is actually written, you just learned when God did that to His creation, revealing that He originally created the heavens and the earth in a Perfect condition in the beginning, before it became a waste and a ruin, and He brought a flood of waters upon it to destroy the time of old prior to Adam.
Apostle Paul isn't finished describing this yet...
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
God's whole "creation" (ktisis) groans and travails in pain even until now??? How's that? Do you REALLY think the four seasons and weather on this earth, which causes much of its vegetation to die and wither, and animals to flee, with barren areas where nothing will grow, and 3/4 of the earth's surface covered with water still, is how God originally made His creation??? That's exactly what the secular world wants us to believe, i.e, that this earth has always... been like that, created like it is now, and will forever be like that. In reality, even the creation is in a state of "bondage of corruption" like Paul said. And he was comparing that bondage of corruption to OUR condition in the flesh! The comparison is to one like bondage of death.
23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Not only does the "creation" seek a release from the bondage of corruption God put it in, in hope, but WE ourselves also do LIKEWISE groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, i.e., the "redemption of our body". What body is Paul talking about there? Not a redemption of our flesh bodies, but a redemption of our "spiritual body", the body of incorruption Paul detailed in 1 Corinthians 15. That's the body of the world to come, not this flesh body we have today that gets sick and dies, feels pain, hot, cold, etc.
24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
(KJV)
If you don't see the world to come manifested yet, then you still wait for it, and have hope for its coming. What you can already see established, you don't have hope for, because you see it manifested. That's all Paul is saying there, pointing to that redemption coming with the glory of the world to come, not yet today, but after Christ's future return. The "creation" waits in that same hope also with the future manifesting of the sons of God and both our release, and its release, from the bondage of corruption God has placed this present world in.
By understanding these Scriptures, our Heavenly Father is giving His servants a small peep of what His future creation is going to be like, after He frees it from the bondage He put it in prior to Adam. The Jeremiah 4:23-28 Scripture is another peep similar to what Paul covered here in Romans 8 for those in Christ Jesus. In Jeremiah 4, God shows about the sky atmosphere He formed back at Genesis 1, and how it is responsible for the vanity of corrupt weather conditions around today's earth. He also showed that He did not make a full end back then, and for this reason the earth would "mourn" with the heavens above (sky) being black, pointing to the earth's weather of storm clouds (Jer.4:28).
If you've understood this, then good for you, The LORD has opened your eyes to see it, and you should have some grasp of how God's future eternity is going to manifest with a perfect creation, not in the condition of the earth that it's in today.
