The Gap Theory

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God; — read the full passage →

So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book.

This is now, beloved, the second letter that I have written to you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by reminding you; — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man.

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

how he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows), such a one caught up into the third heaven.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For since death came by man, the resurrection of the dead also came by man. — read the full passage →

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

“As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. — read the full passage →