The Gap Theory

Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned:—

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

For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst 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.

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book:

This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance; — read the full passage →

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

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

and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.

And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks: — read the full passage →

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

And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto 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, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

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

wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

how that 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 know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.

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

For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. — read the full passage →

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

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, I beheld Satan fallen as lightning from heaven.

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels:

And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. — read the full passage →