The reason I am writing is that for over three decades I have researched and written my own detailed Biblical Calendar. The initial format was like every calendar that humans have written using the Bible only. Therefore my initial calendar purported to show a year for the creation. However, around 2007, my Heavenly Father who had caused me to harmonize and reconcile every historical time reference (greater than a few days)in His Scripture, including those in the Book of Acts, and to chart them in my detailed Biblical Calendar, made me do one correction back then. This was to include His gap in time which lasted from the end of the 6th day of creation until the day before Adam sinned and was booted from the Garden in Eden. Then began from the day of sin, Adamâs 930 years lifespan lived subject to physical death which was temporary punishment due to his first sin. Well, since God, by His gap, did not give us the year of creation then man will never know it either by historical scientific means since there were no human scientists there at the creation to observe and tell us when it was and there was no decay and age anywhere in the that pristine universe until sin occurred and the waxing old as a garment began. So even although solar days were happening while Adam was in the Garden in Eden, he was not aging or decaying, he was then ageless just like his Creator!
Now I have since last year been reaching out to many Christian Scientists and notable Christian Organizations and showing them my gap and asking for their Biblical proofs to say there is no gap or to show that they still know the creation year after knowing about my gap. But, alas, the few who have responded have not been able to refute my gap, Biblically with their rebuttals. If they prove my gap wrong from the Bible only, then I will readily bow to the Bible and recant my gap position. Now here is where my Heavenly Father shows His gap (my gap) which Christians (including myself initially) in their hurry to just add up ages completely ignored:
Genesis 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Genesis 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Yes, the above Passage shows Adam created without sin in Godâs likeness and Godâs image is not mentioned as in Genesis 1. But this first of the many generations (genealogies) of Genesis 5, shows no age of how long Adam had Godâs likeness and thatâs because age only matters when sin is present leading to physical death. But then immediately after, when sin had occurred, God gives His contrasting second generation (a chrono-genealogy) on this occasion with age:
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Genesis 5:4 And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters: Genesis 5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.
Yes, Adam lived his first 130 years after his first sin having his own likeness, but having lost Godâs likeness at his first sin. And Adam passed on his own likeness with sin to Seth who was born in Adamâs likeness and not Godâs likeness, when Adam was 130 years of age, lived subjected to physical death. God had no need thereafter to show the change of Godâs likeness to Adamâs own likeness with sin because only at creation can man obtain Godâs likeness without sin. Every human born of an earthly human father is born with Adamâs own likeness with sin. Itâs only when a human is regenerated in soul, at the point of salvation, that that new creation within, is created after God in Godâs own likeness so that the new creation (new man) cannot sin.
But all the remaining chronogenealogies of Genesis 5 were lived subject to sin and its consequence of physical death, just as Adamâs 930 years. Anyone who claims that Adamâs 930 years started at the sixth day of creation is also claiming, unknowingly (I hope), that God created Adam a sinner with his own likeness such that Adam sinned from the moment he came from the hands of God. And thus Adamâs lifespan of 930 years started on the sixth day of the creation. Plus, making such a claim means that because God created Adam in Godâs likeness then Godâs likeness is the very same in essence with Adamâs own likeness with sin. What an abominable thought!
What are your thoughts after reading the above?