The Modern Creation Trilogy

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Dr. Henry M. Morris. The Modern Creation Trilogy

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Chapter 1

The Biblical Record of Creation

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The great pre-Adamic cataclysm, which is basic to the gap theory, also needs explanation. It needs scientific explanation, for one thing, but more importantly it needs theological explanation. Why would the Creator spend billions of years developing a world and then suddenly reduce it to chaos in a shattering cataclysm? Or why would He allow it to develop on its own, then destroy it and re-create the same plant and animal types that had evolved?

The explanation commonly offered is that the cataclysm was caused by Satan’s rebellion and fall as described in Isaiah 14:12–15 and Ezekiel 28:11–17. Lucifer — the highest of all God’s angelic hierarchy, the anointed cherub who covered the very throne of God — is presumed to have rebelled against God and tried to usurp His dominion. As a result, God expelled him from heaven, and he became Satan, the great adversary.

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