What Happened Between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2? | The War Before Genesis - EP 3

What happened between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2? Genesis begins with God creating the heavens and the earth. But the very next verse describes the earth as “formless and void” — tohu va vohu — covered in darkness. Then Isaiah 45:18 says God did not create the earth tohu. So what happened? In Episode 3 of The War Before Genesis, Bennett examines one of the most debated interpretations of the opening verses of the Bible: the Gap Theory. Could Genesis 1:1 describe an original ordered creation, followed by a catastrophic judgment connected to Lucifer’s rebellion? Could Genesis 1:3 onward describe restoration rather than creation from nothing? We examine: •...