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Without Form and Void Custance, Arthur C. 
In any understanding of God's revelation, we are dependent upon words, upon the words in the original language - and in their most literal sense. One might suppose that the translating of Hebrew into English is a rather straightforward matter.
However, the phrase "without form and void" (in Genesis 1:1-2) has two permissible translations. Either God's creation began in chaos or became chaos. The implication is that Genesis describes either a work-in-progress or a disrupted work that became chaotic. The rest of the chapter describes either a work of bringing order to what had begun as a chaos OR a work restoring order to what had become a chaos. In this scholarly analysis, Dr. Custance observes the rules of linguistics, of grammar and syntax, as well as examining how these words are used in the rest of Scripture. That such a gap or hiatus of unknown duration between the first two verses is by no means a recent interpretation called forth by the challenge of modern Geology, but was held by early Jewish commentaries and versions, by early Church Fathers, and by some of the greatest Hebrew scholars of Europe. A well respected Canadian scientist himself, Dr. Custance contends that we should not allow science to determine what Scripture says. Neither should we allow Scripture to determine what the scientist observes in the laboratory. But he cautioned that observed fact in the one cannot, ultimately, conflict with revealed fact in the other. Any conflict, then, is in the interpretation of the facts - not in the facts themselves. This book has been described by John C. Whitcomb, one of its chief opponents, a Hebrew scholar himself, as the definitive work on the Gap Theory, also known as the Restitution Theory. 275 pp. indexed ISBN: 978-1-934251-33-1 Price: $28.95 (US) $28.95 (CDN) including shipping and handling. |
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