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Of course, Genesis 1:1-2 says nothing about any destruction, and the only words we have in Genesis one are words that describe creation and progressive organization. The first chapter of Genesis takes us through 6 days, (Genesis 2:2) and the summary then tell us, "This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created." (Genesis 2:4) The same is rehearsed when God gave the ten commandments, that "in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day." (Exodus 20:11) The heavens, the earth, and everything in them were created (Genesis 2:3-4) or made (Genesis 1:31, Exodus 20:11) in six days. God spoke of no gap, there is no previous "earth age" in the Bible record. In Genesis 1:2 we read that the earth was, at first "formless and empty," we have matter, energy, space and time, but that was not the purpose of the creator. The earth was not a finished product until it was formed and filled as God wanted to form and fill it. It is only at the end of the 6th day that God "saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (Genesis 1:33). Creation was not done in Genesis 1:1-2, it was only begun. Isaiah 45:18 affirms that God did not create it "to be empty." Again, creation was not done until the 6th day, when indeed the earth was completely organized and inhabited by living creatures and mankind lived in the home God had designed for them.
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