1...2 Peter 3:5 KJV
[5] For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:... Watch out! The “they” of verse 5 refers back to the uniformitarians in verse 4. You can expect them to

2... be ignorant of what follows. They believe the entire universe came from a marble-sized “egg” (Big Bang Theory). But what you don’t expect is for a bunch of Christians who profess to believe in the Bible and believe in creation to be ignorant. Sadly enough, though,

3... that is exactly the case. “That by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being over flowed with water, perished” (vss. 5–6).
And out goes Henry Morris, Gary Parker, Duane Gish,

4... Kent Hovind, Ken Ham, and the rest of the Creation Research Institute. Every one locates that verse in Genesis 7 as Noah’s Flood. Not one of them got it right. The context is “the beginning of the creation” (vs. 4), and the comparison is to the destruction and recreation

5... of the universe in Revelation 20–21 (vss. 10–13). It couldn’t possibly be the Flood of Noah’s day.
If that weren’t enough, look at verse 5: “the earth standing out of the water and in the water.” That’s not the earth of Genesis 6. The earth in that verse is the entire

6... planet; it’s not the “dry land” of Genesis 1:9. In verses 5 and 6, part of the planet is “in the water,” and part of it is “out of the water.” In Genesis 1:9, the waters were gathered together on the earth; the earth wasn’t in them. In Genesis 7:17, the Flood waters were

7... “upon the earth”; again, the earth was not in them. The waters of Noah’s Flood are said to have been “upon the earth” (Gen. 7:17), and to “have “prevailed” and “covered” the earth (Gen. 7:19),but never to have “overflowed” it.
An overflow is what takes place when an object

8... is pushed beneath water. The water flows over the sides of the object.
Now, all of this has to do with what is known as the “gap theory.” The “gap theory” is the teaching that something took place between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2 that is not explained there but can be

9... inferred from other places in the Scriptures such as Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28. The creationists like to call it a “theory” because it can’t be “proven” scientifically. Of course, neither can the creation itself, according to the “scientific method” (i.e., for an event to be

10... accepted as a “scientific fact,” it must be observed by man and repeatable under controlled conditions). Creationists don’t care for the doctrine of the “gap” because some believers in the past have used it to explain the dinosaurs and the incredible ages the early

11.. evolutionists were proposing for the earth. The creationists insist that such a gap would violate Romans 5:12 because there would have been death before Adam. Let’s get some things straight about this, shall we. First, the Bible never says that there was anything besides

12... the sons of God” in Genesis 1:1 (Job 38:4–7). If the flood of Genesis 1:2 did kill off animal life like the dinosaurs, that certainly would have nothing to do with the present creation. Adam was the federal head (Gen. 1:28) over the creation of Genesis 1:3–27. That is why

13... sin could not enter the world through Satan and Eve (who certainly did sin before Adam). That did not cause Genesis 1:2-3. You see, the creationists forgot to read that part of Romans 5:12. Not only did death enter the world through Adam, sin did as well. Anybody reading

14... the account of Genesis 3 knows that Eve was the first human being ever to sin on this earth. Finally, if Noah’s Flood interfered with the dating methods of the evolutionists, what do you think the flood of Genesis 1:2 would have done? Even some of the dating methods used

15... by the creationists to prove a “young earth” sometimes give dates from 10,000 to 1,000,000 years. The creationists say the earth hasn’t been around for more than 6,000 years. What do you do with that “extra time”?

16... The flood of Genesis 1:2 causes as much trouble for the creationists as Noah’s Flood does for the evolutionists. Now let’s go back to the Biblical facts. In Genesis 1, God created “worlds” (Heb. 1:2, 11:3). Second Peter 3 defines a world as the entirety of creation: both

17... “the heavens and the earth.” The Bible distinguishes “the world that then was” from “the heavens and the earth, which are now.” So the “worlds” that were created in Genesis 1 are the world of Genesis 1:1 (which was completely destroyed by a flood in Genesis 1:2), and the

18... world of Genesis 1:3–27. Although all flesh on this earth, except for those in the ark, was destroyed by a flood in Genesis 7, the world itself, the heavens that were created in Genesis 1:6–8 and 15–19 and the earth that was recreated after Genesis 1:3, was not completely

19... destroyed. It will be, someday, by fire (2 Pet. 3). After it is, the Lord will recreate the world in Revelation 21, just as He did in Genesis 1:3–27. The world of Genesis 1:1 was destroyed as a result of the rebellion of Satan in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, and the Bible

20... likens the earth that is judged in the Tribulation as a result of Satan’s rebellion in that earth that was flooded in Genesis 1:2 as a result of his rebellion then (Jer. 4:23)