Joagbaje:

Genesis 1:2
2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness[ was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Bible explains bible. Jeremiah gave account of what led to the recreation .

Jeremiah 4:23-26
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo,[ it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they[ had] no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo,[ there was] no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. [/b]26 I beheld, and, lo, the [b]fruitful place[ was] a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord,[ and] by his fierce anger.

There were once men , birds , animal and light in the before the six day of Adam.


Genesis 1:28
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,

To "re-plenish" means to fill it up the second time. That means the earth was once inhabited.

These are bible verses and not mans addition. And I think the man addition I'm seeing here is the CHICK PUBLICATION CARTOONS! They have printed many errors in time past.

Joagbaje:

@altheia

You quoted NIV. why don't you check the footnote of your Niv. Of verse two. Note "e" You will find that that you NIV says "the earth possibly became void and empty". The earth wasn't created void and empty.

Isaiah 45:18
18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I[ am] the LORD; and[ there is] none else.

My dictionary translates replenish as refill.
I checked your webster dictionary , it gave 2 meanings and I could see how you turned blind eye tooth refill there in no2

a : to fill with persons or animals : stock
b archaic : to supply fully : perfect
c : to fill with inspiration or power : nourish

2
a : to fill or build up again <replenished his glass>
b : to make good : replace

Negro_Ntns:

@POST,

I believe we will know the answer to this question if we know what age they were at creation.

How old was Adam at creation and how old was Eve at creation?

Joagbaje:

@altheia

You quoted NIV. why don't you check the footnote of your Niv. Of verse two. Note "e" You will find that that you NIV says "the earth possibly became void and empty". The earth wasn't created void and empty.   

Isaiah 45:18
18 For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I[ am] the LORD; and[ there is] none else.

My dictionary translates replenish as refill.
I checked your webster dictionary , it gave 2 meanings and I could see how you turned blind eye tooth refill there in no2

a : to fill with persons or animals : stock
b archaic : to supply fully : perfect
c : to fill with inspiration or power : nourish

2
a : to fill or build up again <replenished his glass>
b : to make good : replace

Was There A World Before Genesis 1?

No.

Nothing new under the sun. The age which one prescribes for the earth is extremely dependent on one's view of creation. There are five major theories on the interpretation of the six days of creation.

1. The pictorial day theory claims that the six days mentioned in Genesis are the six days in which God revealed to Moses the events of creation. But the bible relates the creation as clearly, simply, and historically as it does other events. To interpret the text in this manner requires the abandonment of all exegetical principles.

2. The gap view claims that Genesis 1:1 describes an original creation which was followed by the fall of Satan and great judgment. Genesis 1:2 is then supposed to be a description of the recreation or restoration that took place. The Old Scofield Bible [Also Dake's Bible] maintains that the condition of the earth in verse two is the result of judgment, and therefore interprets the verb "hayah" as "became". However the Hebrew construction of verse two is disjunctive, describing the result of the creation described in verse one. The phrase "without form and void" is often misunderstood because of this rendering. These words are found only in a few other places (Is 34:11; 45:18; Jer 4:23). They do not describe chaos but rather emptiness and so would mean "unformed and unfilled". Exodus 20:11 teaches that all the universe, including the heavens and the earth, was created in the six day period mentioned in Genesis 1.

3. The intermittent view claims that the days mentioned are literal days, but that they were separated by long periods of time. This view is in direct contradiction of Exodus 20:11 and conveniently ignores the recurring phrase: "And the evening and the morning. . ." which describes the passage of the six days.

4. The day-age theory claims that the word "yom" which is the Hebrew word for "day" is used to refer to periods of indefinite length, not to literal days. While this is a viable meaning of the word, it is not the common meaning, nor is the meaning of the word sufficient foundation for the theory. Moreover it ignores the clearly stated meaning of Exodus 20:11. The phrase "And the evening and the morning" indicates literal days (cf. Daniel 8:14, where the same phrase in Hebrew is translated "day"

5. The literal day view accepts the clear meaning of the text: the universe was created in six literal days. The various attempts to join together the biblical account of creation and evolution are not supportable even by the various gap theories.

God of His own will and by His absolute power called the universe into being, creating it out of nothing (Ex 20:11; Ps 33:6, 9; 102:25; Is 45:12; Jer 10:12; John 1:3; Acts 14:15; 17:24; Rom 4:17; Col 1:15-17; Heb 3:4; 11:3; Rev 4:11). When one acknowledges the absolute power of God, he must accept His power to create and destroy as stated in the Scriptures. The believer must accept these things by faith.

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

I believe the world was created in six days because God said so.

OLAADEGBU:

Read up on the proper perspective of God's holy Word on creation in the hyperlinks below for answers to all your misconceptions.

Gap ruin reconstruction theories

aletheia:

^^Really? Did you take time to read my post.
1. The KJV (written in archaic English) is the version that uses the word "replenish". Other versions use the word fill. I showed you that from the Webster's 1806 dictionary; the word means to fill, satisfy, stock, become stocked
2. I showed you that the Hebrew word used there וּמִלְא֥וּ also means to fill up.
3. I showed you that translations in Modern English translate the word as fill.

OLAADEGBU:

Read up on the proper perspective of God's holy Word on creation in the hyperlinks below for answers to all your misconceptions.
Gap ruin reconstruction theories

Joagbaje:

Have you checked out your NIV. Footnote?

Hebrew OT: BHS Consonants & Vowels Transliterated:
1 be·re·shit ba·ra e·lo·him et ha·sha·ma·yim ve·'et ha·'a·retz. 2 ve·ha·'a·retz ha·ye·tah to·hu va·vo·hu ve·cho·shech al-pe·nei te·ho·vm ve·ru·ach e·lo·him me·ra·che·fet al-pe·nei ham·ma·yim.

bermuda1:

The truth is that the bible contradicts itself so much on the creation that it makes it irrational to believe its accounts.

In genesis 1:27 it clearly shows that God Created other human beings apart from Adam and Eve. I beleive the story of the Bible was written from the viewpoint of the Jews and they saw adam and Eve as their own ancestor and the other human the ancestors of others like we blacks and europeans

27 So God created man in his own image,
       in the image of God he created him;
       male and female he created them.

If you read Genesis 4, it demonstrates that there we indeed other humans on earth and Cain was afraid of meeting them. If we follow the Jewish interpretation there would only have been 3 people on earth at the time Adam, Eve and Cain (Cain had killed Abel by then)

13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." 15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so [e] ; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, [f] east of Eden

Lastly and what I think is the clincher further on in Genesis 4, who was Cain's wife, did her marry his sister or his niece?

17 Cain lay with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch. 18 To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad was the father of Mehujael, and Mehujael was the father of Methushael, and Methushael was the father of Lamech.

bermuda1:

Im sorry but that link, like most other biblical defendants rather than answer the questions go round in circles in a bid to confuse people.

Adam was not the first man. Adam is a mythological legend made up by the children of Isreal to reinforce their belief as the favoured children of God.

The world obviously started with one Man and one woman. That man and that women were not Adam and Eve as described by the bible

stimulus: @ishmael,



My bros ishmael, honesty stimulus doesn't know that much, neither does he pretend knowledge that he doesn't have. The one thing I do know, however, is that Adam lived that long to be nine hundred and thirty years before he died (Gen. 5:5).

The question you posed is as much a blanket one that leads nowhere in the same lane as you will find other questions running. For instance, someone could as well ask, 'How long did Adam and Eve live outside the Garden?' What would be your answer to that, ishmael? Anything you and I offer as answers to those two questions would be strictly our personal opinions and nothing more - unless we can categorically prove such answers with texts from the Bible.

The essential thing for me is that Adam and Eve were in the Garden¹, ate from the tree of which they were expressly forbidden², were subsequently driven out³; but a promise of redemption made in reference to the Fall⁴.

That prophecy has been fulfilled in Christ⁵, and by God's grace millions (including me) have believed on Him to the saving of the soul⁶, and the obtaining of a far more eternal weight of glory⁷.

Shalom.

Notes
1. Gen. 3:8
2. Gen. 2:17 and 3:6
3. Gen. 3:24
4. Gen. 3:15
5. Gal. 4:4
6. Heb. 10:39
7. 2 Cor. 4:17