Bible Discussion Thread

If there were no people on earth before Adam and Eve, why did God tell them to be fruitful and multiply and REPLENISH the earth? The word "replenish" implies there were others before. How do you REPLENISH something that wasn't there before?

Same word here as in verse 22, "fill the waters and the seas". I think here also; "fill the earth".

Prior to this the "earth" is described as "without form and void", (tohu va bohu), a shapeless mass of confusion and emptiness. Then came the "word of God" who spoke "light". The entrance of Your words gives light ... ( Psalm 119:130)

when God made Adam and. Eve he said to them be fruitful and multiple on the earth

Larry, it's a question about chronology. If you page forward to Genesis Chapter 2:4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

This means the rest of the chapter 2 is referring to what God performed the first 6 days in Chapter 1.

It dispels the notion that man was created before Adam and Eve. It's a continuum not a different creation, in other words it give a broader explanation of what he did in Chapter 1. Hope this helps.

Larry The why of replenish what I have gathered biblically there was a war in heaven when lucifer was thrown

out with his so-called comrades and one of his titles biblically is destroyer. When he was thrown out put into

darkness spiritually and ruin that which God set up originally. The only thing we have left from that time are

fossil remains and man does not really know all that occurred. Notice in Genesis God only created 3 times

the word created biblically is to bring something into existence which has never existed before and only God can create.

Genesis 1:1 1:21 and 1:27 because everything else was already there he had to set it in order notice God said

let there be light let there be a firmament let the earth bring forth grass let there be lights in the firmament

then God saw God set, so He was reorganizing that which His arch Enemy threw into confusion and turmoil.Was there something there before yes what kind of life was it who knows, but so far this is the only explanation I've

heard and studied that made sense. The word replenish is to fill be full or make full, this is also where the

evolution boys have heyday but they have too many gaps they cannot fill. Any other comments enjoy.

Larry, I liked your comment.

Yes the passage in Gen.1:28 is most interesting to me as well. However, one of the dictionary meanings is a little more succinct I think when it reads, "to fill with persons OR animals". I believe, without a doubt, that animals (prehistoric) roamed the earth before man was created, since we have their fossils and bones to tell us so. I believe that when God gave Adam the animal kingdom to manage, that such is what we know it to be today. Isn't is possible that God's pleasure was to NOT create mankind midst a world of giant preditor-animals that would have had dominion over man?..and perhaps bring God more pleasure to give man the challenge to have dominion over animals that he could manage or contend with? This passage above seems to support the probability of pre-mankind animals (remains and fossils found in every continent of the earth). This would explain why man was mandated to multiply and replenish the earth, v.26-28.

Romans 1

19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. [we see remains of things in the earth & know only God was here to do that]

20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, (we see the fossil remains) being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Scientists find the remains in the earth. One reason why; a mass extinction event? All of the dead material became oil; coal.

The bones were to show us THAT SOMEONE MADE ALL WE SEE AND KNOWand have eagerly dug up and built museums around it.

To this day, we are still searching for things God hid in the earth and oceans; space.

It all points to an intelligent Creator! What do we do? We go in search of hidden alien life forms.

Maybe they hid it under Antarctica? There was a recent story that scientists discovered tunnels under Antarctica. Whoopee! Maybe they used explosives on exploration__and now Antarctica is falling apart, and due to increase ocean levels and flood beaches. Once again, how do we save the earth?

Now we need the Creator to save us from huge errors of judgment. I hope they get saved and meet THE CREATOR: The Godhead.

Did you know that CONIES in the Bible are small creatures that survived the Asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs? They burrowed under earths surface and we're able to find seeds to eat and stuff to stay alive on; till everything cooled. It's in the Bible; and scientists have confirmed it.

We were meant to find remains! If we can't see the evidence of a CREATOR, we're doomed to become extinct.

2 Peter 3. God is going to fully restore earth to the Garden of Eden. Get on board for that DAY.

Mishael

Hey Larry,

The word replenish; some use this translation to support the gap theory, also known as the Ruin-Reconstruction theory, which involves the necessity for God to recreate and re-fill the earth after a pre-Adamic race had perished as a result of an event called Lucifer's flood. Replenish is an Old English word that was used to mean fill, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. The view of fill repeatedly, thus fills completely, to make full, like a bucket of water.

Not saying there were not people before Adam and Eve, but God only created this world and universe once before He makes a new heaven and a new earth in the future.

God bless,

RLW