Lucifer’s Flood

Message / Question: what do you know about Lucifer’s flood?

Response:

This may seem like an easy question and my answer could be quite simple – that simple answer would be that was no such an event as “Lucifer’s flood”. However, the reasons for my answer could become quite long and details. So, I’ll have a go at providing a simple explanation of my simple answer.

There have been attempts by some Christians to reinvent the Genesis account of the creation in order to make it compatible with the theories of “modern geology” and evolution. Basically, the gap theory, which for some incorporates the so-called Lucifer’s flood, teaches that many millions of years ago God created a perfect heaven and earth as recorded in verse 1 of Genesis 1. They then place a long time gap between verse 1 and verse 2 of Genesis 1. There are many problems with this “gap” theory (promoted by people such as Dake and Schofield in their Bible notes), not the least of which is that the language used doesn’t actually imply a gap at all. Verses 1 and 2 of Genesis 1, translated literally, say “Time began when God created the universe in general and the earth in particular, at time the earth was incomplete and empty”. However, those who propose the idea of “Lucifer’s flood” claim that there are millions of years between these two verses and during this vast expanse of time the earth was inhabited by a race of men without any souls. It was during this time that Satan is said to have rebelled, and sin entered the universe. God’s response was to cause a great flood that destroyed the earth, thus all the plant, animal and human fossils upon the earth today were caused by this flood and do not bear any genetic relationship with the plants, animals and humans living today.

There are many problems, both scientific and theological, with the idea of a gap between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis 1. Those who believe in a pre – Adamic race and flood, must believe that there was death before Adam, yet the Bible clearly declares the opposite to be true. Romans 5:12 states that “sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin,” so to accept the concept of death before the time of Adam is to destroy the foundational message of the cross: “For just as through the disobedience of the one man Adam many were made sinners, so through the obedience of the one man Jesus Christ, many will be made righteous” (Romans 5:19). To introduce the concept of death before Adam’s sin is completely opposed to Scripture’s explanation that death only as a result of Adam’s sin and became the reason for man’s redemption. If you change Genesis, you change the purpose of the cross.

That doesn’t even BEGIN to scratch the surface of why I absolutely reject the notion of a pre-Adamic race, a Lufician Flood and a long gap between the Bible’s first 2 verses, however it does make my position clear. I recommend the following 2 links as good short and simple reading for anyone interested. https://www.icr.org/article/675/314

http://creation.com/from-the-beginning-of-the-creation