The expression in Isaiah 45:18 that the Lord did not create the earth to be vain or void, is used by some to indicate that something less than good was destroyed.

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face …

A champion of the gap theory is Dr. Arthur Custance who sets forth his theory in Without Form and Void. He reports that people have accepted a form of gap theory since shortly after the …

God used the first two days of creation to bestow form upon the earth He had initially created out of nothing (Genesis 1:1) without form and void, and shrouded in darkness (Genesis 1:2).

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 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 …

THE FIRST AGE: The void earth in the beginning. Gen. 1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty... The great separations: light from darkness; the waters from under and above the …

This disintegration, or what Van Til has aptly called "integration into the void", is progressive corruption ending in, or but a form of, death. But the transcendent Triune God-Creator is not …

The person's mind, losing its habitual order, becomes like the unshaped matter that was God's first step in creation: "and the earth was without form and void."

This model further opens the way to conceiving an earlier catastrophe, possibly when the Earth became a dump or "void," and darkness may have been upon the face of the deep (Genesis 1:2).

At this time the possessed person enters an inner void without any peace or joy, a real foretaste of hell. A small core of the person's self which recognizes its enslavement and degradation …