Thomas
Chalmers
The Ruin-Recon-struction
interpre-tation of Genesis was the bread and butter
Creation doctrine of the Protestant Fundamentalist movement in the early part
of the 20th century. The interpretation has mainly been credited to the Scottish theologian,
Thomas Chalmers, who began to preach it back in the early 19th century.
However, there were theologians who also held this view long before Chalmers'
days. Contrary to Young Earth Creationist allegations, Chalmers did not invent
the Gap Theory as a compromise of the Word of God to accommodate science and
the theory of evolution. That gap has always been in the Scriptures since the
day Moses penned the book of Genesis. However, only in post-New Testament times
and only after man's knowledge about Earth's natural history increased greatly,
has the Spirit opened people's eyes to its existence. And only by
rightly-dividing and gaining true knowledge through the Lord Jesus Christ can
the reader start to comprehend the doctrinal significance.
"These are the generations [plural] of the
heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God
made the earth and the heavens,"
(Genesis 2:4 KJV)
This Ruin-Reconstruction interpretation
of Genesis was the bread and butter Creation doctrine of the Protestant
Fundamentalist movement in the early part of the 20th century. The
interpretation has mainly been credited to the
Scottish theologian, Thomas Chalmers, who began to preach it back in the early
19th Century. (Chalmers died in 1847, 12 years before Darwin's On
the Origin of the Species was published in 1859.)
Source: http://www.kjvbible.org/gap_theory.html