What does standing in the gap mean in the Bible?

In the ancient world of the Bible, cities had walls surrounding them to provide protection from enemies. When the wall was breached, the city was vulnerable to destruction; the only way to secure it was for people to risk their lives by literally standing in the gap in the wall and fighting the enemy.

What does praying in the gap mean?

When we pray on behalf of someone else we are standing in the gap before that person and God. You are also engaging in spiritual warfare. Second, you need to plead the blood of Jesus over yourself and the person you are praying for.

Are there gaps in the explanation of nature?

R. Laird Harris, in The God of the Gaps(1963) says, “All admit that there are gaps in the explanation of the phenomena of nature. But with the advance of science many gaps have disappeared. Some suggest that to find God revealed in non-understood phenomena is dangerous, for tomorrow the phenomena may be explained.

What is the “god of the gaps?

The “God of the Gaps” complaint comes up when theists suggest that design is a better explanation than a naturalistic one in certain areas of science, particularly the beginning of the universe, the origin of life, and the development of life from simple to complex over time.

Which gaps-theology should be repudiated by all Christians?

The gaps-theology that “should be repudiated by all Christians”is “the position that ‘natural’ explanations exclude God. In other words, if God did not do some things (the creation and development of life, for example) via direct action, he didn’t do them at all.

Is the god-of-the-gaps argument a logical fallacy?

According to Wikipedia,”the term God-of-the-gaps argumentcan refer to a position that… is a variant of an argument from ignorance,”so they claim that it’s a logical fallacy.