Marilyn,
    Thank you very much for showing why you believe in a pre-Adamic earth.
For years I had been taught that, believed it, and studied it out for myself.
    The first thing that caused me to wonder, was the description of Adam's creation in Genesis 2.
Adam started out as dust, he was without form and void.
Then the LORD formed him from the dust, but he was still void.
Then the LORD breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living soul, no longer void.
In this case, without form and void didn't mean judgment.
    The second thing was the inspiration of the scriptures.
Ancient Hebrew and Ancient Greek were not languages that were holy and supernatural of themselves.
The LORD gave man languages, first the initial one to Adam, then many different ones at Babel.
The LORD showed at Pentecost that he doesn't need to only speak to man in one language or another.
So there was ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek.
People communicated on a daily basis with them, business, or simple conversation, written records, and other things.
The language consisted of a collection of words and grammatical rules.
The words could be formed in countless different variations and combinations, to say all kinds of different things.
Like the dust, the collection of words, from a supernatural perspective, were without form and void.
Then the LORD took those words and formed phrases and sentences.
Then he breathed into them his own Spirit (inspiration means breathed into, not merely God breathed, i.e. not both in & out).
The words then were no longer without form and void, but had been made into the word of God.
They became the scriptures when he had them written down.
    Anyway, the pattern of Adam's creation and the inspiring of the scriptures, were not patterns of judgment.
It is similar with giving the gospel.
A lost man is born dark and without eternal life, while there is still light and life about him, since there are saved people,, as well.
That lost man didn't "become" like that after he sinned and was judged, but rather he started out like that from birth.
At some point the gospel comes to him, and like Genesis 1, & Psalm 119:130, "The entrance of thy words giveth light".
A saved person either gives him the gospel, or leaves it for him in a tract, or he hears a saved person preach.
When the lost man believes the gospel, the LORD makes him a child of God and places his own Spirit within him.
The man is no longer in darkness, no longer has a vain or formless life, and is no longer void.
    To me it seems like a repeating pattern, not of judgment, but of creation.
The LORD starts with essentially nothing of value in and of itself and makes something wonderful and of great value.
Those few things caused me to wonder about what I had been taught.
Particularly in relation to Jeremiah 4:23 being, in its context, the "reason" for Genesis 1:2.
        Thank you,
            Gino