IN THE BEGINNING PART 3
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The Waters of the Earth
The Waters of the Earth
Genesis 1:2 “The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.”
Proverbs 8:24 “When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.”
2 Peter 3:5 “For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God,”
The Separation of the Waters
The Separation of the Waters
Proverbs 8:27-29 “When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,”
The word translated expanse is derived from a root word that means ‘to beat out / to stamp / to spread out by hammering’. So then, the biblical writer employs language and imagery that represent God as the divine metalworker who casts and blocks out the firmament to separate the waters above from the waters below.
Job 37:18 “Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?”
Tiamat, a Babylonian personification of saltwater who is generally depicted as a dragon, created the first gods out of her union with Apsu, the personification of freshwater. According to the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation epic, she was eventually destroyed by the god Marduk, who split her body in half. The top portion of her body became the sky and the bottom became the earth and her tears created the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. She is considered the Mother of All and all Babylonian gods are her descendants.
Romans 1:21-23 “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.”
The Necessity of the Atmosphere
The Necessity of the Atmosphere
People, plants, and animals could not live without the atmosphere.
The atmosphere is needed for the transmission of sound.
The hot currents from the equatorial regions warm the cooler parts of the world, while the cold currents cool the warmer parts.
It is made up of roughly 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen. If that is adjusted in any way, life on earth could not be sustained. With more nitrogen and less oxygen, plants and animals couldn’t survive. If there was more oxygen and less nitrogen, the world would be like giant tinderbox.
5. There would be no rain, rivers, or seas, but one vast desert.
Standing in Awe of the Creator
Standing in Awe of the Creator
Acts 17:25 “nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.”
An average adult's skin of ~2800 square inches has a pressure on it of 14.7 psi, which makes a total of 41,160 pounds of force. If it were not for the fact of the air being dispersed evenly outside and inside of us, we would be crushed like a hollow vessel sinking in the ocean. If you were to decrease the pressure, the amount of oxygen available to breathe also decreases.
He upholds the universe by the word of His power. (Hebrews 1:3)
Matthew 8:27 “And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?””
The total mass of Earth's atmosphere is about 5.5 quadrillion tons (24 zeros).
The volume of all of Earth's water (oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere would be about 332.5 million cubic miles. A cubic mile of water equals more than 1.1 trillion gallons. Each gallon weighs about 8.34 pounds.
You will find that the weight of planet Earth is… 13,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1.317 x 10^25) pounds! That's thirteen septillion!
Isaiah 40:12 “Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?”