The article goes on to explore “the canopy theory” which speculates that after the flood in Noah’s day water vapour from above the Earth formed the deluge that lasted for five and a half weeks. But Genesis does not provide a name for the waters above the raqiya, nor is there any water above our atmosphere today, assuming that raqiya does mean “atmosphere.” The waters below the raqiya He named “sea” (yam in Hebrew) and the raqiya itself He named “heaven,” “air” or “sky,” depending on your translation of the Hebrew word shamayim. On the second day of creation, God created the raqiya, placing it in the midst of the water, thereby separating it into two parts: “the waters above the firmament ” and the waters below it. I found an article on the subject, part of which says this:Īccording to Genesis, before there was air or land or any form of life, the earth was a formless mass of primordial water. I understand the the Hebrew word translated as “firmament” is raqiya. Genesis 1:20 says that birds fly in the “firmament” (our atmosphere), but it also says (in Genesis 1:14-17) that the sun, moon and stars reside there. No, it does not actually say the sky is made of water, but it does say that God created a “firmament” between the waters under and the waters above the Earth. Ra literally sailed a boat across the sky. This was the primary cosmology for quite some time. And today the standard model of physics still views the universe as a kind of bendy fluid grid of potential. We had the universe filled with aether up until a century or two ago. It is clear that their image of the universe was this way, and it hasn’t changed much since then for all of us.
Firmament under the ocean windows#
In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.Īnd God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” Hence “waters above” and “waters below.”įor example, in the flood narrative, God undoes creation in Genesis 7:11 And whenever they dug down deep enough, they strike water. The ancient world had a “submarine cosmology.” Looking at the sky, it does seem fluid in the changing of colors and the motion of clouds and rain falling.
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