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I have a question about the primordial waters of Genesis 1.
I want to make clear that the creation account is literal, accurate, and consistent. Now, this isn't to say that we should read this account like a scientific textbook, so we should be careful. Scripture is "phenomenological," in that expresses matters simply, and from the standpoint of ancient observers. So while we do see the sun set and rise, and Scripture uses such language (as we still do in our everyday conversations), we cannot deny that really our earth rotates relative to the sun. Why do I bring this up on a topic like this?
When I read Genesis 1:6-8, I cannot tell if this is just poetic language for the clouds above the "Heaven" or if this was something that pre-existed before the flood, but what in the world is the "waters" above? Obviously, from the text, it is the same kind of primordial water that was below the expanse, signifying that a layer of water is above "heaven." Moses, lead by the divine inspiration of the Spirit, isn't so dull to speak of precipitation as anything but from the clouds. No one was that dull in any time in history. Matter of fact, Scripture acknowledges clouds and their function (Gen. 9:13; Job. 37:16; Jude. 1:12 etc).
Now, I don't agree with Dr. Donald B. DeYoung on many things (ex. Old Earth and literal thousand-year reign), but he proposed a vapor canopy theory, that there was a different kind of firmament prior to the flood that we do not have today, listing these seven reasons in his argument for it.
Is this possible? I do not know too much about such subjects to verify how possible this vapor theory is. What are your thoughts?
I want to make clear that the creation account is literal, accurate, and consistent. Now, this isn't to say that we should read this account like a scientific textbook, so we should be careful. Scripture is "phenomenological," in that expresses matters simply, and from the standpoint of ancient observers. So while we do see the sun set and rise, and Scripture uses such language (as we still do in our everyday conversations), we cannot deny that really our earth rotates relative to the sun. Why do I bring this up on a topic like this?
When I read Genesis 1:6-8, I cannot tell if this is just poetic language for the clouds above the "Heaven" or if this was something that pre-existed before the flood, but what in the world is the "waters" above? Obviously, from the text, it is the same kind of primordial water that was below the expanse, signifying that a layer of water is above "heaven." Moses, lead by the divine inspiration of the Spirit, isn't so dull to speak of precipitation as anything but from the clouds. No one was that dull in any time in history. Matter of fact, Scripture acknowledges clouds and their function (Gen. 9:13; Job. 37:16; Jude. 1:12 etc).
Now, I don't agree with Dr. Donald B. DeYoung on many things (ex. Old Earth and literal thousand-year reign), but he proposed a vapor canopy theory, that there was a different kind of firmament prior to the flood that we do not have today, listing these seven reasons in his argument for it.
Is this possible? I do not know too much about such subjects to verify how possible this vapor theory is. What are your thoughts?