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What the heck is "the surface of the deep"?

My inclination is that anything deep does NOT have a surface...b/c it's deep, right?

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The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
 

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My advice when reading early Gen. is as follows:

1. Throw out all translations.

2. Think allegory.
 
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ben0r said:
What the heck is "the surface of the deep"?

My inclination is that anything deep does NOT have a surface...b/c it's deep, right?
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No - not unless it's a hole. The ocean has a surface.
 
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It more than likely refers to the depth's of the oceans and waters.

As is mentiond Depth is a measurement and a surface is at the top of the measurement. The surface of a deep hole would be the ground, and the surface of the ocean would be the air.
 
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It's probably some sort of primordial ocean that surrounds the earth. I think the force from Genesis 1:2 is that God exerts His power over the primordial waters. Unlike the gods of her neighbors who thought the primordial ocean was a god who was slain in order to create the earth (Tiamat specifically), the primordeal oceans were just another thing that Israel's God created and controlled.
 
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