Genesis 1:6-8
Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the
midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." God
made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from
the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse
heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
This is the representation that comes to my mind if I just consider the information given by the Bible and
ignore all the other information learned from other sources.
The expanse is the Earth atmosphere. The water below the
expanse is the ocean and the water above the expanse was originally a shield
surrounding the atmosphere. These waters above the expanse are not anymore
there because came down during the deluge.
Before the deluge, the atmosphere of the Earth was appropriate
for the eternal life of the humankind, this means that the sun did not affect
the living beings and plants as it does today because there was a shield of
water, the water above the expanse, working as a lens filtering the rays of the
sun. The human skin did not age by the effects of the sun. The fruits did not
ferment too.
This explains why the humans could live forever before the sin, without
aging, our skin ages under the effect of the solar rays. After the fall of the man, God decided that human must die. We will cover this in future posts.
Also explains why Noah got drunk with grapes juice after the
deluge. Before the deluge, when the waters above the expanse filtered the sun
rays, Noah used to drink grapes juice that did not ferment. After the
deluge, the grapes got fermented adding the alcohol of the fermentation to the
juice. Noah did not know about the alcohol of the fermentation, Noah was a righteous man, he was not a drunk. We also will study the deluge and Noah in future posts.
It is known that all the clouds of the sky cannot contain the
amount of water needed for the deluge, so the waters above the expanse fell inundating all the
Earth.
Know your Bible!
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