RALPH NIELSEN 2/10
"The water under the earth" means exactly what it says. In Bible
days (and for centuries later) the world was flat, and covered with a dome
or "firmament" that held up the waters above the earth. There was also
water under the earth in the Great Deep. It rushed up during Noah's Flood
and retreated back again afterwards.
Most creationists imagine that the waters above the earth (the
alleged "water canopy" of Henry Morris and others) all came down during the
flood. This is not so, because in Psalm 148:4 they were still there.
As for the water under the earth, this is a bit much for some
"Bible-believers" to swallow, so their favorite doctored version of the
Bible, the NIV, gets rid of the entire earth with a stroke of a pen and
just says "the waters below" (Exodus 20:4). This is how dishonest
fundamentalist apologists treat scripture.
Ralph Nielsen.
"There are Bible scholars, and there are fundamentalists."
(Rev. Nick Cardell, minister, ret., of the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Syracuse, N. Y.)
Ralph Nielsen.
"There are Bible scholars, and there are fundamentalists."
(Rev. Nick Cardell, minister, ret., of the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Syracuse, N. Y.)
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