6/27/24 Word Count 294 Reading Time 1.3 minutes

Genesis 1:6 “Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the water, and let it divide the waters from the waters.””

Most Biblical Scholars agree that the firmament spoken of here is our atmosphere. The dividing of the waters from the waters seems to indicate that water was all around and for planet earth to function in the way God intended it needed its own sequestered water source separate from the water in outer space. Wait, what? Water in outer space?

This probably isn’t news to the science geeks out there, but I had not thought of there being water in outer space. Then, I recently stumbled across the following article.

The article, published on July 22, 2011 at www.jpl,nasa.gov (Jet Propulsion Labs at NASA) is titled “ Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water” The article goes on to state that, “Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean, surrounds a huge, feeding black hole, called a quasar, more than 12 billion light years away. The article quotes Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California, who said, “Its another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the Universe, even at the very earliest times.”

With all that water floating around in space its not hard to understand why God would put a barrier around the earth to protect us from those waters. What is hard to understand is how that barrier could have happened randomly, as some believe.

To me, it means that you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to understand the universe if you read the Bible.