"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." (Genesis 7:11)
Sounds to me as if there was some sort of breaking up of a water source, so not just rain created the flood.
In Genesis we read: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." (Genesis 1:1-8)
Could the 'deep' of Genesis 7:11 also be the same as the 'deep' of Genesis 1:2?
The firmament that divided the 'waters' is Heaven, so there is something above and below Heaven that is referred to as 'waters'. Some have theorized that there was a great water above the heavens, and it was that which was broken up at the time of the great flood of Genesis 7.
Thoughts?
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