The Earth’s appearance on the Second Day of Genesis.
I will be off the forum for the weekend, due to family responsibilities etc.
But I think it will be good to demonstrate the next steps of the Creation narrative as per Genesis chapter 1.
I realised that for the Earth to have formed into Land and Sea, it must have been a “Mud Ball Earth” to do just that.
Once I realised this small, but significant fact, I also realised that the Earth sort of underwent a “Metamorphosis” in its formation to what we see today.
I then looked at the description of the appearance of the Earth on the second day.
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7 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.
Genesis 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
OK, this was where I initially had a problem in understanding what this “Firmament” with waters “above” and “below” this firmament was.
Now things started to take the proverbial SHAPE and I realised that when the Bible speak of the waters above this firmament, and called it “Heaven”, it said the following.
On the morning of the Third day, the Earth, as we saw, was a “Mud Ball Earth, and this surface of the Mud ball was the “Firmament” of the Earth and the waters “below” the firmament, was the exact same mud ball Earth!
Obviously, the water above the firmament was the Atmosphere, and it must have had a lot of water mist to be called “Water”. I then remembered 2 other factors which strengthened my thinking that the early atmosphere was very moist.
The first mention of a wet atmosphere.
Gen 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Gen 2:6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
The second mention of a wet atmosphere
Gen 9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Gen 9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:
In conclusion, the Biblical description of an atmosphere that was wet is strengthened with its description that before the Flood of Noah, there was no rain, therefore no Rainbow. In an Atmosphere filled with Mist, one does not see a Rainbow. If we also take into consideration that Genesis said it never rained, but a mist rose from the Earth to wet everything, the Bible is clear: The original Atmosphere was one of water and gasses.
We will comeback to this very same atmosphere when we discuss the age of humans before the flood.
But for now, the Bible gave me the description on how the Earth looked on day 3, and how it looked on the evening of day 2.
I then also had to conclude that the Earth, on the morning of Day 2 was a collection of Gas, Liquid, and solids. As Gravity did its job during day 2, the gasses escaped from this collection, leaving this Mud Ball behind, which it’s surface was the Firmament, and no better explanation is available than, “Waters Above and Below” this firmament.
Ok, I thought to myself.
If the Earth was a collection of Liquid, Gas and Solids with no surface, and no atmosphere, what was it's appearance on the morning of the second day?
I Realsed that if I understand how the Earth's appearance was on the first day, I will be tracing these steps back to this earth that was without shape, with deep dark waters.
Well, it was not difficuilt to understand that God said, let there be Light, and there was Evening and Morning, the first day.
It means, this Earth that was a collection of liquid, Gas and Solids on the morning of day 2, was turning around an axis on day one of God created light to shine on it.
I was quite surprised that I never thought of the Earth being this huge sphere of the 3 forms of matter turning on an axis, was a loose collection of this gaseous wet sphere before the first day!
I finally understood what Genesis said about the formation of the Earth.
It was a huge collection of liquid, gas, and solids in space and had no recognisable shape. something like a huge blob, or a pancake shape with tentacles like an Eddy, out into near space or something.
...and Gravity played its role by collecting all this matter to its center, which eventually formed a sphere and due to conservation of ennergy, turned on its axis.
This was the first time that "Time started to count down, as God let light shine on this Earth.
But we will come back to how Time is measured.
After this big sphere ended the first day, the gravity of this heavenly body continued to pull heavier particles to its surface, resulting in Gasses escaping, and water evaporating, shaping a "MBE with a wet atmosphere.
Then on day 3, aqs heavier particles were pulled deeper in this sphere, Water seperated from higher layers of solids, creating a Land and sea.
OK, Enough for now.
I will continue with what I found Genesis said about the Sun, Gravity, Time and so on next week.
Oh, and I realised, even though I might have my very own interperetation of the Creation epoch from Genesis, it is also totally impossible to find another interperetation for one simple reason.
This is a step by step analysis written not to allow any other method of explanation.
Whoever wrote the Biblical events of Creation, did an unbelievable job in ensuring that whoever reads it in the modern scientific era, say guys like Newton and Kant, will have scientific observations to confirm its value.
It is not possible to form a scientific model, and to then try to shape the Biblical explanation into that.
There are numerous scientific models of how the universe formed and shaped, but only one which I will show that science still returns to in their explanation.
But this for later.
