Is the "water of heaven" the origin of Noah's flood water?

Question

I was going to post in the mythology section but hey..

In the first 6 days it said that Yahweh seperated the water of heaven from earth and implimented a solid barrier to do so. Does this explain where Noah's flood water could have come from? Is there a connection between the two in the Old Testiment?

Note: The Bible isn't a holy book in my eyes so this is, I guess, a question of the mythology, not beliefs.

Answer 1

The water came up from the earth
Gen. 7:11 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.

and the water came from the sky
Gen. 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Answer 2

If you read the genesis passege it makes it clear where most of the water came from. It came from the 'fountains of the great deep'. It came from under the ground. Even though 72% of the earth is covered by water, they say that there is 10 to 30 times as much water under the earth and even in the mantle of the earth. Through cracks in the earths surface opened up by volcanic activity, high pressure water fountains poured water high into the atmosphere which fell down like rain. Eventually, after the flood covered the earth, most of the water went back where it came from, under the earth.

Creationists have often noted a certain irony in the beliefs of many geologists about Mars.

On a planet (Earth) which is largely covered in water, they deny that there ever could have been a global flood. Yet the majority believe that on Mars, a planet on which we have yet to detect any liquid water, many of its surface features formed by massive, global (or near-global) flooding!

Michael Carr of the US Geological Survey estimated that the amount of water needed to carve the Martian flood channels was ‘the equivalent of a layer of water several tens of meters deep covering the entire surface of the planet.’

A recent journal report states: ‘This suggests that there may still be a layer of water up to half a kilometer thick in the crust.’

New Scientist, 4 May 1996, pp. 39–42.

Not surprisingly, the same people who accept the possibility of huge underground water reservoirs on Mars, capable of flooding the whole planet, generally scoff at the idea that this was once the case on Earth.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v22/i3/drowned.asp

http://www.intouch.org/index_76034.html
http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/home.php

http://www.tektonics.org/

http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/_PDFArchives/theological-dictionary/TD4W1003.pdf

Answer 3

Yes, this expanse of water was separated and put above the earth. Interestingly, the Bible says it didn't rain, but would mist over the ground- Genesis 2; 5 and 6. This giant vapor exterior would also give the earth a more routine tempature, instead of being real cold in some areas and hot around the tropics. This might also explain why animals were found at the poles, perfectly frozen with grass still in their stomachs.

Answer 4

i encounter it truly unprobable that birds not on the ark would were able to live to inform the tale if the flood became certainly international. If we are to believe the bible Noah had 2 of each and every animal on board, which must have lined the various sorts of birds. a more effective perfect question yet will be how the clean water fish will be able to live to inform the tale if there became a international flood, and all water on the international would were joined, making all of it salt water.

Answer 5

The water came from the heaven as you mentioned and from the earth. There is no mystery about the water. the planet is 71% covered by water. If the oceans were only 2 thousand feet deep instead of 5,000 then the whole planet would be covered with water.

Answer 6

BEFORE THE FLOOD IT HAD NEVER RAINED.THE EARTH WAS WATERED BY DEW.
YOU NEED TO GET OUT A BIBLE AND READ IT.IT IS TRUTH.
MYTHOLOGY IS A MYTH.

Answer 7

its a possibility, I am skeptical

I personally think that water is what made up our atmosphere

Answer 8

Only if u believe in it

Answer 9

i would say so... or was it gods tears 0_0 oooo...jk he doesnt didnt care 0_0 ooooo....jk gods cool

Answer 10

interesting question.
I don't know.