Did H2O exist as we know it in biblical times?

Question

In Genesis 1:6-7 we learn that God made water, then he made land. What effect did the flood have on the salt level in this water?

If God made the oceans salty to begin with it seems like all that pure fresh rain would have diluted them. If God made the ocean as freshwater, then how did it get salty? We all know that decaying bodies would not produce all that salt.

Perhaps the rain that caused the flood was saltwater.

Answer 1

Perhaps you should stop believing in Creationalism.

Answer 2

The world back then was totally different. They didn't even know what rain was!!! Water came up from the ground to water the earth. Water was under the surface of the earth. Genesis 2:6 and Genesis 7:11 The oceans were probably already salty the ground takes out minerals so when the water evaporates or sinks into the ground the salt as well as other minerals stay on/in the ground

Answer 3

Saltwater happened due to the erosion of minerals during the flood. As the water from the hydrosphere came down on mostly land it caused massive erosion and pushed the salt into the ocean. And you will find that the ocean has more salt from erosion all the time. The reason the ocean sometimes decreases in salt is becuase of all the fresh water in glaciers melting into the ocean.

Answer 4

I watched a video on this topic about 3 years ago. The man that taught this video classroom session was what I call a theological scientist. He had managed to take science and the bible and make them mesh. I say all this to make a point about your question. You see the way this man discussed it(H2O) was like this; before the flood, the waters that were above the earth and the waters that were below the earth created what scientists call today as a Hyperberic chamber. This naturally occuring chamber compressed the the air, which made everything bigger, plants, animals, reptiles, and even man. Not to mention that men and animals lived much longer than they do today.

Answer 5

1. of course it did, biblical times only go back 6000 years at the most according to the geneology lists of Bishop Usher, which are complete nonsense, but I know Xians like them. H2O has been on the earth for billions of years. It was necessary for life to develop.

2. Salt water can't fall as rain. Rain is water vapour that condenses back into liquid water. When salt water evaporates, the salt sediments get left behind, and the H2O vapour goes into the atmosphere. This is known as the water-cycle, which I remember learning about first in Gr 4. But then we have a proper educational system here in Canada.

3.In genesis, you "learn" nothing. These are myths and legends mostly borrowed from Egyptian and Assyrian myths and adapted by the Hebrews. As John Lennon famously wrote..."God is a concept by which we measure our pain"

Answer 6

God would have Created both fresh water and ocean water at the same time. Obviously mankind would've needed fresh water to drink before the Flood, so He had all of the provisions already there.

Answer 7

H2o is water of cource it existed!Not as we know it today (full of chemicals of course)

Genesis 1

1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

Answer 8

There are salt deposits underground that possibly caused the oceans to become salty, if they didn't start that way.

Evaporation and rain is a natural desalination process, removes salt.

Answer 9

also no plant life could have survived the flood. basically all life would have ceased to exist after the flood because the herbavours would have had nothing to eat and the carnivours would have eaten the last 2 of many many species. oh, except fish and kelp and seaweed, but then we're back to the idea that life evolved out of the sea onto land...

Answer 10

where do you think rain comes from now?
it comes from the ocean - it gets evaporated and condensed and gathers into clouds - then when the clouds get too heavy it rains
so the water that goes back into the ocean came from the ocean so no it doesnt get diluted at any point in history - back then or now

duh

Answer 11

or perhaps the polar icecaps melted and the rain was just a drizzle, for 40 days not resulting in much--when the icecaps reformed, since the salt wouldn't freeze, the salt content of the remaining water would have been exponentially increased