What is the spiritual significance of water in the bible?

Answer 1

Water is used many times in the Bible...my thoughts turn to Baptism. When I say Baptism, I am thinking of emersion, like when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist (know for Baptizing). Baptism is symbolic of the old man dying and a new man being reborn. It is symbolic of sins being washed away.

On a personal level, water may have different means to different people. I've had several dreams involving water. Like learning how to swim or swimming in the ocean. In those cases, the water represented the Holy Spirit and the swimming was flowing in the Spirit...learning to flow with God.

Answer 2

As I understand it, water symbolizes washing or cleansing; the Spirit of God, and in the practice of the Christian baptism, it is symbolizing the Earth, from which the believer enacts the resurrection that the Spirit brings to those who are in the grave. That's why the body is lifted up out of the water in such a way as to mimick that rising from the grave.

Answer 3

Water seems to represent the chaos at the beginning of creation. It was over this that the Spirit swept and creation happened. Later the waters of the Flood made an end of sin and a new beginning of goodness. Water(Reed Sea) provided the passage for the Hebrews to escape from slavery in Egypt and destroyed their oppressors. Water provided needed sustinence in the desert when it gushed forth even from the rocks to provide for Moses' People. The Jordan River stopped to allow the people to crossover into the land they had been promised by God kind of symbolically repeating the Reed Sea Deliverance. Water flowed from the altar of the temple in the Visions of Ezechiel and created a flood even in the desert almost like a new creation.
In the life of Jesus water(s) allowed Him to recreate the experiences of the people of Israel as he was baptized in the Jordan, elevate the goodness of creation by turning water to wine at Cana, and use water to restrain the evil present in human life by drowning the demons possessing the man at Gadarene or washing the paralysis from the man at Bethesda Pool. Water flowed from the side of the crucified Jesus along with blood to indicate the signs God would use to bring believers into contact with the Person of Jesus in the future. Waters of the Sea often represented the separation from God experienced by people, the restlessness of the human heart apart from union with God, and the mystery of life puzzling those who looked into the depths of the waters. Often mysterious creatures emerged from the water to attack God's people and attempt to frustrate God's plans for them. These creatures were not successful. I guess that water always needed to be joined with the activity of God through the Spirit and the Word for the purpose of God to be made actual in human lives. So water represents a lot of things that are present on earth even death itself. When God's Wod is spoken or the Spirit hovers over the waters even death is defeated.

Answer 4

Water is the metaphor for God's grace.

Human life would be impossible without water, and spiritual life would be impossible without grace.

Answer 5

Water means light, his word... Jesus once said that everyone that drinks from that water that he has to give will have everlasting life and the ones who drink the water of this world will thirst again.

Answer 6

The truth of the word of God put forth by the Spirit of God.
"Wash by the water of the Word"

Answer 7

living water or dead water ??--Proverbs 18.7

The waters of Engedi are far different from cistern water-selah-
Would you like to drink of water that has been stored underground in a dark cavern, perhaps with dead animals floating in it ?
The light, airy, watery falls of water at the oasis are a lot better, don't you think ?
Of course there are sp. meanings but I will let you ponder the meanings of the two types of water

Jon--

see my links and listen to the radio --Hallelujah-John 7.37

Answer 8

Most people get baptized in it. There. was the great flood or the parting of the sea during Moses time

Answer 9

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Water speaks of physical (or natural) birth, water speaks to us of the word of God, purification of the Christian and spiritual life among other things.

Answer 10

To cleanse.
Just as milk was to nuroush
and wine was a healing agent as well as a drink
I can't remember what honey's significance was do you?