where do christians believe all the water from the world wide flood went?

Question

hint: ice expands, thus if ice were to melt the level would go down not up.

hint 2: when water evaporates it still exists it hasnt simply vanished.

Answer 1

logic would tell you the entire planet was not under water. There are too many animals native only to the western hemisphere. they would have died so we know that the entire earth was not submerged

Answer 2

Hint: I live on the Gulf Coast....where did all that water go after the Hurricane? A child could answer this.

The whole earth was once covered by floodwaters, but the landscape was greatly different before the worldwide Flood of Noah's time.

Psalm 104 tells us that the waters covered the mountains (verse 6), then God rebuked them and they fled (verse 7).

The mountains rose and the valleys sank down (verse 8), and God set a boundary for the seas so they would never again cover the whole earth (verse 9).

It seems that at one time, earth's land surfaces were all together — not separated by the oceans and seas we find today. The Flood would have drastically altered the shape of the pre-Flood land surface.

Around three-quarters of the earth's surface is now covered with water, so the waters from the Flood have mostly gone into the deeper ocean valleys that exist today. Some may be still held as ice around Antarctica and the North Pole.

The point to emphasize is that the high mountains and deep ocean trenches we find today were much more level before the Flood. The deeper ocean valleys today are holding most of the extra water.

Answer 3

Seriously, the story of a catastrophic flood is found in cultures throughout the eastern Mediterranean prior to the Biblical record - one theory related to the collapse of a land bridge (Dardanelles) caused the flooding of the present Black Sea area. This has been well documented. Of course local people would assume it to have been worldwide.

Such stories get used for other purposes; 'fine tuned' into metaphor over the passage of time. The story of Noah (the one righteous man) taking on board his ark only that which 'creates' (male and female animals) life is one example of a spiritual truth being preserved; the transcendent authentic Self creating a new life after the water (purification symbol) recedes.

Answer 4

Here's your answer. With all His infinite powers, I'm sure God didn't have a problem drying out the excess water. But there's something you can ask Him when you see Him.

Genesis 8:11-14 -- 11When the dove returned to him in the evening, there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf! Then Noah knew that the water had receded from the earth. 12 He waited seven more days and sent the dove out again, but this time it did not return to him. 13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. 14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.

Answer 5

It IS still in existence actually and before the flood, it was under the earth and above it. Now we have lakes and rivers and clouds.., The Bible doesn't tell us anything except it took about a year for the earth to be inhabitable and the waters to dry up. Read between Genesis chapters 7 - 10.

Answer 6

There are several opinions about the world wide flood.

I think it is a symbolic mention... that because it is possible to proof, mathematically, that the water in the planet is the same since it beginning. And so, it is impossible to occur the flood as described in the Bible.

The Bible is not a book of history... there are messages hide in each writing.

Answer 7

Hint for hint 1:If the ice caps melted,we would have alot of extra water.

Hint for hint 2:still,there's quite a bit of water in the atmosphere.

Answer 8

floods arnt about there being more watter on earth then there is now, simply it being on a place that was land. the water from the great flood exsists. in the ocens and rivers and lakes. because the great flood is a commen myth I beleive it happened, it didnt whipe out all humanity save for noah and his family, but it did kill a large amount of people enough so that many diffrent socities remeber it in myth

Answer 9

Lakes, rivers, the ocean, raised water tables and evaporation.

Answer 10

hi if you are not joking if you read the bible it says i mintues to GOD is it timeless to us so the water went the same way of the dinnsors, have yolu ever seen the grand cayon if you still do not get it ask some who belives