Where did the waters of the deluge recede to?

Question

Think about it! The water would be about 25,000 feet ABOVE see level. There would be more water above sea level than is in the whole hydrologic cycle now. Just wondering where it all went.

Answer 1

10 to 1, that is just an old Hebrew campfire story that may or may not be fabricated from a true story of a catastrophic local flood. Back then, people tended to see most natural disasters as divine wrath, so it makes sense to think that a true flood story would get exaggerated into a legend about a global deluge.

Answer 2

Some likely evaporated while others found their way back into the natural reserves of water beneath the dry land. Additionally, the Bible makes clear that in the times before the Flood, there were no oceans, only shallow seas. It seems likely, therefore, that the oceans exist partly as a result of the Flood.

Answer 3

Fundamentalists will say the ocean. There are many accounts in the Bible, which employ a literary device used by Jewish Old and New Testament writers called Midrash. Midrash is the substantive of the Hebrew word darash which means to search, to investigate, to study and, also, to expound on the fruits of the research. The aim of Midrash is to draw from Scripture a lesson for the present.

Midrash could also be defined as a "reflection on Scripture in the light of the actual situation of God's people and of the developments of God's action on its history." It proposes to explain the meaning of Scripture in the light of the later historical experience of God's people. This kind of interpretation often opened the door to embellishments of the sacred accounts, anachronisms, and a freedom in handling and maneuvering the data of tradition that were at times a little too candid and certainly very imaginative.

For more information about Midrash please go to this link. ://www.catholicity.com/encyclopedia/m/midrashim.html

Answer 4

There were no oceans then like we have now. There were seas large enough for whales -- but not whales the size of what we have now. (Most marine animals stop growing based upon the volume of the water they have to live in.) There were also no ice caps. Have you seen the scientific models of what the current land areas would look like if both ice caps were to be completely melted into water?

Answer 5

The oceans of the world and the Great Lakes.

Pastor Art

Answer 6

Back under the ocean floor from where it came.

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month—on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened

Answer 7

They receded to the valleys and depths, forming the oceans.
Up until the time of the flood, it had not rained upon the Earth.

Answer 8

The polar icecaps?

Answer 9

It remains a mystery that is added to so many more mysteries

Answer 10

God sucked them all up with a silly straw, obviously