Exploring the Mystery of Water Above the Sky

⁶ And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” ⁷ So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. ⁸ God called the vault “sky.”

Genesis is my most favourite book of the bible and I’ve read it through hundreds of times. The Creation story especially.

But it’s only just occurred to me what this verse actually says.

“Let there be a vault BETWEEN the waters to SEPARATE WATER FROM WATER, So God made the vault and separated the water UNDER the vault from the water ABOVE it.”

Wait… what?!?

The SKY is the vault. The water UNDER the vault would mean the oceans. But the water ABOVE the vault?!? WHAT water???

It can’t be the clouds, because that’s IN the sky, as in IN the vault, and anyway, they’re kind of a different texture to actually what water is when you think about it. Granted, water droplets gathered together, but with more air in them than water, otherwise how do they defy gravity. This is going from vague memory from science class.

Now a couple things about me. I’m naturally nocturnal (which kind of makes me a bit of a misfit in today’s human world), and I’m also an overthinker (which also makes me a misfit in a mentally stable human world, if this is actually a thing). So, this got me thinking. WHAT WATER???

As far as I know, the only thing above the sky is space, and a lot of it. I know this because I figured out I have Anablephobia, which basically translates to, every time I look up and see too much sky above me, I kind of panic. I have the same kind of irrational fear when it comes to both heights and very deep water. Just having too much “nothing” around me makes me feel uncomfortable. This may also explain why I’m a reclusive introvert and hoarder. I’m more comfortable surrounded by clutter basically.

But then I got to thinking. If you actually think about it, you drown if you try to breathe under water if you don’t have sufficient diving equipment. By the same standard, without sufficient equipment in space, you die. I’ve read, in rather ghastly detail, as to what happens to a person’s lungs if they try to breathe in space. Believe me, you don’t want to go there, it gets messy.

As far as astronomers and scientists know, there’s basically nothing in space… ok.. granted, perhaps space dust, but no oxygen and definitely NO WATER.

So when God created the vault (the sky) to separate the water, I’m left with two questions: What water is God referring to and #2 – if there WAS water there, what happened to it? At one stage of the planet’s life, did we live in one giant air bubble?

Now I know we have an atmosphere. The ozone layer surrounding our planet protects us from ultraviolet radiation and the earth’s magnetic fields deflect cosmic rays, a fact that I sourced from here as just one example, but I’m now puzzled if, at one time in Earth’s history, we were also surrounded by water outside of our little protective shield.

I often believe that God’s creation happens to coincide with the Big Bang theory, even if both the religious and non religious choose not to agree. I can literally see the logic in how both work together and surely, I can’t be the only person who does, not in a world of 8 billion people!

Could this be God’s clue that the Big Bang did happen as scientists theorise? That, at a time when space got messy with a whole lot of debris, God needed to do a little bit of housekeeping?

After all, if you think about it, the amount of pressure required to get the ball (or universe) rolling would have liquified a LOT of debris. Could this be the water that God is referring to that needed to be separated from our oceans?

I often think that the Creation story isn’t just a history lesson for people to learn and memorise, it often provides clues as to the more detailed creation of the Universe if one was just to read between the lines.

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