Where Did All That Water Come From?
Craig von Buseck
In Genesis, chapter 7, the Bible tells us
specifically where the water came from for Noah's flood:
10 After seven days, the waters of the flood
came and covered the earth.
11 When Noah was 600 years old, on the
seventeenth day of the second month, all the underground waters erupted from
the earth, and the rain fell in mighty torrents from the sky. 12 The
rain continued to fall for forty days and forty nights.
17 For forty days the floodwaters grew deeper,
covering the ground and lifting the boat high above the earth. 18 As
the waters rose higher and higher above the ground, the boat floated safely on
the surface. 19 Finally, the water covered even the highest
mountains on the earth, 20 rising more than twenty-two feet above
the highest peaks.
24 And the floodwaters covered the earth for
150 days.
Genesis 7, verse 11 gives us a picture
of this cataclysmic event. The New American Standard version presents this
verse as "the fountains of the great
deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened."
The phrase "fountains of the great deep" is used only in Genesis 7:11.
A similar phrase, "fountains of the deep" is used in Genesis 8:2,
obviously referring to the same thing.
The "fountains
of the great deep" most likely refer to subterranean sources of water.
Some theologians and scientists believe
that on the third day of creation, when God made dry land emerge, some of the
water that covered the earth may have been trapped underneath and inside the
dry land.
We don't know the natural cause, but
the Bible makes it clear that these subterranean waters that had been trapped
According to www.ChristianAnswers.net, "There are many volcanic rocks interspersed between
the fossil layers in the rock record -- layers that were obviously deposited
during Noah's flood. So it is quite plausible that these fountains of the great
deep involved a series of volcanic eruptions with prodigious amounts of water
bursting up through the ground. It is interesting that up to 70 percent or more
of what comes out of volcanoes today is water, often in the form of
steam."
"In their
catastrophic plate tectonics model for the flood, Austin et al. have proposed
that at the onset of the flood, the ocean floor rapidly lifted up to 6,500 feet
(2,000 meters) due to an increase in temperature as horizontal movement of the
tectonic plates accelerated. This would spill the seawater onto the land and
cause massive flooding -- perhaps what is aptly described as the breaking up of
the 'fountains of the great deep.'"
The other source of the water for
Noah's flood was torrential rainfall from "the
windows of heaven."
It rained without stop for 40 days and
40 nights. The expression "windows
of heaven" is used twice in reference to the flood in Genesis 7:11 and 8:2.
This phrase is used three times in the
Old Testament. It is used twice in 2 Kings 7:2 and 19, referring to God's miraculous
intervention to save his people through a tremendous miracle.
It is also used once in Malachi 3:10,
where God promises to pour out an abundant blessing on his people in response
to their obedience to give.
The phrase used in Genesis similarly
refers to the extraordinary nature of the rainfall that fell from the skies
during the flood.
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Craig von Buseck is a contributing writer
and author of several books, including Nobody Knows:
The Forgotten Story of One of the Most Influential Figures in American Music.
He holds a Doctor of Ministry and an MA in Religious Journalism from Regent
University. Craig has extensive ministry and speaking experience. He travels
often to minister in churches and speak at writers conferences and professional
events.
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