All Christians are creationists meaning that they believe God created the universe (Hebrews 11:3). However, some believers have differing views of the creation account. Many believe the record in Genesis that God created the heavens and the earth about 6300 to 7500 years ago. Others believe in God created the universe and perceive that the heavens and earth are billions of years old. How can Christians rely on the Creation account in Genesis 1?
Beliefs from Creation
The whole Bible relies on the Genesis account for core teachings and values of the Christian faith. The creation in Genesis teaches an absolute standard for human value as God made humanity in His likeness — His image (Genesis 1:26–27). Genesis establishes the origin of sin, the fall of man, death, suffering, and the need for a Savior to reconcile humanity to God (Genesis 3; cf. Rom 5; 1 Cor 15:21–22). Biblical creation records the weakness of humanity combined with the knowledge of good and evil (Genesis 2:16–17; cf. Rom 2:14–15). Furthermore, the Genesis account establishes marriage as God created man as male and female for each other (Genesis 2:24; cf. Matt 19:5–6; Eph 5:31). While many believers do not accept Genesis as completely literal, they do accept these core beliefs based on Genesis.
Applying science without a standard to value human life has historically been dismissive if not harmful and destructive of human life. Furthermore, science without God cannot distinguish the value of human life apart from animal life. Atheistic moral values attribute morality as coming from self, society and, or survival instinct. Such standards are not necessarily respective and valuing of other ethnicities and people of all social statuses. However, God as the Creator of everything good and who made humanity in His likeness is essential to objective moral values.
Difficulties in Harmonizing the Bible and Secular Science
From a nonliteral view of Genesis 1–3, many believers think that God caused the expansion of the universe from a singularity 13.8 billion years ago and then the Earth formed about 9 billion years later. This view appears to conflict with Genesis 1:1 which declares, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” The Bible does not say, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and eons later God created the earth” (through the expansion of matter and energy throughout the universe).
Reconciling secular theories of science with biblical accounts of science has many difficulties. Many Bible believers accept conclusions that initially excluded God, and many believers blend these atheistic assumptions with the Christian faith. This approach to Scripture should concern Christians. Secular scientists start from assumptions without consideration of God as the first cause. Such atheistic presuppositions dismiss the basis of science which is causality — cause and effect. The lack of recognition of God also dismisses meaning and purpose for the universe and for life. By excluding God, scientists would have to assume the universe and its foundational laws that allow intelligent life to exist is fine-tuned by necessity or chance. Dismissing the Creator infers that the first cause was either “nothing” or an non-intelligent multiverse generator (such as a flux of quantum laws). One should think deeply about why someone would prefer a universe from a mindless generator rather than the intelligent Creator. What effect does this have on understanding reality and science?
The Bible and Science Agree
Christians do not need to harmonize secular theories with the Bible. Despite atheistic paradigms, science cannot account for the cause of the universe, the fine-tuning of the laws of the universe, the origin of life, the origin of families of animal life, and the existence of intelligent life. However, the Creation account in Genesis does explain the state of the universe and the Flood accounts for the state of the earth. Biblical creation explains the first cause and thus numerous events necessary for the habitability of life on earth. The Creator accounts for intelligent life being able to observe an intelligible universe.
Genesis records God creating mature forms of life to live on earth in days. According to Genesis 1, God created fully functioning life on specific days and set the natural laws for continued existence at the completion of the days. One does not need to assume millions and billions of years when God evidently created a mature habitable planet for life to exist. How old was Adam a day after God created Him? In Genesis 1, God created an adult man and woman fully formed in a day. God developed mature fruit-bearing trees through rapid processes that sprouted and grew to maturity in a day, and then God set the natural laws for life and reproduction from that day forward. God’s creation of fully functioning life explains the existence of a sufficient and mature earth within a life-permitting universe that does not necessitate vast ages but God creating mature and fully functioning world. Atheistic thinking excludes God as the first cause and assumes long periods of time that dismissing the perception of God as necessary to recognize the scientific facts of Creation.
God’s creation of a mature heavens and earth explains any perception of long ages for the universe and the earth. Just as God created mature life, the Creator created a mature earth and the maturation of its rocks through rapid formative processes accounting for radioactive decay in a day of creation. God created the earth with the right balance and maturation of rock for life to exist rather than life happening to emerge after billions of years of nuclear decay.
Atheistic paradigms also dismiss the first cause of the universe and so assume that stars just happen to form and develop just right to support life. Secular theories propose the accidental and coincidental formation of the earth precisely balanced at just the right time for life to exist. Parallel to the origins of the universe and life, secular theories assert an explanation of geologic strata forming over millions of years. However, a worldwide flood has greater explanatory power for billions of dead organisms buried in layers of rock laid down by water all over the Earth. Believers do not need to accept millions of years to explain geologic strata. Biblical Creation and the Flood have no conflict with science, but atheistic assumptions do.
The First Cause of the Universe and Miracles
Whatever is beyond the nature of the universe is supernatural by definition so the cause of the universe must be supernatural. The beginning of the universe requires a supernatural cause. The cause of the universe must exist beyond all nature of the universe and its physical laws, and the supernatural cause must act outside of nature and its laws. The first cause of the universe must be immensely more powerful than the universe, exist beyond the universe, set orderly physical laws, and have created an intelligible universe allowing intelligent life to exist and observe it. A non-intelligent cause cannot explain the existence of an intelligible universe with intelligent life to observe it. The intelligent Creator is the best explanation for the supernatural cause of the intelligible universe that allow intelligent beings to exist and observe it.
God’s existence necessitates supernatural actions — miracles. Because God exists, miracles exist. One cannot believe in God and not in the first miracle of Creation when God created the heavens and the earth. Without faith in the biblical account of God’s great miracle of creation, any inferences about science would undermine belief in other biblical miracles including the miraculous works of Jesus and especially His resurrection. The apostle Paul explained that any faith in Christ without Jesus’s resurrection is futile and empty (1 Corinthians 15:12–19). Accepting atheistic assumptions about science distorts God’s creative power and the gospel as the answer to humanity’s problem of death that was started by humanity’s rebellion (Galatians 1:8–9; cf. Rom 5:12–17; 1 Cor 15:21–23).
As God created the universe and all life, God can create life again and form life from nonliving matter as in the act of Jesus’s resurrection. Resurrection is God’s act of recreating to restore bodily life. According to the Bible, the answer to death is Jesus resurrecting to save all humanity by providing the way to overcome death. Critical and believing historians recognize that the Christian movement began as various people did come to believe in Jesus’s resurrection by witnessing Jesus alive from the dead. Jesus’s resurrection over physical death attests to Jesus’s uniqueness before God. Therefore, Jesus’s words and life stand by God’s approval. Skeptical and believing historians recognize that Jesus claimed to be “the Son of Man” — the one who would have dominion and judgment in His everlasting kingdom of all nations (Mark 14:62; cf. Dan 7:13–14, 26–28).
By God’s authority, Jesus taught the truth based upon the Creation of Genesis, “But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.'” (Matthew 19:4–5). Jesus and His apostles taught that God created humankind who can perceive God as the Creator “since the creation of the world” (Romans 1:20; cf. Luke 11:50–51; Heb 9:26). Jesus relied upon Genesis that God created all life and human life “in the beginning” (Mark 10:6; cf. Exod 20:11). Jesus warned of God’s judgment by referencing the Flood as a historical event (Matt 24:37–39; cf. 2 Pet 3:5–6). Jesus taught Genesis as fact.
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The Genesis account of Creation is essential to the Christian faith, human value, the need for salvation, the institution of marriage, and understanding the cause and order of the universe. The Creation account in Genesis agrees with science without contradiction. Christians do not need to reconcile secular theories with a mythological understanding of Genesis. Those who trust Christ must trust His words as Jesus attested that “from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.'” (Mark 10:6).
The Breath of God 
Your young earth creationists understanding is unbiblical and false. Take God and his eternal words seriously. In the original text 2 Peter 3:5-7 reads like this – “For this they willingly forget, that the heavens there were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water were brought together by the word of God; through which the cosmos (world- meaning 2nd heaven- outerspace, earth and its atmosphere) that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
Contrary to popular interpretation, the above passage is not a reference to Noah’s flood. And the only other place in the Bible where the Earth was covered in waters is Genesis 1:2. The ramifications are obvious: The literal wording suggests that the “heavens and the earth, which are now” (made during the seven days) was not the first-time creation of all things as is traditionally assumed.
The Word of God is telling the reader there was a previous populated world on the face of this old Earth before God formed the present world of modern Man. This invalidates the popular Doctrine of Young Earth Creationism.
The Bible itself provides insight into a great mystery in Earth’s natural history at what is known as the Pleistocene – Holocene boundary. Science remains at a loss to definitively explain the Ice Age and the anomaly of the mysterious mega fauna extinctions across the face of the Earth about 12,000 to 10,000 Radio Carbon years ago. ~ This death/vanity entering creation is what is said in God’s Word- Romans 8:20,21- Creation was subject to vanity by commandment of God long ago (Romans 8:20) some 3.5 billion years ago because of this satanic rebellion in the hope that that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. (Romans 8:21). Also note that billions of years are based on limited human understanding that is subject to change , while these events are facts based on God’s eternal word that stands forever. – Matthew 5:18, 24:35, Luke 21:33, Isaiah 40:8, Psalms 119:89, 1 Peter 1:25
Geologic evidence from that period indicates extraordinary global massive volcanism, gigantic tidal waves, seismic activity on a vast scale, and extreme temperature swings on the Earth over a geologically brief period of time. It is no coincidence that the Bible at Genesis 1:2 describes the Earth as flooded, desolate, and in darkness in the timeframe closely corresponding to these catastrophic events in the Earth’s natural history. Clearly, these two mysteries are linked.
Why the old “world that then was” ended, and why God made a new world and modern Man, requires a study into the ancient origins of Satan and the Angels.
The Earth has an ancient natural history that can be to some extent deciphered from the geologic record, but it also has an even more important ancient spiritual history that can only be deciphered from correctly understanding the God’s eternal word – the Holy Bible. So knowledge of both is required to correctly reconcile geology and God’s eternal word – the Holy Bible.
May you find this material useful in your study of God’s Holy Word. Gap Creationism is a most ancient idea. It was clearly taught by Apostle Peter in 2 Peter 3:4-7. This means that it was also known to Jewish teachers and prophets before him. This was what God revealed to Moses in Genesis 1:2 -Earth became ( original text of the Bible in Genesis 1:2 the word is “became” , not “was” ) formless and void, covered with water and darkness due to God’s judgement/wrath upon Satan and fallen angels- 1/3rd of all angels and God casts angels that sinned to hell and chains them under darkness for judgement of the great day. – Genesis 1:2, 2 Peter 2:4, 3:5-7, Jeremiah 4:23-27, Jude 1:6.
Even God revealed this to Job who lived before Moses . Job was probably a contemperory of Patriarchs – Abraham, Issac and Jacob. In Job 38:4-7 we read as follows : – 4 Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angels shouted for joy?
The next theologian in God’s Assembly period who thought of such an idea was St. Justin Martyr. He was born in the year 100 and coverted to Christianity in the year 130 of our Lord. He was pesecuted for his faith and was beheaded in the year 165. St. Justin Martyr supposes an indefinte period between the Creation and the first ordering of all things. This puts the idea of gap creationism 1,700 years before the scientific data of geology gave it credibility.
Another great theologian and philosopher that believed in gap creationism was St. Augustine of Hippo. He was born in the year 354 and died in 430. He believed in a considerable interval between the Creation related in the first verse of Genesis and of an account given in the third and following verses.
There is a great space of time since gap creationism was taught in our history. The reason was that many false teachings claiming to be ‘christian’ came into existence by idolatrous corruption by the roman government and much time was spent straightening out such false doctrines.
Also, the Dark Ages entered into the existence of the world, and education was frowned upon. After the Dark Ages, the gap theory was traced to a man named Simon Episcopius who was born in 1583 and died in 1643, and who was a theologian and scholar of his time. In the works of Episcopius, the gap theory of creationism show up in more detail.
Thus, the gap theory of the old-earth theory with details predates the present-day geology by 200 years while God revealed this gap period between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 to Moses and other old testament prophets and even to Job as detailed earlier and thus this revealed truth and fact of God’s eternal word predates present-day geology , astronomy and other limited human understandings by some 4000 years.
The gap theory has been portrayed as an attempt to change the Word of God as a way to appease the scientific discoveries. Scientist have gotten its idea of an age-old universe from ministers of the Word of God years before geological evidence came into existence. How is it possible then to claim that the gap theory compromises the Word of God?
It is a historical fact that many modern-day geologist believe in evolution, but the early geologist were Christians, and they believed in gap creationism. Evolutionists have taken the geological evidence and twisted these facts to promot the lie of evolution of the species. No such evidence is seen in geological formations.
Rev. Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), a mathematician and a respected minister, was a leader in the Free Church of Scotland. Thomas Chalmers became one of the most popular preacher of his time. He taught the gap theory, and it was accepted by many.
Rev. Thomas Chalmers, in a review of Cuvier’s Theory of the Earth, taught that there was a vast period for the formation of the geological ages and the organic ages to have occurred after Genesis 1 when God created out of nothingness. Genesis 1:2 was a period, which life became void and formless; and the sun, the moon, and the stars were temporarily extingushed. Genesis 1:3 was to be preserved as the natural twenty-four-hour periods and the restoration of the old heavens and the earth.
Science in this author’s opinion has made a terrible mistake. They have taken the fact of the geological ages, the fossils of plants or animals and applied those fossils to the idea that man must have developed just the same way without any fossils of man evolving from apes. Man was made in the image of God so he could have not evolved from apes, neither plants or animals were evolved but created by God and the so called fossil evidences that some claim are in reality the remains of dead plants , animals and near human ape like species that were present before the judgement by God on satan and fallen angels (1/3rd of all angels) – Revelation 12:3,4.Genesis 1:2, 2 Peter 2:4, 3:5-7, Jeremiah 4:23-27, Jude 1:6. Although this judgement by God might have occured any time between 3.5 billion years when Death/Futility entered creation ( Romans 8 :20,21) it is probably more nearer to some 10,000 years ago.
Dr. John Pye-Smith (1774-1851), who was a good acquaintance of Thomas Chalmers, had almost the same view as Rev. Chalmers. In the Congregational Lecture Sixth Series, Scripture and Geology in 1840, he gives a brilliant defense of the gap theory of creation and a scholarly offence for the promotion of that theory. This man’s credibility was attacked by ignorant believers in God and also by geologists.
He wrote more extensively on the subject of gap creationism than most others who believed in this gap theory. Rev. Denis Crofton was another advocate for the gap theory of creation. In his book Genesis and Geology printed in 1853, he gives many scriptures on the gap theory and biblically defends the theory with boldness and brilliance. There were many other ministers that defended this truth and reality of God’s eternal woed.
Yet many evangelical Christians tell us that they all changed their minds about the gap theory of creation, which simply is not true. This is a misrepresentation of the historical fact of the gap theory of creation.
Rev. William Buckland was the first to read rock formations and the first to find a lizard that was considered a dinosaur. He was the first to find a complete skeleton that predates Adam. He believed that it was the minister’s duty to study what the creator has created and to learn more about God. In 1820, he published a book The Connection of Geology with Religion explained. William Buckland believed in a gap-theory catastrophe.
In 1823, he published a book Observations on the Organic Remains Contained in Caves, Fissures, and diluvial Gravel and Other Geological Phenomena, Attesting the Action of a Universal Deluge. When you read this book, you can see the subtleties against the young-earth concept. Other geologists agreed with the age-old theory of creation.
Hugh Miller in his 1857 book The Testimony of the Rocks states both sides of the issue of young-earth and old-earth theory of Creation. He personally makes a stand for the old-age earth theory though it is different than gap creationism, and it is stated in this book although we are told that he believed otherwise.
Also, reverend and professor of geology, Edward Hitchcock defends the concept of the old-age earth and gap creationism with scripture and geology. In his 1851 book Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences, he clearly states the gap of time between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. The list continues to grow while I do my research and buy rare book on the gap theory of creation. These are just a gew of the major players in the old-earth concept.
Why do we not teach this concept anymore and pretend that the great minds of Christians from the past are insignificant? These are just a few prominent individuals that believed in the gap theory of creation. Creationists have labeled them as compromisers of the Word of God.
Misled young earth Creationists ignorantly believe that the six-day Re – Creation event detailed in Genesis chapter 1, to be the first act of creation and believe that universe is no older than 6000 years and vainly claim the scriptures do not support the universe as being old by ignoring scriptures like Isaiah 45:18, 2 Peter 3:5,6, 2:4, Jeremiah 4:23-27, Isaiah 14:12-17, Ezekiel 28:14-17, Jude 1:6 etc. Thus these misled young earth creationists have tried to give those that believe in the Gap creation detailed in the scriptures – Holy Bible – God’s eternal word a negative label to discourage others from believing the truth of God’s eternal word regarding creation which is this Gap creationism.
Based on Romans 5:12-21, 1 Corinthians 15:21,22 some misled young earth creationists ignorantly claim that death entered creation by Adamic sin for first time so that Gap creation is not correct. What is said in Romans 15:12-21 and 1 Corinthians 15:21,22 is that death came into this present re-created earth as a result of fall of Adam and Eve in Garden at Eden. They ignore the existense of inhabited ancient universe and earth clearly said in 2 Peter 3:5,6, Isaiah 14: 45:18, Jeremiah 4:23-27, Isaiah 14:12-14, Ezekiel 28:12-17 which was destroyed by God’s wrath/judgement as we see in 2 Peter 3:5,6 and Genesis 1:2.
They also ignore Romans 8:20,21 – where scriptures clearly say that creation was subjected to futility by the one who subjected it – God . Because of first rebellion of Satan/ Helel and cutting off (fall of) Satan to Earth ( Ezekiel 28:12-16, Isaiah 14:12-17 ) and further rebellion of satan taking 1/3rd of all angels to earth ( Revelation 12:3,4 ) which occured between 4.5 and 3.5 billion Years BC , by God’s commandment death / futility entered creation as said Romans 8:20,21 at about 3.5 billion Years BC.
Also note that man was formed from dust and that he will return to dust as man’s access to tree of life was forbidden by God – Genesis 3:19-24. We need to understand that according to scriptures only humans – mankind and angels are given spirit so that they can live forever from the day they are created. But since this eternal spirit was put in bodies formed from dust in case man, these bodies without access to tree of life will return back to dust. But the immortal bodies that we recieve from God on resurrection will live forever. Then also there is tree of life in the eternal New Jerusalem. We don’t know regarding the fate of animals as it is not revealed by God in his word.
Our best expositors of scripture, Rev. David King of Glasgow says that it seem to be now pretty generally agreed, that the opening verse in Genesis has no connection with the verses that follow. They think it may be understood as making a separate and independent statement regarding the creation proper, and that the phrase in the beginning may be expressive of an indefinitely remote antiquity. On this principle the Bible recognizes, in the first instance, the great age of the earth, and then tells us of the changes it underwent at a period long subsequent, in order to render it a fit abode for the family of man. The work of the six days was not, according to this view, a creation in the strict sense of the term, but a renovation and restoration of preexisting.
Scriptures speak about 3 heavens-1-Earths Atmosphere-Sky.
2-Outer Space-Angelic/Satanic realm.
3-The real Heaven-Dwelling place of God. ~ Apostle Paul mentions in his letter to Chorinthians about being ascended to third heaven – 2 Corinthians 2:12- I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know – God knows.
Psalms 19:1 says-For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. A study into how God created heavens and the earth and the later changes he made to them due to satanic rebellion and the changes to come, testifies the Gap creationism .
Genesis 1:7 says-“And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.”
Here the Bible is saying that God established a three-heaven structure between the Earth and the heavenly abode of the Ancient of Days. The firmament is the abode of the sun, moon and stars, and the galaxies. In other words, it is speaking of the entire physical universe. And the Bible says that God placed waters above that firmament. In doing so He placed a “Sea” between the footstool of His heavenly throne and the less than pure physical universe down below.
Also make note that in Genesis 1:8 the Lord God says nothing about this being good. Although God says, “it was good” concerning days 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 He does not say that about the work of the second day. Ever wondered about that? The reason is very simple. Although this division was not good, it was necessary to protect the creation from the flaming glory of God’s Holiness. Nothing impure can stand in His presence, and even the presence of a regenerated heavens and earth was not completely pure before God (see Job 25:5).
Also read 2 Peter 3:5-7-“For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
In the original text 2 Peter 3:5-7 reads like this – “For this they willingly forget, that the heavens there were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water were brought together by the word of God; through which the cosmos (world- meaning 2nd heaven- outerspace, earth and its atmosphere) that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
Notice that in the passage that the earth is said to be “standing out” of the water and “in” the water(2 Peter 3:5).
In our English language, these descriptive terms suggest that these particular waters were not confined to the surface of the planet; they overflowed the entire planetary system. The Bible says that part of the planet was “standing out” from these waters. That is to say, the sphere of the planet was partially “overflowed” and the location of the bulk of the waters was external to the Earth itself.
The Bible says the planet was “in the water” of this particular flood (think of a round fishing floater bobbing in a lake). In other words, part of the Earth is protruding from the waters and not simply just covered by waters on the surface. The literal English wording of this passage does not describe a flood event confined to the Earth’s surface. This passage describes a deluge that raged across the solar system, and beyond. Our solar system and outer space are the Second Heaven of the Bible’s three heavens.
Try to draw this mental picture: Think of a dark and ruined solar system with water strewn throughout it like one big messy galactic spill. That is what Genesis 1:2 is speaking about. And imagine the planet Earth drifting awash in this roaring and rolling, formless mess and orbiting around a dead star. Where would such waters have come from? Well, it is an established scientific observation that aging stars create and give off lots of water. Certainly there must have been lots and lots of stars in the heavens that were “of old” and, if something had caused the entire cosmos to have gone dark and all the stars died, then there would be excessive water everywhere throughout space.
Also note that by God’s word heavens of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water were “brought together” (greek word “sunestosa” used here means brought together ,cohere or contracted ) and thus cosmos (meaning 2nd heaven- outerspace – entire universe, earth and its atmosphere) that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. This means that by God’s word the cosmos (ancient universe) was contracted so that the water from dead stars flooded the entire ancient universe and thus the whole cosmos that then was ( ancient universe) perished.
If that was indeed the case, then all those extinguished stars would need to be reignited. This happened in the 4th day of re-creation by God, so that stars, sun and moon are seen in our present heavens . Before that the contracted universe was spread out by creating a firmament ( constituting the outer space and the earth’s atmosphere ) in the 2nd day of the re-creation by God , which scientists of today might percieve as an expanding universe. – And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. – Genesis 1:7.
Scientists find existense of a great amount of water on the edge of our universe – Black holes -www.wired.com/2011/07/black-hole-h…
-or just google search-” water in black hole”, if the link is not working.
Modern science consider these Black Holes as the borders of our physical Universe. We are seeing only 3 or 4 dimensions ( “4” if Time is included as a dimension ) . But Science today has discovered up to 8 more dimensions in compressed form – F theory / Father theory making a total of 12 dimensions.
Scientists consider black holes as the edge / border of our physical universe into something outside were all dimensions exist. What is important is that scientists have found out existense of water in these borders of our universe known as black holes, not some water but trillions of trillion times water than that of all the earths oceans and water systems combined as this link will show you-www.wired.com/2011/07/black-hole-hol…
-or just google search – “water in black hole”, if the link is not working.
Thus the waters which were above the firmament which are a remenant of the ancient cosmic flood, is what scientists have found out.
Thus we read in Psalms 104:3- He layeth beams of his upper chambers on water…
In Psalms 148:4- Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!
Also scientists have found evidences for huge flood in surfaces of planets like Mars in ancient times. Just google search ” huge flood in Mars NASA “. This is another evidence for ancient cosmic flood described in 2 Peter 3:5,6, Genesis 1:2.
Only those who are holy can see God. We are made holy not by our merit ,but by the sinless blood of Lord Jesus Christ shed on the cross for our sins.Lord Jesus Christ died for the sins of all mankind shedding his sinless blood to wash away the sins of all those who will trust in him.And all those who trust in Lord Jesus Christ can have eternal life.
Scriptures speak of our eternal residence not on this heaven or earth now ,but in New Jerusalem,New Heaven and New Earth.
Revelation 21:1,2-
1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.
2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.