{"id":18022,"date":"2026-02-03T01:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recipes-eng.top\/?p=18022"},"modified":"2026-02-03T01:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:41:33","slug":"where-the-water-of-the-great-flood-went-according-to-interpretations-of-the-biblical-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.recipes-eng.top\/?p=18022","title":{"rendered":"Where the water of the great flood went according to interpretations of the biblical texts."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/habemusasado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-31-ene-2026-01_41_20.jpg\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For too long, a seemingly simple question has been ignored or answered with quick, reassuring phrases:<br><strong>Where did the water of the Great Flood go?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biblical account describes a devastating event, waters that covered even the highest mountains on Earth. However, once the flood is over, the water simply &#8220;disappears&#8221; from the popular narrative.<br>It is often said that it evaporated, seeped into the land, or was redistributed into today&#8217;s oceans. But when you look at the numbers, physics, and the biblical texts themselves, those explanations begin to show serious cracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A flood that does not belong to a single culture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The account of the flood is not unique to the Bible. It appears in more than 200 ancient cultures around the world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Sumerians, in the Eridu Tablet, with Ziusudra.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Babylonians, in the Epic of Gilgamesh, with Utnapishtim.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Greeks, with Deucalion and Pyrrha.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Hindus, with Manu and the giant fish.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Similar stories in China, Mesoamerica and South America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All these stories coincide in the essentials:<br>a global flood, the destruction of humanity and a few survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The question is inevitable:<br>is it a cultural coincidence&#8230; or the memory of a real event?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Mathematical Problem of Flood Water<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book of Genesis states that the waters covered all the mountains under the sky, exceeding them by about seven meters.<br>To cover a mountain like Everest under those conditions, approximately <strong>4.5 billion cubic kilometers of water<\/strong> would be needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, today&#8217;s oceans contain about <strong>1.3 billion cubic kilometers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even adding up all the water on Earth today, it <strong>is not enough<\/strong>.<br>Then a disturbing question arises:<br>where did the water come from&#8230; And where did he go next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Traditional explanations don&#8217;t fit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most common explanations present serious problems:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Evaporation:<\/strong> it would require centuries of extreme heat and energy that is impossible to justify.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Underground filtration:<\/strong> it would involve gigantic caverns under the earth&#8217;s crust that would cause global collapses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ocean redistribution:<\/strong> The current oceans do not have sufficient capacity to contain such volume.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most amazing thing is that <strong>the Bible never says that the water evaporated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ancient texts that offer another answer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are ancient writings that were excluded from the biblical canon, such as the <strong>Book of Enoch<\/strong> and the <strong>Book of Jubilees<\/strong>, which provide key details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These texts describe the flood not as a common weather phenomenon, but as a controlled event:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The floodgates of heaven<\/strong> opened.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The fountains of the great abyss<\/strong> were broken.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then, those floodgates were <strong>closed<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The waters <strong>returned to their places<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are not talking about evaporation or natural processes, but about deliberate movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The &#8220;Waters Above&#8221; in the Bible<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the first chapter of Genesis something surprising is mentioned:<br>God separates <strong>the waters below<\/strong> from <strong>the waters above<\/strong>, with the firmament in the middle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This suggests the existence of water reservoirs beyond what we usually imagine.<br>Even the Psalms speak of <strong>&#8220;the waters that are above the heavens,&#8221;<\/strong> in the present tense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the flood, Genesis mentions two sources of water:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The <strong>sources of the great abyss<\/strong> (from below).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>Falls of the Heavens<\/strong> (from above).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the flood ends, both are closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Modern science and hidden oceans under the Earth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2014, geologists discovered something extraordinary:<br>a huge reservoir of water trapped in minerals about 640 km deep beneath the Earth&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This subsurface ocean would contain <strong>up to three times more water than all surface oceans combined<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly, the find fits the biblical description of the &#8220;great deep.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The water did not disappear: it was contained<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to biblical and ancient texts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The water of the flood <strong>came from specific places<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At the end of the event, <strong>he returned to those same places<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was sealed, contained and controlled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, God promises that <strong>there will never again be a flood of water<\/strong> that destroys the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not because the water no longer exists, but because <strong>the fountains were closed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Flood as a Warning, Not an Accident<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flood was not just a natural catastrophe. It was a demonstration of power, control and warning.<br>The apostle Peter explains that just as the ancient world was judged by water, the world today is reserved for a different judgment: <strong>fire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not a question of fear, but of the internal coherence of the biblical message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Final Thought: The Question That Cannot Be Ignored<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The water from the flood did not evaporate, it did not disappear and it was not a geological accident.<br>According to the biblical texts themselves, <strong>she returned to where she came<\/strong> and remains there, contained by a promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The real question is not only <strong>where the water went<\/strong>, but:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Why did they never explain this to us?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why do we prefer comfortable answers to the supernatural?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Are we really prepared to take spiritual warnings seriously?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noah believed when the sky was still clear.<br>The question now is not historical, it is personal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Are you ready?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because the flood was not the end&#8230;<br>It was just the beginning of the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br>\ud83d\udc49 Follow our page, like \ud83d\udc4d, and share this post. 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