FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP

(Part 1) Being a born again Christian is not a continuous intellectual chase or the result of examining evidence and analyzing data. It comes through faith.

"It is the gift of God. It’s faith in Christ that saves, not our own efforts. Not good deeds, not going to church, not any type of ritual. It’s our faith in Christ."(Ephesians 2:8)

When someone give us a gift we don't ask "How much do I owe you?" Our appropriate response should be of thankfulness. Similarly, even after they were given the gift of salvation, Christians feel obligated to try to work their way to God. Because our salvation and even our faith are gifts, we should respond with gratitude, praise and joy. We become Christians through God's unmerited grace and not as a result of any effort, ability, intelligent choice, or act of service on our part. Obviously, out of gratitude for these free gifts we will seek to help and serve others with kindness and love in a gentle manner. While no action or work we practice can help us obtain salvation, God's intention is that our salvation will result in acts of service.

But Christian faith is not blind faith. It is based on understanding and believing God’s Word. And the Bible confirms that nature itself proves God’s existence. In this way, scientific discoveries that confirm the Bible are indeed helpful and exciting.

But before we go into the scientific discoveries I want to mention the fact that the world is repeating history from thousands of years ago. In ancient times, here is what we see occurring:

Humanity was once in a harmonious relationship with God and was created with the potential to live forever in a paradise created for us.

Through humanity’s own choices, sin entered into this world which separated us from The Lord and required a reconciliation of man and God. Until then, people would have to work and labor every day, suffer disease and death and the world started to decay. All this was based on the false promise of Satan in the Garden of Eden that we could one day be “like gods.”

As centuries went on and civilizations developed, human achievement reached new heights and so did rebellion against God.

Fallen angelic beings, under the leadership of Satan soon started very actively interfering in human affairs and plunging us into evil.

This is what Jesus called “The Days of Noe (Noah)”

A time when humanity had become so caught up in delusions that we could achieve greatness without God. Relying on our “intelligence”, technology and occult spirituality we could accomplish anything and be like God.

One of the more questioned Biblical accounts is of Noah’s flood since the Bible clearly states that the water was 15 cubits (approximately 25 feet) over every mountain. This would require more water than presently exists on the Earth’s surface. However, with the confirmation of the subterranean oceans, that is now possible. Scientists’ recent discovery, have confirmed that large amounts of water could reach the Earth’s surface through deep sea faults. And the area of the globe with the greatest potential to do so are in the Pacific 'ring of fire' volcanic region, the precise area Gaines Johnson, a Christian geologist and author of "The Bible, Genesis and Geology" explains this occurrence from a scientific standpoint:

“Geysers occur when waters in underground chambers are heated by the surrounding host rock until the pressure and temperature cause them to flash to steam and erupt upwards. When the chamber is emptied, replacement water flows back into the chamber, the replacement water is heated, and the cycle repeats. An excellent example of this is seen in Yellowstone National Park’s “Old Faithful” geyser. According to what is written in the Scriptures, the fountains of Noah’s flood may have been a similar form of geyser activity on a massive, world-wide scale, concentrated along the mid-oceanic ridge system. A careful reading of Genesis 7:6-10 seems to indicate that the flood waters were already rising for about seven days before the fountains “were broken up” (verse: 11)…. Careful parsing of the above passage indicates that great amounts of water were already being added to the Earth’s seas at least seven days before the rains even began. This means that sea level was already rapidly rising, flooding low lying coastal areas and sending panicked low-land inhabitants inland from the rising seas. Meanwhile, presumably up on much higher ground, Noah and his family took shelter on the Ark and waited, while the massive gopher wood vessel remained firmly nested in its construction frame, unmovable and secure until the rising waters lifted it from its resting place. The great volume of water this early in the flood event could only come from massive undersea “fountains” beginning to breech the crust all along the mid-oceanic ridge system. But this preliminary out-flow was still insufficient to breech the ocean’s surface. The volume of underwater displacement would, however, be sufficient enough to generate global tsunami (tidal waves) activity, quickly drowning inhabitants who lived near the seas. Seven days into the flood the undersea fountains broke through the crust in full fury, and the pressure of the flow sent scalding columns of super-heated waters upwards, breeching the ocean’s surface and erupting skyward as a globe-encircling curtain of steam rocketing into the upper atmosphere. As the steam came into contact with the colder air it would condense and produce cloud cover and relentless rainfall on a planetary scale. This is precisely the sequence of events described in this part of the passage:

"In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month - on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.”(Gen 7:11-12)