NOAH TO ABRAHAM

MODULE 4: The Flood

SESSION 15: The Flood as Cosmic Collapse

The cosmology of the ancient biblical authors—three tiers: waters below, the dry land, and waters above is crucial to understanding the meaning of the flood. The language that’s describing the flood is describing neither a local flood nor a global flood. It’s describing the collapse of the cosmos—cosmic collapse. In the biblical cosmology, the waters above the raqia’ are still there. God’s ongoing, sustaining work of creation is to keep the order of this cosmos from collapsing in chaos.