Marine Demons

Chapter 1

1 The Mystery of the Waters

The waters are mentioned at the beginning of creation. The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters (Gen. 1:2). Darkness was upon the face of the deep. One translation calls it "the roaring deep". The earth was without form (chaotic). The Hebrew phrase for "without form" is tohu wabohu . Tohu wabohu , that unformed chaos, to which are added the darkness, choshek , and the watery deep, tehom ,—all are understood in Job, Psalm and several of the Prophets to have been dominated by entities that are at enmity with God. They are controlled by the "powers" resisting God's power. God represents order, light, life, love, and creation. The chaotic deep represents disorder, darkness, destruction, and death. The bathic sea, the wild ocean waters, is that which is contained by God in the Creation. (R. Bixler) God gathered the waters together in seas and contained them. He set boundaries and commanded the dry land to appear. The word that most accurately describes this action

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