2 Peter 3:5
For they willfully shut their eyes to the fact that long ago the heavens existed; and the earth, also – formed out of water and by the action of water, by the fiat of God;
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6and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed in a deluge of water.
Cross References
Genesis 1:6Then God said, “Let there be a dome between the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”
Psalms 24:2For he founded it on the seas, and on the floods he sustains it.
Psalms 136:6Who spread forth the earth on the waters: for his kindness endures forever.
John 3:19The ground of their condemnation is this, that though the light has come into the world, people preferred the darkness to the light, because their actions were wicked.
Colossians 1:17All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him;
Hebrews 11:3Faith enables us to perceive that the universe was created at the bidding of God – so that we know that what we see was not made out of visible things.
Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 3:4-8
The Cavils of Infidels; Destruction of the World. ( a. d. 67.) 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 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: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being… Read the whole commentary →