sero: If this is so, does this mean that the canopy of water above the Earth was actually outside the known universe?
The canopy of water vapor enveloped the outer atmosphere around the earth.
The upper water is called ‘raqiya , and is described as a solid, metallic like canopy surrounding the earth. A special super cold band surrounds the earth.The earth was like in an air-conditioned state.
The Lord God had not sent rain on the earth ...but streams (a mist) came up from the earth or dew at night and watered the whole surface of the ground...Gen. 2:6.
The water vapor canopy not only shielded the Earth from solar radiation; it similarly shielded the outer ozone layer from the Earth's long-wave radiation. It was a buffer zone in the atmosphere.
You may be thinking if this canopy is possible?
It has to be.
Venus has a canopy. Jupiter has belts. Saturn has rings. Mars has ice caps. Jupiter apparently possesses great oceans of ammonia and an atmosphere of methane and hydrogen, while our own planet possesses immense reflective oceans of water, repeatedly covered and uncovered by cyclonic systems which swirl across its atmosphere. Examine the condition of Venus.
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