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THE HYDROSPHERE AND GLOBAL OCEAN
Characteristics of God:
Upon the Hydrosphere and Global Ocean
Vanessa P Hebert
Dr. C
July 4, 2015
EAR SCN-120
Earth Science
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Abstract
Oceanography is an independent science that encompass all of the other spheres or earth
processes and their sub-sciences; NOAA, makes avaiable a strong argument about the magnetic
field that rest above the surface of the waters and extend below to the global oceans basin:
(Interior, 2014)
This pursues my theory of perpetual processes and layering-this is another example of the energy
and power of God that affects the currents, energy fields or winds.
“The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundered: the Lord is upon many
waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. (Psalms 29)

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Looking at the system of Universal Laws, turn your attention to look at the omnipresence
of God; his expanse is as un-measurable as is the known universe in our solar region. There is
the world, spoken into existence; his Son Jesus, birthed- from his creation: then there is the Word
of God-eternally in him: Lastly but certainly not least, there is the Holy spirit that came down
from heaven which can be seen as the atmosphere, because it is invisible, but it has varying
degrees and levels it covers and protects. Have you noticed the shell or the hull or law of order
and seeding, in every system that God has created?
The system of the earth and it processes have a similar makeup: we can detect this order
by observing the spheres that each earth system inhibits. What I mean is this, we cannot live
without the air of the atmosphere and ecosystems of the biosphere, or the water hydration and
evaporation processes of the hydrosphere. Our geosphere is simply the ground beneath our feet-
like the Word of God; being that hard-core system providing the geosphere minerals or nutrients:
just as our blood functions for our human bodies-a life source including the Holy spirit as our
spiritual fuel. The earth processes are a completely self-sufficient operating system; however,
they have been carefully designed or layered to utilize the life source of each other; with
interdependent elements that is necessary for all forms of life.
The Hydrosphere affects greatly our survival as humans. The vehicle in which water
travels is evaporation from our oceans then into precipitation to our land then running back to the
ocean. (Tarbuck, Lutgens, & Tasa, 2015)“Evaporation can be defined as the process where
liquid water, or any other liquid, is transformed into a gaseous state: the evaporation process
requires an input of energy from the environment”. (Hubbart & Pidwimy, 2011)
The miracle of water is so astounding that Ecclesiastes 1:7 "All the rivers flow into the
sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again. Water is no

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doubt the most abundant substance at the surface of the earth. Our oceans contribute to over 97%
of the earth’s water source; the second largest contributor are the ice caps at 2.05 percent. Our
underground and above groundwater sources are caverns, water tables, springs, lakes and rivers
are still less than 10 percent combined. The earth is approximately 197 million square miles; of
that- a 140 million square mile are oceans and seas. 71% of our earth’s surface is covered by
water.
Revelation 1:15b says “and his voice as the sound of many waters”: I now think many, as in
diverse; not only volume and mass.
Genesis 1:6-9 Shares with us Gods activity of separating the heavens from the waters;
creating that divide of space of here and there. Who other than the one true living God can take
the earth and hold it on its axis, while spinning the winds in their hemisphere or gyros in
opposite directions to correspond with ocean currents; and never allowing the earth to fall or
without our feeling it physically. As humans we could possibly experience the chaos or friction
that arises from time to time in our lives as an effect of that energy: but His Holy Word gives us
the power to speak peace into any turbulent circumstance.
Currents are made up of two elements-speed and direction; tides are big waves that move
through the ocean in response to the forces exerted by the moon and sun. Currents put the
motion in the ocean, whereas tides involve water moving up and down. (NOAA, 2014) Ocean
waves are energy traveling along the surface between ocean and atmosphere, often transferring
energy from a storm far out at sea over distances of several thousand kilometers. Even on calm
days, the ocean still has waves that travel across its surface. (Tarbuck, Lutgens, & Tasa, 2015)
An ICR associate confirms in a survey performed by NASA that life on earth depends on
the continuous movement of ocean water to mix nutrients both horizontally and vertically. Their

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satellite “Aquarius” shows the complicated causes of our ocean currents, and are primarily
driven by winds above surface; but below the water they are driven by water density: I contend
that they are harkening to the voice of God-he created processes to be perpetual. Thomas also
goes on to say "This globally interconnected process of overturning circulation occurs in all
ocean basins and helps to regulate earth's climate." (Thomas, 2011) Here again is that layering
process I referred to earlier about how God has embedded a seed of generation within the earth
to reproduce or perform processes systematically.
Global oceans are spectacular and full of forceful movement; Psalm 93:4 “The Lord on
high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea”. (KJV)
Darkness –a hue; was upon the face of the deep: I wonder if there was any color before God
spoke the heavens in place and it became the sky. A blue that is unlike another color we can
behold, but we know that God will not just have it reflect one color; it is actually a spectrum of
colors. The blue of our oceans that varies in shades and hues from very dark blue to a very light-
virtually transparent aqua-green provides tranquility for weary eyes.
“Pure water is perfectly clear, of course - but if there is a lot of water, and the water is very deep
so that there are no reflections off the sea floor, the water appears as a very dark navy blue. The
reason the ocean is blue is due to the absorption and scattering of light. The blue wavelengths of
light are scattered, similar to the scattering of blue light in the sky but absorption is a much larger
factor than scattering for the clear ocean water. In water, absorption is strong in the red and weak
in the blue, thus red light is absorbed quickly in the ocean leaving blue. Almost all sunlight that
enters the ocean is absorbed, except very close to the coast. The red, yellow, and green
wavelengths of sunlight are absorbed by water molecules in the ocean” the agent that is needed
for light absorption in the ocean is chlorophyll. (Acker, 2010)

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I know that when he separated the heavens from the deep, being under water; it caused a
great shift, rift and impact upon the earth; and created varying seamounts, which are isolated
elevations near volcanoes. Knowing that God used words to perform is works; maybe just maybe
this is what some refer to as a big bang. Ocean ridges are underwater mountain ranges under the
sea. Seas are simply extended bodies of water preceding an ocean: the course of time and molten
rock has caused-an issue of change on the seafloor. Seafloor spreading leads to rifting then to
faults; plate tectonics, I learned are in constant motion accommodating these changes to sea
floor. Imagine a world beneath the ocean floor, seeing as how mountains rise from it and plates
form to cover it. The average depth of bodies of seawater is about 3.8 kilometers (2.4 miles).
Maximum depths can exceed 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) in areas known as ocean trenches
(Hubbart & Pidwimy, 2011) ; however, deep ocean basins are occasionally 36,000 feet.
As I study the ocean floors, I can see the probability how the ocean floor-topography, could very
well mirror the terrain of above surface waters, fitting together like a puzzle: a theory I once
disagreed with. Consider for a moment-the deep underwater trenches were they resting places of
the tops of the mountain that was torn apart when God separated the waters, creating the
firmament.
I am persuaded that our oceans are methphoric of God and the Holy Tinity. My reasoning
is that Gods voice rests upon or abides upon the face of the waters; it is also indicative of his
Omnipresence: note that all other spheres of the earth’s sciences and their elements are
conneceted by a process of layering; as is the Holy Trinity, one upon the other; obeyging the
voice of God:accomplishing the word he has sent forth.

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