For this escapes their notice by their willing it so, that heavens were of old, and earth by water, and through water, subsisting by the Word of God,
And God said, Let an expanse be in the midst of the waters, and let it be dividing between the waters and waters.
And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land be seen. And it was so.
to Him who spread the earth on the waters; for His mercy endures forever;
For He has founded it on the seas and established it upon the rivers.
Through the Word of Jehovah the heavens were made; and all their host by the breath of His mouth.
Why is this, a price in the hand of a fool to obtain wisdom, and there is no heart for it?
And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do the things not fitting
And He is before all things, and all things have subsisted in Him.
By faith we understand the ages to have been framed by a Word of God, so that the things being visible should not come into being out of things being seen.