Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 13 -- Hydrotheology/Theohydrology
But sin led to the breaking up of the "foundations of the great deep" and the fertile superficial
layer was dried by the sun and began to crack until the colder waters below burst upward,
causing mountains, abysses and islands. Had there been a sea before the deluge, sinners would
have learned to build ships and could have saved themselves.
When the earth’s crust collapsed, air was trapped under the rubble, but with time, the air escaped
and was replaced by waters connected by underground passages. To visualization such,
We must take off the cover of all Subterraneous places and deep Caverns, to see the inside of
the Earth; and lay bare the roots of Mountains, to look into those holes and Vaults that are
under them, fill’d sometimes with Fire, sometimes with Water, and sometimes with thick Air and
Vapours.
It is Genesis retold per the science of the day. We're familiar with the Great Abyss from Greek
myth to Renaissance thoughts, but to Burnet, it's sermon material.
When God created heaven and earth, He also created underground rivers. If they don't service
us as well as they used to, it's because of our sin.
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