The Importance Of Water In The Bible

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Water is essential for life to exist on Earth. It exists as a solid, liquid, and gas and is common in every state. Covering about 75% of Earth’s surface and 70-90% of mass in living organisms, water is the most abundant liquid on Earth (Sarquis). In the Bible, water is mentioned many times in the Old and New Testament. The unique physical properties such as hydrogen bonding, evaporation, and surface tension are mentioned in the Bible and help to prove the existence of a Creator through not only faith, but science.
Psalm 65:9-10 states “You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it.” This verse is praising God for his creation
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“He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.” Through this verse, intelligent design is seen due to God’s creation of the water cycle; evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
Surface tension is another unique property of water that decreases the surface areas of liquids (Sarquis). This property is responsible for the formation of water droplets. Because of the strong attraction between hydrogen molecules, they will stay close together and occupy the least amount of surface area, causing water to fall and form spherical shapes. The surface tension of water allows the cytoplasm to hold-up the cell membrane. If the pressure is too extreme, then the water breaks down the cell membrane and the cell "drowns" (Pauller). Surface tension is essential to ecosystems and on the cellular
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God created water to nourish His people and we can believe that this is true because His word, the Bible, does not contradict science. There is an explanation and reason for everything that God created and it is said in the Bible and proven through science. If faith alone is not enough for a person to believe in an intelligent creator, it is important for them to see how God’s word is true and can be proven, especially through the properties of water. The Earth and the components necessary to sustain life on Earth are evidence that the Bible is true and the universe was created by

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