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29 May 2012 12:45PM

It's got nothing to do with clouds. The idea was that the heavens were a vast ocean akin to the terrestrial oceans, and God's intervention in constructing the "firmament" was the only thing that prevented the waters of the heaven-ocean from crashing down and inundating the earth. As such, the heavens-as-ocean belief is also a major component of the Noah's flood story.

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