Where the water of the great flood went according to interpretations of the biblical texts.

For too long, a seemingly simple question has been ignored or answered with quick, reassuring phrases:
Where did the water of the Great Flood go?

The biblical account describes a devastating event, waters that covered even the highest mountains on Earth. However, once the flood is over, the water simply “disappears” from the popular narrative.
It is often said that it evaporated, seeped into the land, or was redistributed into today’s oceans. But when you look at the numbers, physics, and the biblical texts themselves, those explanations begin to show serious cracks.

A flood that does not belong to a single culture

The account of the flood is not unique to the Bible. It appears in more than 200 ancient cultures around the world:

• The Sumerians, in the Eridu Tablet, with Ziusudra.
• The Babylonians, in the Epic of Gilgamesh, with Utnapishtim.
• The Greeks, with Deucalion and Pyrrha.
• The Hindus, with Manu and the giant fish.
• Similar stories in China, Mesoamerica and South America.

All these stories coincide in the essentials:
a global flood, the destruction of humanity and a few survivors.

The question is inevitable:
is it a cultural coincidence… or the memory of a real event?

The Mathematical Problem of Flood Water

The book of Genesis states that the waters covered all the mountains under the sky, exceeding them by about seven meters.
To cover a mountain like Everest under those conditions, approximately 4.5 billion cubic kilometers of water would be needed.

However, today’s oceans contain about 1.3 billion cubic kilometers.

Even adding up all the water on Earth today, it is not enough.
Then a disturbing question arises:
where did the water come from… And where did he go next?

Traditional explanations don’t fit

The most common explanations present serious problems:

• Evaporation: it would require centuries of extreme heat and energy that is impossible to justify.
• Underground filtration: it would involve gigantic caverns under the earth’s crust that would cause global collapses.
• Ocean redistribution: The current oceans do not have sufficient capacity to contain such volume.

The most amazing thing is that the Bible never says that the water evaporated.

Ancient texts that offer another answer

There are ancient writings that were excluded from the biblical canon, such as the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees, which provide key details.

These texts describe the flood not as a common weather phenomenon, but as a controlled event:

• The floodgates of heaven opened.
• The fountains of the great abyss were broken.
• Then, those floodgates were closed.
• The waters returned to their places.

We are not talking about evaporation or natural processes, but about deliberate movement.

The “Waters Above” in the Bible

From the first chapter of Genesis something surprising is mentioned:
God separates the waters below from the waters above, with the firmament in the middle.

This suggests the existence of water reservoirs beyond what we usually imagine.
Even the Psalms speak of “the waters that are above the heavens,” in the present tense.

During the flood, Genesis mentions two sources of water:

• The sources of the great abyss (from below).
• The Falls of the Heavens (from above).

When the flood ends, both are closed.

Modern science and hidden oceans under the Earth

In 2014, geologists discovered something extraordinary:
a huge reservoir of water trapped in minerals about 640 km deep beneath the Earth’s surface.

This subsurface ocean would contain up to three times more water than all surface oceans combined.

Interestingly, the find fits the biblical description of the “great deep.”

The water did not disappear: it was contained

According to biblical and ancient texts:

• The water of the flood came from specific places.
• At the end of the event, he returned to those same places.
• It was sealed, contained and controlled.

Therefore, God promises that there will never again be a flood of water that destroys the Earth.

Not because the water no longer exists, but because the fountains were closed.

The Flood as a Warning, Not an Accident

The flood was not just a natural catastrophe. It was a demonstration of power, control and warning.
The apostle Peter explains that just as the ancient world was judged by water, the world today is reserved for a different judgment: fire.

It is not a question of fear, but of the internal coherence of the biblical message.

Final Thought: The Question That Cannot Be Ignored

The water from the flood did not evaporate, it did not disappear and it was not a geological accident.
According to the biblical texts themselves, she returned to where she came and remains there, contained by a promise.

The real question is not only where the water went, but:

• Why did they never explain this to us?
• Why do we prefer comfortable answers to the supernatural?
• Are we really prepared to take spiritual warnings seriously?

Noah believed when the sky was still clear.
The question now is not historical, it is personal:

Are you ready?

Because the flood was not the end…
It was just the beginning of the message.

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