Master of Wind and Sea
“[The disciples] were filled with great fear and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’ ” - Mark 4:41
Our doctrine of creation ex nihilo, “from nothing,” tells us that God made the universe from no preexisting matter. Before God began to create, there was only He and nothing else. However, Scripture is clear that when the Lord started to create the universe, He did not immediately make all things. Instead, He first made out of nothing an intermediate creation, a mass of waters, and then shaped those waters into our world. Genesis 1:1–2 begins its creation account at the time when “the earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep.” The waters were originally formless, unbounded, not clearly subject to restraint. For this reason and others, ancient Israel’s perspective on the sea as revealed in biblical literature was largely that the sea was threatening and something that needed to be brought under divine control. The ancient Jews never developed much ocean trading because they viewed the sea as a place of danger and destruction. The waters of the sea were something to be feared, not taken under humanity’s dominion. In fact, the Jews believed that only the Lord could tame the sea, could bring the natural world and its chaotic storms under control (Pss. 69:1; 77:16; Isa. 43:2).
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