Genesis Series: The Waters of Genesis 1:2

In a beginning, God had created the form Heaven and the form Earth. And when Earth existed as an astonishing-desert with darkness over a face of abyss and the Spirit of God oscillating over the face of the waters. (my translation)

The Waters

The waters of Gen 1:2 are textually inserted as parallel to the abyss so as to reinforce the idea that Earth had a water supply prior to the main event. Abyss refers to a concept. It could be defined as a gathering or a body or a supply of waters regardless of where the waters are located. The abyss could be located over the crust as in the oceans or within the crust as in the fresh water reserves and all over the globe. Here the sacred author prophetically conceived and understood that the Earth's surface consisted of a water supply just prior to the light-event. He clarifies or reinforces his conception by restating a face of waters in a parallel structure.

My interpretation is that the Earth is an old transitioned star if not simply a rogue planet not originating in the cloud of dust and gas around our Sun. In her transitional process from an active-fusing star to the inactive condition of today: outer layers of oxygen atoms and hydrogen atoms synthesized to H2O molecules and eventually settled to the surface, perhaps even helping the old star cool and form a primitive crust. Earth's water supply is perhaps homegrown. Perhaps one could assume that there was liquid hydrogen in the surface of the Earth star and this liquid hydrogen was exposed to a supply of oxygen fused in the star itself. The liquid hydrogen reacted and the natural byproduct is H2O vapor. Water vapor condenses, falls to the surface over a long time and there are your oceans. Simple as that. Its a simple reaction. Liquid hydrogen and oxygen naturally produce water without any need of light stimulant. Perhaps some other water was assumed in Earth's circle around the galaxy. For example she may have passed through several interstellar clouds in her galactic rotation and assumed traces of H20 or even D20 (deuterium oxide).

The sacred author conceptualized Earth in a prophetic trance or dream state of the brain causally imparted by God, as she was prior to the light event. At that time she could have been tens of billions of years old (note I reject Big-Bang and solar nebular hypothesis). She was moving between stars, not far away from a newer star, our Sun and not yet locked into an orbital system with the Sun. Her surface consisted of real H2O molecules and a host of chemicals such as methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and other volatiles. The waters may not have been frozen over completely because of the mingling of chemicals. Perhaps a there were thin layers of ice covering bodies of water and chemicals as well as a primitive crust like the Jovian satellite Europa is conceived. This is how the Earth could on one hand be described as a tohu wabohu (astonishing-desert or wasteland) and yet on the other hand described as containing a water supply.

In the light event God causes the waters, both literal and figurative to burst out, establishes new landmasses and the waters settle to become the pristine Seas in which God forms the first generation sea creatures through which after the Fall of Adam and Eve some modern species descended.