"And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
If you're like me, from the mountains, and when you go to the beach you get into a super good vibes state of mind, especially as a kid, let me tell you an interesting natural theory that could explain it. Maybe my interpretation is not accurate, but what I understood from that verse is that both the sea and atmosphere are called 'waters' there, and that 'firmament' is the horizon line. That is, at that time it was imagined that the earth had an end, just like in the Middle Ages they still held the belief that if you sailed towards that line, you'd fall into an abyss. So when you get onto the sand watching the sea, it's as if you had just got closer to heaven. And isn't it funny how "fearful" people was, no one being able to imagine the ship going up instead of down, I mean, continuing to navigate in the waters of heaven? That's because probably they imagined the line as a ghost wall.
By reading this, some might ask, "How can you, knowing that, still believe those books?". Well, I see God as a much more mysterious being than the one in "religious" people's minds. I think there's no other game He likes to play more than hide-and-seek. The biblical texts are not the only field where He plays, though they try to contain Him in there, dividing religious waters from secular waters. It's what they call "spiritual disciplines": you say a prayer in the morning, read your Bible, and then you're ready to go to the college read your other books and listen to your professors. I've always seen that as a behavior which fails miserably to acknowledge His greatness, I mean, what God is that who is not worthy to be sought all the time? It breaks the condition expressed in their own Bible, that you must do it with your whole heart, else you won't find Him.
If you have ever, sincerely and intensely, wished and asked for Wisdom, the first knowledge you've found by Grace is that that "first slice of the birthday cake" is not a sufficient effort. And if you doubt it, you fall from Grace. Yeah, the abyss.
I used to be like, "I'm radical and nuts, but maybe there's another way", believing that, by admitting that possiblity, I was being humble. After all the evil and apathy I've seen lately in "religious" people, that door was definitively closed in my heart.
