Are There Waters Beyond the Abyss? Exodus 20:4 says, “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.” This could easily be explained by seas and oceans; i.e., waters below the “surface” of the earth. Again, science cannot prove that waters do not exist even further within the earth’s interior. Psalm 136:6 says that God “spread out the earth upon the waters…” Psalm 24:2 says that God founded the earth “on the seas and established it on the waters.”
It would appear that this is explained by Genesis 1:2, “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” Apparently, during His act of creation, God first created the waters. Then later, He created the “land” (“earth”) and the sky. Verses 6-7 say, “And God said, ‘Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.’ So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.”