Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

On the subject of climate change and sea level rise, the Bible has a few definitive comments I thought might be of interest. God said that He has, “placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it”. Interesting comment don’t you think? The Bible is peppered with similar statements as well. It’s as if God is trying to tell us something. Oh, and God tells us that we’ll always have four seasons, a time to plant and a time to harvest and in short, that He made the land and sea and has complete control over them both.

Those who disagree God calls foolish. In fact, as you’re about to read, God wants to know who it is that “darkens counsel by words without knowledge”. You know what, so do I!

God also adds “Your iniquities have turned away these things (good weather), and your sins have withholden good things from you.” (Jeremiah 5:25)

I’m kind of getting the impression that God is a tad upset with man who thinks he can control the weather and doesn’t depend on God for it. Ah, it could just be me. Anyway, Here are a few of many passages of the Bible that address a common theme.

Weather and Sea

“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me….Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb, when I made clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, and prescribed limits for it and set bars and doors, and said, ‘Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stayed’?” (Job 38:2-3,8-11)(ESV)

“He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.” (Job 26:10)

“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22)

“Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.” (Jeremiah 5:21-23)

“The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.” (Psalm 95:5)

“O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee? Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them.” (Psalm 89:8-9)

Bill Hitchcock