I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more.
Earth's oceans will one day completely vanish, leaving a planet with no sea at all.
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What current science says
Earth's oceans contain about 1.335 billion cubic kilometers of water and cover 71% of the planet's surface. The oceans regulate global temperature, drive weather patterns, produce over 50% of the world's oxygen (via phytoplankton), and support the base of most food chains. Removing the oceans would eliminate the primary source of atmospheric moisture, killing virtually all terrestrial ecosystems within years. Without the ocean's thermal mass, temperature swings between day and night would become extreme — think Mars, which has 100°C temperature differences. The planet would become a barren desert world. An Earth with 'no more sea' isn't paradise — it's a mass extinction event that makes the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs look like a minor inconvenience.
What the text says
This comes from Revelation 21:1, which describes a new Earth where 'there was no more sea.' The text envisions a future planet completely devoid of oceans — a fundamentally different world from the one we inhabit.
Three honest ways to read this passage
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As history
The text records how its authors understood the world with the knowledge they had. Read this way, a difference from modern science is a window into the ancient mind, not a failure.
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As accommodation
The text speaks to its first audience in their own terms, to make a point that isn't mainly about physics or biology. Read this way, the scientific detail is the vehicle, not the cargo.
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As contradiction
The text makes a claim about the physical world that modern findings dispute. Read this way, the difference is a genuine factual disagreement worth naming.
GEBible doesn't pick one of these for you. Each entry shows the passage, what it says, and what current science says — nothing more.