“Day” 3’s land forming with mountains rising and valleys falling. Then verse 9 says that the boundaries of water were made so that the waters will not return to cover the earth.”
This strengthens my belief that I posted in 51.
“And if the waters were to burst forth, what would replace its volume in the mantle?”
I believe the continental plates shifted cataclysmicly sliding and riding onto one another thus creating the mountains we have today. Pretty much the same thing the secularist believe but they believe in millions and billions of years... I believe it was very rapid. The land would have subsided or sunk and the some water would have stayed on top forming the oceans.
Events happen underwater even to this day, we know this because we have huge underwater rockslides that create tsunamis.
I can see that. Even if I don't believe it myself, what you say is at least enough to make me stop and go "hmmmmm....maybe".
I lean towards an old earth interpretation of the Genesis creation events. I don't believe in what some refer to as "theistic evolution" (the belief that God deserves credit for creating all life, but He did it by forming the earliest organisms and built in natural selection and pretty much sat back for billions of years watching His creation unfold). I believe God intervened at moments of time in Creation and made things happen with His own word, just not necessarily constrained to a 7 day period that occurred 6,000 years ago. For example, it's possible that the week-old earth is true and God gave Adam some kind of superhuman energy and A-D-D disorder so that, beginning at whatever point in Day 6 that God made Adam, Adam was able to name all of the animals and still somehow be bored enough to be lonely before the end of the day. But since the Bible doesn't describe that facet of Adam's abilities as being miraculous, I try to not to assume it, especially given so much of the rest of the Genesis text has no problem describe miraculous events as such. I believe all of the creation events happened in the same order as detailed, only that the "days" (yom in Hebrew) might be either 12-hour days (like daytime), 24-hour days, or eras of unspecified lengths. All 3 of those are valid definitions of the Hebrew word. And the phrase "evening then morning" is sometimes used as a transition of an era, not always the changing of a calendar day. So it's possible with our eternal God that creation happened across billions of years with God having multiple eras in which He created this part of creation, then the next part for a while, then the next part for a while, etc.
If you believe that like I do, then you'd probably find it fascinating to study the Cambrian explosion and how it shows an "explosive" occurrence of new species and even new phyla within a brief time. ("Brief" to the Darwinists who demand a slow speciation across billions of years to create human beings.) See, us Bible believing Christians don't demand a timeline of either 6,000 years or billions of years to be backed up by archaeology. An exegesis reading doesn't specify exactly when creation happened or how long it took. But Darwin and his followers demand a slow speciation across billions of years that the Cambrian explosion (and other small "explosions") say happened mostly within 500,000 to 1 million years. Literally 50% to 80% of all known phyla all of a sudden appear in the archaeological record about 500 million years ago within less than a million years. This blows the theory of evolution out of the water by making the math off by at least a factor of 1,000. Time to degrade evolution from a theory to a hypothesis or perhaps even to a disproved hypothesis. IMHO its evidence of God's creation hand with Era 6 of creation having Him intervening and making new phyla and species for a few thousand years, then more new phyla and species for a few thousand years, so much faster than can be explained by the secularists, but not fast enough for young earth creationists either.
Like I said, I lean towards this old earth belief. It's not an exegesis reading of the creation text, though. So I'm not willing to count that as a defining Christian belief.