Full Gen 2:10–14, Ezek 47:1–12 (the bridging Temple river), Rev 22:1–2. The contested Rev 21:1 "no more sea" — surfaced as steelmanned alternatives: literal sea-less new earth (one reading) vs. the Johannine sea-as-chaos motif being abolished (another). Founder editorial slot reserved.
The "no more sea" question
Revelation 21:1: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."
This is the most contested of the seven echoes. In biblical cosmology the sea is associated with chaos, primordial threat, the place of the dead (Rev 20:13: "the sea gave up the dead which were in it"), and the source of the beast (Rev 13:1). The new creation having no chaos, no primordial threat, no death is the natural reading. But "no more sea" can also be read literally — no oceans on the new earth. Three positions:
- Symbolic — the sea as chaos is what is removed; literal seas may or may not be there. Most ancient and Reformed.
- Literal absence — no oceans whatsoever; the new earth is not earth-as-we-know-it. Some dispensational.
- Living water replaces it — the sea (still water = death) is replaced by the river of life (running water = life), Rev 22:1-2. Some patristic.
The page surfaces all three. The founder's editorial drawer carries the position.