Twentieth_Century(i)
3 First be assured of this, that, as the age draws to an end, scoffers, led by their own passions,
4 will come and ask scoffingly-- 'Where is his promised Coming? Ever since our fathers passed to their rest, everything remains just as it was when the world was first created!'
5 For they wilfully shut their eyes to the fact that long ago the heavens existed; and the earth, also--formed out of water and by the action of water, by the fiat of God;
6 and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed in a deluge of water.
7 But the present heavens and earth, by the same fiat, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the day of the judgment and destruction of the godless.