For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
(2Pe 3:5-7)
People perishing in two different types of symbolism-water/fire?? Perhaps the people were symbolic also!! Sheesh, this type of Platonism has itself drowned the Church in faulty symbolisms. Maybe that's why it says they were 'willingly ignorant'.