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The True Christian™ perspective on Holy Water
Haha! You probably thought this would be some papist nonsense 
Actually water is Holy and Godly, but not because of any ring kisser. Water is intrinsically holy because God made it that way! Lets take a look:
--Water is a universal solvent. It acts as an acid, a base, AND an organic solvent. This means it cleans, it dissolves minerals for plants and animals to digest (and get rid of waste), it absorbs oxygen for fish to breathe, it captures dust to make it rain, and it acts as a pH buffer in the blood stream. How many other substances can do that? Exactly zero.
--As water cools, it contracts (until about 40F). This means that during the winter, cooler dense water sinks and carries with it fresh oxygen for the deep dwelling fish. It also forces up warmer depleted water that contains toxins from decay that can get purged into the atmosphere.
--As water gets even colder (from 40F and lower) it begins to expand again as it turns into ice! This is truly amazing, because if ice contracted, then it would sink to the bottom. And there it would accumulate, forever isolated from the sun. The oceans and lakes would all freeze, with only a thin surface of liquid water during the warm months, and clearly life could not exist like that. How many other naturally occurring substances expand when cooling and changing into a solid? Again, exactly zero.
--Water has a very high surface tension, or “skin”. This is the reason that insects and small animals can walk across it. (People can too, but that’s a different lesson for another time.) This is also the property that causes capillary action. What that means is that water can pull itself around by itself. Without this property, plants could not draw up water into their leaves. This is also another reason why rocks spit from boulders and get turned back into soil (coupled with ice expansion). And guess what? Water (and water solutions) has the highest surface tension of all common liquids, except mercury (and that’s a freak metal).
--Water has a unique melting and boiling point. That means that we see water in all three states (solid, liquid, and gas) within the temperature range of life. And we need all three phases for life. Leave any phase out, and life couldn’t exist. And there isn’t another natural solvent in existence with a range that tight.
So what do we make of this? Are we simply really, really lucky that the Universe just happened to have one and only one chemical that possesses each and every one of this properties? That’s what the atheists are reduced to. But as a True Christian ™, I have a better answer
Genesis 1:
And that is just one of the 636 references of water in the KJV1611. God shows us His greatness over and over in the seemingly humble substance that we so often take for granted, called water. 
Actually water is Holy and Godly, but not because of any ring kisser. Water is intrinsically holy because God made it that way! Lets take a look:
--Water is a universal solvent. It acts as an acid, a base, AND an organic solvent. This means it cleans, it dissolves minerals for plants and animals to digest (and get rid of waste), it absorbs oxygen for fish to breathe, it captures dust to make it rain, and it acts as a pH buffer in the blood stream. How many other substances can do that? Exactly zero.
--As water cools, it contracts (until about 40F). This means that during the winter, cooler dense water sinks and carries with it fresh oxygen for the deep dwelling fish. It also forces up warmer depleted water that contains toxins from decay that can get purged into the atmosphere.
--As water gets even colder (from 40F and lower) it begins to expand again as it turns into ice! This is truly amazing, because if ice contracted, then it would sink to the bottom. And there it would accumulate, forever isolated from the sun. The oceans and lakes would all freeze, with only a thin surface of liquid water during the warm months, and clearly life could not exist like that. How many other naturally occurring substances expand when cooling and changing into a solid? Again, exactly zero.
--Water has a very high surface tension, or “skin”. This is the reason that insects and small animals can walk across it. (People can too, but that’s a different lesson for another time.) This is also the property that causes capillary action. What that means is that water can pull itself around by itself. Without this property, plants could not draw up water into their leaves. This is also another reason why rocks spit from boulders and get turned back into soil (coupled with ice expansion). And guess what? Water (and water solutions) has the highest surface tension of all common liquids, except mercury (and that’s a freak metal).
--Water has a unique melting and boiling point. That means that we see water in all three states (solid, liquid, and gas) within the temperature range of life. And we need all three phases for life. Leave any phase out, and life couldn’t exist. And there isn’t another natural solvent in existence with a range that tight.
So what do we make of this? Are we simply really, really lucky that the Universe just happened to have one and only one chemical that possesses each and every one of this properties? That’s what the atheists are reduced to. But as a True Christian ™, I have a better answer
Genesis 1:
2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
"Melting ice doesn't raise water levels". Good catch.
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