Jesus walking on water... explained!

[Josh]

Oh, so THAT's how He did that! It all makes so much sense! Thank God for all these incredible advances in biblical scholarship!

[dgp11776]

I suppose Peter's feet were too warm, therefore melting his little patch of ice and causing him to sink.    

[Vlad!]

So Jesus managed to find an incredibly rare patch of floating ice--one that stretched from the shore to the boat where the disciples were. He walked along this ice without breaking it--and without getting frostbite on his feet--until he reached the boat. The disciples, who were experienced fishermen and had lived their entire lives on that very body of water, somehow failed to notice the ice. Peter then stepped out onto this ice that miraculously went right up to where the boat was and then stopped (Peter of course still thinking it was water), and he was fine. That is, until he took his eyes off Jesus, in which case the ice suddenly broke, plunging him into apparently near-freezing water. He is pulled out (note that the ice under Jesus still doesn't break under their combined weight) and placed back in the boat, where he suffers no ill-effects from his immersion.

Occam's Razor alone suggests that this guy is a nutcase.

[bloop]

I don't know why anyone would feel the need to explain something that is really only as powerful as hearsay (in terms of the knowledge that it actually happened in the first place)

*edit*  Just to be clear, I do believe it happened, and as described in Scripture.  I just don't get the idea of coming up with something outlandish to explain something of this nature.

[MJanke]

I don't know why anyone would feel the need to explain something that is really only as powerful as hearsay (in terms of the knowledge that it actually happened in the first place)

*edit*  Just to be clear, I do believe it happened, and as described in Scripture.  I just don't get the idea of coming up with something outlandish to explain something of this nature.

Same thing happens all the time w/ the Red Sea parting. I've read dozens of explainations from scientists trying to show how it could just "happen" sans God. That lucky Moses - he must have been a physics major.

[bloop]

Yeah, I know what you're saying, Janke.  It just seems to me to be easier, and more reasonable to boot, to just not believe the story if I came from their perspective.  It's not like it's proven that the red sea was parted and Jesus walked on water, so they would have to come up with a rational explanation for all these miraculous occurences.  It seems to me that they would just take the easy out rather than try to explain away the unexplicable.

[Vlad!]

The best part is that, for all the variables to come together, it would require an event that is ultimately at least as miraculous as the thing they're trying to explain away.

[ajyouthguy]

i love all the 'may have,' 'could be,' etc, type statements in that article, and yet it says it's an 'explanation.'