As if Jesus schemeing with Judas wasn't enough, now a FL State professor says Jesus probalby didn't actually walk on water, but on a hard-to-see patch of ice.
Hmmm...
...my Bible says he walked on water. How about yours?
Here's the article:
"Jesus walked on water, according to the Bible, but a Florida State University professor says he may have actually walked on a hard-to-see patch of ice.
Doron Nof, a professor of oceanography, said a rare combination of water and atmospheric conditions in the Sea of Galilee 2000 years ago may offer a scientific explanation for one of the miracles recounted in the Bible.
Nof said a patch of ice floating in the Sea of Galilee - which is actually a freshwater lake - would have been difficult to distinguish from unfrozen water surrounding it.
According to the New Testament books of Matthew, Mark and John, Jesus' disciples were out on the Galilee at night when a storm came up.
Jesus walked to the terrified men, who thought he was a ghost, according to the accounts.
Nof's research appears in the April issue of the Journal of Paleolimnology, a publication on the reconstruction of lake histories.
Nof's co-authors are biostatistics professor Ian McKeague of Columbia University and atmospheric science professor Nathan Paldor of Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
They came up with the theory after studying records of long-ago water temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea, based on core samples of shells and other animal remains taken from the bottom.
The records indicated that two lengthy periods 2,500 to 1,500 years ago were chilly enough for ice patches to form during cold spells on the Sea of Galilee, said Nof, a native of Israel.
The unfrozen water surrounding the ice would have come from salty springs along the lake's western shore, he said. Salty water freezes at lower temperatures than fresh water.
Some people, including Reverend Rick Eckard, are reacting with skepticism to Nof's study.
Eckard thinks the theory is a stretch and kind of funny, but he says it doesn't change his faith. The Lutheran pastor says scientists don't have an explanation for everything.
Mike McCarron of the Florida Catholic Conference calls the study intriguing, but he's skeptical of the findings."
3 comments:
My Bible says water, but what I really want to know is why did this Prof. spend so much time, energy and money on researching this? What's his point? I guess if you are going to do all of that researching, Jesus is a great subject to spend your time on. I'll give em' that!
Totally tubular dude. Can't you see Jesus surfing though a huge storm on a patch of ice, straight out to this tiny boat in the middle of a huge lake. And He goes all Beach Boys and is like, "Peter dude, catch a wave and you're sitting on top of the world. . ." So Peter happens to finds his own ice chunk, but then like, totally wipes out and Jesus surfs his ice sheet over and rescues him. Far out. That'd be almost as miraculous as walking on water itself.
Funny Becky! My feelings too!
I think with a STORM, Jesus would not have walked on ice. First, it would be more like "ride", in a storm, as Becky was saying.
Second, how could you stay on an ice chunk in a storm? Has anyone tried to just stand on still ice? That's hard enough!!! But maybe that's the miracle.... But duder from Israel and now living in Florida wouldn't know much about ice!
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