Jesus may not have walked on water as the Bible claims but rather skated on ice formed through a freak cold spell, a scientific study has suggested.
Rare atmospheric and water conditions could have caused ice to form on the freshwater Sea of Galilee.
The research shows a period of cooler weather swept what is now northern Israel from 1,500 to 2,600 years ago.
Sub-zero temperatures could have caused the formation of ice thick enough to support the weight of a man.
You know I am always puzzled why scientists feel compelled to explain miracles from the bible. As if the stores were the result of credible eyewitness reports and jotted down by an unbiased reporter for posterity. You know they could simply be out and out fabrications. Or older stories regurgitated for the Christian consumers.
If we are to find it necessary to find a reasonable explanation for the events in the bible must we also discover how Mohammad moved his mountain? Or how Apollo managed to pilot his chariot across the skies?
These are stories, allegories, and metaphors, which are not necessarily meant to be taken seriously.
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I attended a seminar several years ago by a scholar of near eastern religions. He made the point that people at that time in that region would often exaggerate points in a story to amplify a subject's importance. If a man had 10 sheep the writer would say he had 100 to make him more important. They would also use a famous author's name as their own to give more weight to their own writing. We consider this lying and plagerism but it was perfectly common and accepted in that time.
ReplyDeleteMakes you look at biblical writing in a whole new light.
he skated???
ReplyDeleteokay so now I will have to picture Jesus looking like Scott Hamilton? or Kurt Browning.....in tights ?would Jesus wear tights ?
ahhh that is the question isn't it ?