Comments on: Audio: Did Jesus really walk on ice?

A recent blog about research on the possibility excited such heavy reader feedback that we got the professor on the phone to elaborate.

[mcbutterbuns]

Round 2

Here we go again...

[Curmudge]

The trouble with "science" tunnel vision

"Spring Ice" might have formed as Prof. Nof said, but he said it
depended on surface water not mixing with warmer water below,
AND being confined to near the source (shore).

The biblical accounts all talk of high winds and waves, as well as
the boat being out in the lake (trying to get across). Hardly the
still waters of Prof. Nof's assumptions.

His "back of his mind" notions of Spring Ice explaining the
biblical accounts, is a good example of "science" tunnel vision.
There might have been Spring Ice, but reported conditions were
hardly conducive.

And what of actually walking on this Spring Ice? As a kid from
Minnesota, I can tell you that walking on ice chunks is not easy.
Unless they're many inches thick, and several times longer than
your height, they'll simply tip and dump you in. It's not like in
the movies or cartoons.

[Lee in California]

Science tunnel vision

Biblical accounts are NOT "reports".

The bible was sourced from many people, places and times. None of it can be taken at face value.
And thats not even accounting the relative ignorance of the people, and their belief in superstitions.
Ask anyone who has studied the bible, and they can tell you the bible was not and is not a blow-by-blow account of what happened.

Maybe Jesus walked on water, maybe he walked on ice, maybe he did something else entirely that somehow filtered to "jesus walked on water".

[Galley]

The laws of physics do not apply...

when you are the son of God!

[Stan Johnson]

This myth and entire subject is based on speculation and faith 100%

Nobody that now lives on the Earth knows if this fantastical story ever happened or for that matter if Jesus even existed.