Wouldn't the disciples surely have seen some ice before he stepped in the boat and therefore not have been so surprised?
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It is a matter of faith really, I like to believe he actually walked on water but I don't think we will ever know for sure. Still, I think any rsearch on the topic is a complete waste of money and time. After all, it is impossible to try and correct the Bible given faith is not something you can scientifically prove.
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ok first of all just because one thing the bible says is true,that wouldnt make the entire thing true and second of all,originally the Earth was a ball of molten rock that cooled down.water didnt come around till later(im not sure how though)
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Paul did meet Jesus,on the road to Damascus,and was indeed a Disciple.Next time do a little more research.
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Interesting point, but I thought the whole "second coming" was promised to the disciples AFTER the resurrection. In that case, no.
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It's baloney! (Bologna for you German members :) They can say Jesus walked on Ice, rather than Water. They can say that Jesus asked Judas to betray him. They can say anything they want and even back it up with their scientific propaganda but what they can never change is faith and Christianity. It states in the Bible that nothing should be taken away or added to His Word, I'm stickin' to that.
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Moses a told to do many thing with his staff. To me the most important was to strike the stone in order to get water from the stone for the people. Trouble is next time he was commanded to speak to the stone but he struck it anyway. It was to be a picture of Christ. First he was struck, then if we asked he would give us living water.. Moses messed it up... Oh well in God's grace He gave the people water anyway... He is such a GOOD GOD!!!   Jim
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maybe god didn't think-it-thru...
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Get your facts straight.  The martial artists RAN on pads floating on the surface of the water.  The pads were bigger than their feet and created more resistance against the standing water.  All they sank was sink slowly for a split-second on several different pads.  Jesus walked on the sea like it was solid ground.  And when Peter tried to walk out to him he became afraid and lost faith and started to sink.  So, conclusion: Jesus=walked on sea.  Martial artists=Ran on pads
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A person needs to read this passage very carefully, and it really helps to read it in the Hebrew. The three men are never actually identified as God. A number of Jewish rabbis have noticed the same thing. It is *first* said that Abraham was sitting in his tent and had a vision of God, *then* he opened his eyes and saw three men. While Moses's narative style sometimes has an overview of events, and then more details, it's hard to say if that's what's happening here or not. In fact, it's almost funny to read if you take the stance that these three were angels in the last half of Genesis, because it has Abraham speaking to the angel that remained behind, and calling him "Adoni" (Lord) but never YHVH. But the one to reply is always YHVY and never Adoni. Also, in Genesis 18:22, it says that the men Abraham was speaking with turned and left, but Abraham stayed and pleaded with the LORD.\n\nBut even if you take the stance that one, or even all three, of these "angels" were in fact God Almighty, there is nothing to keep God Almighty as a spirit from creating a body and animating it himself. St. Augustine gets into that kind of an idea  little bit in one of his 15 books on the Trinity, I don't remember which off the top of my head.
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b/c God did not create an AC for everybloody
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Some people must listen to good logic and not blindly go through with the Mathematics. If the water rises, the boat will too. Boats float on water.
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No, there has been an tremendous amount of effort to provide natural explanations to the supernatural events described in the scripture. It doesn't matter how far-fetched the alternate explanations are. As long as they make no mention of the supernatural, they make national news. Read the article. Here are some choice quotes - \n\n"But they say geological core samples suggest that average temperatures were lower in Jesus' day, and that at least two protracted cold spells occurred in the region 1,500 to 2,500 years ago."\n\nWOW! What a revelation! The samples SUGGEST that in a period of one thousand years, the temperatures may have dropped to freezing temps TWO TIMES! \n\nThere's more! "In addition to chilly weather, their explanation depends on a rare physical property of the Sea of Galilee ... It is fed by salty springs along its western shore that produce plumes of dense water, thermally isolating areas that could freeze even if the entire lake did not, they assert." \n\nWell, in addition to the chilly weather that occurred twice in a thousand years, more conditions apply. If thermal isolation was ocurring, some of the areas COULD freeze. \n\nLet's recap. We're scientists and we don't believe the Biblical story is true. But, we'll pretend it is and come up with a far-fetched explanation that makes national news and makes the Bible's story sound like bunk. \n\nSo, here's the story: Twice in a one-thousand year period, the temperatures may have gotten really cold. We don't know how cold, but we'll assume that the tropical&#92;subtropical climate of the middle east possibly even got down to freezing temps. Because we know that there is no way it could get cold enough to freeze a large body of water like the Sea of Galilee, we'll mention that there is some thermal isolation in the sea. These isolated regions may have got cold enough to freeze completely solid. These regions may even have become solid enough to support the weight of an adult male. \n\nWhat about the other details of the Biblical account? Why didn't the heavy winds that night help mix the water and dissolve these thermally isolated regions? How did these ice sheets stretch out three and a half miles and provide a perfect walkway right up to the side of a moving boat? What about Peter? He walked on the water for a little while, as well. Did he just happen to step out onto a floating piece of ice? \n\nThe solution offered by the researchers, speculative and far-fetched at best, still fails to handle the Biblical account accurately. They have taken the parts of the Biblical account that were convenient to try to discredit, but ignored the speciic details of the Biblical account. For the uninformed reader, especially those who are looking to discredit the Bible, this article is music to their ears.
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Christian do have a mind to think otherwise God wouldn't have gievn us one, but my thoughts have over the years being influenced by the bible, Nevertheless I do make a point to paraphrase it to my experience so it is more at human level for someone like you to understand. Check my previous answers, I seldom use bible quotes straight off unless demanded.
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Hi, there was a time span between the Ascension of the Lord into heaven and the Roman murdering of the Christians in the coliseum so these Christians may not have seen Jesus directly, but how powerful was their faith in the Teaching of the Apostles to have gone so willingly to their death, and don`t forget that the Apostles willingly gave their lives too for Jesus and still modern people doubt the reality of the living Christ.
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If the density of ice were greater than water, rivers and lakes in the north would freeze all the way to the bottom, and any land close to any large body of water that was a solid block of life would be much cooler. If one were far enough north, some lakes might never melt all the way to the bottom.
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First off, why would he have to put blue whales in a boat for a flood?? Flood, water, fish.  Think about your question.  Second who says that the world was the same before the flood as after.  No one says that the continents didn't shift, move.  Third God sent the animals,  there also had to be a miracle to keep flesh eating animals with their prey.  You haven't even brought up the fact that he built a boat the size of a world war II aircraft carrier without modern equiptment.  Since you don't believe in miracles, obviously it would be too much for a God that made the whole universe to do these things.  How about raising Jesus from the dead, or Jesus raising Lazerus from the dead.  That is harder than bringing the animals to my point of view..  If it is just a story, how do the sea shells get up into the mountains?  Too much evidence to deny the flood.  Think about the whales, it will help.  Whoops here I am out in the cornfield again.  Genesis 6:22 Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him, so did he..  Noah just did it and God made it happen..
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I also fail to see the correlation.  But this is definitely not the first time something like this has happened.  When we discovered the Earth was round or that it evolved around the Sun, the Church was afraid these discoveries somehow threatened the faith of Christ's followers.  They seem, however, unshaken.  I suppose it has something to do with God being placed into every "unknown."  So when science answers our question, God seems to become unnecessary.