Back to basics.
It is reported that a person by the name of Jesus walked on water in the
presence of witnesses. How would you duplicate this?
If you try to stand on water, it will not support you and you will sink.
There is a insect called a water glider which literally glides across teh
surface of water, often stopping, but never sinking. This is because
these insects are very light in 'weight' and have a small bubble of air
trapped under the 'foot' of each leg, thus providing the buyoancy.
Jesus must have weighed in at about 150 pounds. So there is no way a
bubble of air under his feet could support him. For movie stunts
duplicating this walking on water feat, a thick sheet of clear plastic or
glass is placed slightly below the surface of water, making it invisible
to anyone looking into the water.
A person can easily walk on this supporting sheet giving the illusion of
'walking on water'. I doubt this was the case with the Jesus account.
There was reported no helium or hydrogen balloon providing ballast to
reduce his physical weight while walking on the water.
If you could reduce your physical weight, you would not sink because your
weight was not sufficient to penetrate the cohesiveness of the water
molecules.
So, as I see it, either Jesus had some way of altering either the surface
of the water so that it would support him (as with the clear sheet), OR
he could alter HIS OWN WEIGHT so that he represented a piece of walking
styrofoam that could not sink.
I will opt for the latter, he somehow reduced his physical weight to a
degree that he could not sink. Anyone see any other way to do this?
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