Jerry W. Decker wrote:
> Hi Folks!
>
> 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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