Jesus may have walked on ice, not water:
ReutersApr 4, 2006 — By Jim Loney
MIAMI (Reuters) - The New Testament says that Jesus walked on water, but a Florida university professor believes there could be a less miraculous explanation — he walked on a floating piece of ice. [more]
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And of course, if it was ice, Jesus would have had no control over that?
I think someone needs to show evidence that Prof. Nof does not actually exist. His report is only being supported by thin ice.
Professor Nof's theory is bogus if his goal is to prove that witnesses to this miracle were swindled by Christ. Aside from being statistically improbable, as he admits himself, his theory doesn't even attempt to take into consideration the miracle it is allegedly debunking.
According to the accounts in both John and Peter, the only witnesses to this event were the disciples (not people who might have had "a bad view," as he suggests), who were all in a boat in the middle of the Sea during a storm - as Christ approached and got in the boat.
If what Nof postulated was actually applied to the biblical account of Jesus "walking on water," it would mean that the ice springs he mentions would have to reach 3-4 miles into the Sea of Galilee (the length John approximates) coincidently to the exact place at which the disciples were stranded during the storm. It also means that the disciples, who were fishermen, and who knew the Sea of Gallilee far better than Christ, somehow had absolutely no knowledge of this ice, even though they had been boating though it all day--and even though they were parked right up against it when Christ arrived.
It also means that Christ would had to have ventured onto this mysterious ice (which only he understood for some strange reason) in the middle of a storm and risk his life by travelling three miles to the exact spot at which the disciples were located, which he somehow was able to find without trouble.
Nof's study is a complete waste of time. By even his own standards, the phenomena in question is extremely rare; and even if it wasn't, it still wouldn't even come close to making sense, simply because Nof didn't actually read the account he is attacking. In addition to that, Nof doesn't even attempt to "solve" other miracles that are included in that very same account.
If Nof doesn't want to believe that the disciples' account was reliable, that is fine, but his attempt to debunk the biblical account of Jesus walking on water is pathetic. If he wants to start taking jabs at the authenticity of biblical accounts, he should put in the time to get a degree in New Testament studies or at least history; otherwise he is simply spouting off meaninglessly about something that is out of the realm of his expertise.
Jesus would have had no problem with water in whatever state it was in, liquid, gas or solid. He created it, therefore it wasn't holding Him up, He was holding it up.
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