Could Jesus have walked on patches of ice back when the Bible says He walked on water?

Question

Scientists say rare conditions could have conspired to create hard-to-see patches of ice in the Sea of Galilee (what is now Lake Kinneret in northern Israel). During the decades Jesus lived (2,500-1,500 the water temperatures were 25 degrees F. This happened once every 30 to 60 years back then. No one knows for sure. What is your opinion on this?

Answer 1

Whenever I try to point out an oddity in the Bible, I'm told you can't take it literally, and since ice is water in its non-literally form, Yes.

Answer 2

In Matthew 14:22-33, Mark 6:45-52, & John 6:15-21 we see Jesus walking on the water. All three accounts depict the water as being boisterous with wind and waves. John tells us that the disciples had rowed about 3 or 4 miles out as well. (How could they have rowed that far in the midst of water with ice patches so large that they could hold up a man who had walked out onto the lake that far as well?) Additionally, Peter also walked on water for a while until he became afraid by the wind and waves. He began to sink, not because he fell off of a piece of ice, but because he lost his faith and lost his focus on Christ, (who was still standing on the water). Jesus then came over and lifted Peter up and led him to the ship.

Also- Why are we seeking to find some naturalistic reason for Jesus to have walked on water when the various passages of text that we learn of this act declare plainly that He was walking on water and that he immediately also commanded the wind and waves to cease as He stepped onto the boat? The source of the account is also the source of the miraculous testimony. If in fact this was no miracle, then why do we even bother to believe that he may have walked on ice? The whole testimony of the eyewitnesses is either false or true.

Answer 3

1). do you think that "patches of ice" could sustain each step of a person weighing more than 100 lbs?
2). When Peter got out, was it patches of ice that he was stepping on. If so, wouldn't that ice be running into the ship and getting the attention of all the other disciples?
3). Why was this such a big deal to the disciples if ice on the water was an occurance every now and then? Peter was a lifelong fisherman. Why was he surprised to see Jesus doing this on the kind of lake that he had frebuented all of his life?

Answer 4

I also got this news, and interestingly read about it.

My opinion is that these scientists gave their probability (or ways) as how really a human CAN walk on water. Remember that science needs FACTS. And so gave their own concept.

If we believed that Moses really 'cut' the Red Sea, thus created road for his people to go out of Egypt, how else Jesus could not make greater things like this?

Answer 5

I think Jesus could have walked on Air. and in fact did so at a rapid pace, He caught a boat that left hours earlier when sale was up, what person can out run a Sail boat in full sail? He was a moving on to fast for a walk. The Miracle
as I see it could have been described as a Super Sonic trip.

Answer 6

It was a storm and ice doesn't form when the water is very turbulent or if it does it is like slush. Remember they were in a boat crossing the sea and it wasn't an ice boat. The waves were so bad they were afraid.

Answer 7

No. There was a storm with high waves just prior to his walking on water. Ice could not have formed during that time.

Answer 8

I like to believe that He was just able to walk on water; If there were patches of ice, don't you think everyone would've been doing the same thing?

Answer 9

25 degree water in Israel? Sounds like a miracle to me.

Answer 10

No.The Bible talks about Jesus and his disciples traveling through the desert quite often and there was the heat of the sun. Not the bitter freezing cold.