The waterstrider is an insect that walks on water. Studies show that the water resistance of the legs of the waterstrider is due to the special hierarchical structure of the legs, which are covered by large numbers of oriented tiny hairs with fine nanogrooves.
That made me wonder if Jesus maybe had really hairy legs.
2006-09-09 12:19:15 · 21 answers · asked by Thinx 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's a stretch! Mass to surface area ratio too high and wrong kind and location of hairs. They have to have a waxy, hydrophobic cuticle on them to repel the water and use molecular adhesion to walk on the water.
Besides, didn't he use a gillete?
2006-09-09 12:31:47 · answer #1 · answered by Skeff 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
During the first centuries after the Resurrection, the church had horrendous theological fights on whether Jesus was just a shell (human) around a God or if Jesus was truly both. Your are spot on with your question - a good theologian.
a) Baring a major mutation which is not mentioned, Jesus would have hair on his leg. We know he had a normal "head" of hair.
b) The difficulty with the waterstrider analogy would be, as you suggest, not only the nature of the hair, but even more significantly I suspect, the square of the hair area ratio to the weight.
So Jesus walked, not strode, on water.
2006-09-09 19:27:39 · answer #2 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he as well as everyone else on this planet has evolved from apes, i'm sure that he did. Most theists believein the creation story, yet almost every single one of them shaves hair off of their body at some point in their life.
I can gaurantee that Jesus was smart enough to find a sandbar and call out to the fisherman to tell them to look once he made it to the sandbar. He stood on it and made them awestruck.
Those insects float on water due to "surface tension." Humans are not addequate to defy the surface tension of the ocean.
2006-09-09 19:22:16 · answer #3 · answered by Jimmy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most men do and Jesus was in the form of a man while on earth. He did not need the leg structure of a water strider though. He had the power of God to walk on water.
2006-09-09 19:22:48 · answer #4 · answered by TJMiler 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe-- yet that wasnt the source of the miracle if u read -Peter walked on the water too!
the answer is a miracle-futher proven by peter being asked to denounce Jesus or die-he said im not worthy to be crucified as Jesus was -crucify me upside down-and they did--foxes book of martyrs and other history-would u die for you lie-if someone put a gun in your face and said would u denounce that you are a monkeys uncle or we will kill you-would u-maybe-but these are the men that said "Thus saith the Lord" would they make up a lie and then die for it--- as purposed liars--- u decide your life now and forever depends on it!
2006-09-10 18:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know about those characteristics of Jesus, but one might assume since He was born into a race of middle eastern culture, He may have had a hairy body.
2006-09-09 19:23:47 · answer #6 · answered by thesebootsaremadeforwalkin' 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he'd have to have hairy feet as humans do not typically walk with their legs.. although I prefer not to think of someone with feet that hairy.....
2006-09-09 19:23:20 · answer #7 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess he had hairy legs...they didn't have razors and guys don't shave their legs anyway. But that's not how he walked on water. It was a miracle--miracles can't be explained.
2006-09-09 19:23:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nah he was too tall and big. He would sink even with hairy legs. Seems like He must be the Lord after all.
2006-09-09 19:21:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No his sandals were just made of Basiliscus vittati that Noah left under a rock for him.
2006-09-09 19:33:59 · answer #10 · answered by Nerdly Stud 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋