Is Jesus walking on water a big miracle or a small miracle?

Question

Physically speaking, God kept one (probably skinny) guy from falling (through the water) for a couple minutes; not a big deal. But an anomoly in the normal laws of physics is a very big deal.

Contrast it with the infinite complexity of the human eyes which Jesus healed...is that a bigger miracle or a smaller miracle than walking on water?

Furthermore, is it a bigger miracle than all those, or even a miracle at all, that God holds all the oceans against the Earth at exactly the same level..."sea level"?

Answer 1

I would say the best miracle was our salvation...

Answer 2

It is debatable whether or not the stories of Jesus practicing miracles are literally true, but lets assume for the moment that they are.

Why did Jesus choose to use his divinity to warp the laws of physics to heal a few individuals and perform levitation (walking on water and later ascending into the clouds)?

Why did he not instead use his divinity to spread the knowledge of basic medical procedures such as CPR which would have saved literally millions of lives over the years?

Assuming that Jesus was truly divine, the choice to personally perform miracles which healed a handful of people instead of teaching simple medical practices which would have saved millions of times more reflects his underlying intentions.

Either Jesus was an immoral individual who preached and performed miracles in the search for personal glory, or our assumption that Jesus was divine and truly performed miracles is untrue.

A divine being who truly cared about helping others would have known how to perform CPR and he would not have neglected to teach others how to do so.

Answer 3

Here's some information about the Egyptian Sun-God Horus:

Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a cave/manger, with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.
He was a child teacher in the Temple and was baptized when he was 30 years old.
Horus was also baptized by "Anup the Baptizer," who becomes "John the Baptist."
He had 12 disciples.
He performed miracles and raised one man, El-Azar-us, from the dead.
He walked on water.
Horus was transfigured on the Mount.
He was crucified, buried in a tomb and resurrected.
He was also the "Way, the Truth, the Light, the Messiah, God's Anointed Son, the Son of Man, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God, the Word" etc.
He was "the Fisher," and was associated with the Lamb, Lion and Fish ("Ichthys").
Horus's personal epithet was "Iusa," the "ever-becoming son" of "Ptah," the "Father."
Horus was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One"

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Answer 4

Interestingly enough a few years back I was standing by a mangrove swamp and one of the native fishermen was standing on the water. A most peculiar sight. On close inspection it turned out that he was on a mud flat and the water was so black it gave the impression that he was standing on top of the water, an impression that was reinforced by another fisherman being in dug out canoe besides him.
Unfortunately we are so far removed from the time of Jesus that we have no way of knowing if the "miracles" he performed were really as claimed. Don´t forget that virtually all His followers were uneducated.

Answer 5

a couple of minutes???? M'costly... in accordance to the tale, the boat became "aways" offshore while Jesus walked to it. That incredibly did no longer take "a couple of minutes"... and in addition to, because of the fact it says it became "aways" offshore, the intensity of the water became significant, in assessment to many that attempt to get rid of the miracle by ability of asserting He became strolling on rocks OR some "submerged" sandbar! in addition to... it became windy and stormy, and the waters have been churning, so it wasn't a comfortable floor. however the actual miracle of the strolling on Water became no longer the actually strolling on water, however the religion... or loss of while Peter became invited to connect Him on the water, and he DID... yet then Peter's faith waned while he became disturbing by ability of the hurricane, and sank into the waters. do no longer you think of that everybody of Jesus' miracles have been miracles of religion? As for containing the waters against the earth, it particularly is an argument of gravity. yet gravity became created by ability of God, so as that's extraordinarily neat, uh? Have a blessed day.

Answer 6

You have it wrong.God didn't stop Jesus falling, because Jesus knew how to stay on the surface.And we don't know how long he stayed there, but I bet it was longer than a couple of minutes.We call it a Miracle, because so far noone else has figured how to do it.But that isn't surprising, because Jesus was also God, and God can do anything.

Answer 7

Jesus was just demonstrating to the Hebrews that He was God come in the flesh.

Job 9:2 I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?...8 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

For Him it was no big deal.

Answer 8

Jesus came to live here, not as God, but as a man so he could be our example in all things, being tempted in all things like as we are. His life revealed the character of God. He did the works and spoke the words of God. Such life is the greatest of all miracles!

Answer 9

Since Jesus never existed, that would be a HUGE miracle.

Answer 10

I will start believing in miracles wen an amputee would get his arm or leg growing back!.. can anyone shows evidence as that ever happened?

Answer 11

Yogis, Buddhas, Catholic saints as well as Jesus Christ have been known to levitate, and that's probably what a case of His walking on water is.

As for the blind seeing, well of course he freed them from spiritual blindness.