Comments on: Jesus walked on water, ice that is http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:53:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Billy Holiday http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/comment-page-1/#comment-180380 Billy Holiday Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:55:33 +0000 http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/#comment-180380 The problem I have with stories like this, is they go in assuming the Bible is true, and then try to explain how it happened with ridiculous theories like this. Either believe it's true or that it's all made up. I don't think you can say "Well, Jesus actually did do everything that they said He did in the Bible, but this is how He fooled everyone." You gotta either believe they were miracles or stories that were made up. This guy is ignorant and is just trying to get attention. The problem I have with stories like this, is they go in assuming the Bible is true, and then try to explain how it happened with ridiculous theories like this. Either believe it’s true or that it’s all made up. I don’t think you can say “Well, Jesus actually did do everything that they said He did in the Bible, but this is how He fooled everyone.” You gotta either believe they were miracles or stories that were made up. This guy is ignorant and is just trying to get attention.

]]> By: Toby http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/comment-page-1/#comment-180366 Toby Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:55:31 +0000 http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/#comment-180366 what Jesus did was unique and could not be performed without elaborate props. are we forgetting the time period at which this miracle was performed? walking on water, changing water into wine, healing the sick, raising the dead...sure, you can get magicians/entertainers to mimic these miracles today. but this day and age it 's all about the 'show'. but what Jesus did, he didn't do to entertain, he did it to show us who he really is. Magicians/entertainers can entertain...nothing more. Jesus showed that he had the power to give us life after death. now, you can believe that we're all going to die and that there's nothing more...but Jesus teaches that there will be something a lot worse than nothingness after death. Jesus values our lives and taught and showed that there's so much more to life than this and by putting our trust in him, we will be saved from eternal suffering. we're all unique and put on this planet for a reason. there is not one living thing on this planet or this universe that is remotely like us, physically or intellectually....it seems very futile and a complete waste to believe that our lives on this planet amount to nothing. what Jesus did was unique and could not be performed without elaborate props. are we forgetting the time period at which this miracle was performed?
walking on water, changing water into wine, healing the sick, raising the dead…sure, you can get magicians/entertainers to mimic these miracles today. but this day and age it ’s all about the ’show’. but what Jesus did, he didn’t do to entertain, he did it to show us who he really is. Magicians/entertainers can entertain…nothing more. Jesus showed that he had the power to give us life after death. now, you can believe that we’re all going to die and that there’s nothing more…but Jesus teaches that there will be something a lot worse than nothingness after death. Jesus values our lives and taught and showed that there’s so much more to life than this and by putting our trust in him, we will be saved from eternal suffering. we’re all unique and put on this planet for a reason. there is not one living thing on this planet or this universe that is remotely like us, physically or intellectually….it seems very futile and a complete waste to believe that our lives on this planet amount to nothing.

]]> By: freedom http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/comment-page-1/#comment-180364 freedom Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:04:45 +0000 http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/#comment-180364 no more silly than the whole "nailed to stick back from 7-11 after SM-party thing" the yokels believe. religion is BS. you are the same decaying matter as everything else. nothing more. get over it. someday you are going to die. and there is nothing more. no more silly than the whole “nailed to stick back from 7-11 after SM-party thing” the yokels believe. religion is BS. you are the same decaying matter as everything else. nothing more. get over it. someday you are going to die. and there is nothing more.

]]> By: Nathaniel http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/comment-page-1/#comment-180343 Nathaniel Fri, 07 Apr 2006 04:25:13 +0000 http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/#comment-180343 I wish the news had more worthwhile things, like critique of foreign policy, horrors of the World Bank and international economics, nuclear build-up, and things that really need attention. Waste waste waste. I wish the news had more worthwhile things, like critique of foreign policy, horrors of the World Bank and international economics, nuclear build-up, and things that really need attention.

Waste waste waste.

]]> By: BriceJ http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/comment-page-1/#comment-180323 BriceJ Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:41:11 +0000 http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/#comment-180323 This should be posted under the stupid category. This should be posted under the stupid category.

]]> By: nicholas http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/comment-page-1/#comment-180308 nicholas Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:50:43 +0000 http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/#comment-180308 For proof of almighty power the whole thing is a little flaky, like the loaves and the fishes. If, after all, divinity can be proved by what could just as easily be a well executed parlor trick. Maybe David Copperfield should be the next messiah. it sounds a lot more like something humans do....just like the bible looks a lot like the books we humans typically write...ink on paper, bound in leather...no clear evidence of divinity there either... Illusions are fun, and immediately gratifying, but in the long run enormously destructive. As the cherished wish is betrayed and the life-saving prayer goes unanswered...then comes the hatred, and resentment...and moral barrenness. Leave the legends to the primitives, and stick to your principles... Why, after all, venerate legends about miracles when the miracle of life surrounds us every day? For proof of almighty power the whole thing is a little flaky, like the loaves and the fishes. If, after all, divinity can be proved by what could just as easily be a well executed parlor trick. Maybe David Copperfield should be the next messiah. it sounds a lot more like something humans do….just like the bible looks a lot like the books we humans typically write…ink on paper, bound in leather…no clear evidence of divinity there either… Illusions are fun, and immediately gratifying, but in the long run enormously destructive. As the cherished wish is betrayed and the life-saving prayer goes unanswered…then comes the hatred, and resentment…and moral barrenness. Leave the legends to the primitives, and stick to your principles… Why, after all, venerate legends about miracles when the miracle of life surrounds us every day?

]]> By: Billy Holiday http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/comment-page-1/#comment-180297 Billy Holiday Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:41:30 +0000 http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/#comment-180297 I agree this article is ridiculous. Plus the Bible says it was during a storm... but heck, if Jesus could walk on a floating piece of ice, navigate it to what was probably a couple mile from shore to the disciple's boat in a storm, and convince Peter to walk out toward him, that's a miracle in itself. I agree this article is ridiculous. Plus the Bible says it was during a storm… but heck, if Jesus could walk on a floating piece of ice, navigate it to what was probably a couple mile from shore to the disciple’s boat in a storm, and convince Peter to walk out toward him, that’s a miracle in itself.

]]> By: Kyle http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/comment-page-1/#comment-180295 Kyle Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:17:02 +0000 http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/04/5920/#comment-180295 First off the article states it's possible that 2 times in 1500 years temperatures got that low, so the chances of the temp even being right are minimal. Beyond that you have all the apostels who were there, I think they would have noticed if Jesus was tricking them. And why wouldn't Peter have walked on the same piece of ice instead of looking like a fool and sinking. It's a ridiculous theory. First off the article states it’s possible that 2 times in 1500 years temperatures got that low, so the chances of the temp even being right are minimal. Beyond that you have all the apostels who were there, I think they would have noticed if Jesus was tricking them. And why wouldn’t Peter have walked on the same piece of ice instead of looking like a fool and sinking. It’s a ridiculous theory.

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