Jesus on Ice and Moses wading through the Reads...

I remember hearing a joke involving a little boy sitting on his front porch, reading the Bible and shouting Hallelujah after every sentence. A scholarly man, advanced in years walked by, and asked the boy what he was reading. The boy replied, “I am in the middle of the story where God leads the Israelites through the Red Sea. The Sea just parted, and is standing up in heaps on both sides of them – God is allowing them to pass through on dry ground!”

The older gentleman started to chuckle, and commenced to tell the child, “Science has proven that it was really called the “Read Sea”, because it was so shallow - in fact, “The water was only about four inches deep where the Israelites crossed over.” What really happened was, “A great wind blew in from the North, causing the waters to be parted, allowing the Israelites to cross over on what seemed to be dry ground. There really wasn’t a miracle after all; just Mother Nature in action, along with a simple scientific explanation.”

The boy continued to read, although a little disappointed, and the man continued to walk by, grateful that he could enlighten the lad. No sooner did the man get to the end of the yard when the boy started shouting Hallelujah! Praise God!

Slightly irritated, the man turned around to straighten the boy out again saying, “I thought I explained to you that the water was actually only four inches deep, and a great wind caused the “parting” of the Read Sea!?

The boy then replied, “Yes you did, but if what you are saying is true, then God just drowned the entire Egyptian army in four inches of water! Praise the Lord!”

This leads me to the latest Reuters article on both of these events. Evidently, the same person that came up with the first lame attempt at explaining away a miracle is now saying that Jesus "walked on a floating piece of ice.". Let’s look at some of the insanity involved here.

1. Peter walked out on the water with Yeshua. Are we to assume that when he took his eyes off of the Master, he slid off of the ice?
2. could the boat that the disciples were in withstand a storm pelting the sides of it with pieces of ice large enough to support a man walking on it?
3. If this “oceanographer” is so convinced that Yeshua’s miracles never happened, why would he spend so much time and energy trying to disprove them? I don’t spend the slightest bit of time trying to debunk Santa Clause, or the Boogie Man; that would be ridiculous!

The "scientific explanation” for this is called...

delusion.