Jesus the swimmer.

The few references I can find, on short notice, to the word swim show it do be an activity distinct from walking.

Ex: Isaiah 25:11 "And he must slap out his hands in the midst of it as when a swimmer slaps [them] out to swim. . . "

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5216975979627863972&q=zeitgeist+greatest+story+ever+told&total=29&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

jesus wasn't the only/first religious figure to walk on water, obviously it's standard fare when impressing the heathen.

i imagine david blane does it all the time.

jesus wasn't the first of anything he supposedly did. That's one of the things the video I posted shows.

i guessed right then, regarding the contents of the-

OH! it IS zeitgeist! seen it. not the first place i saw the comparison, however.

Yes, this video was posted here on A2K earlier. I can't recall by who, but anyway, that link has expired, so I figured I'd post it again.

Sure he did, he knew where the rocks were.

Oh come on, he levitated across, he did not need rocks. They were there just in case.

the new testament was written in greek with some aramaic. The greek word used in matthew 14( the story of Christ walking on water) is peripateo which means to walk. It is not interchangeable with the greek word for swim.

Kate,

You are an expert in ancient Greek? I am impressed.

(I understand every language except Greek)

Are you suggesting Jesus swam??? How mundane! I suppose even I could walk on water if it was frozen -- and I have many times.

No, I guess you're right Nick. He really did walk on water.

Well, I guess thats it for me. I've finally found Jesus.

I personally find the mistranslation that changed "young woman" to "virgin" far more problematic.

The religious obsession with sex might have been averted if someone could have just been literate.

Ah, well.

By the way, even if "swim" and "walk" were different words, who's to say the person who did the 8,382,381 rewrite of that passage didn't take it upon themselves to change it outright?

Don't mock my new beliefs stlstrike!

...coming here with your reason and you logic... Heresy I say!

If you drive your car on a wet road at speeds above 60 km/h there is a possibility that a thin film of water forms between the road and the tyres. Then you lose all control.

It's happened to me once or twice, and so I have actually driven my car on water. Jesus is outclassed and left in my wet highway dust. :wink:

Whatever. General Zod did it on film. That one-ups Jesus pretty substantially.

But in the end, general Zod got his butt kicked, same as Jesus.

ebrown thanks but i can't take complete credit. I only know a little greek. I'm still learning. But i am an expert with using a lexicon :wink:

there is no mistranslation just ignorance on behalf of a few scholars.
there is only one word in the hebrew that is interchangeable for the words virgin and maiden( B@thuwlah) and the verse that some scholars like to argue over is isaiah 7:14 . They claim that the hebrew word for virgin actually means maiden and doesn't prove that Mary was a virgin.Yet in this one instance (vs 7:14) the hebrew word `almah(virgin) is used. and this isn't interchangeable with the word maiden.
also matthew (when he writes on Jesus' birth from the virgin mary) quotes from the LXX which uses the unambiguous greek term for "virgin"