Priest Dies demonstrating how to walk on water

I think the important thing is design yourself a test that won't actually be too risky, and make sure the results are open to interpretation.

Hold on. This isn't testing God, this was a show of faith based on a revelation, the kind Pat Robertson has all the time.

The guy had such belief that he walked out into the water expecting any minute that the God he believes in would raise him up. It was the same situation with Peter when Jesus told him to get out of the boat and walk to Him, right? Peter failed in his faith, was rebuked by Jesus, but at least he didn't end up sleeping with the fishes.

We were told at our school that we must constantly "get out of the boat" lest we end up with an untested faith.

Which is it, believers, get out of the boat or cower down in the gunwales???


ya see joe, this doesn't apply to people like you or me, or that kamakazee minister.

that only applies to people like pat robertson and the like who have been selected to be among the elite who are allow to interpret such things.

oh...and people who already did that stuff in the bible....it applies to them too.

Joe(If Jesus comes to you in a dream, do you go back to sleep?)Nation

Eorl wrote:

I think the important thing is design yourself a test that won't actually be too risky, and make sure the results are open to interpretation.

You must be a tobacco company lawyer.

Joe( )Nation

MIRACLE IS SUNK
A PRIEST has died after trying to demonstrate how Jesus walked on water.

Evangelist preacher Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle.

But he drowned after walking out to sea from a beach in the capital Libreville in Gabon, west Africa.

One eyewitness said: "He told churchgoers he'd had a revelation that if he had enough faith, he could walk on water like Jesus.

"He took his congregation to the beach saying he would walk across the Komo estuary, which takes 20 minutes by boat.

"He walked into the water, which soon passed over his head and he never came back."


http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17646670&method=full&siteid=66633&headline=miracle-is-sunk--name_page.html

I'm reminded of the End of the World prophets who had to face both their followers and their scoffers the morning after The End Day.

Perhaps the priest was too embarrassed to surface?

"He walked into the water, which soon passed over his head and he never came back."

Another candidate for the Darwin Awards.

oops, trying to perform an experiment from a dubious bronze age "laboratory manual" is not a good idea!
that's the problem with religion. what makes people so confident that the bible is true, without knowing who, and when it was written baffles my logical mind. he was trying to defy the laws of science!! lol.
this simple "experiment" demonstrates that the laws of physics are much stronger than the laws of religious faith.

Faith doesn't change reality.