At another forum this question was asked: The laws of God
are consistent and God, in His perfection, will never alter/go against His
laws by taking arbitrary actions. Why then did Jesus defy the law of nature by
performing certain miracles like walking on water?
We responded as follows:
It appears from the body of your question that you have come
to recognise that the Creation Laws are consistent and that the Creator
will not change them or go against them. True!
This indeed is the infallible way to measure all matters
including the accounts one comes across daily or even accounts from past eras.
Christ being the Son God does not imply that He will employ His Divine
Power to act arbitrarily against the Laws of Creation. Being a Divine Envoy He
will always act strictly in accordance with the Will of His Father expressed in
the Laws of Creation. One may also add that with a human being who is highly
matured spiritually, there is only the wish to obey the Will of the Lord at all
times. It is only the small minded and immature ones that act arbitrarily when
they are given some level of authority.
Therefore, all the miracles of Christ were in accordance
with the Divine Laws. For example, the raising of the dead through Divine Power
is not beyond Divine Laws as long as it happens within a certain time
after death, the length of which differs for each human being. The more
spiritually mature the soul is when severing itself from the physical body the
quicker it will be released, and the shorter will be the time during which the
lawful opportunity exists to recall it, because this can only happen while the
soul is still connected with the body!
Now to walking on water. There is no way that a human body
can float in water except by way of swimming in its various forms or by using
an implement adapted to the water element! In all simplicity, one needs to
adapt to a particular element of matter in order to make use of it. For this
reason, a child will first learn to crawl and later start to walk gradually on
the ground. If however man wishes to transport himself in water, he needs to
learn how to do so either through swimming or using an adequate implement (e.g.
boats, water skateboards, water bikes etc). Similarly one needs to adapt
to the nature of air in order to use it as a form of transportation. A human
body of flesh and blood cannot just fly into the skies!
From the forgoing one cannot but conclude that accounts that
suggest that the Lord Jesus whilst still inside His physical body walked on
water cannot be taken as literally true and factual! If it had happened with
Christ as such transmissions report, then God would have to act against His own
Laws. But this He cannot do since He is perfect from the very beginning, and
thus also His Will, Which lies in the Laws of Creation.
Let us not rest until we come to a right understanding of the
Savior and then the whole life of Christ
as it really was will unfold itself before us divested of all the fantasies
invented by human brains!
