Pastor drowns trying to walk on water like Jesus
An evangelist who tried replicating Jesus' miracle of walking on water has reportedly drowned off the western coast of Africa.
According to various reports, Pastor Franck Kabele, 35, told his congregation he could repeat the biblical miracle, and he attempted it from a beach in Gabon's capital of Libreville
He told churchgoers he'd had a revelation that if he had enough faith, he could walk on water like Jesus,' an alleged eyewitness told the Glasgow Daily Record.
'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.'
Despite the very real possibility that a person would attempt something like this and drown as a result, a researcher at Florida State University believes he has a natural explanation for the account of Jesus' miraculous walk on the surface of water - ice.
Professor of Oceanography Doron Nof and the co-authors of his study theorize that a rare combination of optimal water and atmospheric conditions resulted in a unique, localized freezing phenomenon called 'springs ice.'
