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Something to Sleep on - the Feeding of 5,000

It wasn't meant to be insulting but only referencing pov. If anyone takes umbrage with it I suggest their sensitivity meter needs a slight calibration. Western Christians have a habit of applying primitive intelligence to the 1st century audience thus creating magical scenarios in narratives that generally carry layers of meaning with no literal connection to physical objects.


If you'd said that to start with, I would not have had to ask. :mrgreen:
 
Feeding the multitudes. They were hungry.

Speaking to His disciples: "11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." Matthew 16:11-12

Showing His disciples the power of faith: "...verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." Matthew 17:20

Foreshadowing the Last Supper and the Eucharist, through which He continues to feed the multitudes to this very day.

Thus the reason I tend to believe it was metaphorical and symbolic, rather than physically feeding the people.
 
The lips of the righteous feed many:
Prov 10:21



And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday

Isa 58:10
 
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Thus the reason I tend to believe it was metaphorical and symbolic, rather than physically feeding the people.

I don't see the connection to the last supper.
 
Thus the reason I tend to believe it was metaphorical and symbolic, rather than physically feeding the people.

It seems the strongest message is ignoring the middle man. He didn't tell the disciples to petition Rome for a program even though Rome's taxation and anti-Semitism was a root cause of poverty. He was teaching to live among each other for each other, period. Of course, this also included not paying taxes to Rome which was the primary cause of his arrest.
 
How did it foreshadow the last supper?

If you take it literally, why haven't any Christians been able to repeat it?

Repeat what? I don't understand the question.
 
Repeat what? I don't understand the question.

How does it foreshadow the last supper? (Better yet, what did Jesus teach about forgiveness from God?)

Why haven't any Christians been able to repeat the act of magically multiplying some fish and bread?
 
How does it foreshadow the last supper? (Better yet, what did Jesus teach about forgiveness from God?)

Why haven't any Christians been able to repeat the act of magically multiplying some fish and bread?

Should they have?
 
Yes. If you want to take it literally.

You introduced an 'if'. So what is the consequence if no Christian been able to "multiply some fish and bread"?
 
You introduced an 'if'. So what is the consequence if no Christian been able to "multiply some fish and bread"?

That is evidence it was not a literal event but rather an allegory.
 
Easy, the largest loaf of bread weighs 3140 pounds and the largest fish (the whale shark) weighs 75000 pounds, so you have more than enough food for everyone. The hard part would be finding an accompanying vegetable.

Hardly. The correct answer is grilled asparagus with lemon dill butter sauce. The REAL hard part would be deciding whether to grill, bake or fry the fish.


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