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Impedimentus Original500© Member  Terricolous Creature
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I don't believe he was, but in the spirit of some of the recent posts, I don't see any harm in getting opinions .12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. 14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it. (Mark 11:12-14) Jesus cursed the fig tree - if he were the Son of God he should have known that the tree didn't have any figs on it, or even better, if he believed in God and that he was his son, he could have performed a miracle and put fruit ont he tree. Instead he got angry and cursed the poor little tree - isn't this proof that Jesus was a closet atheist? Last edited on 02:48 am by Impedimentus |
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Aethelred Pioneer100© Member  Ye Olde Dead King
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I suppose He was making a spiritual point and wasn't mad at the tree at all.
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Impedimentus Original500© Member Terricolous Creature
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Aethelred wrote: I suppose He was making a spiritual point and wasn't mad at the tree at all. I suspect you are correct, but I wanted to give the biblical literalists their opportunity to persecute and condemn the poor little fig tree. 
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sirlamre Pioneer100© Member Official Forum Troublemaker
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Aethelred wrote: I suppose He was making a spiritual point and wasn't mad at the tree at all. I've often wondered if this incident ever happened at all. It's one of those things that seems, I don't know what exactly... but SO out of character, and missing the pieces that might give a clue as to what it was about. That Jesus talked about fruits (meaning presumably spiritual fruits) and the fact that some(one-thing) not providing spiritual fruits being worth less than someone who did provide spiritual fruits That part I can easily imagine... But when you compare that "parable" with the ones like the Sermon on the Mount and the others-- the lack of clearness of the message is puzzling. Most of the other things in the NT where we really are not all in agreement about what Jesus was getting at are things where His Words are not precisely recalled-- anecdotal in the second degree or the third, or whatever, where recollection of His Words is anecdotal in the first degree. So many things He said were reasonably clear --- but this one comes with so little clear implication... One wonders....
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