Fool's Harbour

Bible study again. Yey! A while back I made a post about 'Jesus Dying For Our Sins.' Explaining that people often miss the point, as they take it literally. Not understanding that it expresses an ideal . See here:  Memetic Christianity: Jesus Dying For All Mankind With the "miracle of the fives loaves and two fish" we have a similar situation. The act expresses the ideal of generosity and sharing. Jesus can feed five thousand people with just five loaves and two fish because he's Jesus. He's the son of God. He could potentially feed everyone with just a single loaf. No one's starving when Jesus is around. However, for regular people, out here in reality, things aren't that ideal. If we only have fives loaves and two fish we can't feed everyone. Try as we might some people are going to go hungry. The point is though that we must try . We can't achieve the ideal, as Jesus did, but we can try to get as close to that ideal as possible. As with the ...