RE: How do atheists see Jesus' parables?
October 20, 2017 at 7:16 am
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2017 at 7:22 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 19, 2017 at 7:00 am)Chad32 Wrote: There's another nice story for you. We don't know why the dude was picking up sticks that day. Not supposed to work on the sabbath, but maybe he didn't think gathering kindling counted as work. Or maybe he'd been too busy to clean his yard the rest of the week, from doing real work. Doesn't matter I guess, because he gets killed, and the topic quickly changes to clothing.
In context of the purported time of the story, why the man was picking up sticks is so obvious that no one then hearing it would have had to ask. To stave off death, lol. Wood was fuel. Fire was life. He sure as hell wasn't going to roast marshmallows with it and it wasn't about catching up on his yardwork. Gathering wood was like paying your electricity bill. A productive human being, if they weren't doing anything else, was always going to be gathering wood. While it sounds inane and petty to the modern reader, the intent of the tale was to show that even the most important of human work should not and could not be done on the sabbath. No exceptions.
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