And it is also a part where Jesus makes one of the many scientific blunders, like not knowing that mustard seed is not the smallest of all seeds, because the orchid seed, for example, is much smaller, and young trees are not shrubs, as the mustard plant is, and shrubs do not grow into trees.
But we can't expect Jesus to know things that he apparently created, like seeds. Oh no. That was way beyond his time, not like flying, walking on water, and bringing dead people to life.
But we can't expect Jesus to know things that he apparently created, like seeds. Oh no. That was way beyond his time, not like flying, walking on water, and bringing dead people to life.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
