(September 27, 2024 at 3:03 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:
This story seems to have two purposes.
1) A redo of Elisha's miracle of feeding 100 men with 20 loaves (Jesus does it better, so must be more powerful).
2) Matthew has Jesus explain that this trick is symbolism for how Jesus words can be taught via a multiplying effect (the disciples taking up the task, and getting others to do it, and so on). I've seen explanations of the numbers, but I'm not into numerical symbolism.
Of course, when I go to any Christian discussion, they argue that God can do anything, and it was written about in all 4 Gospels, so that makes it a "real" event. Uh, no.