The Kinder God of the New Testament

[Wyrd of Gawd]

The two stories about the loaves and fish are about the power of sharing and hospitality.  Each person in the crowds had their own food but it was bad manners to eat without offering food to others even if it meant that you didn't have any left over for yourself.  

Jesus had his minions walk out into the crowds with their stinky fish and stale bread and offer it to the people.  Since each person had his own eats tucked away in his dusty robe he couldn't take their so he pulled his own food out and joined the minions in offering it to others.  The process spread through the crowd and once people saw what was happening they all pulled out their eats.  When it was over everyone had enough to eat and there was some left over.  

No one was going to go out into the wilds to listen to some guy flap his jaws without taking something to eat.  They just didn't want to share it with the dummy who didn't bring his own food.  But everyone packed his own lunch.

There are numerous stories in the Bible about food and the rules of hospitality.  The stories about the fish and loaves illustrate the principle.

Do you ever tire of being demonstrably wrong?!?

Jesus feeds 5,000 Matthew 14:13-21 - Matthew 14:13-21

According to the story, jeebus was told that because it was getting late, he should send the crowds away so they could go and buy some food.

Are you forgetting that Jesus was supposed to have been God?  Why wouldn't he know Jewish hospitality rules?  He knew that the cheapskates had food with them and that they didn't want to share it.  So he had his minions got out among the crowd with their lunch to show the cheapskates that it was OK to for the them to uncover their own food.  The result was that everyone had enough to eat because it's human nature to take food with you when going out into the wilds.  Even the crazy old coot Abraham gave Hagar and Ishmael a crust of bread and a quart of water when he kicked them out into the desert to die.