Less “you botched your persuasion rolls,” more “I set the DC to 50 and we don’t do critical skill checks at this table”
Seriously though, why did Jesus curse that fig tree? He could be weirdly petty.
BTW, myrrh had lots of uses besides embalming.
Possibly an extremely contemporary metaphor, where the first-century audience was expected to recognize it as reference to a specific authority figure.
I too think this story is very confusing. I think it’s a metaphor saying something like the time / the people aren’t ready for him yet or something
Makes him more relatable.
I saw a guy waving a sign to spread awareness, “God Hates Figs”
Or something like that
The understanding I’ve generally heard, and which seems supported by the context, is that the fig tree symbolises the unfruitfulness of God’s people. This is particularly apparent in that both Matthew and Mark record it as happening alongside Jesus casting out people trading in the temple (Luke records the cleansing of the temple but not the fig tree thing). It is then followed by Jesus telling a series of parables against the religious leaders. There may also be a relation to the parable of the barren fig tree earlier on in Luke 13.
I always understood it to be that things exist to be fruitful and multiply. In a sense, a person who does not love, who doesn’t multiply goodness in the world as Jesus modeled, was like the fig tree. Such things could be thought of as cursed, withered and twisted versions of what they could and should be.
I am not a Bible scholar though lol.
Pretty much, only detail missing is that it was the season for fruit. So, there is an added sense that by all natural laws the tree should have had fruit and it’s lack was a particular aberration to a societythat used the fig so much.
Also, thematically, it rounds out God’s domains. Up to this point, there had been miracles showing dominion over weather, matter, human life, animal life, spirits, disease and now there’s plant life.
Except that the gospel of Mark specifically states that it wasn’t fig season. Why did Jesus even look for the figs when he should have known they were out of season. Why then curse the tree when it was just doing what fig trees are supposed to do? Guess Jesus can be an ass when he’s hangry.
Today I learned that God gave bald people the power to summon bears
Druids man. They are OP, and they are all either too hairy or too lacking in hair, or both.
TIL that Solomon can summon demon
Argh, I know it’s my app but this is too blurry to read. Looks like fun tho.
In settings, altering “max zoom” fixed it for me. Bumped it from x30 to x50 and it became readable.
Mine too. Open in browser https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/ce3c437f-0c97-4093-9ad0-68d5addbb17f.jpeg
Much appreciated!
Try voyager. I can read it.
That’s what I’m using, it’s blurry af. I wonder if it cached a low quality version for some reason.
It’s compressed to fuck-all and back. There is a link further down of an uncompressed one.
DM: After dinner, a group of thugs approach the house and knock on the door. They want to give you a “proper welcome”
Levite: The fuck…
DM: They really fancied your ass.
Levite, getting up to leave the session: You know what? Fuck you. But fuck the guest’s daughter first, then the concubine, then you can go fuck yourself, too, you sick fuck, I’m out.
Judges 19, for anyone curious. Shit gets real dark.
Ah I was missing r/dankchristianmemes thank you
Such a weird coincidence, I am listening to the Apocalypse Players, A Christmas Inheritance and they referenced 2 Kings 2 23-24. Not even in an off hand manner, it’s key plot point in the story.
This pic is too pixelated to read it
If you go into the post and open the picture it opens in good quality. There’s an issue with previews not loading properly sometimes.
Everytime someone posts a really long image it’s heavily pixelated, and I thought it was just a me issue.
Edit: turns out you need to change your ap options to load HQ image. Works now
I recently learned that most of the aps people use for lemmy don’t do formatting correctly. The these words look like they have a strike through on whichever ap you are using, let the developer know that
~word~should be subscript, and that~~word~~is strike through.
I will see you after my excommunication.
I see no blasphemy, but Catholics gonna Catholic I guess.
Cute. I’m genuinely unfamiliar with the story of Solomon and the demon. I’d be interested to hear the story behind that.
Also recommend the book series Bartimaeus, which makes reference to this story. (it’s a Harry potter style series about demons and demon summoners).
It’s not canon, if that helps.
Ah, that’s why I didn’t recognize it. Apocrypha?
I do believe that is the term, yes. I think it was written in the Middle Ages.
Soloman is friends with some guy who had half his pay stolen by a demon and it keeps sucking his thumb. So Soloman is given a ring with a pentagram on it by Michael that can command demons. He commands thumb sucking demon to get Beelzebub and Solomon enslaves him. Now Solomon controls all demons and uses them to build a temple.
Got that from the wiki page for Testament of Solomon, there’s more to it if you’re interested.
Just to be clear, that’s not in the Bible.
