What does God eat ?
by stan livedeath 47 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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moomanchu
He eats MONEY that's why churches are always asking for more.
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Gorb
Nothing will be done without energy.
So the higher powers in heaven consume a lot of it.
G.
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peacefulpete
This might seem off the wall to many but there are real reasons to suspect some of the narrative and sayings attributed to Jesus were originally connected with John the Baptist. That is a huge topic but in this particular thread it should be mentioned that the Elijah story of being sustained with angelic honey/manna/food for 40 days in the wilderness was quite likely originally repeated in the John the B. story and only later shifted to Jesus. Not only does that make more sense typologically, (John=Elijah) but there also appears to be echos in the extant Gospel description of John. He lives in the 'wilderness' and eats honey/manna/cakes. The 'locust' thing is a scribal error. (Greek 'Locust' and 'Cake' are very similar.) The Gospel of the Ebionites as quoted by Epiphanius retains the honey/manna cakes.
He had a garment of camels' hair, and a leather girdle about his loins. And his meat was wild honey, which tasted like manna, formed like cakes of oil.
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Halcon
The 'locust' thing is a scribal error. (Greek 'Locust' and 'Cake' are very similar)
An error because they're similar?
But--seriously. to those of you that believe in God: do you all believe the same thing?
No, that has been the challenge of man...to agree on what God is. God has limited to expressing some of what he thinks. He doesn't bother to tell us what he eats for example.
And he seems to have intentionally kept other things very much a secret. Like how inanimate matter becomes a living breathing, thinking human being.
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peacefulpete
Halcon, The suggestion is that the description of John in the 'wilderness', (the new Elijah, also wearing camel hair and belt) originally paralleled the story of Elijah in this detail as well. In 1 Kings 19 LXX Elijah is fed angelically supplied 'cakes' in the 'wilderness'. The food of angels was manna that was made into cakes and taste like honey as you recall.
The Greek word (AKRIDES) locusts, and (EGKRIDES) cakes are very similar in sound and spelling making it an easy mistake to make. Therefore, IMO it is more probable that the Gospel of the Ebionites preserves the original reading.
The larger hypothesis is that much of what is ascribed to Q was John tradition, including the story of 40 days in wilderness.
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Halcon
The Greek word (AKRIDES) locusts, and (EGKRIDES) cakes are very similar in sound and spelling making it an easy mistake to make. Therefore, IMO it is more probable that the Gospel of the Ebionites preserves the original reading.
Thanks for the clarification.