Posted: Jan 05, 2012 1:48 pm
NineOneFour wrote:Zwaarddijk wrote:NineOneFour wrote:GakuseiDon wrote:
Why didn't the original author know any better, in your opinion? Why have the story of Jesus cursing a fig tree for no fruit and also state that it wasn't the season for fruit?
For the same reason the authors of the books of the Bible have taking snakes, talking donkeys, misinterpret OT passages, have Jesus riding on both a foal and an ass, and didn't know what pi was.
They were goddamn duckfucking idiots.
Re: pi, apparently you don't know of significant figures either? Is that sufficient excuse to call you a goddamn duckfucking idiot now? (NOTE: that is not me calling you that, it's me asking whether it's sufficient reason. If you think it isn't, you should reconsider your own use of such terminology.)
The difference is I don't claim to be knowledgeable about fig trees.
Therefore, your premise, duckfucking and all, is incorrect.
Then how do you know it was the wrong season? Fig trees yielded fruit twice in a year, with one harvest being in spring. Pesach takes places in Nisan, which is in spring. So it was not the wrong season.
Though I don't think at all that Jesus cursed a fig tree and it withered, but it just shows that this argument is in dire need of being thought through some more. The passage was likely intended to be a premonition of the rejection and execution of Jesus in Jerusalem.