Posted: Jan 05, 2012 7:52 pm
IgnorantiaNescia wrote:proudfootz wrote:GakuseiDon wrote:proudfootz wrote:
Since the fig was 'out of season' only an ignoramus would expect to find fruit.
Didn't Jesus help his Dad create these trees? He should have known better!
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?
It's very odd - hard to figure out what 2nd century authors of works such as these might have been thinking.
Why portray Jesus as ignorant, petulant, and willfully destructive of other people's property?
I can only imagine the author was trying to make some kind of obscure point of theology, or simply wasn't thinking this through...
How do you know the fig was "out of season"? Fig trees grow figs two times a year, with the first fig harvest in spring. Jewish Passover, Pesach, is also in spring, as it starts on 15 Nisan.
So much for your "ignorant" point.
Perhaps you should check out the source of this story:
The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.”
Thanks for your 'help'.
