Ah I was missing r/dankchristianmemes thank you
Seriously though, why did Jesus curse that fig tree? He could be weirdly petty.
BTW, myrrh had lots of uses besides embalming.
I saw a guy waving a sign to spread awareness, “God Hates Figs”
Or something like that
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.
Jesus used a whip to drive out the merchants in the temple.
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.
Cute. I’m genuinely unfamiliar with the story of Solomon and the demon. I’d be interested to hear the story behind that.
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.
It’s not canon, if that helps.
This pic is too pixelated to read it
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
Argh, I know it’s my app but this is too blurry to read. Looks like fun tho.
Mine too. Open in browser https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/ce3c437f-0c97-4093-9ad0-68d5addbb17f.jpeg
Much appreciated!
Today I learned that God gave bald people the power to summon bears
So Cocaine is God. Got it.
TIL that Solomon can summon demon
