As I said… Cherry picking. Somebody chose those writings for a purpose.
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sfu@lemm.ee 2 days agoUm, He fed people fish. Apocryphal writings are not in the cannon for a reason.
t_berium@lemmy.world 2 days ago
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Also, don’t forget the story where he told his disciples to go fish again, and they returned with a boat so gull of fish that it almost sank.
It’s safe to say that Jesus was not opposed to eating at least fish.
t_berium@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Is it really? Because some dudes decided what’s canon and what isn’t? Cherry picking is cherry picking, no matter how you describe it.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If your argument is that the whole bible is unreliable due to canon selection that’s a totally viable argument to make. But that then goes both ways and means that you can’t make an argument about anything Christ did or did not teach or do. It means, you can neither make the argument that Jesus was for eating animals or against it, because any scripture supporting any of these points was subject to canon selection and thus is unreliable.
t_berium@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Of course the whole thing is unreliable, due to selection. Still there was a selection done. You are almost there.