• theneverfox
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    5 months ago

    Yes, the magic of an impromptu potluck

    Literally the whole point of this “miracle” was to show how if everyone pools resources, there’s more than enough to go around

    But that didn’t fit the message the Romans were going for, so they magic’d it up

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      5 months ago

      The only food mentioned is the little kid fishes and bread. If it were more, pretty sure they’d mention it as well.

      The whole point was that they were far away from the nearest place to buy food and money for feeding about 15k people would exceed even a yearly salary

      Literally there was not enough food in the whole group for a “potluck”

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        Jesus made a speech, they passed around the baskets his group had for the meal, and suddenly they more than enough

        Do you think they had grocery stores? That they catered events? That they even had a salary, and carried money instead of food?

        I don’t even know where all these numbers and money focus are coming from, but they weren’t in the text

        Everyone shared their lunch… That was the whole thing. They shared the food they were initially unwilling to share, and when everyone was full (including those who came with nothing) they had baskets of leftovers