I asked this question last night and got some off the wall answers. I'm hoping to get some other responses.
Why would Jesus use salt and light to discribe the two greatest agents of change for the whole world?
Please no paroting of what you have been taught about salt as a preservitive or to make some thirst, or light as to show the way, that is not the point of this question. It is rather to get you to think. Notice both of these are silient why didn't Jesus use something audible to make a great impact on the world around us?
2006-12-15 05:21:42 · 6 answers · asked by disciple 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"...We live in a fallen world that is inhabited by a huge majority of fallen people. Besides, sin outside the church isn't nearly as dangerous to the church as sin within its own membership. The world can't destroy us, but our influence can be very destructive. God placed us in the world, Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, to be salt and light, to have a beneficial effect. The Lord Jesus himself prayed for the disciples and all of us who would follow them, in John 17:15,18: "I do not ask Thee to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one...As Thou didst send Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world." We are sent into relationships with depraved people. Paul's list is very strong: sexually immoral people; the covetous and swindlers, or greedy and dishonest people; and idolaters, or those who are unabashedly pagan in their value systems. Why are we called into relationship with those people? Paul writes to the church in Philippi (2:15), "...Prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world...." We are to sparkle, be attractive, look totally different, so that those people are drawn to Christ in us."
2006-12-15 06:45:57 · answer #1 · answered by Bruce 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God said let there be light so that we would not be in darkness upon this earth and told us we are the salt of the earth as to say humans replenish the earth and again salt even flavors food and aid in some healings. Salt and light do not change the world it helps the world.
2006-12-15 13:26:46 · answer #2 · answered by JoJoBa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He had to use something that everyone at his time would understand. If he was trying to make a point to a large amount of people - he needed to use an example that everyone would be able to comprehend. They all knew what salt was and they all knew what light/lamps were - therefor they could comprehend his analogies.
2006-12-15 13:28:15 · answer #3 · answered by CHRISTINA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything was said in metaphor in either Jesus' time or just in the Bible. Obviously the Bible or Jesus himself have no acknowledgment to the less intelligent.
2006-12-15 13:30:20 · answer #4 · answered by Daemon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you are pre-qualifying our answers, I suspect you probably know what the answer is.
2006-12-15 13:26:49 · answer #5 · answered by Bran McMuffin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
remember this was 2000 years ago....i am just curious.. what would you have him use instead???
2006-12-15 13:24:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋