Is this something that sustainted daily health, feed all of the needs and wants of people regarding taste, etc...? curious as to how for such a long stregth this was sufficent?
2007-05-16 08:47:47 · 13 answers · asked by artichoke 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
John 6:49-58
49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. 54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
2007-05-16 08:56:03 · answer #1 · answered by djmantx 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Manna was as much a symbol of God's care as it was food. Very little is said about it except that it was "sweet", that it would keep for as long as necessary, and that it would not fall on the Sabbath. The important thing was that it came from God and enabled the people to survive in the dessert as long as they followed God's laws.
Some people have associated it with an evaporated sap that leaves deposits under certain types of dessert shrubs after the morning dew has evaporated, but this description doesn't match the Biblical description of its appearance. True manna was a mystical susbstance to be accepted, not questioned or analyzed. Metaphorically, "manna from heaven" means just what one needs when it is needed.
2007-05-16 09:05:10 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"manna" was a Hebrew word that sounded like the Hebrew phrase "What is it?"
Having never seen manna before, they were curious about what is was.
They fried it, They boiled it. They ate it raw.
Every day they wernt out and gathered enough for that day; if they gathered enough for the next day, it became wormy and useless. Except for Sabbath, that is, when they gathered enough for two days.
What was it? We are not told.
We do know that they got tired of manna, manna, manna; every day more manna. So they demanded meat from Moses and from God.
Numbers 11:31-33 31 ¶ Now there went forth a wind from the LORD, and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day's journey on this side and a day's journey on the other side, all around the camp, and about two cubits deep on the surface of the ground. 32 And the people spent all day and all night and all the next day, and gathered the quail (he who gathered least gathered ten homers) and they spread them out for themselves all around the camp. 33 While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD struck the people with a very severe plague.
Did you catch that? God gave them quail two feet deep for a distance of a day's journey on all sides of the camp. "You want meat? I'll give you meat! So much meat that every man, woman, and child will have ten quarts of it for themselves!"
And thus the plague because they grumbled against God.
2007-05-16 09:00:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To add to some of the good answers above (only ones that refer to the Torah, sorry, you can't really define manna by a story that's replayed in the New Testament), Jews remember the miracle of the manna each Sabbath evening (Friday night) by having two loaves of bread called challah. It's basically a rich bread usually made with lots of eggs.
2007-05-16 11:14:59 · answer #4 · answered by Suzanne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
man·na (măn'ə) pronunciation
n.
1. In the Bible, the food miraculously provided for the Israelites in the wilderness during their flight from Egypt.
2. Spiritual nourishment of divine origin.
3. Something of value that a person receives unexpectedly: viewed the bonus as manna from heaven.
4. The dried exudate of certain plants, as that of the Mediterranean ash tree, formerly used as a laxative.
5. A sweet granular substance excreted on the leaves of plants by certain insects, especially aphids, and often harvested by ants.
2007-05-16 08:57:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spiritual nourishment or something received of unexpected value (like Word of God).
"The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey." -- Exodus 16:31 NIV
2007-05-16 08:54:25 · answer #6 · answered by Dr. G™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Manna is described as flakes of bread.
2007-05-16 08:56:33 · answer #7 · answered by Spoken4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol...E) I ought to assert one ingredient I evaluate is pumpkin cheeses cake i like to make yet takes lots of artwork. I do make a ginger snap cookie crust for it some circumstances. I appropriate it off with whip cream, chopped pecans and heat carmel sauce.
2016-11-23 18:15:01 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read this essay on how Manna was actually magic mushrooms, and it made a lot of sense.
http://deoxy.org/manna.htm
2007-05-16 08:53:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spiritual rain.
2007-05-16 08:52:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋