Here it is, from Clement of Alexandria himself, a source often referred to by zealous Christians as an authority.
Fragment E
He was continent, enduring all things. Jesus digested divinity; he ate and drank in a special way, without excreting his solids. He had such a great capacity for continence that the nourishment within him was not corrupted, for he did not experience corruption.
He's actually saying that Jesus didn't poop.
The beliefs of the early Church are always entertaining to read.
2007-06-10 12:34:42 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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That's an understatement.
They seem to have just made up whatever happened to enter their minds, no matter how completely ridiculous.
2007-06-10 12:44:04 · update #1
Well, that certainly makes sense. Jesus told the Essenes to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, to never eat before the noon sun, or after sun down. To never eat red meat cause it was the cause for diseases. He also advised them how to give themselves an enema with water and a large hanging gord? --
2007-06-10 12:43:49 · answer #1 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Is that because he was actually a time traveler from the distant future, who did not need to eat in the normal way because he was not the same as the rest of us physically? Would that explain why he could endure the extreme pain of crucifixion?
OK; maybe you think this is far-fetched. But the fact is, they had him figured for being something very different from themselves, and so they could not assume he did things the way we did. They also had a vested interest in seeing him as perfect in ways that may make us laugh today. We do not think of normal bodily functions as evidence of corruption, but only of being human. But they had it figured that he was NOT human, not really, and so their speculation (this fragment E is probably evidence of nothing but speculation) went pretty wild by modern standards.
2007-06-10 18:52:00 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That sounds like it HAS to be based in strict Greco mind-body dualism. It's taking physical purity to an extreme.
2007-06-10 12:42:35 · answer #3 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Human creativity is terrifically amusing... We see patterns, we want them to be complete, consistent, and we extrapolate and speculate and pontificate - until there's a LOTTA ****.
A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence.
2007-06-10 14:47:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The early fathers were not infallible, yet they said and agreed in many true things (this does not seem to be one of them), since some of them heard them directly from the Apostles. That is what is called Tradition. Some of that was written and it is called the Bible, whose canon took almost 400 years to define, and this definition was done by the same fathers (actually by their succesrors at that time, including St. Augustine)
2007-06-10 12:42:30 · answer #5 · answered by jemayen 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Yeah right, Jesus was a normal human being. He had to poop.
2007-06-10 12:40:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Wow! They had that much free time on their hands, huh? Seems like they should have been wrongfully accusing someone of something, somewhere.
2007-06-10 12:44:26 · answer #7 · answered by socmum16 ♪ 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
He probably ate extremly small pieces of bread at a time.
2007-06-10 12:39:15 · answer #8 · answered by me 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus didn't poop? EVER? How did a cross hold him up? HE MUST HAVE WEIGHED A TON!
2007-06-12 09:52:01 · answer #9 · answered by billthakat 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Like it really matters?
Do you get your jolies off this kinda info?
2007-06-10 12:40:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋