There's this guy who leads a Bible study on campus, and he says, "We Christians should be like the fish! Where does it grow? In the sea! And what is the sea? A mass of salt water! But when you guys cook fish, what do you put in it? What else? Salt, of course! We should all be like the fish!"
2007-10-20 11:28:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Here's my take on it!
The fish= Us Christians
The sea= the world we live in (he mentions that fish GROW in the sea)
The salt= the influence of the world around us. You see, the fish can filter the salt, so it does not get affected by the water surrounding it! When you cook it, you add salt to flavor it! Hence, in the same way, we Christians ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO be influenced by the world around us. Much like the fish not being "affected" by the salt water around it! You follow the logic? God bless!
PS
Those other answerers don't get it.
2007-10-20 11:46:37 · answer #1 · answered by <3 my nut brown maiden 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible says if salt loses its flavor ,
what then do you season it with????
my thoughts:
If you lose your faith
what good are you as a christain???
the fish and salt story, well , if you dont get
the principles of each, I can see a new convert
being confused. The teacher is giving meat
instead of milk to babies in christ.
2007-10-20 18:38:22 · answer #2 · answered by sioux † 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The saviour's teachings recalled by Judas Thomas:
The kingdom of God is like a fisher man who drew his nets from the sea. From the nets he took the biggest fish, and the small one's he through back into the sea so that they might grow to be big.
Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained.
Split a piece of wood; I am there.
Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
Jesus said, "Images are visible to people, but the light within them is hidden in the image of the Father's light. He will be disclosed, but his image is hidden by his light."
84. Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will have to bear!"
He said to them, "Anyone here with two ears had better listen! There is light within a person of light, and it shines on the whole world. If it does not shine, it is dark."
Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels.
Yet I marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty."
Jesus said, "When you strip without being ashamed, and you take your clothes and put them under your feet like little children and trample then, then [you] will see the son of the living one and you will not be afraid."
47. Jesus said, "A person cannot mount two horses or bend two bows.
And a slave cannot serve two masters, otherwise that slave will honor the one and offend the other.
Nobody drinks aged wine and immediately wants to drink young wine. Young wine is not poured into old wineskins, or they might break, and aged wine is not poured into a new wineskin, or it might spoil.
An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment, since it would create a tear."
48. Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in a single house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move from here!' and it will move."
49. Jesus said, "Congratulations to those who are alone and chosen, for you will find the kingdom. For you have come from it, and you will return there again."
Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom]." Jesus said to Salome, "I am the one who comes from what is whole. I was granted from the things of my Father." 70. Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you."
"I am your disciple."
"For this reason I say, if one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darkness."
23. Jesus said, "I shall choose you, one from a thousand and two from ten thousand, and they will stand as a single one."
56. Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy
Jesus said, "Congratulations to the person who has toiled and has found life."
59. Jesus said, "Look to the living one as long as you live, otherwise you might die and then try to see the living one, and you will be unable to see."
2007-10-20 18:58:01 · answer #3 · answered by Yoda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, as Christians, we are to be the fishers of men
Matthew 4:19
2007-10-20 18:37:41 · answer #4 · answered by Gracie63 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he wants you to fill the pool with salt water, but then these "Bible study" types are notoriously hard to follow.
2007-10-20 18:34:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't cook fish in salt or salt water water. I fry it, BBQ it, or smoke it.
2007-10-20 18:35:14 · answer #6 · answered by Blue girl in a red state 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe it's related (in some strange, non-obvious way) to these verses:
Mar 9:49-50
49. "For everyone will be salted with fire.
50. "Salt is good; but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another."
Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/
2007-10-20 18:33:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I see the logic but I don't understand what the logic is actually saying.
Something about adding more to something that already exists? Maybe, like, you are born in love and should give more love to love? I don't know, I've read some Buddhists analogies and the like and, even while they are tough, they aren't this tough
2007-10-20 18:33:15 · answer #8 · answered by Corvus 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Salt was highly prized in ancient times and Jesus mentioned it Himself, ``You are the salt of the world` and if salt loses it`s flavor it is fit only to be thrown out.
The Christian is called to add flavor to his/her witness.
2007-10-20 18:35:32 · answer #9 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea. It is not a good idea to get your theology from some guy ranting on a college campus. Your best bet is to study theology from actual theologians, starting with the earliest and moving foward toward the present.
2007-10-20 18:33:01 · answer #10 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋