Blasphemous Brain Curl
Matthew 4:19
•and he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”•
Taking this photo popped this Bible verse into my head. And from there I branched in 2 directions. I amused myself with how people may feign outrage over the use of men in this verse. Luckily though plenty of modern translations have changed men to people, even though I don't think that's how quotes work. Also two thousand years on I'm sure the english, by way of a couple language translations, is pretty far off from whatever actual words came out of Jesus. Translating any quote from its original language can be pretty inaccurate I s’pose.
The second branch of thought I had was about how fishing is done in 2 ways. Dangling an appetizing meal in front of the fish and trapping the fish inside a large net. Both of which are quite different from teaching the fish new ideas that changes its life and compels them to follow you.
Was Jesus a used car, er donkey salesman pushing his new religion? Or did he start the world's oldest pyramid scheme? 'If everyone gets 12 of their friends to get below them in the triangle and collects 10% from each of them then everyone gets 120% of a normal salary!'
I realize this is somewhat blasphemous and I apologize, but to me this post is more about snowballing thoughts as opposed to blasphemy.
Maybe he didn't say fishers, but teachers of men. Maybe he even included women in the pupils. Maybe he never said any of it or maybe it was written down wrong after years of oral tellings of the quote. Maybe I have spent way too long analyzing one damned sentence.
I'm gonna vote for the last one, but just like going to the gym to pick stuff up and set it back down, over analyzing one dumb sentence is a pretty good brain curl.
Yooz it or looz it… said someone sometime.