And Two Fishes

Remember the story that Jesus used five loaves of bread and two fishes to feed 5,000 people? Source Bible: here.

This morning I realized that it's a metaphor of farming. The grain that is sown, germinates, grows and is harvested. A part of the grain will be eaten and another part will be reused for the next cycle of regenerating. The infinite process of sowing and eating. Grain that nevers dies and always will be a new beginning as food, fertilising mould or next season's harvest. If a farmer, farms well there will be food now and in the future for hundreds or thousands of 'homo sapiens'. And for a couple of 'mus musculus' as well ;).

What if the core metaphor of Christianity (better: New Testament in Bible) was not farming? What would humanity's life on planet Earth have looked like today if two thousand years ago one of these had become the core metaphor of Christianity?

• Radiating, boiling, flooding and abundant light from the sun
• Sculpting a sculpture out of a rock
• Make a pot out of clay on a turntable
• A hunter-gatherer who pulls along with a large herds of game
• A quatum entity may be described as either a particle or a wave

I know for sure our here and now would have been different if instead of Christianity we could speak of Attila-the-hunter-gatherer-ianity

 
P.S. A farmer can regenerate grain, but also fish and animals.
P.P.S. Mark, that Jezus is a grain too. He was food for the souls more than 2,000 years ago. His body became fertilising mould. His christian message is sown and harvested generation after generation.