Jesus sinned by
destroying the fig tree according to the Torah, Whereas a Rabbi prayed and
Figs appeared !
And seeing a fig
tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon:
and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was
not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee
hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
(Mark 11:13-14)
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Notice how Jesus
thought there were figs on the tree not knowing it wasn't the seasons of figs. Without delay he cursed the fig tree and it “dried
up from its roots”. If Jesus was God wouldn’t he have known the fig tree would
not bear it’s fruits due to the season it was in. The Torah tells us destroying
a tree of Fruits is prohibited even those of an enemy in the time or war!
When you lay
siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not
destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do
not cut them down. Are the trees people, that you should besiege them? (Deuteronomy 20:19)
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Now coming back
to the story of Jesus and the fig tree, this indeed is a very problematic story
for Christians. If Jesus really was the Son of god and could perform miracles,
then he had no power to cause the tree to bear fruits but instead destroying
it. According to the Talmud this actually occurred. The Talmud describes a
story wherein Rabbi yosi's son wanted to feed his workers and the fig tree had
not figs. Rabbi yosi cried out loud " fig tree fig tree send forth your
fruit" and the tree produced figs and they ate. (Talmud Tannis
24a )
The story from
the Talmud completely nailed the story of Mark. All the Rabbi yosi did was ask and Bham figs blossomed.
Something Jesus of the Bible could not do.
son of a Rabbi was
able to get figs from a tree, which even Jesus was unable to do being the
supposed "son of god"
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And seeing a fig
tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon:
and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was
not yet. And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter
for ever. And his disciples heard it. (Mark 11:13-14)
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This indeed is a
very problematic story for Christians. If Jesus really was the Son of god and
could perform miracles, then why didn't he cause the tree to bear fruits,
instead he destroy it. According to the Talmud this actually occurred. The
Talmud describes a story wherein Rabbi yosi's son wanted to feed his workers
and the fig tree had not figs. Rabbi yosi cried out loud " fig tree fig
tree send forth your fruit" and the tree produced figs and they ate.
The Gemara asks:
What is the incident involving his son? One day Rabbi Yosei from Yokrat hired
day laborers to work his field. It grew late and he did not bring them food.
The workers said to the son of Rabbi Yosei from Yokrat: We are starving. They
were sitting under a fig tree, so the son said: Fig tree, fig tree. Yield your
fruits, so that my father’s workers may eat. The fig tree yielded fruit, and
they ate. ( (Talmud Tannit 24a )
the son of the Rabbi
merely said yield your fruits and it blossomed, not even Jesus could do that.
how embarrassing!
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