Myth # 77a : " But Jesus ate fish ."
It is indeed true that Jesus appears to support the eating of meat ( mostly fish ) at a number of points within the Bible ’ s texts , and there are two ways to go about responding to this claim – first , to gently illuminate the Bible verses relevant to this opinion ; and second , to humbly look at the practical , present-day implications that accrue if this myth were indeed to be true . First things first – a few Biblical illuminations :
* Passage # 01 – Luke 22:7-8 does indeed have Jesus telling his disciples to prepare the Passover meal , and yet interestingly enough it never once has him telling them to obtain , cook or serve a Passover lamb therewith . Indeed , if we read the telling of the tale of the Last Supper , this lamb is completely missing from the story ! In fact , there are no scripture passages in the entire Bible where Jesus himself actually ate lamb , which he would most assuredly have eaten at Passover – had he not been vegan . In fact , in the Bible we see Jesus eating on the Passover exactly twice , and curiously enough neither time is lamb involved at all ; with Jesus and the disciples instead partaking only of unleavened bread at those celebrations .
* Passage # 02 – Luke 24:41-43 does indeed show the disciples giving Jesus “ a broiled fish and some honeycomb ”, and yet then it also notes that “ he took it and ate it in their presence ” – not “ them ”, mind you , but “ it ”. Now , we can draw the conclusion that Jesus made the relatively compassionless choice to eat the fish and abandon the honeycomb , and yet according to a literal reading of the scripture he most certainly did not eat both of them . Of course , we are also allowed to draw the opposite inference ; namely , that he abandoned the fish and ate the comb . And it is this interpretation that is actually much more in alignment with the Messianic “ prophecy ” of Isaiah 7:15 , which states quite clearly that , “ By the time he knows enough to refuse evil and choose good , he [ the Messiah ] will eat only butter and honey .” ( Granted , neither butter nor honey is vegan sustenance , and yet seeing as how Jesus ministry had as its primary purpose the complete overhaul & radical reformation of the Old Testament , even this verse can be seen to indirectly support his probable veganism .)
It might also be of interest to earnest students of scripture that this story is only told in the Gospel of Luke – and this , despite the fact that the authors of the other Gospels are present in the tale . It is also interesting that Luke tells the same story again in the 10 th chapter of the book of Acts , and yet he tells it quite differently when he does so ( not mentioning fish at all in the second telling ) -- and that when John describes the same event in John 20 , Jesus is seen actually eating nothing at all .
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