What does Jesus say?
The story of the wedding feast at Cana where Jesus changes water into wine is known.
Dr. Cliff Lewis on the science of Jesus turning water into wine(1) says: “Jesus really did change the water into wine, thus revealing his glory. At a molecular level, the water, basically hydrogen and oxygen, was changed into wine that contains sugars, yeast, and water, which contain carbon and nitrogen along with oxygen and hydrogen. […] Jesus demonstrated his authority over even the atomic structure of atoms by commanding oxygen and hydrogen atoms to disassemble and reform into other atoms of different configurations. […] With this single performance Jesus proves that the basic forces in nature are at his command and control.”
Jesus did change the water into wine, thus revealing His glory, and the glory of His Father.
What does the Old Testament say?
Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do.
(Ecclesiastes 9:7 )
Stop drinking […] water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses. (1 Timothy 5:23 )
He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.
(Psalm 104:14-15)
What does Gerard Depardieu say?
Gerard Depardieu says: “In the morning, it starts at home with champagne or red wine before 10am, then again champagne. Then I break up the wine intake with a little aniseed liqueur pastis. Then food, accompanied by two bottles of wine. In the afternoon, champagne, beer and more pastis at around 5pm, to finish off the bottle. Later on, vodka and/or whisky. But I’m never totally drunk, just a little p*****d. Anyway, I’m not going to die. Not now. I still have energy.” His son, Guillaume who passed away in 2008 and had a history of alcoholism and drug addiction, says of his father that he was “a coward, a cheater and a chronic liar, obsessed with the desire to be loved […].”
Do you think that Jesus and Gerard Depardieu share the same need to be loved by their fathers?
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(A) What does Jesus say?
(B) What does the Old Testament say?
(C) What does Gerard Depardieu say?
(D) Final statement
There are few inconsistencies in the text. First, Jesus doesn’t say anything, at least in the first part. (A)
Is the reader forced to recollect something about the scene in John, for instance? (John 2:1–11)
And Jesus said to her: “Woman, what concern is that to you and me? My hour has not yet come.”
Quotations might have different purposes in their aim:
- the literally meaning points to the fact, as an icon (Pierce)
- the meaning is used to silence anyone through an emotional process
- the meaning has an affinity to other unrelated arguments
But somehow a phrase always takes up the rhetorical structure of some previous phrase. That is, all texts are quotation, even when the author believes he is an “original“. Those who are unaware of this law are fools like Azathoth who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes. (*)
No, text (A) should be considered empty of internal reference. It’s just the board to launch the final sentence: “Jesus did change the water into wine, thus revealing His glory and the glory of His Father.” The title of (A) is called a reinforcement for the final statement (D) even if is unrelated to the text itself.
Text (B) is like the Gospel of Thomas.
From the very words of Bart: “The Gospel of Thomas is without question the most significant book discovered in the Nag Hammadi library. Unlike the Gospel of Peter, discovered sixty years earlier, this book is completely preserved. It has no narrative at all, no stories about anything that Jesus did, no references to his death and resurrection. The Gospel of Thomas is a collection of 114 sayings of Jesus.” (**)
Imagine that you had a scrap of paper and needed to write down something from your memory or from a complete text, don’t you think you would come up with something like this?
Since text (B) is like the milk list it’s impossible to derive any external meaning. It’s a decoy.
Text (C) is from an interview with famous French actor Gérard Depardieu acclaimed for his performances in hundreds of movies, not least The Last Metro (1980), for which he won the César Award for Best Actor.
Guillaume, his son, doesn’t seem to share the ordinary view about Gérard’s grandeur. So text (C) introduces the core problem of the relationship between the father and the son.
The NT tells us that Jesus eventually cried out against God as he was delivered to death: “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34).
Text (D) is the solution of the overall system {A,B,C,D}. But in what sense? The naive interpretation of semantic in a text is willing to bet everything on the internal structure.
Can a question, not rhetorical, be an answer? And is this a question?
On the other hand, a meta-rational approach renounces distinctions and leaves the meaning to the dogs. Bau!
(A) Reinforcement
(B) Decoy (really?!?!)
(C) Icon
(D) Solution
(*)The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath – Lovecraft
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