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Podcast: Spiritual Awakening Radio
Episode: Vegetarian Christianity: No Fishes With Their Loaves
Description: Vegetarian Christianity: No Fishes With Their LoavesThe earliest references to the story of Jesus Feeding the Five Thousand do not include any mentions of fish, only bread. The early church father Irenaeus, writing between 180 and 188 AD, does not say anything at all about the fish, only bread in connection with this Miraculous Feeding of the Multitude as if the gospels he was reading at the time didn't include anything about fishes with the loaves. The historian Eusebius, Arnobius, and several other early Christian writings also never include anything about "fishes" with the loaves, only the loaves...