God hates figs.

[Goblinmonger]

This picture was too awesome not to post here.

[marybourg]

1. Good. More for me.

If I could only persuede the birds to follow god.

[montanto]

4. birds are god's enforcers

at least around here. you gotta wake up pretty early to get any figs off my tree.

[JDPriestly]

10. Parrots or some other bird?

[marybourg]

19. No parrots here, but finches,

hummers, sparrows, anything with a pointed beak!

[AlbertCat]

24. Mother used to put a net over the tree.

They still got the ones on the outside, but the figs on the interior part of the tree were there....



....if the squirrels didn't get to them.

[marybourg]

26. Yes. I'm planning to do that this year.

We don't have squirrels here in the "Valley of the Sun", but we do have uncute rodents known locally as " roof rats".

[sinkingfeeling]

2. If one takes the Bible as literal, then that's true.

[deacon_sephiroth]

13. clearly that was a parable

[Liberal Veteran]

3. That one was always a strange one to me.

Jesus was really crabby with that tree for having the audacity to have no figs out of season.

[Kurmudgeon]

6. He may have had His impending crucifixtion in mind, that would make anyone grumpy.

I consider that along with the tossing of the money changers from the temple as 2 of his most human moments.

[Thats my opinion]

5. That takes care of figs, but...

for all you broccoli haters read Hezikiah 7:14.

[laconicsax]

7. Umm...which book is that?

Unless I'm grossly mistaken, there's no book of Hezikiah in the Bible.

Hezikiah is featured in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles, but he doesn't have his own book with at least seven chapters.

[Thats my opinion]

17. Sometimes in this serious world we need to have a little fun.

The fig bit is hilarious. And there is no such book in the Bible as Hezekiah.

[laconicsax]

20. Ah...you made it up. Got it.

[deacon_sephiroth]

14. gonna have to post that one for us

I don't know of that book and I'm ussually pretty good about the books, even the ones removed by the catholics over time... because SOME words of god aren't REALLY important apparently.

[Goblinmonger]

15. This thread is the top result

when you google that book, chapter, and verse.

[dmallind]

16. There are a few famous 7:14 verse references

Including the famous "virgin" prophecy. Best I can guess here is a reference to Mark 7:14 and what goes into a person not defiling him, rather what comes out. While I'm hardly a word perfect Bible memorizer I can't think of any other verse more apposite to broccoli.......

[Thats my opinion]

18. About Isaiah 7:4

if you look at any modern translation it doesn't say, "A virgin shall conceive.....,"but a young woman shall conceive...." And two chapters later that is what the prophet was talking about. The Greek is clear--as is the Hebrew. The word only refers to a woman of marriageable age.

[dmallind]

21. It's in snark quotes for just that reason.

And of course virgin birth is a mythic archetype older even than Isaiah let alone the gospels. Makes you wonder why JC's version of the virgin birth grew more elaborate as the gospels progressed...

[Skittles]

8. aw I was thinking leaf

yes INDEED

[roody]

9. Julia Sweeney has some very funny comments

about Jesus and the fig tree.

[Tx4obama]

11. Well he didn't say that to my FOUR fig trees, so I'll continue to eat 'my' figs :)

Maybe that 'one' fig tree pissed him off for some reason ...

like maybe while walking he wasn't watching where he was going and ran into it or he stubbed his toe on it ...

it could have just been his way of cussing at it while letting off steam

I know I've stubbed my toe on the bed frame and also the sofa before and I've hollered at them: "Damn you!"

Yep, that's probably what it was

[dmallind]

12. Then I am truly godly

Can't stand the gritty bastards either. Although cursing a tree for not bearing fruit out of season is too irascible even for me.

[struggle4progress]

22. "You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up

overnight and died overnight."

Jonah 4

[AlbertCat]

23. I've never seen...

... so many angry yellow sugar bunnies!

[spin]

25. Michelangelo Buonarroti thought the fig was the "forbidden fruit" in the Garden of Eden...

Forbidden fruit

Forbidden fruit is any object of desire whose appeal is a direct result of the knowledge that it cannot or should not be obtained or something that someone may want but is forbidden to have.

The metaphorical phrase forbidden fruit refers to the Book of Genesis,[1] where it is the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil eaten by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

***snip***

Other Christians sometimes assert that the "forbidden fruit" was the fig, from the account of their using leaves of this tree to cover themselves (also the fig tree is the only fruit tree explicitly mentioned in the Genesis 3 context). Since the fig is a long-standing symbol of female sexuality, it enjoyed a run as a favorite understudy to the apple as the forbidden fruit during the Italian Renaissance. The most famous depiction of the fig as the forbidden fruit was painted by Buonarroti in his masterpiece fresco on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.[3]
http://www.enotes.com/topic/Forbidden_fruit