Jesus Casts Demons into Pigs, and They Drown!

[GoodAttention]

What is a demon exactly?

 

[Frank Buffalo]

Was the owner of the pigs compensated?
Where did the demons go when the pigs were killed?

All unaccounted for, apparently. All these tragedies....

 

[Frank Buffalo]

What is a demon exactly?

Don't know. I've wondered if it wasn't just a crude, cruel accusation against people with mental disorders.

 

[GoodAttention]

Don't know. I've wondered if it wasn't just a crude, cruel accusation against people with mental disorders.

How sad.

 

[Yokefellow]

The big problem with this story is that pigs can swim. They’re even known to like swimming in water. The same goes for hogs. So this story doesn’t make sense.

What about demon possessed pigs, hogs etc.? Can they swim? Especially when they are Hell bent on killing themselves.

Have you done a study on this?

 

[GoodAttention]

What about demon possessed pigs, hogs etc.? Can they swim? Especially when they are Hell bent on killing themselves.

Have you done a study on this?

Seems like the demons wanted to go back to the abyss of their own volition?

Jesus is compassionate, even to demons?

At the cost of swine.

 

[Frank Buffalo]

What about demon possessed pigs, hogs etc.? Can they swim? Especially when they are Hell bent on killing themselves.

Have you done a study on this?

Haven't looked into it. But maybe some demons could speak up here?

 

[Wandering Monk]

Unclean spirits cast into unclean (unkosher) animals.

 

[GoodAttention]

Unclean spirits cast into unclean (unkosher) animals.

What was a herd of swine doing in Judea anyway?

 

[Wandering Monk]

What was a herd of swine doing in Judea anyway?

Gadarenes was not in Judea. It was east of the Jordan River southeast of the Sea of Galilee. Gentile turf.

 

[cataway]

Keep score? Best swan-dive wins? The pigs know how to swim, friend. The OP is certain. Please don't under estimate them.

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swan dive ?? swine-dive

 

[1213]

That's most likely what the original intent of the story was, or something like that. It's not to be taken literally.

Thanks. I would like to know why do you think it's not to be taken literally?

 

[cataway]

What was a herd of swine doing in Judea anyway?

who said it was Judea ?

 

[GoodAttention]

who said it was Judea ?

Apparently the swine carcasses floated there on the Dead Sea..

 

[Madsaac]

The tale has power as a kind of dramatic metaphor and doesn't need to be taken literally

Yeah, like plenty of the bible, full of metaphors

 

[Twilight Hue]

Maybe they can, but how long? And even after rushing down from steep bank?

In a way it is a funny story, they asked Jesus not to send them into the abyss, and that they wanted to go to the swine. And then the swine committed a suicide by drowning into abyss.

It kind of gives me a picture of lemmings running off a cliff. That would be a lot of possessed lemmings!

 

[Twilight Hue]

Apparently the swine carcasses floated there on the Dead Sea..

Well preserved and salted I'm sure.

 

[GoodAttention]

Well preserved and salted I'm sure.

Kosher salted

 

[dybmh]

Yeah, like plenty of the bible, full of metaphors

The ONLY way to describe some"thing" like that is with metaphor. Even the word "thing" needs quotes.

Any concept which isn't material, isn't physical, like casting out a demon, requires analogy and metaphor.

Am I wrong?

 

[dybmh]

Kosher salted

OK, ok.... So.

Jesus casts them into the water, with the salt. The swine, obviously full of delicious sin, descend into hades becoming the very first strips of bacon?
Maybe, maybe, a couple of misbehaving turkeys got caught-up in the shake-down. ... ... Splash! And down into the fires they go!

Jesus invented kosher-turkey-bacon!

( Happy thanksgiving everyone )