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It tastes better than water?
Is taste better than no taste? Water has no taste.
That isn't completely correct for some places I've lived or visited.
Yeah, the only water I've ever had that lacked taste was artificially distilled with machines. Which then, paradoxically, tastes weird. I don't know how else to put it. It tastes fake or something. Like every connection it had to the greater whole - the place it came from and the relationship those waters had with the land and sky and creatures - was wrenched out of it to create some weird... fake... void... thing? Maybe I'm just sensitive to things like this.
Because they were missing it?
What you are tasting are impurities...chemicals, minerals and/or other additives. The water itself (H2O) has no taste.
There were a couple of reasons. Bread and wine are two symbol of civilization. Unlike water, which is natural and all you do is drink, bread and wine symbolize to all the extra human manipulation of nature implicit of civilization. To make bread, you must farm the wheat, harvest, grind the seeds to make flour. You then add water, oil, salt and maybe an egg and blend. Then you kneed the dough, let iit rest, build a fire and bake. The symbolism of the body and blood of Christ; bread and wine, has a connection to modern man and civilization. It is not the natural man like Adam before the fall, but the more modern man with more needs, cares and sophistication. Jesus came for the sinners; modern man after the fall.
Yeah. Never-the-less, water can naturally have flavor in it and that varies with the location and the source of the flavoring. As long as that flavor isn't toxic or the water doesn't support too much of the wrong sort of life for comfort, it should still be OK.
I don't recall the water I grew up with having flavor. But I had lived with it for close to 20 years before I left and got to experience water from other places that sometimes seemed more flavorful to me.Yeah, the only water I've ever had that lacked taste was artificially distilled with machines. Which then, paradoxically, tastes weird. I don't know how else to put it. It tastes fake or something. Like every connection it had to the greater whole - the place it came from and the relationship those waters had with the land and sky and creatures - was wrenched out of it to create some weird... fake... void... thing? Maybe I'm just sensitive to things like this.
Do you think that the Galilean peasant classes could get hold of beer or whiskey? I doubt it.
It was fish and wine as that was the normal tradition at weddings. The host would have been embarrassed by running out.
It probably wasn’t wine but did turn red or some other strange color. Some documentaries explained it as possibly clay seeping into the river among other things but it was still done by God.
And in that same logic Jesus said the bread is the flesh, and the wine is the blood. So water into wine and water into blood could be seen as doing exactly the same thing, since the wine is the blood. It is logical.
