I have never understood Mk 2:22. I understand that unfermented wine will expand and stretch the skin of its container as it ferments, thus breaking an already stretched 'old wineskin.' But I don't understand the analogy. I cannot even remember anyone explaining its meaning as with the parables. One other question that I'll try to slip in: If God is infinite, then there is no place that He is not. If hell is were souls are eternally separate from God, then doesn't that put a boundary where God is not?

1. Parable Of The Patch And Wine Skins

Bible verses about Parable of the Old and New Wineskins. If new cloth is used to patch an old garment, and the patch becomes wet, it shrinks as it dries and.

Bounded, therefore, not infinite? This has always bothered me. [quote='Glennonite, post:1, topic:236306'] I have never understood Mk 2:22. I understand that unfermented wine will expand and stretch the skin of its container as it ferments, thus breaking an already stretched 'old wineskin.'

But I don't understand the analogy. I cannot even remember anyone explaining its meaning as with the parables. One other question that I'll try to slip in: If God is infinite, then there is no place that He is not. If hell is were souls are eternally separate from God, then doesn't that put a boundary where God is not? Bounded, therefore, not infinite? The true power of water by masaru emoto download movies. This has always bothered me.

Parable Of The Patch And Wine Skins

Glennonite [/quote] As for your first question, the broader context of the verse is Jesus' violation of social and religious norms of his day: eating with tax collectors and sinners, not fasting and picking grain on the Sabbath. I think Jesus is asserting that if you are trying to fit what he is doing into traditional structures and ways of thinking, you're going to have a mess on your hands--which arguably is exactly what happened. And as of the second, since God is omnipresent, it doesn't seem that he couldn't NOT be present in hell. So it seems that the only logical alternatives would be to either rethink one's idea of hell or one's idea of omnipresence? I'd say the former is more likely to be misunderstood. Lol, this sounds like one of those: 'Can God create a boulder so huge that he couldn't lift it?' 'quote I have never understood Mk 2:22.