Dr Nicholas Thompson heightened the idea of how important nutrients was for humanity (community, loving thy neighbor as thy brother etc). In a certain way, what we feed ourselves today has become more about what we see on our feed and instead of what’s fed to our neighbour.
John 6: 47-58 “ I am the bread of life… This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die…“… unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.”
Considering the context of today’s culture, this could suggest that what we decide to fill ourselves with, decides the life we intend on living. Only through proper nutrients can we only expect to live a ‘proper’ life. Yet what we decide to feed ourselves in today’s world, has drastically shifted from what was once considered proper. Is the nutrients we’re feeding ourselves today progressed or regressed from where we were decades ago?
An issue I face here, is whether to take this text at face value; If, for interpretation, we believe its transitionable, I question whether we’re living proper lives. Do we live in the same struggles faced when this was more doctrine? Or has our environment progressed and our society not.
