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We've all heard the Bible phrase, "Ye are the salt of the earth...etc" in Matthew 5:13. People have many opinions of what this means. But what's the REAL meaning? This link goes over all the variations:


http://www.biblepages.net/fo14.htm


I guess everyone can take their own pick about the correct definition, if there is one. My own opinion is that our "salt" should not be mixed with contaminants from the world. The wisdom we learn from the bible should be spread to others (salted). But, how can we teach with "wisdom" (salt) if we remain "children" and must still be taught by others?

There is a "test" of Bible knowledge within this link, and I'd almost BET (if I were a gambling person, which I am not) that it is a rare "Christian" who can understand the questions, let alone ANSWER them.

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This is a "sweet" story taken from some tales by Sidney Oldell Addy:


Sugar and Salt
England

Once upon a time there was a father who had two daughters. Calling them to him one day he said to them, "What is the sweetest thing in the world?"

"Sugar," said the elder daughter.

"Salt," said the younger.

The father was angry at this last answer. But his daughter stuck to it, and so her father said to her, "I won't keep a daughter in my house who believes that salt is the sweetest thing in the world. You must leave me and seek another home."

So the younger daughter left her father's house and wandered here and there, suffering much hunger and cold, until t last she was befriended by the fairies. As she walked through a wood one day listening to the songs of the birds, a prince came hunting for deer, and when he saw her he fell in love with her at once. She agreed to marry him, and a great banquet was prepared at the prince's house. To this banquet the bride's father was bidden; but he did not know that the bride was his own daughter.

Now, at the wish of the bride, all the dishes were prepared without salt. So when the guests began to eat they found that the food was tasteless. At last one of them said, "There is no salt in the meat!"

And then all the guests said, "There is no salt in the meat!"

And the bride's father spoke the loudest of all. "Truly, salt is the sweetest thing in the world," he said, "though, for saying so, I sent my own daughter away from my house, and shall never see her face again."
Then the bride made herself known to her father, and fell on his neck and kissed him.

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Arlene