Today’s Scripture Reading is particularly important to Catholic Fundamentalists. It records the first time in The New Programming Log that Jesus demonstrates His ability to re-program:
” John, Chapter 2 1. On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2. Jesus and His disciples were also invited to the wedding. 3. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.” 4. (And) Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.” 5. His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever He tells you.” 6. Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. 7. Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim. 8. Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.” So they took it. 9. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom 10. and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.” 12. Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed His glory, and His disciples began to believe in Him.”
When we, admittedly simple-minded, Catholic Fundamentalists, consider that passage, we see that if there were an average of 25 gallons of water in each stone jar, that Jesus re-programmed 150 gallons of ordinary water molecules into 150 gallons of very fine wine, a liquid with a vastly more complicated molecular structure.
We also know that it takes an unusually fine wine to impress a person as superior as most headwaiters. Today, no wine that costs less than two hundred dollars a bottle would prompt such a hard-to-impress person experienced in every kind of wine snobbery.
There are five bottles of wine in each gallon, so we see that Jesus Christ gave the fortunate wedding couple 750 bottles of extraordinarily impressive wine that, in those dollars, would be worth a minimum of $150,000.00 in our money.
We also realize from the Passage that Jesus Christ began His mission on earth by obeying His Mother. He ended it in far less pleasant circumstances by obeying His Father. In both cases, there was an attempt to avoid doing so. In this case, when He told Mary, “My hour has not yet come.” Before the Crucifixion, when He asked to be spared, if it was possible.
By this, we see that He did have a human nature, because we, too, try to avoid hard things.
