Salt
Food Chain Radio Show #1164
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
The Salt of the World
Guest: Mischa Popoff, Author, Is it Organic
I recently received a ping from a noted critic of industrial organic agriculture pointing to what he claimed to be a very interesting disparity of how the Bible presents salt…
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Salt – Life or Death? Guest: Mischa Popoff, Author, Is it Organic
Always on the lookout for interesting disparities, I replied, “I’m listening!”
He then pointed to the Old Testament Story of Lott’s wife, as told in the 19th Chapter of Genesis, which reads as follows:
“The sun had risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah sulfur and fire from the Lord out of heaven. And he overthrew those cities, and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and what grew on the ground. But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.”
“In this Old Testament story,” the critic said, “salt is death! Now turn to the New Testament book of Matthew, in the Fifth Chapter you’ll read…
‘“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
Clearly, the critic continued, Jesus was talking about salt as being alive. Therefore, Jesus must have had a different kind of salt in mind.
With this disparity in mind, we pause to ask that critic, Mischa Popoff, Author of Is It Organic?…
Leave a comment below: Is salt life, death or both?
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