The miracle of the loaves and fishes was intended to be a sign pointing us to a new paradigm. Jesus was constantly teaching people not to worry about scarcity, but to trust in God. Jesus wants us to see that we don’t live in a closed universe; reality is not zero-based. Instead God breaks into our world with the beauty of the infinite, to borrow a phrase from David Bentley Hart. The sign of the loaves and fishes was intended to show that with God all things are possible, and that the paradigm of scarcity is a satanic lie. When the Galilean crowd failed to get this message, but instead wanted
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