Star Wars Analogies for the Catholic Faith
I am a numbers nerd as may be evident by a lot of the stuff I post, but just to throw this out there ,maybe I can summarize a lot of my crazy shit here to save for an essay or essays later .
I heard one Catholic apologist say that you might at times be able to just ignore some numbers in the Bible, even the gospels, that they maybe don't have any significant allegorical meaning. Maybe this is true of some numbers, but I have dealt with a lot of things that are so theologically deep and correlated and which are very difficult to get away from within their uncanny connections and patterns and correlating theology.
And these numbers start out, I believe , quite small and yet if we were to find meaning in such, where else would we look except the sacraments, since the sacraments found one quarter of our entire faith, one of four great parts of the catechism.
If such connections could be made, using perfect Catholic doctrine to gel with it, and which entirely appropriately work with the context as much as possible...
Then, as you move into larger numbers which have similar structures or say numerals in the factoring, and there's continuing progression to develop the same meanings and theology, it powerfully strengthens that the numbers are highly related.
For now, we will leave these ideas to give us some things of a couple examples and leave the remainder issues to deal with in subsequent essays.
Now, for a couple of examples consider the following:
For example, five loaves, two fish, seven loaves , few fish.
There is an inescapable Catholic theology to this. Perfect analogy for the seven sacraments regarding Christian division.
Five loaves two fish. Heretics lose five sacraments, retain only two. Baptism and marriage. The other five can be called apostolic because they require the episcopate. Or bishops and priest s.
Two fish come from the sea, a place with chaos, in the sense where there is no foundation, only being tossed to and fro by every wave of doctrine, as it is written by St Paul. This is the lot of the heretical rebellion, myriads of waves tossing of sects backwards and forwards in this way and that way.
But loaves come from grain, which is grown in the Earth, which is a far better foundation than the sea, so that consequently, the Earth can symbolize the foundation of apostolic succession and traditions which are the foundation for acquiring the bishops and priests, who alone in one way or another can contact the other five sacraments.
Seven loaves a few fish is similar.
Here, the schismatics do have apostolic succession and therefore have all seven sacraments. Hence seven loaves. But they have a few small fish which would mean they have a quote on quote little bit of instable doctrine, without Peter, who is The Rock.
For further elaboration you could consider this:
Sacramental Ecclesiology in the Loaves and Fishes
https://www.hprweb.com/2016/09/sacramental-ecclesiology-in-the-loaves-and-fishes/
The following are being observed and will be dealt with in great detail later;
2 horns of false prophet
3 loaves at midnight
300 days wages cost of alabaster jar
30 pieces of silver
3000 souls at Pentecost
500 Days wages owed or 50 in parable to Pharisee
5 months of Scorpion torture and apocalypse
200 days wages that could never feed the multitudes
2000 swine drowned in the lake
20,000 troops that will surely overcome 10,000 in the parable
20,000 * 10,000 Warriors who will kill a third of mankind in Apocalypse
Now just look at the thing.
2 2 200 2,000 20,000 20,000 * 10,000
3 30 300 3,000
5, 50, 500, 5,000, 5 months = 5*3*10
These all may seem crazy and unrelated, but when you look at the theology and context of all this stuff it really works out quite well.
I'll try to write an article soon about this!