Talk:Salt and light

Salting the earth
Has any parallel been drawn between the salt of the earth metaphor and the salting the earth (alleged) practice? Tempshill 22:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Dividers
The article looked a little strange, so I changed the headings so that they had dividers. It seems to better fit wiki standards now. I also added a header to the first part so that it would be easier to navigate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.171.22.15 (talk) 01:05, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Translations
Any opposition to adding a different translation (I believe the current is KJV)? Probably a more recent translation would be better bdodson (talk) 06:07, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Preservative
There is an unsourced statement that says: "The most important use of salt was as a preservative ..."

Apart from the sourcing issue this is untrue and essentially somebody's WP:OR. Historically salt's most important use in all societies was survival. As some societies developed surpluses they used it for other things but it has only been very recently that salt because so widely available as to be completely taken for granted. --Mcorazao (talk) 21:04, 13 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I've reworded to hopefully be more correct. Sources are still needed. -- Radagast 3 (talk) 11:18, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you mean by "[...]salt's most important use [...] was survival"?  The wikipage for Slat clearly impies that the Salt was mostly USED for preserving food.
 * (That you need salt in your diet is not use, salt will usually be consumed as part of your diet)
 * And what do you mean "has only been very recently that salt [became] so widely available" ? Again, form the Salt page, we have sources putting the harvesting of slat back to 6000 BC, so this would make it very plausible that Salt became very common (if not abundant) as soon as humanity started to become settled.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt
 * And yes, there are places where people did not have ready access to salt. They generally tended to have no idea how to supllement their food. But that doesn't disprove the general use of salt as preservative, and that this was the main USE for salt. 77.4.74.98 (talk) 10:19, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Salt of Earth - another interpretation
I read in one book that at the time, there was no scientific notion that a substance is inseparable from its qualities - people believed salt can lose its saltiness, and when they saw, for example, salt like crystals in salt mines which didn't taste like salt (gypsum, for example), that's what they thought them to be. Omeganian (talk) 16:05, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Lamp under a bushel

 * Oppose merge Lamp under a bushel is a parable, listed by itself in books on parables, but salt and light is a metaphore and separate item, separate teachings. History2007 (talk) 07:26, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose per History2007. -- Radagast 3 (talk) 12:28, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Also worth noting is that in Matthew this discourse continues into the Lamp under a bushel, but elsewhere the Lamp under a bushel parable stands alone. -- Radagast 3 (talk) 02:04, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Since nobody has supported the merge, I'm removing the tags. -- Radagast 3 (talk) 04:25, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Meaning
The meaning of the metaphor is not adequately explained. Its origin is merely cited, but the article assumes that the reader is a well-read christian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.132.217.46 (talk) 12:59, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Discarded information
This was a much longer article up to this revision, after which most of it was taken down as original research. Reading that, there were actually several sources cited, and it might be interesting to revisit that and bring the useful parts back. --Solstag (talk) 06:17, 27 January 2013 (UTC)