25“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?Which I'm sure I took at face value when I heard that first. It seems reasonable at first blush. But I have vague memories, still from childhood, in the parking lot waiting for my sister to finish her ballet class, learning that neurotic stressed-out people can live longer. Perhaps from some radio talk show.
To move back to the present, some quick googling suggests that maybe Jesus didn't know what he was talking about.
http://time.com/4872545/neurotic-longer-life/
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/worry-more-live-longer-1668202.html
I know how Christians like to say "ah! But the Bible isn't meant to be a science text book!", but that misses the point. If we stretch credulity and take the gospels as accurately recording Jesus' direct speech -- a remarkable assumption given the space of time between the alleged events and when the gospels were written -- then simply put: why doesn't Jesus know better? This impinges on God's omniscience.
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