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Utnapisjtim
What is magic and miracles to the meek and stupid, is but work and resolution for the skilled.
According to the Bible, Jesus was a carpenter. No wonder if you ask me, for with simple tools you can hold back the rain, keep out the cold and stop the wind. Carpentry lets you walk through walls, and lift up tons and tons, and with the skillful use of the tools of the trade, you can even defy gravity and lift yourself high above the ground. By exercising this craft, you can walk accross the sea, and cross wild rivers without even touching the water. It can make you fly through the air together with the birds and challenge dolphins in highspeed sea chases using storms for horses. Needless to say: Carpentry sure is magic!!!
EA006
reply to post by Utnapisjtim
So Jesus used his carpentry skills to feed the 5000, raise the dead, ascend to Heaven......
Nosce
Motors do not equate to carpentry. I really enjoyed the rest, however. Is carpentry not a form of creation in the physical? A very noble and enlightening path is the one that the carpenter traverses.
rickymouse
I enjoyed doing carpentry. I also enjoyed learning masonry work of all kinds.
Shiloh7
I find it hard to understand that anyone would beliee that the so-called Son of God was a carpenter as he spent most of his time being a Rabbi and teaching, if the Bible is to be believed.
Source: en.wikipedia.org...
In the Septuagint the Greek noun tektōn either stands for the generic Hebrew noun kharash (חרש), "craftsman," (as Isaiah 41:7) or tekton xylon (τέκτων ξύλον) as a word-for-word rendering of kharash-'etsim (חָרַשׁ עֵצִים) "craftsman of woods." (as Isaiah 44:13). The term kharash occurs 33 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible.
As an alternative to kharash, some authors have speculated that the Greek term corresponds to the Aramaic term naggara (Hebrew נגר naggar "craftsman") and in 1983 Geza Vermes (1983) suggested that given that the use of the term in the Talmud "carpenter" can signify a very learned man, the New Testament description of Joseph as a carpenter could indicate that he was considered wise and literate in the Torah. This theory was later popularized by A. N. Wilson to suggest that Jesus had some sort of elevated status.
Shiloh7
reply to post by Utnapisjtim
I have (at the back of my mind) that the word 'naggara' links to the term 'serpent' and Christ's words "Be ye wise as Serpents"