2006-12-10 13:44:37 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I suppose he would know about as much as any other fabricated character would know.....
2006-12-10 13:58:21 · answer #1 · answered by Mudcat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus knew enough to capture the imaginations of people everywhere he traveled. I don't know about his paying bills or anything...but I doubt also that he remained in one place for very long once he was old enough to maintain his own livelihood. That would make it difficult for "tax collectors" to find him while at the same time increasing his knowledge of "life" and the various cultures and people he came across. It's so far up in the air as to what the specific truths Jesus actually spoke are, that I can only rely on my own choices and the truths I choose to accept. I accept that Jesus had a lot of great things to say, and said those things to a lot of people. Lots of people were probably taken purely by his charisma. Still more fell in love with what he was saying without really understanding. Only the few were able to decipher between the lines of his parables in a way that yielded more than what was obvious. He was full of common sense(and I'm sure would have been more than capable of paying a bill), but I think he was thoughtful on levels beyond the everyday and full of insight on those levels as well.
But then, what do any of us really know? It seems that all of the most important stuff is what we feel to be true somewhere beneath all the reasoning and chattering of our minds.
2006-12-10 13:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by Justin R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We know little about Jesus' life as a boy and a young adult. It is assumed that he worked with his father, a carpenter. It is stated that he lived for 32 or 33 years, a lot of them with his parents in the village of Nazareth, so he probably knew alot about life in his village and the people living there. As to paying bills, he probably did for the food that he ate, the inns that he slept in, etc. when he was moving around the land spreading his gospel.
2006-12-10 13:54:34 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was of the royal family of David. His family owned the well into which an angel would come every so often and stir up the water, and the first one in would be healed. (sound familiar?) Although his family was rich, they gave all they had to the temple, so that at the time of this story, St Joseph, having managed The Blessed Virgin Mary's dowry, had already given this property over to the temple. They trusted in God implicitly for all things. They all worked hard, and had a competition going on between themselves as to who could be the kindest of all.
2006-12-10 13:59:55 · answer #4 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the first 30 years of his life, he lived as a normal man. He may not have had a cable bill to pay, but he still had normal life stuff to deal with. The core issues of his time haven't change today. We all still have to deal with peer pressure, get along with others, and provide for our families. As Solomon said, "There is nothing new under the sun".
2006-12-10 13:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by Sun and Sand 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to see you living without toothbrush and TV...
;-) I'm talking about 2000 years ago. People lived in completely different circumstances.
If you think paying bills is tough, go to some developing country and live there for 3 years and then think again...
2006-12-10 13:52:26 · answer #6 · answered by kostas the ancient priest 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He paid the temple tax. Of course He did it in a way that most of us today couldn't. :o)
Matthew 17
24After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, "Doesn't your teacher pay the temple tax?"
25"Yes, he does," he replied.
When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. "What do you think, Simon?" he asked. "From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own sons or from others?"
26"From others," Peter answered.
"Then the sons are exempt," Jesus said to him. 27"But so that we may not offend them, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours."
2006-12-10 14:00:59 · answer #7 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He payed the bill to pay for your sins!
Jesus is the truth, the way and the life!
"Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One"
(Shema Yisrael Adonai eloheinu Adonai ehad)
2006-12-10 13:50:05 · answer #8 · answered by St. Mike 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He never had to pay my apartment rent that's for sure! I mean the "sins of all mankind" are nothing compared to this outrageous rent! It's a nice place and all but Jesus would fold under the weight.
2006-12-10 13:49:43 · answer #9 · answered by chuckledust 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
jesus dident exsperience paying bills! he experienced the pain of paying bills!
2006-12-10 13:47:48 · answer #10 · answered by connie sue 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In regards to taxes, which are kind of like bills.
Mark 12:17
Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." And they were amazed at him.
2006-12-10 14:02:20 · answer #11 · answered by phoenix_slayer2001uk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋