2006-12-22 03:04:36 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
exactly mate, so why the hell did noah, take two bl..dy wasps, and two mosquitoes.....and where did he get the wood from to build that ark? not only that where the hell did he manage to get two penquins and polar bears from in technically a blumming desert?????
2006-12-22 03:13:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
First of all, he wasn't a carpenter....
If he really existed, it was his father that was a carpenter. Jesus himself, they say, could have been some kind of leader of a religious group or had no job at all, since he was probably just a crazy bum on the street screaming out nonsense like the other wannabe-messiahs.
Furthermore, you clearly have never seen Israel. It is not a desert at all. Its got more trees than you can imagine, and it was the same back then too. Why do you think they called it the Promised land and the land of milk and honey?
They've got olive trees, willows, eucalyptus, and much more.
So, I'm sorry, but your question smacks of severe ignorance.
2006-12-22 11:22:24 · answer #2 · answered by Carp Face 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Glaring evidence--there are lots of trees in that area...probably fewer now than before.
It is also supposed that you are applying current, broad definitions of 'carpenter' to a different, translated word. Joseph was the modern equivalent to a mason (he worked with stone). Jesus followed in his father's footsteps to build. Stone workers often had to know how to work with wood as well, since doors and roofs were sometimes made of wood, as were many tools, as well as travel items (i.e. silverware, plates/bowls, etc), just try to imagine how difficult it would be for the average person to lug around all of those stone items...to be a carpenter meant that one built things...
2006-12-22 14:55:35 · answer #3 · answered by Erin B 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have reported wood in bible but also there was stone and furniture to be made every thing was made by hand a carpenter did everything back then There were also more wood back then Not to mention a carpenter did just about all the building back then of any kind
2006-12-22 11:09:01 · answer #4 · answered by dianehaggart 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
All of the temples and other large buildings had roofs supported on wood frames. Even the smaller homes had wooden poles supporting the roofs. So wood was available.
The answer to your question can be found in the word 'hardly". All of that olive oil required trees. The fruit that was eaten required trees.
You don't have to live in a thick pine forest in order to build with wood. You don't have to live in the Saraha in order to get a bucket of sand.
2006-12-22 11:20:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
carpenter in aramaic doesn't just mean "wood worker" -- it means one who builds or constructs (get the metaphor?). there are plenty of trees in the levant region and north in lebanon. accessibility to wood and other building materials would not have been a problem
2006-12-22 11:41:06 · answer #6 · answered by Super G 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is evidence that Jesus and His earthly father, Joseph, worked mostly with stone and not with wood. I think by carpenter they just mean that they built things, not necessarily built things with WOOD.
2006-12-22 11:14:43 · answer #7 · answered by Kat 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It just proves what a good carpenter he was
2006-12-22 11:10:50 · answer #8 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Just go,s to show how good a carpenter he was then.
2006-12-22 11:07:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
'Hardly any trees'?
Have you ever been to the region?
Just going by the TV pictures again.
2006-12-22 11:59:45 · answer #10 · answered by kayamat_ka_din 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he was so good that he used up all most of the trees and that's why there aren't many there now.
2006-12-22 11:07:20 · answer #11 · answered by nettyone2003 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋