Was he a failure as a carpenter? Being the son of God, he should have been a master of unprecedented skill - but, there's no mention anywhere of it.
2006-12-28 23:58:30 · 14 answers · asked by Brendan G 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Computers had not be invented yet.
2006-12-29 00:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by Texan 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
He was a carpenter because His earthly father, Joseph, was a carpenter. Just ran in the family. But Jesus had a higher calling than that - He is the Son of God.
2006-12-29 00:30:40 · answer #2 · answered by jworks79604 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was the son of a carpenter, who passed on his skills to his son. I doubt His gifting was carpentry, but from His character, He must have worked hard to learn what He was taught, and always given His best shot. He was not sent to be an excellent carpenter, though, so whether he was good at it or not does not really matter. He did perfectly what He was sent to do.
2006-12-29 00:05:22 · answer #3 · answered by discombobulated girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Usually families kept the profession of the dads. The children would have been trained this way, as some do today. I'm sure Jesus would have been good, but remember that at around age 12 He was in the temple asking questions and teaching. And told his parents that He needed to be about His Fathers business. So Jesus was called to minister.
2006-12-29 00:03:17 · answer #4 · answered by RB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was a carpenter because that was the occupation he learned from his earthly father. It says nothing about anything he created out of wood because that holds no relevance to the message he was sent to deliver. It might behoove you to know that while it does not say he was a great carpenter, it does not say he did not do well at it either.
2006-12-29 00:02:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because it was Jewish custom that all male children (at least) learn the trade of their family. Since Joseph was a carpenter, it was only natural that Jesus would become one. He taught in His ministry several years later that we were to "obey the ordinances (laws and customs) of the land for the LORD'S sake." If He hadn't become a follower of Joseph's footsteps, how could we as Christians expect to become a follower of His?
2006-12-29 04:03:26 · answer #6 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning, he was to be a commoner just like the rest of us. His primary reason for coming was to be the Savior. He was a carpenter to follow in the foot steps of his dad, but that was not his reason for coming so it was not an important part of what you read about him. So it was not talked about much.
2006-12-29 00:03:55 · answer #7 · answered by capnemo 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
b/c his dad was a carpenter, and they did not have colleges to learn other professions.
2006-12-29 00:00:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A man's gotta eat.
2006-12-29 11:31:04 · answer #9 · answered by hum 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a Rabbi a great teacher,and a healer.
2006-12-29 00:17:24 · answer #10 · answered by gwhiz1052 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋