I would like some new maple or hickory cabinets with brushed pewter knobs and pulls in the living room above the davenport.
2007-03-23 09:12:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
John sounds nice...
2007-03-23 09:48:59 · answer #1 · answered by ﺸÐïåMóñdÐôññåﺸ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people think that Jesus was a carpenter. The Gospel of Mark says: “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary…” (6:3), although Matthew has a slightly different wording: “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary?” (13:55) [1] I don't think Jesus, even if He were a carpenter made cabinets because cabinets weren't know in Palestine in those days!
No it is highly unlikely that Jesus was a carpenter. If we examine the 48 parables that occur in the Gospels, not a single one draws upon the experiences of a carpenter. Three of them refer to buildings (e.g., house divided, foolish builder, unfinished tower), and these may offer support for the idea that Jesus’ father was a builder, not a carpenter. [2]
It's also possible that Jesus and his family belonged to a group known as The Sleb, a still existing band of Bedouins, found mostly in Syria, whose ancestry and customs include not only the Essenes but claim to go all the way back to Cain. This would explain the propensity to travel, which Robert Eisler (1931) has argued (in The Messiah Jesus and John the Baptist), claiming that Jesus’ family plied their trade in the timeless manner of the Sleb. Interestingly, the Sleb were known to be accomplished in carpentry, masonry, building and a whole host of skills, and they fit well within the definitions of tekton, the name used to describe Joseph’s occupation. They were also known to be healers (Sinclair, 1952).
2007-03-23 16:44:57 · answer #2 · answered by Old Truth Traveler 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
⪠If I were a cabinet maker,
And you were a lady
Would you marry me anyway
Would you have my baby? âª
Mary Magdalene must have said "Yes".
Jesus didn't know a great deal about living rooms and davenports, but he certainly should have been able to take some hickory & maple and make you some pretty cabinets. I always wanted my cabinets made out of fig trees.
2007-03-23 16:24:41 · answer #3 · answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you'll recall, he switch to preaching . Jesus was really good with dimensions but tools were his downfall. Cut a decent mitred corner or plane a board? Not his specialty. But he was always spot on with the measurements. Some of the guys in the shop nicknamed him "the Board Stretcher", because he could always get an extra piece out of any leftover scrap lumber. They could never figure out how he did it.
2007-03-23 16:31:52 · answer #4 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He isn't going to make you anything right now. But from many books I have read from biblical scholars, He took after Joseph and Joseph and He were probably more of masonarys instead of carpenters. There wouldn't have been the trees there to make cabinets and tables and shelves and such. They would have made clay bricks and wells and such.
2007-03-23 16:22:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not just a cabinet maker, he was a carpenter. I'm sure he could make you the best cabinets ever, though!
2007-03-23 16:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He had to quit that when He took up the post of Savior of Mankind...
try HomeDepot, though, i'm sure they can help you...
2007-03-23 16:31:35 · answer #7 · answered by aa.gabriel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a carpenter--and probably made many crosses for the Romans.
2007-03-23 16:18:07 · answer #8 · answered by angel_light 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What a perverted sense of humour!
2007-03-23 16:18:13 · answer #9 · answered by Malcolm 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
carpenter! he could of made cabinets.
2007-03-23 16:20:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋