On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Aleisha Saba wrote:
>Jesus Christ was a carpenter - today if he would return he would not be
>acceptable to the people who wrote the garbage Vera Harper, who to me is
>a lewd and lascivitious woman from judging from her writings....Jesus
>was just a carpenter, literally and figuratively...
The thing is, being a carpenter in Jesus' time was a vastly different
profession, status-wise, than being a carpenter in modern times.
Wood was a precious commodity in that region at that time. A carpenter
in the middle-east 2000 years ago would be equivalent to a
goldsmith...perhaps not aristocracy, but definitely a skilled workman in
a precious substance, and as such would be considered a 'professional'
living an upper middle-class lifestyle, and not as a lowly blue-collar
lower-middle-class worker...
>' ..Peter was just a fisherman
Who apparently owned his own boat, and so was a private-businessman...
again, something more than a lowly, blue-collar lower-middle-class
workman....
> - Luke was an unlicensed physician
Documentation for this?
In fact, documentation concerning ANY 'licensing' of physicians in those
days?
>and was it - who was the tax collector........
Thomas, I believe...
>None Dare Call this Conspiracy? So where is the origin of all
>conspiracies? Why the bible, of course...
Oh, I suspect that one could uncover a conspiracy or two or three in
pre-biblical cultures such as ancient Egypt, Assyria, etc. In fact,
human nature being what it is, I suspect that conspiracies existed
amongst the ancient cave painters of the Stone Age...
June
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