--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Very possible.  I've also read some commentaries that speculate that 
> the carpentry actually applied to Joseph, and was used by early writers 
> in order to give Jesus more of a down-to-earth aura, so to speak.  Then 
> again, as all educated Jewish men of the time were required to also 
> learn a trade in order to later support a family, it's possible that 
> carpentry was what he learned, albeit at a higher level than most.
> 
> Whatever, it is still not easy to imagine him actually pounding nails, 
> at least on a regular basis, and no evidence that I can recall from my 
> few readings of the Gospels that he ever did so.
> 
> Sal

You're really uncomfortable with the notion of your local car-mechanic
kicking your sad mood-making upper-class ass in the arena of spiritual
endevour, aren't you..?






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