Engaging in research makes me wonder how often history—passed down by word of mouth from one generation to the next as factual—actually bends the truth in similar fashion to the party game of telephone in which misunderstandings, passed from one person to the next around the table, result in good natured laughter. On the other hand, when it comes to recording historical facts, passing misunderstandings from generation to generation is no laughing matter. For example, below you'll find an on line article, illustrating how often we assume that whatever has been passed down is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth—from God’s mouth to our ears ...
Quoting (The Christian Post.com) April 29, 2017
Quoting (The Christian Post.com) April 29, 2017
Was Jesus a Carpenter or a Stonemason?
“For centuries, Western Christians have associated Joseph, Jesus's earthly father, with carpentry. For many of us, we read children's Bibles that show him teaching young Jesus how to saw, hammer nails, and create wooden joints. But was this the type of work that Jesus was engaged in? Is this what he learned from his earthly father, Joseph? We have perhaps been misled over the years by faulty cultural assumptions, overshadowing much of what Jesus said, did, and fulfilled in his life and ministry.
The central misunderstanding comes from a translation issue that occurred centuries ago. It focuses on a verse in Matthew 13. After Jesus teaches in his hometown synagogue, the crowd asks, "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary?"(v. 55). The Greek word tekton, translated here as carpenter, is more accurately rendered as craftsman or builder. At face value, without taking the Jewish cultural background into consideration, a carpenter could fit that description. However, a quick survey of northern Israel's landscape reveals that the job of carpenter may not be the best fit for that Greek word.
The majority of homes in Israel, as noted by Hebraic scholar James W. Fleming, are constructed with stone. Fleming explains: "Jesus and Joseph would have formed and made nine out of ten projects from stone either by chiseling or carving the stone or stacking building blocks." (i) Does this mean that Jesus never worked with wood? While we can't say conclusively one way or the other, the fact is that a man attempting to make a living as a wood carpenter would have had a challenging time because trees were, and still are, relatively scarce in that region.”
Here's a fact proves as true as true can be:
No matter how much food for thought I absorb about
World wide need to engage in peaceable (mutually respectful)
Discussions concerning differing beliefs
The proactive nature of my mind always hungers for more, and
As it's 3:45PM, and I've not yet had lunch, it's off to the kitchen I go—
Here's a fact proves as true as true can be:
No matter how much food for thought I absorb about
World wide need to engage in peaceable (mutually respectful)
Discussions concerning differing beliefs
The proactive nature of my mind always hungers for more, and
As it's 3:45PM, and I've not yet had lunch, it's off to the kitchen I go—
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