Posted on 01/28/2009 9:15:16 PM PST by WhatNot
"Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him
(Mark 6:3).
In 2005, a movie entitled The Passion was released that chronicled the last twenty-four hours of Jesus' life. During a flashback scene, Jesus was seen in his carpentry shop making a table with his mother standing by playfully observing. It was a very beautiful scene that reminds us that Jesus was a carpenter for most of his adult life. In fact, Jesus was more qualified to be a carpenter than the Son of God in the eyes of the people because that is the history they knew of this young working class man from Nazareth.
Consider that in the New Testament of Jesus' 132 public appearances, 122 were in the marketplace. Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace context. Of 40 miracles in the book of Acts, 39 were in the marketplace. Jesus spent his adult life as a carpenter until age 30 before he went into a preaching ministry in the workplace. And, 54% of Jesus' reported teaching ministry arose out of issues posed by others in the scope of daily life experience. Saint Bonaventure said, "His doing nothing 'wonderful' (his first 30-years) was in itself a kind of wonder."
Work, in its different forms, is mentioned more than 800 times in the Bible -more than all the words used to express worship, music, praise, and singing combined. God created work and He is a worker. "My father is always at his work to this very day, and I too, am working" (John 5:17).
So, the next time you are tempted to minimize your daily work as anything less than a holy calling, remember that Jesus was a workplace minister as a carpenter in his community. He has called you and I to reflect His glory in our work.
“Consider that in the New Testament of Jesus’ 132 public appearances, 122 were in the marketplace. Of 52 parables Jesus told, 45 had a workplace context. Of 40 miracles in the book of Acts, 39 were in the marketplace. Jesus spent his adult life as a carpenter until age 30 before he went into a preaching ministry in the workplace. And, 54% of Jesus’ reported teaching ministry arose out of issues posed by others in the scope of daily life experience.”
Why is that so remarkable? Jesus had to go where the people were. If you are out looking for lost sheep, you don’t stay home with the gate closed.
The author apparently can’t imagine what a few people can to to company unity and productivity by trying to ‘share their faith’ with other workers during business hours. This went on in a company that I (formerly) worked for. The entire thing was divisive and offensive. Good way to drive off customers, too. It used to be that religion, sex, and politics were off limits during work hours, for good reason.
I want to be very careful.
Jeebus Xrist never existed. Outside the bibull, there is no records of him existing.
So why so you believe in a hoax?
Do you believe that the Bible was simply written by man?
are you talking Old Testament or New Testament?
The entire Canon of Scripture.
well the Canon of Scripture is a lot of ground to cover in one lifetime.
I don’t mean a man, I mean man in general.
Same reason you do not. It is called FREEDOM and FREE people believe Christ.
Work indeed is mentioned right from the beginning:
Gen 2:4 "These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground."
Gen 2:8 "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed...15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."
After the fall of course the work got hard to do, but none the less we were made to work.
Gen 3:17 "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
Gen 3:23 "Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken."
We thank you, Lord, for work.
Josephus' account was a later forgery. It proves nothing.
Of course. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise.
The men who wrote the Bible, would you consider them to be good men or bad men?
Fallible men, intending to deceive.
If you are talking about jesus, I think you are on the right track.
so if they intended to deceive, that would make them bad men, in your opinion?
Be gone troll, the things being discussed are beyond you.
God is dead therefore I am god and do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law, right “Buddha”?
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