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Great question from another site, Jesus was a carpenter what did he build ?

Axlefoley 6 Nov 22
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Well, since Jesus is a fictitious character anyway, we may as well have fun with it. He built chairs with a place to put whoopy cushions. 😛

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A multi billion dollars bussiness???

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He made the crucifix

Yes!

A capital punishment appliance used by the Roman Empire and the ottoman Turks against the Armenians in the first of the last century when they the Turk's crucified over 200,000 naked Armenian women and girls, hence a one of the capital punishment tools used by Islam!!!

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claimed he was going to build a church on a rock i seem to recall.

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"Jesus built a ship to sing a song to ." -Graham Parsons

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Funny

bobwjr Level 10 Nov 22, 2019
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Wooden crosses

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The shopsmith all-in-one work center?

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Skateboards?

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He was handy with crosses, I heard

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Beats me...

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I don't think he ever built anything...

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Mistrust.

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Moot question, like asking about Santa Claus north pole toy factory details.

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Tge Greek word tekton simply translates to "builder." So, Yeshua might have been a stone mason or any occupations associated with "builder." Interesting.

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Yes, he built the Arc during those thirty tears he spent in northern India!

LOL!!!

My take on Jesus and all the Jesus who live and have lived throughout Latin America!

After all they are almost all certainly Christians!!

Welcome to the world of joe the plumber and Jesus the coffee farmer and jack of all trades!!!

Wrong time line

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A strange paradox here. We have a man who is said to be a carpenter. Apparently this is the business of the father, Joseph, and it is passed on to the son. My first thoughts are how much wood was in Israel and how many things there were built out of wood 2000 years ago. Did people have wooden houses there at the time? Perhaps this word "carpenter" really means something else. Let us suppose that the translated word means "builder" or "laborer." This seems to fit as little better.

The next thing is that he was a fisherman and his followers were mostly fishermen, and we have those gospel-verse times where they are all on fishing boats in the sea complete with scary storms and men afraid enough to where Jesus calmed the waters. (That sea of Galilee was a bitch that way.) Was this is the book just so Jesus could make his followers "fishers of men" and later walk on water? Who knows. As usual, we have contradictory stories.

Beware! Storms on the sea of Galilee are coming in tonight so strongly that nighttime fishermen will be scared and also people on land in close proximity. The good news is that it is not a hurricane.

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He rebuilt Rome in 3 days!

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I think the title "carpenter" is a metaphor. The description of a carpenter is someone that shapes wood and builds items from wood. If in this metaphor man is the wood, then Jesus would shape man the way he wants, then build anything out of man. A bigoted, Superior, rich, liar just like him. All man has to do is spread and sell "his word" to make a good living.

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If he existed, which is doubtful, and if furthermore he was a carpenter, he might have built chairs, or arks (not the seagoing kind but the kind found in synagogues) or just about anything, but unless he was really famous AS a carpenter, still assuming he existed, how would we know what chairs or arks, if THEY still existed, were his? Does a carpenter sign every chair, and if so, why would he sign with the name the Greeks gave him, since he is not purported to be Greek? So it is an impossible question.

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Oo, mate. Should-a asked me 'bout that last week... can't fit you in now 'till June... could have done you a table for 13 no problem for next week otherwise. Tell you what - I've got a table for 6, but I could cut it down the middle longways, make a nice long one, a bit thin mind, and you could all squeeze down one side?

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He wasn't a carpenter. Historians like Riza Azlan and Richard Carrier state that the preacher Joshua, later turned into Jesus, was an illiterate and unskilled labourer -- that's if he existed, which is doubtful. "Carpenter' sounds cooler, so that's the translation they liked. Razlan speculates that this preacher worked on building sites in some nearby city in teenage years as he had to do something. Funny, imagine he had been Son of God. His workmates on the sites sure would have been surprised. That dude over there mixing the cement created the Universe! Right.

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