What was the significance of Jesus having been a carpenter for the majority of his earthly life, in the following 2000 years after the death of Jesus?

I'm not Christian so maybe I'm missing something but it seems like it could have a pretty strong influence on how carpenters were seen

I know that in Catholicism you have saints which represent different types of professions but if you were a carpenter isn't Jesus himself your 'saint'?

>>14931246 (OP)

It's meant to contrast him with the opulence, elitism, and selfishness of other religions priesthoods and deities. By giving him a profession that is both humble and exists to serve others, it advertises that Jesus isn't like those lame old-fashioned deities who give their favor only to those rich enough bribe them with gold and sacrifices, and that Jesus is here to love and help you, rather than exist in a transactional relationship like the Pagan deities. Now of course Christianity has been around for 2000 years now which is plenty of time for big opulent priesthoods obsessed with gold and transactional worship to spring up, but pointing out that hypocrisy has been the rallying cry of practically every christian reform movement too.

TLDR; It's not so much that he was a carpenter specifically, it's that he was of menial hard working profession that provided a service to the community.

>>14931246 (OP)

The chosen translation from the Greek word “tecton” to mean “carpenter” is a bit of a mistranslation. In fact, “tecton” (in Mark) or “tekton” (in Mathew) is more aptly translated into a word describing a “contractor”; specifically, contracting as a “builder” or “handyman”. Not necessarily having anything to do with wood in most of the jobs he likely took.



He was basically a “Mr. Fix it”.

>He was basically a “Mr. Fix it”.



"Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up"



Bro was just asking for a job

Kek

That feels like a modern interpretation of the stories, are you sure that was the norm for 2000 years?

That makes me wonder, have different languages translated it differently? Did the Byzantines see Jesus as a Carpenter? What about the Russian orthodox church?

>>14931246 (OP)

>What was the significance of Jesus having been a carpenter for the majority of his earthly life

that there was actually a jew somewhere in history that did manual labor.

now, if only it actually happened, that would certainly be something.

It does make it kind of interesting -- builder of the universe. Makes more sense than carpenter.

>>14931246 (OP)

Jesus is the Holy Ghost writer. Never a carpenter. Authour of the New Testament.

>>14931246 (OP)

how come none of you know anything about jesus?

Whether handyman or carpenter doesn't change the intention of the metaphorical "ad campaign", in that he was portrayed as a personal, knowable god who is here to help us instead of a god who exists as a distant hierarchical authority figure not much different in how it lords over you and extracts taxes than your secular rulers. Again, he could have been pretty much any profession as long as it was one done by the common man and involved providing some kind communal good.

>how come none of you know anything about jesus?

how come you rush into every thread to defend the zombie mascot of a dying religion?
