Q1. Son of a Carpenter

[pjg]

As the oldest son He would have learned all aspects of the business: technical, social, and economic. He'd come to understand how to repair and make things, observe a broad range of people dealing with money and business, and how to resolve a variety of conflicts with others.

[Highohfaith]

Posted 10 October 2007 - 06:20 AM

Q1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter? What experiences would this have exposed him to?

Jesus would have learned a good and noble trade for the times. He would have learned to build furnisher for the wealthy in town, among other things. He would have learned to use his hands to build with such tools as hammers, nails and saws which were not available to all in those times. Joseph owned these tool and teaches his child, Jesus how to use them.

Jesus would have been exposed to the life of a laborer. A life as a builder,and would most likely be exposed to many people whom had more money then He, and His family.He would have been exposed to the ethic of hard work. And the satisfaction of building something from scratch with ones own hand. Carpentry was consider a good and stable trade in those anceint times..

[Ramon]

Q1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter? What experiences would this have exposed him to?

Answer:

1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter?

Jesus would learn:The art of Patience, Visions,and Remembrance.

As a carpenter you must know what your clients wants.There is no blueprint,plans,drawings,sections and elevations to follow.

You must listen patiently at the clients description,what He wants and you must have a very sharp memory recollection,and must be able to visualize and put into perfection what the clients require.

Jesus would also learn,the art of Perfection.

As a carpenter,you must be exact in your measurement,otherwise those parts will not fit in or compliment each other.

Jesus would also learn,the Art of economics,and Time management.

As a carpenter,you should be able to know the estimates,how much would it cost for a certain kinds of works,including the estimates of Materials,consumables,labor,and time.

Jesus would know,how to estimate time of completion for each kind of work,depending on the materials,labor,available,and how to value time management.

2 What experiences would this have exposed him to?

It exposed Jesus,in dealing with all kinds of people

[rosegarden]

Q1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter? What experiences would this have exposed him to?

1. a. He would have learned a skilled trade from Joseph, how to work with wood, make furniture, take care of his tools of the trade, build a good relationship with his earthly father Joseph and people, learning by the example of Joseph and how he treated his customers and being brought up in a Godly home and having respect for others.

b. Learn about people and their different wants and needs. Being exposed to people you can't please. Taking criticism and how to handle it with a good attitude. Experiencing doing a good job and pleasing Joseph.

[Trusting God]

Q1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter?

Jesus would have learned how to work with his hands, and He would have learned how to deal with people/customers.

What experiences would this have exposed him to?

This experience would have exposed him to people from various backgrounds and cultures, and He would have seen the value of earning/working for a living.

[Marloes]

Joseph taught Jesus how to start with rough material to end up with something usefull, and to exercise patience.

[thepearlturtle]

Q1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter?

As the son of a carpenter, Jesus would have learned how to build things, including the church, from the foundation up; He would have learned the art of relationships and fairness in business, as well as honour in completing what He sets out to do - how to keep commitments by watching His father, Joseph take on contracts and complete them. Jesus would have also learned the importance of attention to detail and how to meet individual needs, as His dad would have taken personal orders and filled them to the specification of the customer. He also would have learned that there is a certain way to do things, an order in which things have to be done in order for them to turn out properly, and that if one "cheats" on the correct way to do a job, then one does not end up with good quality. He would have learned a strong work ethic and honour and integrity, as well as mercy and compassion from being the Son of Joseph.

What experiences would this have exposed him to?

The experiences this would have exposed Him to would be accurate measurement, working with His hands and with tools, customer relations, assessing the worth of products, time management, the ability to maintain a schedule, the ability to manage a household, family relationships, building foundations in structures and relationships, organizational skills, and experience with co-operating with people through pricing and making deals and contracts.

[thepearlturtle]

Q2. (Matthew 1:19) What were Mary's options being pregnant and carrying a baby not her husband's? What kind of character did Joseph exhibit by deciding to divorce Mary quietly and leniently?

Mary did not have many options carrying a baby that was not her husband's. In a culture as strict as hers, she was open to being stoned for adultery and shunned, and her only real option for self-support was prostitution.

In deciding to divorce Mary quietly and leniently, Joseph showed that He was a godly, compassionate, and merciful man who was filled with the Holy Spirit of God his Father. He also displayed a lack of cruelty and Pharisaical judgment that many in his society were prone to possessing.

[SoiKosum]

Jesus would have learned the carpentry trade and probably tending to the garden and animals. In addition, HE would also have learned about negotiating and dealing with people. This would have exposed HIM to the various personalities and characters of different people - essentially the good, the bad and the ugly.

[CHRISTinUS]

As the Son of a carpenter, Jesus learned about the value of his father's skills and the social hierarchy of His parents. Jesus would be instructed to do as His parents, that is to rely on God's provisions and favours for all things, also in the world of business.

[Platoz]

Q1.

What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter?

He learned to use tools that were not commonly owned by others within the community (saws, axes, drills, chisels). Jesus would learn how to make items needed by the family to subsist (plows and yokes) or if one could afford it comfort or convenience items (doors, furniture, gates.

What experiences would this have exposed him to?

These experiences would have exposed him to the people within his community and how to deal and respectfully talk with them.

[bwithubob]

With Joseph as His earthly father Jesus would have learned scripture and the law, which from his teenage years on he would put to good use. As a carpenters son he would have seen his father making and fulfilling agreements, being patient and diligent. He would have discovered that woods are not all the same and have to be treated differently to bring out the best in them. He would have learnt the value of community life, how to give and receive gracefully

I don't know how conscious he was in His early years about why he was on earth. Did Mary and Joseph tell him of his virgin birth? I'm sure he was a model child but what did he say whenever he hit his thumb?

[Guitar Jim]

Q1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter?

Jesus would have learned everything his earthly father Joseph knew about carptentry. In addition he would have learned how to interact with people, how to look after them when they came in with a problem that needed the expertise of a carpenter to fix. Joseph would have taught him all that and more. If you're not nice to people they won't come back.

What experiences would this have exposed him to?

I suppose Jesus would have interacted with pretty much everyone in the town, from all social levels. He would have seen how rich people behave as opposed to how poor people behave. We don't know this for certain, but popular opinion is that Joseph died young, before Jesus began His ministry. So it's very likely that He took over from Joseph in the carpenter's shop. When He was rejected in Nazareth they said: Isn't he the carpenter?

Jesus would have worked for the whole community in that capacity.

[ragnew]

What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter? What experiences would this have exposed him to?

He would have learned carpentry: working with wood, building things, carving, design and skilled with His hands.

He knew how to work hard, exhaustion, pain, splinters, working with people (customers).

[Commissioned]

Q1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter? What experiences would this have exposed him to?

As the son of a carpenter Jesus would have learned to be a humble servant, to work with his hands, to survive in the family of carpenter. He would have been exposed to working with and serving people.

[gregman1069]

Jesus would have learned the advanced skills of carpentry that Jospeh knew. He would have probably learned lessons about honesty, humility, hard work and I'm willing to bet Joseph might have done a few jobs as charity.

[Lorraine Overstreet]

Q1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter?

What experiences would this have exposed him to?

a) Jesus would learn to use the tools of His trade and the value

of great work ethics. Dealing with happy and unhappy customers

would also prepare Jesus for learning about people amd how to

minister and teach them about God.

Jesus would be exposed to the public buyers, He would learn

to deal with different types of people. Jesus would learn from

Joseph the values of the traditional Jewish religious tradition in

love of family and God, and dealing with life in His community.

[tgandy]

Jesus would have learned many things to help him later in life as a carpenter.  He learned from Joseph to work with wood and make furniture, doors, beams, gates, plows and yokes.  He also learned how to negotiate business contracts and deal with people.  Jesus would have been exposed to all sorts of people and behaviors.  This exposure would have given Him a "leg up" on dealing with people later in live.  He would have been more patient.

[antonate]

As the Son of the Carpenter Jesus learnt all the skills of carpentry. He also learnt to be humble and sumbmisive to his father and learnt carpentry work taught by his father.  he learnt not only the skills of carpentry but also learnt from the work experience of his father and Jesus too imitated his father's behavoiur while at work

He was exposed to all the type of work of carpentry and also exposed to people of different kinds at the work place.

 

[jeannethebean]

humility,  (helping his father with menial tasks when growing up.)

 

hard work with his own hands and body. (sometime incomfortable positions and blisters even)

 

respect for his earthly father and the 'clients"

 

patience and the reward of not "cutting corners" in an endeavor.

 

diligence and a time line to finish a job once started, even when putting off personal needs

 

consideration of another families specific needs in watching Joseph listen and design for another.

 

joy of a completed work and in  helping with practical earthly service

 

 

 

[charisbarak]

Jesus would have learned the correct way to be precise in carpentry.  He would have learned how to work hard and please those he made things for.  Skills in dealing with people would probably have come into play here too.  He had to learn to keep a clean work space and how to prioritize.

[butch]

  JESUS would have learned that a man should work with his hands to support his family . He would learn that honesty and how truth in business is of great importance.

[haar]

Q1. What would Jesus have learned as the son of a carpenter? What experiences would this have exposed him to?
 

 

Joseph learnt carpentry work by watching his stand- in father and could have gained experience in business discussion and contracts.

[humblejon]

Jesus would have learned the value of hard work with expecting little reward, and pride in using one,s talents and ability that God gave us. Instead of living leisurely, Jesus would have learned to live subsistently and develop a dependent on God the Father.

Jesus would have been exposed to people from different social classes, how to relate and communicate with them, and how to serve not to be served. Jesus would become very familiar with the people and customs of the area around Galilee, which will benefit His ministry in this region.

[needmyzzz]

Besides the typical things Jesus would have learned, I think God the Father was preparing him for his future. As a carpenter, I believe a person needs the ability to see the potential...to see not just a block of wood, but to see what that block of wood could become. We see that influence in Jesus' work with his disciples, the people he came in contact with, and especially in our lives today. Simon, the vascillitating one was called Cephas or Peter-the rock-before he ever showed himself as that unmovable rock. The Samaritan woman was worth his time because he saw her potential despite her sinful life. While we were yet sinners He died for us...He saw our potential in the midst of our awful sin. He learned to see beyond the block of wood- beyond what he saw with his physical eyes. Thank God that He sees beyond the physical appearance, beyond what ordinary man sees. Thank God that Jesus had early training as a carpenter...we are more than blocks of wood in HIs eyes!