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I appreciate the secondary sources pointing specifically to Jesus as a carpenter. In Australia, I would translate Tekton as "tradie".

I will spell it out that basically all East Asian and Native American pre-Christian cultures had a time in their calendar to pay respects to the departed ancestors, sweep and clean tombs, offer libations to their spirits, package and re-inter cleaned bones etc etc. The Catholic Church typically...

I would endorse what Tall Timbers said and add two things. First, in my Church the 30+ men normally volunteer for the outdoor activities with action, excitement and adventure, and less so for (say) Sunday School. Secondly, those outdoor activities might well be multi-denominational, so like Tall...

I will pray for you.

When I said "In the earliest decades, there was only word of mouth" I was referring to the gap between the life of Jesus, and writing of the letters and the Gospels. When I said "Jesus was fine with that" I was referring to the lack of known recording of his sayings to writing. You are...

Hence the USA's Friendly and Hostile Alien Acts.

I am calling you out as dishonest in this statement #298. Please go back and read my post #272 again carefully. You are misrepresenting me.

Check out Daniel Chapter 13 and 14 in a Catholic Bible... RSV etc Not included in a Protestant Bible. Not all equal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon#Canons_of_various_Christian_traditions This article sums up the canon (Holy Scripture) of the different Christian traditions. Not equal...

Here is a link to an article about Martin Luther trying to chuck out the Book of Hebrews! https://arizonaseminarian.blogspot.com/2013/05/martin-luthers-understanidn-of.html

For Protestants, yes. But the other Christians have more Holy Scripture, that Protestants have found "less equal". Protestants have removed such books from the earliest bibles such as: The Epistle of Barnabas The Sheperd of Hermas The Book of Tobit The Book of Judith 1 Maccabees and shortened...

Consider this scripture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel_and_the_Dragon Its Scripture for Catholics and the Orthodox, but the Protestants cut it out. Why? Not Equal....

Are you saying that Jesus wrote something down???? And then consider your position on the Cannon. Do you accept all the scripture the Ethiopians do? If not, why not? Oh. My council say it has less merit.... So it's not equal????

OK. But then you have to ask what is your Cannon. Is it say the Ethiopian Coptic cannon, the Eastern Orthodox cannon, the Roman cannon, or the Western cannon. Those are the different cannons in use by the Church. Which one is the correct one????

So can Paul's word cancel the words of Jesus? I say of course not!

Jesus never quoted the NT.

No. The long history of the Church in establishing the cannon is proof of that. For 2-3 centuries, the Church had no cannon. Does that mean there was no word of God during that period? In the earliest decades, there was only word of mouth, and Jesus was fine simply using that. And notice the...

Yes. My authority hierarchy is 1: Commandments of the Lord. 2: Sayings of the Lord. 3: Other Scripture 4: Church Doctrines. 5: Consensus of the Elders. But to help reconcile I look at the context, and I do try to reconcile.

There is a theory that in archaic Greek (700BC) "horse of wood" meant a ship or a large boat, and this is how the "horse of wood" got under the modest arched gate of Troy, with warriors underneath its secured deck planking. But I like the joke.