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<blockquote data-quote="Eutychus" data-source="post: 26674" data-attributes="member: 287"><p><strong>Re: Ask away...</strong></p><p></p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"WTF\")</div></p><p></p><p>I would really appreciate some references on this line of thought. A monotheistic Jew, the oldest son of the family, leaves a culture that has for hundreds of years identified itself by its special relationship with Yahweh to study with monks who have little or no appreciation of this history. I find it hard to swallow sans supportive evidence.</p><p></p><p>Jesus' foster father, Joseph, was a carpenter. Jesus would, by tradition, take up his father's trade. When Joseph died, it would fall to Jesus as the eldest son to take care of the family. Jesus had younger siblings, some of whom were female. He would be unable to leave this family obligation and set out on his own mission in life until his sisters were safely married off. Nazareth was not an affluent community. Jesus probably just got by, caring for his family. In this process he likely relied upon Yahweh to provide for the family in various ways. A need presents itself, he prays about the need, and someone comes to his shop asking him to repair something, the cost of doing such meeting the need of his family. Do you really think that someone who had to rely on Yahweh as he must have and who probably learned first hand how faith operates and what it can accomplish would chuck it all in and go after an unfamiliar philosophy that might or might not be as trustworthy? Also, as I said earlier, Nazareth was not affluent. There was no such thing as frequent flyer miles back then and India wasn't just a hop, skip and jump across the Red Sea. The thought of Jesus, the rabbi, taking a sabbatical to follow monks who didn't even know the Hebrew's God, just seems a little far fetched.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eutychus, post: 26674, member: 287"] [b]Re: Ask away...[/b] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"WTF\")</div> I would really appreciate some references on this line of thought. A monotheistic Jew, the oldest son of the family, leaves a culture that has for hundreds of years identified itself by its special relationship with Yahweh to study with monks who have little or no appreciation of this history. I find it hard to swallow sans supportive evidence. Jesus' foster father, Joseph, was a carpenter. Jesus would, by tradition, take up his father's trade. When Joseph died, it would fall to Jesus as the eldest son to take care of the family. Jesus had younger siblings, some of whom were female. He would be unable to leave this family obligation and set out on his own mission in life until his sisters were safely married off. Nazareth was not an affluent community. Jesus probably just got by, caring for his family. In this process he likely relied upon Yahweh to provide for the family in various ways. A need presents itself, he prays about the need, and someone comes to his shop asking him to repair something, the cost of doing such meeting the need of his family. Do you really think that someone who had to rely on Yahweh as he must have and who probably learned first hand how faith operates and what it can accomplish would chuck it all in and go after an unfamiliar philosophy that might or might not be as trustworthy? Also, as I said earlier, Nazareth was not affluent. There was no such thing as frequent flyer miles back then and India wasn't just a hop, skip and jump across the Red Sea. The thought of Jesus, the rabbi, taking a sabbatical to follow monks who didn't even know the Hebrew's God, just seems a little far fetched. [/QUOTE]
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