A non-Christian understanding of the Christian Bible

[Carlos]

Would you please give some supporting evidence for this.

Not true. Possible but not guaranteed.

Again, no certainties. Have you ever heard of social mobility?

You are talking of a descendant of King David. come on.

No matter if this descendant lives in a desolate city at the end of the world plus five more blocks. If the family is near then he is not poor.

Just because his father was a contractor of a small business or a mere carpenter, his living will be better than many around.

In the 80's a reporter was curious about two employees of a company who had the same work assignments and salary. The reporter was curious because one of the employees was white and the other was black.

When it was time for vacations, the white employee used to take his family to Europe for two weeks.The black employee used to take their family to Disney or the beach around for vacations.

The white employee lived in a luxury house, even swimming pool in the backyard, three car garage and a huge lot all around. The black employee lived in a two floor house with small backyard and no parking inside but in the street.

The white employee drove a Mercedes Benz, the other a Toyota.

Both making a regular salary and the job was also of no great category.

But it happened that the white dude came from a rich, very rich family. When he graduated from college he received a sport car, when was his birthday 5 years later the gift was the Mercedes Benz. When he got married the gift was the house in a high residential area, and so forth.

So, all the arguments people make about an economically poor Jesus living in a poor town working as a carpenter are just peanuts when it was known by records that he was descendant from father side and mother side of King David.

No matter the exile, don't think that the royal family lost everything. The royal family enjoyed wealth and influence. They were no "famous" anymore like kings today who still enjoy wealth, influence and fame. But the descendants didn't live in poor condition.

For the people of Israel, a poor man can't be accepted as a prophet. As I say before, prophets were people with wealth. Abraham enjoyed wealth, same as Elijah and John the Baptist. For some reason the church loves to portrait Jesus as a economically poor dude, but that is not correct at all. Every friend he visited was rich.

A different thing is that Jesus decided to live with the poor, and that is a complete different scenario.

 

[Longfellow]

You are talking of a descendant of King David. come on.

No matter if this descendant lives in a desolate city at the end of the world plus five more blocks. If the family is near then he is not poor.

Just because his father was a contractor of a small business or a mere carpenter, his living will be better than many around.

In the 80's a reporter was curious about two employees of a company who had the same work assignments and salary. The reporter was curious because one of the employees was white and the other was black.

When it was time for vacations, the white employee used to take his family to Europe for two weeks.The black employee used to take their family to Disney or the beach around for vacations.

The white employee lived in a luxury house, even swimming pool in the backyard, three car garage and a huge lot all around. The black employee lived in a two floor house with small backyard and no parking inside but in the street.

The white employee drove a Mercedes Benz, the other a Toyota.

Both making a regular salary and the job was also of no great category.

But it happened that the white dude came from a rich, very rich family. When he graduated from college he received a sport car, when was his birthday 5 years later the gift was the Mercedes Benz. When he got married the gift was the house in a high residential area, and so forth.

So, all the arguments people make about an economically poor Jesus living in a poor town working as a carpenter are just peanuts when it was known by records that he was descendant from father side and mother side of King David.

No matter the exile, don't think that the royal family lost everything. The royal family enjoyed wealth and influence. They were no "famous" anymore like kings today who still enjoy wealth, influence and fame. But the descendants didn't live in poor condition.

For the people of Israel, a poor man can't be accepted as a prophet. As I say before, prophets were people with wealth. Abraham enjoyed wealth, same as Elijah and John the Baptist. For some reason the church loves to portrait Jesus as a economically poor dude, but that is not correct at all. Every friend he visited was rich.

A different thing is that Jesus decided to live with the poor, and that is a complete different scenario.

Besides Jesus being a descendent of a king, and working as a carpenter, are there any other reasons for thinking that he was wealthy?

 

[EricPH]

Besides Jesus being a descendent of a king, and working as a carpenter, are there any other reasons for thinking that he was wealthy?

Jesus had sufficient to live, he spent 40 days in the wilderness, fasting. It seems Jesus was not a home owner, but almost a Nomad.

When he sent the 72, he said, Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.