Posted on 06/07/2021 8:25:25 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Since Jews put a premium on learning scripture, Jewish fathers were admonished to begin teaching their sons the Torah as soon as the boys could talk. Then at five years old they studied scripture with a rabbi; at ten years they studied the Mishnah, at thirteen the commandments, and at fifteen the Talmud. In all likelihood this is the path Jesus followed.
Unlikely. The education of a Jewish boy was the responsibility of the father, who was supposed to start teaching a boy the Torah as soon as the child could talk. If the father died, then a close male relative, such as an uncle, assumed the responsibility. Mary might have kibitzed but did not teach.
Protestants don’t hate Mary. They revere her as the mother of Jesus but don’t assign an unscriptural and supernatural importance to her.
I don’t feel sure about that picture. Look at the scroll trailing off on the floor like that. I don’t think the Torah, in a first century observant Jewish household, would have been treated like a roll of paper towels.
More likely the revered Scriptures would have been kept at the local synagogue and carefully stored by the attendant until they were taken out for reading.
I imagine Joseph would have been involved in teaching the Christ child the holy writings at the local synagogue.
I posted what I did to counter the claims of Jesus’ “lost years”, where some “scholars” claim that He traveled East to study the wisdom in other lands. Bogus! He had all the Wisdom and Knowledge, having been present with the Father on the very Day of Creation. He was there when the Big Bang took place.
That’s hilarious. Omniscient Jesus/God went somewhere to study wisdom.
Well that’s what some “scholars” claim. Those who try to deny His Divinity.
Hate ?
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
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