Alice Lane




Jesus was a carpenter. He was trained by his foster father, Joseph. Jesus understood how to build a good and strong home. He used his knowledge of building when speaking to his disciples. A common story from Jesus is about where to build a home – on sand or rock? The answer is rock. Jesus knew a good home would need a sound plan and a good foundation.

The homes Jesus may have helped construct two thousand years ago would be very different from the homes we find in the United States. Forgetting for a moment the modern amenities found in our homes. The homes of Nazareth would not have a contemporary house plan; instead, a home in Nazareth would have one to three rooms with dirt floors, lighting provided by candles, no running water, and without interior doors and or glass windows. Overall privacy was nonexistent.

During his time of public preaching Jesus did interact with the wealthy of Israel. He had a meeting with Zacheus, a tax collector. Zacheus invited the Lord to his home for dinner. As a carpenter, one can assume that Jesus would have appreciated the planning and structure of this tax collector’s home. The openness of Zacheus’ house would have had a similar feel to homes built today using Spanish house plans.

What about the ruling Romans? Jesus did know of their homes’ designs as well. Most likely Pontius Pilate and King Herod lived in stone and brick structures built using plans more complex than building a single story home using ranch house plans with two master bedrooms. The Romans had homes of unique luxury and complexity in the city of Jerusalem. The luxury of their homes is easy to understand, but the complexity came from the fact that their homes had to be defended from rebellious Israelites at times.

Dalip Singh Wasan asked:


Religions could not correct the conduct of the people in the world.

Sir,

If we have a look on the people who are in jails we shall find that people belonging to all the religions are available there and if we arrange them offence-wise, we shall find that all the people belonging to different religions are committing crimes, sins and misconducts and there is no religion people of which are not committing crimes. So we can that people in this world are religious people and they look religious, but whatever the religions had taught them, they are not following those principles in life and while dealing with others. The main guidelines of all the religions are the same, but since we have been divided, there is no chance of collecting all the people in one group. The people shall remain divided and more and more problems shall be there in the world and ultimately, there are chances that people shall be divided just on the basis of religions and they shall be establishing their separate countries. People will not be adopting the principles of their religions and they shall be forming just separate groups and this division shall continue because all efforts to unite the man have failed.

( Dalip Singh Wasan )Advocate,

101-C-Vikas Colony, Patiala-India-147003.