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It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, activist, author, international speaker, and theologian, Dr. Michael Brown, your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution.

Michael Brown is the director of the Coalition of Conscience and President of Fire School of Ministry.

Get into the line of fire now by calling 86634 Truth. That's 86634 Truth. Here again is Dr. Michael

Brown. Welcome, welcome to our Friday broadcast. You've got questions. We've got answers.

86634 Truth. Phone lines open for any question of any kind that relates in any way to the line of fire broadcast.

Many Fridays, when I look at our board to start the show, every line is filled, so you've got to compete to get through. We've got open lines right now,

so this is a perfect time to call. 866-348-7-884. Before we get to any calls, let me respond to something

that came up in a question yesterday. a caller was asking about a book,

The Forgotten Jesus by Rob Galati, and the question was raised, should tectone be translated

carpenter or perhaps builder with an emphasis on use of stone? And it's a question I've seen

before, but I never took the time to look into it a little bit more deeply.

So I pointed out that there's a reason that virtually all translations say Carpenter.

And what are the reasons for it?

The word itself can certainly just mean builder.

That is certainly true. No question about that. And in point of fact, there are scholarly debates about this, the argument being that

there was a lot of stone in what would then be called the land of Israel before it would have been

called Palestine. There was a lot of stone there,

but not a lot of wood. So what would a carpenter actually do? So why this almost universal

translation of carpenter? A couple of reasons. One, outside of the land of Israel, that's how the

word was primarily used.

So it was used more in that sense outside of the land of Israel.

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