3 ways Jesus read the bible.

[Drich]

Yeah, if you paid a scribe to write it for you. If you did it yourself it wouldn't be very expensive. Papyrus costs about $1/sheet (from Egypt) which is about 100x the cost of modern wood-pulp paper is less than 1c/sheet. The production would have been a little less than optimal with the lower technology in ancient times, so the price then may have been more (even $2/sheet etc). So it is much more expensive (about 100x more expensive), however it is still readily available to anyone at that price just not in the quantities you can get wood-pulp for.

Ah, no. not even close.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/261854?seq=3
as per the artical referenced above:
for the common man
One day's wage=one denarius
One Denarius=10 Asses
One sheet of papyrus=6 asses.

To Put it in terms you can understand. Let's say you make 10 dollars an hour, 100 dollars aday. Out of that $100 it takes 60 dollars to buy one sheet of paper. Then you have to pay a 'scribe' (per line) to write on it.

Now tell me some more about how affordable this was to the common man.

Before you do, know you need to either back up your numbers/your version or admit that you are wrong here. You opened your first post to me stating I could not support my claims. What is good for the goose is good for the gander

It's not generally worth paying a scribe just to do a $1 sheet of papyrus for you (although Paul did for his letters), but you'd use one if you were using parchment. In any case, the cost was not prohibitive and anyone who was literate could make copies (in part or whole) if they wanted to.

Paul used a scribe for everything, as it was said he had failing eyesight.

His father was a builder and builders were very well paid.

the word that describes Joseph's profession, describes both a skilled and unskilled laborer. Couple this with where Jesus grew up (Jesus grew up in Nazerath a military garrison town.) it is most likly that Joseph was probably poor. A great craftsman would do better in a larger city or a port town.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexi...5045&t=KJV

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The simple answer is that one can not be a Christian if he does not follow The teachings of Christ.

The Teachings of Christ™? Plenty of other genuinely believing and honest Christians believe wildly different things than you. Do you have the right Teachings of Christ™?

If they believe what they do based soley on the same bible then we are both good, no matter what we believe.