More Than a Carpenter

Wow, could not listen to this book for longer than 30mins...it is basing much of "facts" on the Bible. I take the Bible for what it is, a popular account of stories, beliefs, and recollections of events that happened more than 2000 years ago. It is written by humans and translated many times. Is there useful information in the Bible, sure, there is also a lot of fantasy and symbolism that (depending on one's beliefs) are considered "factual" or "absolutely correct." Unfortunately, anyone who believes that the Bible is "fact" will immediately say this book is amazing and "true" which just props up their beliefs. Turns out "truth" is defined as "that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality" and "a fact or belief that is accepted as true". The very problem is the definition of truth...it uses the words "acceptance" and "accordance" which implies "not universal in nature" or "indisputable." Faith is not fact, it is the belief in something (whether factual or not.) Just because you have faith does not make it true for others, faith is personal. I'm not disputing whether Jesus existed or not, I just don't believe that the Bible should be the definitive litmus test for the claims...it is one source. I am spiritual, but I am cautious about relying on one book (The Bible) for all religious meaning. Wars have been fought and children have been exploited in "the name of god"...we should always seek to question why we believe in anything, we may never had a choice in what we believe.

I recommend everyone take an hour and listen to this narrative. It is a logical and poignant reasoning of the reality of Jesus.

This book was powerful. It's part testimony, part research. The truth that the author found after researching the Bible, its claims, and its authenticity was laid out really well in this book. The testimony of the change it made in the authors life was powerful. I really enjoyed this one and got some good life notes out of it.

Found important mistakes that are not present in the actual book thus audio book need to be corrected

Loved it. Would recommend to anyone interested in the historical background and evidence for Jesus Chris

So I was searching in Audible for a book on carpentry and I saw this book at the top of the list it was a little misleading because I really did think it was going to talk about carpentry but as I got deeper into it I realized it was a book about Jesus Christ now having read the Bible I do understand many things about Jesus Christ so this was very helpful in my study of Jesus. I only took away one star because I was hoping at some point it would tie in carpentry with the trials of Jesus but it did not, other than that it was a wonderful book!

good narration and decent arguments but doesn't address concerns that the gospels were altered afterwards to conform with the prophecies or that much of the story may have been fabricated afterwards. I feel he uses an unsound premise to build off on, so his following arguments are irrelevant because it's possibly true yet possibly not.

Fast and easy book but we'll put together, I recommend for everyone not just believers.

Much wisdom in such a short book! Worth the read and it's less than $2, but worth more than money can buy!

Chapter(sections) weren't accurate for example chapter six is listed as chapter seven in the audiobook.
Skipped several pages in chapter six including half of pag 64, 65, 66, 67, and half of 68.

I have loved the book so far but I didn't start using the audio version until chapter six. While reading it I noticed he skipped several pages that included some really good stuff. I don't know if this happens again later on but nonetheless it is very annoying and I would greatly appreciate if it could be fixed. Other than that the book is great and I would recommend to anyone.