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I understand that there is nothing in the New Testament about Jesus between about the age of 12 and 30. If this is true, what are the explanations, reasons, speculations as to this absence?
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Those years simply didn't matter. What mattered about Jesus, at least for his early followers was primarily his death/resurrection. That is what Paul basically talks about (primarily the resurrection idea). After that, the only other part of his life that was seen with importance was his teaching, and the moments that led up to his death. His early life simply was of no importance in the grand scheme of things.I understand that there is nothing in the New Testament about Jesus between about the age of 12 and 30. If this is true, what are the explanations, reasons, speculations as to this absence?
Those years simply didn't matter. What mattered about Jesus, at least for his early followers was primarily his death/resurrection. That is what Paul basically talks about (primarily the resurrection idea). After that, the only other part of his life that was seen with importance was his teaching, and the moments that led up to his death. His early life simply was of no importance in the grand scheme of things.
"He went to India" is one explanation.
"He stayed in his parents' house" is another.
It all depends on who you ask.
I like the India idea, but I don't think there's all that much reasonable support for it.
Guess can say with any degree of certainty but this is what wiki has:Jesus' Lost Years
Guess history hardly can change TRUTH which every one has to find himself!Several authors have claimed to have found proof of the existence of manuscripts in India and Tibet that support the belief that Christ was in India during this time in his life. Others cite legends in a number of places in the region that Jesus passed that way in ancient times.[1] The Jesus in India manuscript was first reported in modern times by Nicolas Notovitch (1894). Subsequently several other authors have written on the subject, including the religious leader Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (founder of Ahmadiyya movement) (1899), Levi H. Dowling (1908), Swami Abhedananda (1922),[2] Nicholas Roerich (1923–1928),[1] Mathilde Ludendorff (1930), and Elizabeth Clare Prophet (founder of Ascended Master Teachings New Age group) (1956).[3
I understand that there is nothing in the New Testament about Jesus between about the age of 12 and 30. If this is true, what are the explanations, reasons, speculations as to this absence?
I think he went to India. It makes sense to me at least. "I am one with God" is kind if hindu. The bread of life is kind of like prasada that is a hindu custom. I also understand that walking on water was a common buddhist superpower for enlightened ones then? (I mean, tales about this existed then in buddhism, though I´ve just heard, don´t take my word at all for it)
Quite honestly, it just makes sense to me.
Several authors have claimed to have found proof of the existence of manuscripts in India and Tibet that support the belief that Christ was in India during this time in his life. Others cite legends in a number of places in the region that Jesus passed that way in ancient times.[1] The Jesus in India manuscript was first reported in modern times by Nicolas Notovitch (1894). Subsequently several other authors have written on the subject, including the religious leader Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (founder of Ahmadiyya movement) (1899), Levi H. Dowling (1908), Swami Abhedananda (1922),[2] Nicholas Roerich (19231928),[1] Mathilde Ludendorff (1930), and Elizabeth Clare Prophet (founder of Ascended Master Teachings New Age group) (1956).
I understand that there is nothing in the New Testament about Jesus between about the age of 12 and 30. If this is true, what are the explanations, reasons, speculations as to this absence?
Is there no scholarly evidence for the missing years?
I appreciate the teaching is the crucial matter, I would just be curious as to what may have happened between childhood and adulthood that led to him teaching what he did. No events, meetings, travels or whatver. It seems curious the Bible is blank on all those years. Could Mary not have spoken about his life? Why no record of Jesus himself accounting for these years?
I'm not a religious scholar, but I play one on the internet.
RF would be so much better if it was mandatory for everyone to put this in every post.
I just want to address the idea of Jesus going to India. It really would not have been necessary. Primarily because the ideas that people see as being similar to Hinduism or Buddhism, also have a basis in various Jewish ideas at that time. Some of these ideas are also present in Greco-Roman ideas. Basically, he could have been exposed to such ideas right at home.
I personally like the idea of Jesus going to India as it is interesting and fills in a gap. But it simply is not supported and quite unlikely. Especially when such an explanation isn't needed.
It's also pretty well known that Buddhists were sent to all 'corners' of the Earth, which included the Mediterranean Sea, the trade routes made exchanging ideas very likely, and given the early dates of those 'formal' religions and ideas, there is no reason to also guess that 'India' came to 'Jesus', so to speak.
Would you agree with that thought?
I just want to address the idea of Jesus going to India. It really would not have been necessary. Primarily because the ideas that people see as being similar to Hinduism or Buddhism, also have a basis in various Jewish ideas at that time. Some of these ideas are also present in Greco-Roman ideas. Basically, he could have been exposed to such ideas right at home.
I personally like the idea of Jesus going to India as it is interesting and fills in a gap. But it simply is not supported and quite unlikely. Especially when such an explanation isn't needed.