Where was Jesus during his Childhood?

Question

Where did he live, what did he do, how did he find out he was God's son?

Answer 1

Newark, New Jersey

Answer 2

The gospels provide enough information to build the religion. It is not extended to encompass th life of Jesus.

In all the religious tomes I've ever reviewed, I've never seen this issue answered well. Tom Paine's 'Age of Reason' provides a decent answer:

"Had it been the object or the intention of Jesus Christ to establish a new religion, he would undoubtedly have written the system himself, or procured it to be written in his life time. But there is no publication extant authenticated with his name. All the books called the New Testament were written after his death. He was a Jew by birth and by profession; and he was the son of God in like manner that every other person is; for the Creator is the Father of All.

The first four books, called Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, do not give a history of the life of Jesus Christ, but only detached anecdotes of him. It appears from these books, that the whole time of his being a preacher was not more than eighteen months; and it was only during this short time that those men became acquainted with him. They make mention of him at the age of twelve years, sitting, they say, among the Jewish doctors, asking and answering them questions. As this was several years before their acquaintance with him began, it is most probable they had this anecdote from his parents. From this time there is no account of him for about sixteen years. Where he lived, or how he employed himself during this interval, is not known. Most probably he was working at his father's trade, which was that of a carpenter. It does not appear that he had any school education, and the probability is, that he could not write, for his parents were extremely poor, as appears from their not being able to pay for a bed when he was born. "

Answer 3

Jesus was learning the Torah as most traditional boys did in the Jewish culture. But more than that, you would have found him at Joseph's side learning the trade that his father did. Jesus was a simple Carpenter by trade, and had wisdom beyond scholars understanding because He was the Son of God. Most historical accounts of the time, and because of class structure, you were to become who your father was.... to carry on the trade and craftsmanship that was dependent upon the learning of generations and therefore the reason of the teachings of the Torah....traditions passed down. Just with this simple child, he was more than just a Carpenter's son, he was the Son of God born to died for our sins. To died upon a Cross in which a Carpenter by trade was issued to make by the Romans. Chilling when you think of the cost that Jesus gave upon the Cross in the face of the very trade he had learned as a child. The Cross that demonstrated His ultimate sacrifice, His life..for our sin so that we could be freely forgiven and shown love, grace and mercy just to be able to come unto Him.

Answer 4

As I understand it, the Bible didn't cover much of anything from the time when he was like, five to twenty two. I assume that that period of time either wouldn't have worked with the bible, or was just generally uninteresting.

Perhaps he was in a divine training camp, where he recieved a series of montage worthy lessons from god (indirectly of course, learning from the prophets of time passed) until he was able to fully reach his divinity! Of course, this sugguests that Jesus wasn't born the perfect entity that he was, but rather had to be molded into it by the divine powers, which wasn't the message the bible wanted to get across, but in the end doesn't change anything else that much.

Or maybe he was just a roudy teenager, who knows? The bible doesn't cover it in any detail and I'm pretty sure there aren't any historical records either.

Answer 5

If there was a real Jesus, we know little about him. The Jesus of the Bible is a mythological character that, at most, it loosely based on the real Jesus. Remember that the New Testament, itself, was only written 40 to 150 years after Jesus supposedly died.

Even today, only a couple decades after Elvis died, we have many stories of people claiming to have seen him alive after his death. In Jesus' time, those stories would have been much more believed because of the culture of the day and the lack of ready information that we have today. If you look back to that time, you'll find many such stories about the "miracles" that various people supposedly did.

Answer 6

Well I can only tell you that during his teenage years he was a preacher for God travelling about Lebanon. Thats all I know of that matter, and I'm sure that if Mary had an idea and he was widely regarded as the newborn King he grew up around the idea that he was entirely Gods son and to love and spread Gods word.

Answer 7

We assume that He lived in Nazareth since that was where Joseph was from. He probably had a normal childhood until after his Bar-Mitzvah. He doesn't appear to have any understanding of Himself or His destiny until He was about 12 (Luke 2:41-52). No further mention is made until He was approx. 30 and began His public ministry. I assume that the awakening came upon Him gradually as He was able to comprehend it as a man as well as God.

Answer 8

To It'sMe23: Joseph was the father that never screwed the Virgin Mary, who got pregnant and had Jesus, a Mexican hippie dude, and like many rock stars, Jesus had a following, and some guys wrote a book about what they thought about him. They were doing some pretty heavy drugs back then, (there was nothing else to do)

Answer 9

There isn't much written in the bible. However if you google these questions there are scriptures not considered standard works that do comment on Jesus life in more detail. Whether they are actually true or not is another question, but they can be fun to read. One book I read once was the Real Jesus. That was pretty cool. It answered some questions you have, theories.

It is also said in actual scripture that Jesus learned line upon line and precept upon precept. He learned just as we do. He did not receive all knowledge at once. He was tried, tested, and tempted just like us, but did not sin.

Answer 10

Oh, he entered local talent contests and tried to show everybody that in 2,000 years time, all of the young singers on American Idol would want to sound like Mariah Carey and Aretha Franklin. He was the originator of "soul" music.

If you don't believe that statement, then why would you believe everything that is written in a book, when there are no real facts to prove ANY of the claims?

Answer 11

Mary, Joesph and Jesus ran away to Egypt after Jesus was born but then moved to Nazareth where he spent his childhood. And he always knew he was God's son,