I was wondering is there any concrete proof that Jesus, the Son of God, preached to the Native Americans here on the North American continent during His time here on Earth. Does anyone know?? Any Bible scholars out there that can answer this??
2006-12-19 15:47:15 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
it does not seem likely that word of Jesus spread to this area until many hundreds of years after his death. SO i would say no. But i believe in Him as my Lord and Savior anyway. haha
2006-12-19 15:56:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I cannot say that there is any concrete proof (and have not seen any instance of this in the bible), nor can I say that I particularly believe the following passage. I can only provide you with the information below. For those of you reading this with a closed mind, please do not give me a thumbs-down simply because I provided information and attempted to help answer a question other than answering some version of "no. "
[The term below "Wasichu" is used to denote the white man, but it does not necessarily reference the color of one's skin.... consider a "Wasichu" to be a colonist (they referred to "black wasichus" in the book as well)]
"Then it was spring (1890), and I heard that these men had all come back from the west and that they said it was all true. I did not go to this meeting either, but I heard the gossip that was everywhere now, and people said it was really the son of the Great Spirit who was out there; that when he came to the Wasichus a long time ago, they had killed him; but he was coming to the Indians this time, and there would not be any Wasichus in the new world that would come like a cloud in a whirlwind and crush out the old earth that was dying."
2006-12-20 00:21:49 · answer #2 · answered by alidite 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My God (literally), where did this story come from? Not only did it not happen, it would actually weaken the Jesus story if it had. The whole point is that Jesus was God embodied in MAN! Concrete proof? How about the slightest iota of proof? No serious Bible scholar (or for that matter, amateur) will tell you that Jesus even knew North America existed.
2006-12-19 23:50:50 · answer #3 · answered by balderarrow 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no biblical evidence that Jesus even left the continent he was in. Of course, at the time of Jesus, the "New World" wasn't even discovered yet. For all they knew, that Europe/Asia/Africa area was the whole world. The Native Americans might have been visited by their own gods, but not Jesus. So no.
2006-12-19 23:53:09 · answer #4 · answered by fliptastic 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka "LDS" or "Mormons"), Jesus did indeed come to North America after his gig, er, ministry in Judea.
Their "proof" was a book of golden plates that were translated to become the "Book of Mormon". Those plates were never seen by any human other than Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormons and the person who translated those plates.
So, the answer is, even if you are member of the LDS, there is no concrete "proof" beyond the word of Joseph Smith and your own beliefs.
2006-12-19 23:53:28 · answer #5 · answered by geek49203 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Natives knew nothing of the bible or what it contained.
Jesus was new to them, you know when the europeans came and shoved that religion down their throats and murdered those that refused to accept this religion.
Yeah, it happened this way.
Before the white man came each tribe had similar beliefs such as :The creator, higher power, great spirit, Mother earth, father sky...the story of jesus was not among their beliefs.
2006-12-20 06:04:51 · answer #6 · answered by n8vchick 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mormons believe that Jesus visited the Americas. Given that Jesus is said to have done that between the crucifixion and the resurrection, it's no more or less fantastic than the resurrection itself. Mainstream Christianity tell us the spirit of Jesus was in heaven during that time, Mormonism tells us his spirit was ministring to the new world. It takes faith either way.
2006-12-20 02:35:30 · answer #7 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, Jesus did not come to the North American continent. There are, however, a group of scholars who believe Jesus went to India for a period of time and leaned a lot about the Hindi and Buddhist religions Whilst there and incorporated it in his own message.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1340/jesus_in_india.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus
2006-12-19 23:54:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since there's no contemporary evidence that Jesus even existed, except the hearsay writings decades and centuries after his death, how are we to believe he visited us in the Americas? The only contemporary evidence of people or events of his time are an obscure stone tablet that mention Pontius Pilate as the Praetor of Judea, other than that, zip, nadda, zilch.
2006-12-20 00:32:49 · answer #9 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No proof of this. Some think Jesus may have traveled as far as England but he probably did not make it to N. America. Yet.
Merry Christmas !
2006-12-19 23:53:08 · answer #10 · answered by hoverlover7 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am native americans and i dont think so. There was many white people but no Jesus
2006-12-20 00:57:49 · answer #11 · answered by karnesy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋