What was Jesus doing for most of his life which is not accounted for in the bible?

Question

Since only several years out of his life is talked about,

What was he doing the rest of the time? How can you be so sure?

Why would he be a complete weirdo social outcast and not be married and with kids in his teens like everyone else?

If Jesus was asexual, did God not give him sex organs of a boy just like everyone else? --He had to have or else no one would know he was a boy when born, right?
if he were conceived by God, why would he give Jesus the same physical parts if he wasn't intended to live the same normal life as a Jew?

About 25 years is missing from Jesus' life.
How improbable is it to you Christians that he was just sitting around being a carpenter, twittling his thumbs?

Earl D: the problem is that from the age of about 7 to about 30, is completely missing.
Now, that's a LONG time to be just learning carpentry, dontcha think?
You people sound SO ridiculous.

Answer 1

According to Buddhist teachings he was in India studying Buddhism, which would account for his teachings being very similar to Buddhism, mainly peace, love, non-violence, etc. But that would have been left out of the cannons because it would have seemed offensive to the "powers that be" at the time. It would also have been very offensive to admit that in order to be a Rabbi that Jesus would have to have been married. And, if I am not mistaken, Jesus has been referred to as "Rabbi" in the bible.

Answer 2

As far as I understand it, in the Jewish culture at the time, you didn't technically become an adult until the time you were thirty, which was the time Jesus started going around preaching and stuff. There doesn't seem to be any reason why Jesus didn't work as a carpenter with his dad until then. That was the normal Jewish thing to do. Not being married might have been unusual, but it wouldn't have made him a wierdo outcast. Paul (who wrote a lot of the New Testament) was single as well, so it obviously happened! Jesus wasn't asexual. God gave him normal human anatomy because he was human.

Answer 3

It isn't there because the accounts of Jesus' Life are based on the apostles' personal time spent with Him. They weren't there during those other years.

I suppose if a Gospel of Jesus according to James His brother or Mary His mother is found then it may include additional details.

Also Jesus ministry was not supposed to start until the Jewish passover when He first went to Jerusalem after His baptism (see John 2) because the other recorded events prior are when He went there with His family as they had done every year, his presentation to the Lord at the temple in Jerusalem when Simeon laid eyes upon Him and when His parents lost Him there; however, prior to this the wedding feast of Cana happened which was His first act of glory.

Answer 4

Jesus was a Palestinian Jew.

He would have grown up with stories of conquest and oppression. Jewish identity also rested on stories of the Patriarchs--Abraham, Isaac and Jacob--as well as the founding story of the Moses-led liberation from the Egyptians at the Exodus.

He grew up in a Jewish home in Nazareth (poor and overpopulated village) with his siblings. (Joseph, Judas, Simon…)

Jesus was taught by his parents to learn Hebrew in order to read the Old Testament - the foundation stone of Jewish education and Aramaic (the language in which religious discussion was held).

It was required of every Jewish father that he should teach his son some honest craft. Like every Jewish child, Jesus was put to work and he probably followed Joseph's vocation.

Jesus would go to the temple for the Passover (celebrated the Exodus from Egypt.) the Pentecost (Marked the end of the wheat harvest) and the festival of the Tabernacles (commemorated living in tents during Exodus).

Jesus loved learning about the Old Testament so “sat with the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions”. But at age 12 he was already showing that he was acting different then a normal child when he said to his parents when he went missing, “I had to be in my Father's House”.

This tells us that even at this age, he was beginning to realize his special relationship with his Heavenly Father.

Many years later Luke said about Jesus childhood, “Jesus was an obedient child as he placed himself under their authority.” (2:51)

During his teenage years he would have heard about the Covenant theology, where the Jewish people held the belief that Yahweh had chosen them to play a unique role in the history of the world.

There were also political parties and religious groups that he would have known about and studied that would shape the person he would become.

Essenes – A sect of Jewish ascetics with apocalyptic beliefs and believed that all of a person's life is predestined.

Zealots – Wanted to forcefully remove the Romans from Palestine.

Pharisees – Believed in Jewish law. That people have free will but that God also has foreknowledge of human destiny. They also believed in the resurrection of the dead.

Sadduccees - Believed that people have total free will. For the most part rejected Angels, the Soul, and the Resurrection.

Answer 5

Very few Christians know that, for most of his life, Jesus attended the Festival del Sole where he enjoyed an array of musical and culinary events.

Jesus listened to several musical performances each year of his travels which included the Russian National Orchestra, Joshua Bell, Renée Fleming and the Emerson String Quartet.

Local estates and wineries hosted Jesus and served him several gourmet dinners, including one at Beringer Vineyards prepared by "Iron Chef" Cat Cora and one at the Rutherford Estate featuring Ming Tsai.

The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone also hosted Jesus with his own cooking class and luncheon with Cora, Stephen Durfee (pastry chef at the French Laundry) and Tuscan chef Silvia Baracchi.

French Laundry chef Thomas Keller had a conversation with Jesus and introduced him to paintings by Ana Corbero which were on view at the Napa Valley Museum.

That's pretty much what Jesus did most of his free time before getting caught up in social protest, agitation and ultimately was brought to justice as a terrorist. The famous last words of Jesus was record forever as he died on the cross: "Bring it on!" These words would go down in history, later to be used by George Bush as he invaded the rest of the world.

Answer 6

And what makes you think that Jesus *wasn't* conducting himself "the rest of the time" in the same way he was in the times we do have record of?

And why on earth would you think a person who is unmarried and without children is automatically "a complete weirdo social outcast"? That's insulting to a very large group of very decent people. You should probably work harder at removing that 100 pound chip off your shoulder and less at trying to antagonize people you have no desire to really *listen* to anyway before you ask any more questions, toots.

Answer 7

The Bible does not tell us Jesus was a carpenter, Joseph was a carpenter. The years missing were spent growing up like a normal kid. His life was normal until He was in His 30's.

Answer 8

Why wouldn't he do any of the things the other peers were doing? Because that was not the reason he came down to earth. He came to earth to fulfill OT prophecy of being the Messiah and dying on the cross to save us! He'd rather save us than take a wife or be the social butterfly (although, he was social man, he even ate with sinners).

JESUS, the Word made flesh, the SON of God WAS NOT asexual, when on earth, he was MALE!

Jesus was born fully human and fully divine. As a human, he had to go to the bathroom, yes? He looked like other males, he was able to grow facial hair and leg hair, etc. He was fully human and fully divine, why wouldn't he have all the features of a human? He also, BTW, died in the same pain that any human would die being put through what he went through. That is the sacrafice! He really felt it, he really died. The miracle of our salvation is that he also defeated death and rose the third day, which is our salvation!

What did Jesus do? He obeyed his parents. How am I sure? Because God can not lie.

Luke 2 (KJV)
51And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

Luke 2 (NIV)
51Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

Answer 9

I do not think he cared what ppl thought of him he knew he was there for a reason. As for what he did in the early part of his earthly life he was a carpenter with his earthly dad and brothers. He also study scrolls at the temple when he was just a boy. He was just like humans except he was perfect.

Answer 10

Jesus was the son of God and came to pay the penalty for sin for mankind. This life is preparation for the life to come, and he didn't come to live life as all other human beings do, but as the way to the Father for every other person on earth who accepts him as their savior.