It would be interesting to know what happened during the Messiah's teenaged years. Unfortunately, the Bible seems to contain scant information in this area.
Are there other documents which might help? (Dead Sea Scrolls, etc..)
2007-05-11 21:56:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't know either but I bet he helped Mary and Joseph allot and was a pure joy to be around.
He had a very good sense of humor so he would have been alot of fun as well.
I love him so much.
I wish I could travel back in time and play with him when he was just a kid.
It would be like playing with pure sunshine.
2007-05-11 22:04:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is not really "lacking" in this area. God did not have it included because it is unimportant to the overall theme of His word.
No doubt, Jesus was a typical Jewish teenager who suffered from acne, little sisters whom he considered to be pests every now and then, a cracking voice and something called - hormones. He was just a kid albeit a perfect human being. He did things that kids do. Thus he ended up at the temple that time when he was twelve - not realizing the fear and anguish he caused his parents. (His mother calls it 'mental distress' at Luke 2:48)
He probably pulled his sister's hair, spilled milk on his baby brother, and wanted to shave that peach fuzz at fourteen. Typical teenager but quite a bit more studious.
His impact came when he was baptized and anointed as the Messiah. His adult life as the Messiah is far more interesting to those who benefit from it than his life as a kid could ever be.
Whatever documents there are which claim to fill in the unknown teenage years will be nothing more than that - claims.
Hannah J Paul
2007-05-12 01:15:05 · answer #2 · answered by Hannah J Paul 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He wasn't around during those years. If you read Hindu texts and Buddhist texts you will read about how he was in those areas studying and teaching. Also, in what few Aztec and Inca and Mayan texts that the good christian monks did not destroy you will discover that there was a Jesus figure teaching the same things that he eventually taught in the mid-east years later, in central and south america about that same time. In those texts when he had spread his word one time he climbed a mountain and floated away. In another he walked across the ocean disappearing in the distance. When the conquistadores arrived they found absolutely no resistance from the natives since they had been told to expect the return of those preachers and that preacher was a tall light skinned man with a beard - the spaniards fit the bill so the savior had returned.
2016-05-21 02:13:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were, in fact, books on Jesus' childhood years that used to be part of the bible until they were removed at the council of Nicea along with The Gospel of Mary and The Gospel of James. These books were called Infancy I and Infancy II. (Despite the word "Infancy" they covered Jesus' childhood and teenage years) These books were removed because the council had reason to doubt their authenticity and/or they felt that they didn't belong. Funny how the "word of God" required so much editing from a bunch of old men isn't it. You can find these books in several collections at any bookstore under names like "The Lost Books of the Bible". In one of the books the young Jesus actually strikes another child dead for the fun of it, then revives him. They're pretty good for a laugh at least. Have fun.
2007-05-11 22:15:17 · answer #4 · answered by thesaintofelsewhere 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are no documents whatsoever that tell of the childhood of Jesus,the Gospel tells us that after being found in the Temple he wenr back home and was subject to Mary and Joseph and lived the life of an ordinary boy.
We can deduce from this that Jesus did nothing out of the ordinary and brought no attention to Himself, it is most likely that He had to wait for the appointed time to reveal His mission on earth at the age of 30yrs and not before.
2007-05-11 22:02:28 · answer #5 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of my favorite movies, Dogma, mentions the idea that Jesus may have spent lots of time with his family during his struggles to accept the fact that he was the son of God as well as the tremendous burden he would inevitably face one day. Most people need help coping with silly problems, imagine being told you're the son of God and you have to die for man's sins. It also suggests that these years were left out to conceal the possibility of Mary having other children. Which gets you into the whole Da Vinci Code stuff that we don't need to get into right now.
2007-05-11 22:44:48 · answer #6 · answered by Dethklok 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interestingly a boy who is considered a diety in some sections of Hinduism arrived in India and cured many people of their ills, he left approximately 20 years later to the land from which he had come, the dates given fit in perfectly with the formative years of Jesus. Later this man returned to India where he lived out the remainder of his years, and still to this day people go to the village where he lived and treat a stone as a shrine to him, the shrine is a stone with his hand and footprints in it, the hand & footprints clearly display the signs of stigmata.
(Maybe this is coincidence but if you accept the historical facts surrounding the crucifiction & "resurection" it seems likely to be the same person. Joseph of Arimathea used healing ointments on the wounds of Jesus rather than embalming ointments that would be typically used.
2007-05-11 22:11:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
By looking for something that is not there, that is what makes it so easy for false writings, false prophets and "mans" traditions, to say "This is what happened or that is what happened".
We as Christians must speak where the Bible speaks and stay silent where the Bible is silent.
2007-05-11 22:07:25 · answer #8 · answered by Rev R 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can only recall that when he was around 12, that he went to the Temple to preach and all that were there marvel at his wisdom and authoritative manner in which he spoke.
"Is this not carpenter's son"?
2007-05-11 22:01:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check the history out.http://one-faith-of-god.org/new_testament/apocrypha/jesus_bloodline/jesus_bloodline_0010.htm
He travelled around the world.
The only problem is if you believe that a descendent of Kings was really a humble carpenter and that God suspended the whole Universe for directly causing a "virgin birth"?
If you believe in these kinds of stories, then you will probably refuse to believe any rational argument.
2007-05-11 22:00:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋