Isn't this like some pertinent information that is completely left out of christians holy bible? Does dog just want us to guess, or what?
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2007-11-13 08:42:01 · 37 answers · asked by Zay Bones 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
QED, I have heard of this book. My friend is reading it right now, and said it is GREAT!
2007-11-13 08:48:46 · update #1
Apparently, he was a little punk as a kid.
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas opens with a story about five-year-old Jesus making twelve sparrows out of mud. He claps his hands; they come to life and fly away. A nice story but in the next story, child Jesus curses a boy and makes him wither up. Later Jesus is angered when another child bumps into his shoulder and strikes him dead! This gospel, which may be as old as the second century, is a different book from the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas.
Doh! you said 12 to 33
2007-11-13 08:56:21 · answer #1 · answered by huh? 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
What was written was about His mission for you and the rest of the world. The bible is a succinct collection of books and letters. The reason the story centres around His birth and His death is obvious to the intelligent.
Two thousand years ago biographies were not what you think they are. The only reason to write these things down is because you have to be told about what is required of you. It is the revelation of God and His plan of Salvation not a storybook by mother goose and Grimm!!
The most important aspect of God's personification was recorded.
The Christ was born for you and the rest of the world, He taught us about God the father and gave His life for you and the rest of the world. What happened between His birth and the beginning of His ministry was not pertinent to our souls!!
Okay?
Now you have a free will as do I. Use your intelligence for the better of your soul or go on living blindly with the blind who are leading you now.
But do not assume that you know enough of the Bible that you can instruct God. You can't.
2007-11-13 08:54:05 · answer #2 · answered by the old dog 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Important parts of Jesus' life is mentioned right through the 4 gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) from his birth to his death on the cross. So the important part of his life IS in the Bible. Finer details of his life is a little vague but it it generally accepted that he was a carpenter and that he gave plenty of sermons to the Jewish people surrounding him. He also travelled a lot on foot and by boat with his disciples. Then there are other ancient texts that also give accounts of his life
2007-11-13 09:05:33 · answer #3 · answered by The Desert Bird 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The most common theory is that Jesus spent His time being educated, just like every good Jewish boy. They believe that He and John the Baptist were sent to Qumran to the monastary there to be trained. It's next to where they found the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The reason they think this is that Jesus used some of the practices of the monks there in His ministry, including baptism. A lot of the written works of the monks that made up the Dead Sea Scrolls were written a hundred years before Christ, but were repeated by Him in the Sermon on the Mount.
2007-11-13 08:47:57 · answer #4 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, because it wasn't important. Jesus' purpose was not to be a celebrity, with fans marvelling over every segment of his life rather than doing what he suggested. Before his baptism by John, Jesus wasn't "doing" anything!
If you read the first gospel, Mark's, you get nothing before the beginning of Jesus' ministry. The ONLY reason Matthew and Luke put in their nativity stories (and they disagree by about 90%), was because people wanted to know where Jesus came from. People who look for signs of genius or ambition in someone's childhood are souvenir hunting, avoiding dealing with the part of their life that matters. They'd rather speculate about what wasn't written than study what was.
And there have been plenty of people willing to fill in the details, from the childhood "gospels" of the second century to the New Age theosophical treateses of the 19th and 20th Centuries, to Ann Rice's pietistic nonsense, to even "Biff". I like Biff because it indirectly shows how stupid it is to speculate in the absence of facts. Most of the books that attempt to fill in the blanks are much more about their authors than about their subject.
2007-11-13 09:20:20 · answer #5 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus travelled with His uncle Joseph of Arimathaea to Great Briton and other places. Joseph was a tin merchant.
2007-11-13 08:48:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would guess He was studying and learning scripture and preparing Himself to perform the duties He was called to do.
2007-11-13 09:13:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a tradition in Western Cornwal that he traveled to England assisting Joseph of Arimethia in the tin trade. he is supposed to have lived with the druids in Glastonbury for a year.
2007-11-13 08:47:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
He was spreading the Gospel.That is not left out of the Bible.
2007-11-13 08:45:42 · answer #9 · answered by Dew 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Since he first miracle upon his return was turning 150 gallons of water into wine, no doubt he was having a good time.
Actually, there is a funny book by Christopher Moore about these missing years called "Lamb: Gospel According to Biff, Jesus' Childhood Friend."
Hilarious and irreverent.
2007-11-13 08:45:46 · answer #10 · answered by QED 5 · 5⤊ 4⤋