godnotgod
Thou art That
No, the entire story was NOT invented by Notovich. We have several others who have verified the existence of the scrolls.
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Jesus: The Missing Years in the East
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No, the entire story was NOT invented by Notovich. We have several others who have verified the existence of the scrolls.
Shermana
Heretic
I like how that one Swami what's-his-name edited out the part where it denies Jesus being earlier born as an incarnation of Indian gods.
roger1440
I do stuff
Can you give me your source please?
roger1440
I do stuff
Have anyone giving any thought to there isn’t any missing years of Jesus cause there wasn’t anything worth mentioning? If we would read a biography of any person each and every moment in that person’s life would not be written about. If an author would write about a person’s entire life it would take an entire life to read.
“Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.” (John 21:25)
“Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.” (John 21:25)
That's basically the mainstream view.
Shermana
Heretic
More importantly, has anyone written a book on if he spent those 18 years flying around in a Spaceship full of enlightened alien beings? I know there's some kind of literature about Jesus being an alien or whatnot, but has anyone done the "Studying with Aliens" angle yet?
I can see a 3-part series! We can have the Aliens drop him off to spend time in the Himalayas and Japan. It'll market itself!
I've been marketing one but no buyers so far. After I sold that bridge, I lost a lot of credibility.
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angellous_evangellous
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
Comic books are good for a lot of things.
Most of the time they aren't very good sources for ancient history.
Most of the time they aren't very good sources for ancient history.
Brilliant.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
haha
I'm currently translating the Watchmen into Spiderman, which is a million times more accurate than the Hulkettia.
Shermana
Heretic
Finally something accurate.
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angellous_evangellous
Guest
It might be an accurate way to describe the historical Jesus (which is what you might have in mind), but it does not accurately describe the Jesus of the Gospels (which our friend may think).
But I agree in the sense that at least the Torah and someone similar to "Jesus" existed.
Ingledsva
HEATHEN ALASKAN
Ahhh! But some ancient historians tell us the Hebrew originally came from India. The plot thickens...
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godnotgod
Thou art That
Heh...heh...heh...or maybe...just maybe....the Church was so thorough in burning and suppressing any view other than its own that nothing was left to tell the real story of his travels Eastward.
Then again, maybe you're right. Jesus, the Savior of Mankind, spends 18 years sanding, gluing, mortising, tenoning, over and over and over and over and over again. Ooooh! How exciting!
nash8
Da man, when I walk thru!
I hate to tell you, but there is no "academic" hypothesis on anything that Jesus did during the "missing years" because there is absolutely zero, zip, nada evidence that supports any conclusion. There is only correlation, and one correlation is just as good as any other in my opinion. You can study turn of the millenium Galilean life for the entirety of your life, but any speculation with regard to the life of one individual at that time period without any physical evidence to support said theory, is just as much specualtion as any other theory from my perspective.
It is very possible that Jesus traveled out of Galilee. The apostles traveled to many areas that Jesus was said to have traveled to in the Eastern travels theory, so why would he not have been able to do so himself? Hell, his family even traveled to Egypt according to scripture. Why would it not be possible that he traveled to other places when he got older?
nash8
Da man, when I walk thru!
And along these lines, any foreign "esoteric" ideas that are attributed to Jesus, would have most likely have been available to him through trade and cultural interaction and the such.
Hell, he spent a part of his life in Egypt, which was the knowledge center of the world at the time. If he was intruiged as a child, why not travel back to Egypt, which would have been very easy, and have access to almost every single cultural/religous idea known at the time?
godnotgod
Thou art That
Or maybe a walking talking Nazarene Essene Jewish mystic, which is the main reason he had insight into the meaning of the Torah, and who lived only 10 miles from Nazareth at the Nazorean Essene monastery at Mt. Carmel, 'Nazorean' equating with 'Nazarene'.
However, being a mystic, and having come into contact with the mystical teachings coming into the West from the East, he would naturally want to enrich his spiritual life by traveling toward the source of those enlightened teachings, something lacking in the lands in which he lived, as the Judaic teachings are mainly patriarchal, having mostly to do with the Law of God and obedience to that Law. It is the Eastern feminine-based teachings which provide spiritual nourishment about the essence of God, and the attainment of divine union with God, rather than mere empty obedience to Law. So while Jesus let everyone know that he was thoroughly familiar with his Father's Law, he taught Love, Forgiveness, and Compassion for men when they did disobey that same Law.
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