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Act_of_Reparation

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9. I doubt it.

Mon Nov 26, 2018, 02:48 PM

Nov 2018

In all likelihood, there are no details because there are no sources for that period of Jesus' life. He was the son of a carpenter. It's not like he was hanging out with a ton of literate people. By the time the Evangelists got around to writing the Gospels, anyone who knew Jesus during his childhood would likely have been dead already.

They weren't above bullshitting the circumstances of Jesus' birth, because the specifics were important scripturally. The messiah needed to be born in Bethlehem, so they cooked up a story explaining how a Nazarene pauper came to be born 150 km away in Bethlehem. The early Gospels didn't describe Jesus' awkward teenage years because there wasn't any reason to do so.

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What about The Jump Cuts in Jesus' Biopic [View all] MineralMan Nov 2018 OP

I think, it's because of an obscure part of christian doctrine: DetlefK Nov 2018 #1

Well, that's a possible and probably likely reason we don't know. MineralMan Nov 2018 #3

Every few years, someone makes a major archeological discovery in Israel marylandblue Nov 2018 #13

I remember that movie! MineralMan Nov 2018 #14

The oldest Christian texts seem to be the Pauline letters struggle4progress Nov 2018 #2

Well, Paul's letters have huge significance to the Canon. MineralMan Nov 2018 #5

There's nothing there because nobody knows. Act_of_Reparation Nov 2018 #4

Well, perhaps things were known, but were discarded. MineralMan Nov 2018 #6

I doubt it. Act_of_Reparation Nov 2018 #9

That's another possibility, of course. MineralMan Nov 2018 #10

Jesus, the Missing Years Bob Loblaw Nov 2018 #7

Here ya go! MineralMan Nov 2018 #8

Thank you Bob Loblaw Nov 2018 #15

My pleasure. MineralMan Nov 2018 #16

The infancy gospels to which you alluded are quite interesting The Genealogist Nov 2018 #11

The thing is that Christianity is based on the official Canon. MineralMan Nov 2018 #12

When I ask believers about the accuracy of the Gospels edhopper Nov 2018 #17