• garretble@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    What’s also wild to me is if these were buddies of Jesus, they had this story of his birth, then nothing for thirty years, then a couple things, then death.

    Where are all the stories about teenage Jesus doing sick jumps off a camel or whatever? We are missing a few decades of knowledge about this supposed most important person ever.

    • Dadd Volante@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      There are about 30 gospels that didn’t make it into the final version of the Bible, some talk about a little about it.

      Most were ordered destroyed and not rediscovered until pretty recently in Egypt.

      I’m not a Christian, just someone with an interest in it. There’s pretty much no doubt Jesus was someone who actually was alive, but what we have concerning his “story” could possibly be an algamation of different people who led both a religious and social revolution at the time

      One theory suggests that Jesus actually has a brother who looked strikingly similar (James) enough to actually pull off pretending to be him.

      Which would explain after his death why people purported to have seen him. Possibly a tactic to keep the revolution alive

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      5 days ago

      There’s a fantastic book called “Lamb” that is all about this from the perspective of Christ’s bestie Biff. It’s hilarious.