Missing Years of Jesus
Christ
By Vinod Hariharan
Nothing much is known ,
written ,spoken about the early life of Jesus . it is not a part of any of the
discourse or prayer meetings as well. But there are researched data and proof
confirming some of part of his early life .Including his year of birth and the
place of birth has dualities attached .
Jesus’ birth is written as some time between
7 and 4 B.C.E. If Jesus was born during the
time of Herod the Great, as is stated in the Gospel of Matthew,
he would have had to have been born prior to 4 B.C.E., the year Herod died. This
is one stalemate
And next is why would “Jesus of Nazareth”
be said to have been born in Bethlehem instead of Nazareth, the hometown of his
parents? It was likely to fulfill a prophecy that the Messiah would be born in
the “City of David,” which is Bethlehem. So Luke tells the story of Joseph
( father of jesus) traveling to Bethlehem for a census
to be counted in the place of Joseph’s birth—something that has absolutely zero
precedent and/or evidence in antiquity.
The virgin birth is the doctrine that Jesus
was conceived and born by his mother Mary through the
power of the Holy Spirit as a boon . It
is attested in the gospels of Matthew and Luke and affirmed in both the
Apostles' Creed
Jesus was known as only Son of God , but
he had siblings. Jesus had four brothers named in the Bible (James, Joses, Judas and
Simon), along with some sisters (Mark 6:3). This would not be a problem, except
for the rise of the tradition of Mary’s
perpetual virginity, which argues that she not only conceived through
a boon and gave birth to Jesus, but that she remained a
virgin throughout the remainder of her lifetime. This conflicts with the Bible,
which says specifically that Jesus had brothers and sisters. Interestingly,
Catholics traditionally solved this problem by arguing that the supposed
“brothers” mentioned in Mark 6 are actually “cousins,” while the Greek Orthodox
tradition solves this problem by arguing that Joseph was married prior to being
married to Mary. According to the tradition, it was with his deceased wife that
Joseph had “James and Joses and Judas and Simon,” meaning that the brothers
mentioned in the Bible are half-brothers of Jesus by a previous marriage, such
that Mary remained a perpetual virgin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Notovitch
Although Notovitch had been discredited
in Europe, certain individuals in India considered his story to have
credibility. Swami
Abhedananda claimed to have visited the Hemis monastery in 1922 to
verify the reports of Notovich that he had heard the previous year in the U.S.
He claimed that lamas at the monastery confirmed to him that Notovich was
brought to the monastery with a broken leg and he was nursed there for a month
and a half. They also told him that the Tibetan manuscript on Issa was shown to
Notovich and its contents interpreted so that he could translate them into
Russian.[17] This manuscript was shown to
Abhedananda,[18] which had 14 chapters,
containing 223 couplets (slokas). The Swami had
some portions of the manuscript translated with the help of a lama, about 40
verses of which appeared in the Swami's travelogue.[19][a] The original Pali
manuscript—allegedly composed after Christ's resurrection[a]—was said to be in the monastery of
Marbour near Lhasa.[21]
Years later, in 1921, a contemporary of Swami Vivekananda, called Swami Abhedananda, also visit the Hemis Monastery in search for truth, and also to study Buddhism. The Indian monk too claimed to have come across the same manuscript as claimed by Nicolas Notovich himself. But here too, the book jacket was supposedly translated for him by a local lama, and the story was equivalent to the one published by Notovich.. After the death of Swami Abhedananda, one of his disciples had visited Hemis Monastery, yet again in search for the document. However, he was told that the document has disappeared.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/destinations/ladakhs-secret-a-russian-journalist-an-indian-monk-and-the-lost-years-of-jesus-christ/as67725533.cms#:~:text=You%20for%20sharing!-,Ladakh's%20secret%20%E2%80%93%20a%20Russian%20journalist%2C%20an%20Indian%20monk%2C%20and,around%20since%20before%2011th%20century.
Author Alice Dunbar Nelson includes
a review of The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ in her 1895
collection Violets and Other Tales.[24] In 1899 Mirza Ghulam Ahmad wrote Jesus in India (published
in 1908) and claimed that Jesus had traveled to India after surviving his
crucifixion, but specifically disagreed with Notovitch that Jesus had gone to
India before then.[25][26]
Other authors have taken these themes
and incorporated it into their own works. For example, in her book The
Lost Years of Jesus: Documentary Evidence of Jesus' 17-Year Journey to the East, Elizabeth Clare
Prophet asserts that Buddhist manuscripts provide evidence that
Jesus traveled to India, Nepal, Ladakh and Tibet.[27] In his book Jesus Lived in India,
German author Holger Kersten promoted
the ideas of Nicolas Notovich and Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Gerald O'Collins
classified Kersten's work as the repackaging of the same stories.[28] In his 2002 comedic
novel Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood
Pal, absurdist author Christopher
Moore parodies the notion that between the ages of 15 and 30,
Jesus traveled to Tibet to study Buddhism in a monastery (after first having
traveled to Afghanistan), then to India to study Hinduism.
It is said that post crucifixion,
Jesus came back to Srinagar .
Tourists flock to 'Jesus's tomb' in
Kashmir |
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A belief that Jesus
survived the crucifixion and spent his remaining years in Kashmir has led to
a run-down shrine in Srinagar making it firmly onto the must-visit-in India
tourist trail. |
The US-based Christian sect, known as the Church Universal
and Triumphant, is the best-known modern supporter of the belief that Jesus
lived in Kashmir, though they don't believe he died there
Eventually Church has to bring out the facts on missing years
of jesus from the age of 12 to 30 and
then post crucifixion.