10 things they never told me about Jesus|| Fully Equipped

So, the first chapter was about Jesus' genealogy, the second was about his birth... and in the life a Jewish boy, what comes next? Yes, that's right... circumcision. So this chapter was... well, I guess not so much about circumcision but about the fact that Jesus had genitalia, just like every other Palestinian boy. He was no different, and we know that because he was circumcised. For some people, this chapter would have been radical. Bringing up the idea that Jesus had a penis and the fact that he was a human, is just something people haven't ever really thought about. Since I would conclude that Jesus was "wholly divine and wholly human" I have no problem with this notion.

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However, let's think about this. We do not hear anything about Jesus' life from the time he is born until the time he is preaching in the temple (age 12ish) and then not again until his baptism (roughly 30ish). So, we don't know what he did... and people have assumed he became a buddhist and got his ego up to the point where he could just go and feel like he was the Messiah... others have assumed he was really BAD and that's why nothing is written in the Bible... others have written he was performing miracles when he was a teen... others have said he was out being a sexual being and a hormonal teen...

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Does it matter? This is one of those mysteries that I am fine to leave alone... We don't know what he did. I would assume he was a normal teenager. AND as discussed yesterday, no one knew he was coming into the world, so maybe they got the hype built up for his birth and then after that people sort of forgot about him, so then no one bothered to record his life. I can accept that answer. I don't know why it matters that we know what he did during those years. Since we can never know, we might as well not agonize over it, right? Maybe I'm just being pessimistic or "unscholarly" (funny, since I was just inducted into TAK, the National honors society for religion/theology yesterday....) But I really just don't feel like getting frustrated over it.

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Jesus was "fully equipped" and Jesus was a human and Jesus was wholly divine.

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Must we really know?