I wondered whether this would happen.

There are many aspects of the life of Jesus bar-David which the New Testament does not mention. Some are minor to the point of insignificance, such as whether as a carpenter he preferred Anatolian pine to Lebanese cedar. Others are absolutely major, but ultimately irrelevant, such as whether He was legally married and had issue (possible but not probable), whether he visited Britain as a child with Joseph of Aramathea (possible as Joseph was a friend of his father and travelled to Britain later, supposedly with the Grail but more likely chasing a lucrative tin contract) or whether he was gay (possible but unlikely).

In Christian teaching, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. To make the sacrifice truly meaningful, he would have lived a rich and normal mainstream Jewish life until the last few months.

There is nothing blasphemous here, just a slightly different take on things to (a) make a rollicking good yarn and (b) urge us to re-assess how we see JC, taking off the Sunday School saccharine spin and seeing him in a more real context.

OOhhhhhhh, won't this set a cat among the pigeons.

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