Merry Christmas

[skunk]

OK I'll take your word for it.How about the "missing" years, lack of documentation or did he go off the rails for 13 years or so?

I think it's fairly safe to assume that the whole of his early life was a retrospective invention designed to chime with the various messianic prophecies in the OT.

 

[jimN]

Honestly how many children under 13 have lives worth documenting. He probably just got up, helped joseph out in the shop and kicked a ball around in the street. Unlike modern teenagers he never wore a hoodie, smoked cigarettes or got an ASBO. If the gospels had talked about his early years everyone would have switched off before the important stuff started.

 

[lexus]

Unlike modern teenagers he never wore a hoodie

Wrong.

 

[Quboid]

Three Kings day in mexico (thats the only country i ever experienced it in).
The kids don't get thier gifts on christmas day, they get it today. They dont call it christmas day thou.

Dia de los Reyes Magos - as it is said in spanish.
Three kings day.

Happy three kings day to you too OP. NOT MERRY CHRISTMAS