Introduction-Adventures of Child Jesus
This article is the introduction to “Adventures of Child Jesus”, a fiction series written by Stephen C. Rose. He has also written other fiction series.Here’s two of them.
There is a gap in the story of Jesus, the child and young adult, filled with popular legends based on distortions that took place as Jesus became the miracle-working messiah of the religion largely crafted by Paul. Proving the virginity of Mary. Portraying Jesus as capable of terrorizing communities with vengeful acts. Making Jesus so inhuman he could hardly teach a doable way of living .
My text assumes these legends are false and that Jesus was a normal human being. He did not spend his childhood performing provocative miracles.
What did he do?
My guess is the young Jesus had a relationship with the one he called Abba or dad or father. This relationship gave rise to his understanding of things.
I have collated the two best sources available. The Q document and the Gospel of Thomas. These are the best sources for the earliest understandings of Jesus.
My intention is to divide this effort into four novella-length works. The present work covers Jesus up to age 10. The next will cover the Boy Jesus, the next the Young Adult Jesus and then the 20-S0mething Jesus. I am assuming that Jesus’ public ministry came at the end of this period of gestation and lasted only a few years. I think readers will agree that it is unthinkable that Jesus entered his public years without a process of growth like the one surmised here.
Jesus grew up to be a wandering preacher-teacher with some capacities to heal. He offended religious authorities. He fell to the principalities and powers he criticized.
The understanding of this and other texts I have written is that the church largely buried a treasure which corresponds to the actual direction of the world and cosmos we occupy. That treasure is what Jesus learned from Abba. All I have done is to infer from available sources plausible elements of what that teaching actually was.
