[Mary Etheldreda]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

Hello KewlCommie, and welcome to our forums! You sound a bit miffed. Are you having trouble finding the courage to abandon your Sin and embrace a life in Faith instead?

We'd love to get to know you more. Would you mind introducing yourself in our Intro sub-forum so we can keep this discussion on track? Being able to share favorite Bible Verses can be very therapeutic in these End Times. There's not much time left before Jesus returns, and people are understandably on edge, what with all the gays frolicking around everywhere you go, demanding to get gay-married and raise gay-children. It helps to be reminded of why we have thrown our lot in with Christ Jesus and rejected the wisdom of the world (1 Corinthians 3:19).

[KewlCommie]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

My favorite bible verse "Communism leads to homers" Romanicus 13;23

[Zechariah Smyth]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

jesus doesn't exist soooooooooo.......

What a well-thought-out counterpoint! You've convinced me to give up an Eternity of Love and Worship for a few scant years of debauchery, buggery, and reefer cigarettes.



Now, how about hopping your frisky bunny behind over to the Introduction Forum and tell us all about Your Personal Walk With Jesus...we want to get to know you!



Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth

[psychoguineapig]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

jesus doesn't exist soooooooooo.......

[Dr Laurence Niles]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

Holy Bible: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.
[Acts 3:13]

Please make an intruduction post post in th Introduction sub forum.

God bless.

[ac111971]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

Brethren and Sistern

One thing that really sickens me is when FALSE Christians are portraying their hippy-dippy flower-power Jesus. They always paint him as a young boy in his thirties!

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Obviously this is pure rot. There's no way such a young snot - 30 years of age - could speak with the authority of a master and pastor. You might argue that Jesus is God - sure, but God is eternal and far more than 30 years old, so that's rather irrelevant, isn't it?

So how old was Jesus? He gives us an answer in the fourth gospel:

John 2:18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
John 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
John 2:21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
John 2:22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

We're all aware that our body is a temple of God (1 Peter 2:5, 1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 6:19, 2 Corinthians 6:16, Ephesians 2:21-22) - but here we have Jesus comparing His own body to a specific temple - one that it had taken 46 years to build, and which He would resurrect in 3 days.

It is written (John 2:22) that when "he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said " about the 3-days resurrection, but everybody conveniently forgot about the 46 years - including the kiddie-diddlers in the Vatican.

There's a message here to all angst-ridden pizza-faced teenage know-it-alls who pester this HOLY board. And the message is that life starts at forty, and till you reach maturity, it would behoove you to listen to your betters and stop flaunting your ignorance.

Holy Bible: The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.
[Acts 3:13]

[Christian_soldier]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

How old was Jesus? Shall we just say timeless and eternal, duh!

[Mistress Cookie]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

Random question: does anybody know how/when did this belief start?

As the Catlick congregations were dwindling over the centuries, I think the Vatican lowered Jesus' age, as the thinking was "Only the Good Die Young" (what with Marilyn and Jimmy Dean and Elvis being so popular with the kids etc...)

It really shows you where their thinking is!

[Didymus Much]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

...Twice near the end of that Gospel, John writes that there are many other things Jesus did which are not written in the Gospels...

SO, if something's NOT there, you feel justified in filling the gaps, HOW?

...kinda blows a hole in your "Scripture or it's not so" theory...

As your proferred replacement amounts to: "not Scripture so it is so", not so much.

...As for the last sentence, I see you've resorted to vulgarity...that is proof that you've already lost.

Jesus was also quite rude to those who would not listen to Him. Just sayin'.

[Paul Tarzan]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

Care to back that up with Scripture?


Oh that's right, I forgot. You just pull your religion out of your ass.

The fact that the second sentence started "But" implies there's a CONTRAST between what the Pharisees thought and what He actually meant.

Twice near the end of that Gospel, John writes that there are many other things Jesus did which are not written in the Gospels...kinda blows a hole in your "Scripture or it's not so" theory.

As for the last sentence, I see you've resorted to vulgarity...that is proof that you've already lost.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

They DIDN'T KNOW He was speaking of the temple of His Body...they thought it was the temple in Jerusalem He just cleansed.

Care to back that up with Scripture?


Oh that's right, I forgot. You just pull your religion out of your ass.

[Paul Tarzan]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

They DIDN'T KNOW He was speaking of the temple of His Body...they thought it was the temple in Jerusalem He just cleansed.

As for Irenaeus, Polycarp, etc...they were CATHOLICS. That means I'd think you'd be calling them "hellbound papists"...but I know you and them are all part of the fortress of Churchianity.

[BelieverInGod]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

Yes, I knew that. I've heard that Dec. 25 date was chosen to confuse/convince Mithraists that Christ was a new and improved version of the sun god (just one of many examples of twisted mentality of church leaders); at that time, the solstice was on Dec. 25, not 21. I also know that our BC/AD calendar was created by a very confused monk in 4th century AD, who wasn't that good at neither history nor astronomy



I don't want to sound nitpicking, but if He was baptized around 30, and then lived to way over 40, then what is leading people to the false assumption that he lived only three years after His baptism?

Okay, this is just from a quick internet search, but it seems to be because only three passovers are mentioned in the Bible (John 2:13 , John 6:4 , and John 13:1 ). So, somehow they're under the assumption that because only 3 Passovers are mentioned, only 3 years went by. Not quite sure where that idea came from, but there it is.


I don't remember anything in the Bible saying he only ministered for 2-3 years specifically. If I'm wrong, I pray someone corrects me. I've been a bit addle brained lately.

[Basilissa]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

Basically anything to get the money out of your wallet and to keep you from causing them too much trouble. They used to have a rule (or maybe they still do) that only priests should be able to read the Bible because only priests are "capable of understanding it"

I could not agree with you more! They don't prohibit people from reading the Bible like they used to, but it is because they can't, not because they don't want to!

[Basilissa]

Re: John 2:20 - How old was Jesus?

Well first of all is the Catholic assumption that the current Calendar is based on Jesus birth. They know better than that. It was started by Ceaser and then edited a few times. There is no proof that Jesus was born December 25, 1 BC, but don't tell the fuzzy bunnies that.

Yes, I knew that. I've heard that Dec. 25 date was chosen to confuse/convince Mithraists that Christ was a new and improved version of the sun god (just one of many examples of twisted mentality of church leaders); at that time, the solstice was on Dec. 25, not 21. I also know that our BC/AD calendar was created by a very confused monk in 4th century AD, who wasn't that good at neither history nor astronomy

According to Luke 3:23 Jesus was baptized when he was "about thirty years of age". Somehow people forget that "about" part, and demand that he was baptized on his 30th birthday or something like that.

I don't want to sound nitpicking, but if He was baptized around 30, and then lived to way over 40, then what is leading people to the false assumption that he lived only three years after His baptism?