For centuries Christian students of the Bible have wondered where Jesus was and what he did during the so-called "eighteen silent years" between the ages of twelve and thirty. The amazing and dramatic... This description may be from another edition of this product.
i first read this book, my copy of which is a first edition that belonged to my dad, as a teenager. many decades later, i have just finished reading it again. my early impressions of the book were the inspiration to try to find the answers to my own questions, and led me to explore all sorts of other religious writings, and even read texts that formed the basis of other faiths, in my own search for God's truth. dr. potter's work, while admittedly the work of a very excited person (who wouldn't be, who had such information to share?), still asks the important questions, and his predictions as to the changes that 'would come' to the new translations of the Bible are, in fact, realized --you can look them up one by one as they are named in the text. i believe that the 'great shake-up' dr. potter predicted didn't come because so many were just not paying attention. the truth is there, but you have to discover it for yourself, just as Jesus did. in truth, we shouldn't be afraid of this knowledge, if we are really to 'live as Jesus did, and do the things he would do.' it is a fascinating, thought-provoking work, that should lead us to further research, and the application of Jesus' teachings (and those of the Essenes) in our everyday lives.
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