Jesus Christ: A Different Story?

Question

Read this story version of Jesus Christ and tell me what you think of it

Mary gives birth to a baby boy. She and her husband- Joseph named him Jesus.

At age 12 Jesus has a debate with a group of Jewish teachers and subsequently looses his faith in God. Fearing the consequences of confessing his apostasy, he runs away and flees Jerusalem

He migrates to India and eventually discovers Buddhism. After doing much study, he rejects his Jewish upbringing and becomes a Buddhist. 

He grows up to become a very wise, peaceful and ethical individual.

At age 30 Jesus returns to Jerusalem to reunite with his family and old friends. He meets his family and apologies to them for running away and being absent for so many years. After making amends with them, he has himself baptized as his way of apologizing to God for his apostasy- despite being an enlightened spiritualist.

Jesus settles back home with his mother and begins teaching the Jewish community the things he personally believes. Everyone is amazed by the enlightening things Jesus is preaching. Several people end up following Jesus and his way of life. Jesus falls in love with Mary Magdalene and secretly marries her.

Rumors start spreading around that Jesus is a new prophet of God or maybe even the prophesied messiah. The Romans hear of these rumors about Jesus.

Judas- one of Jesus' friends and followers betray him to the Romans. Upon discovering this, Jesus orders his wife to flee Jerusalem for her own safety while he will stay behind and face the consequences of influencing his beliefs on the Jewish community.

the Romans come and arrest him. Despite denying he is a prophet or the messiah, the Romans find Jesus guilty of breaking the laws of the Empire by spreading anti-roman messages to the community and starting his own religion. They present Jesus to the Jews where they demand him to be executed for blasphemy. 

Whilst Jesus' wife flee jerusalem, Jesus is executed by crucifixion.

A short time later, locals steal the dead body of Jesus- believing he is indeed the messiah and will come back to life...... but he never did

Jesus stayed dead. He died for the safety of his beloved wife. 

He was born a Jew and died a Buddhist

Miz T · Accepted Answer

I agree with Kaganate.  You've got the bones of a great sci-fi/fantasy book there, you just need to flesh it out.  You write well and you have a good plot, so you're 2/3 of the way there.

You're aware of the legend  that Jesus visited Glastonbury, England, during his teenage years and early 20s and worked in his uncle's (Joseph of Aramathea) tin mine, right?  Your theory may not have as much "evidence" to back it up as the Glastonbury legend, but it does make for an interesting story line.  I'd buy the book.

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I don't think you would be too happy if someone wrote a total random biography for you, and didn't even know you or talk to the people you love or hang out with.  If they just put their own thoughts together to come up with something juicy.

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Cool story bro, but just like the original fairy tale (i mean the story plagiarized from other myths and poetry).. it needs more dragons..
Other than that, not bad.

kaganate · Answer

Not clear what you are asking --

As a skeleton for a work of fiction, its fine -- it all depends on how you work the details out.

As a theological theory -- sorry.
There is no evidence of any non-Middle Eastern influence in Christianity.
Christianity is a syncrethis of Judaism and Helenistic religion and the most likely situation is that this syncrethis happened after its formation as a normative Jewish mystical sect.

ie: Jesus (or whoever the originators of Christianity were), was most likely a normative Jewish mystic (for the closest modern analogy, call him a Hassid)
As the Jewish followers fell away after his death, the institution that was Christianity bent further and further in accomodating Greeks, Egyptians, and Romans, until all its Judaism was abandoned -- eventualy Judaism became viewed as the main competitor 
and finaly demonized.

(parentheticaly, there is far more plausible evidence for interaction with Budhism in post-Roman Jewish mysticism)

Anonym · Answer

I think I'll stick to the real story of the life of Jesus.

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Cool story bro...

Hellyeah · Answer

Now THAT is a story that's actually believable

Ftwasher · Answer

just an fyi, their teachings are not compatible

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If it is not the story that is in the bible then its not worth reading............>

Jesus Christ: A Different Story?

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