Why did Jesus apparently go to Brazil from age 12-30 according to Mormons?

Because they made it up?

Besides, he went to Britain.

He went there for the Carnival !

ZZTop says Jesus was in Chicago and New Orleans, go USA!

He’s in my basement, playing Air Hockey.

Maybe he went there to preach???

For the beaches.
Well, not the beaches. But rather, what’s on the beaches.

He didn’t.

@Val123, Jesus didn’t go to Brazil?

He didn’t thats not in our doctrine.

@smashbox No. He didn’t go to Britain, either. Or to North America, like some believe.

@Val12, thanks.

@smashbox I’m sorry! But….it’s a completely illogical to think that he went any more than a hundred miles from his homeland, given the travel restrictions of the time, as well as the lack of knowledge about the rest of the world. The European Seafarers hadn’t even ventured that far by that time…well, they had made it to Britain by then, along with the Romans, but it’s not likely that Jesus would have had any reason to catch a ride with any of them. They were all battle ships, AND they were thousands and thousands of miles away from him.

@troubleinharlem We do believe that he visited the America’s after his resurrection though. That maybe where the information you heard came from.

@willbrawn I hadn’t heard about Brazil either.

Perhaps it is one of the beliefs of a certain type of Mormonism?

@gemiwing its not necessarly brazil, just that region. And its the LDS faith “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”. Even the break-off sects should believe that too.

@willbrawn ; yeah, my information is probably wrong. south america is what you believe in?

@Val123 ; that’s what I’m saying. This is before Columbus and Magellan and all that stuff. It doesn’t make sense.

Sorry for my ignorance, but I don’t know anything about the Mormons or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, except that I know the names exist. I didn’t mean to offend anyones belief. I think I will go to the library later, and read about this subject.

@troubleinharlem ya south and central roughly, the exact location isnt known.

@willbrawn ; okay. I just don’t see how that would work. My mum just said that after the resurrection, he could appear/disappear at any time.

@Blackberry hey they work, why you hating.

@willbrawn bahahahah: yes i’m laughing at you.
there’s something odd about hating on mormons though isnt there?

As if believing in a cosmic Jewish zombie-messiah of virgin birth to himself and his mother and accepting him as your savior to save you from some evil force implanted in you due to a rib-women eating from a magical tree due to a talking evil snake isn’t “illogical” to begin with.

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@Rsam I don’t believe what they’re saying either, but just quit, please. No one is insulting you

@troubleinharlem Right. Loooooong before the original explorers. A thousand years and more. And if there were explorers and war vessels that even thought of making a trip like that in Jesus’ time (which they wouldn’t because they knew the world was flat, and they’d eventually fall off the edge of it) they certainly wouldn’t be taking passengers.

As of the time of Jesus, Britian was as far as they’d gotten…because that was just a hop over the English Channel. You can see the UK from France on a clear day, so they knew something was over there.

Because the Mormons reject modern approaches like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_criticism

“Historical criticism or higher criticism is a branch of literary analysis that investigates the origins of a text: as applied in biblical studies it investigates the books of the Bible and compares them to other texts written at the same time, before, or recently after the text in question. Higher criticism treats the Bible as produced by human beings at a particular historical time, which is usually contrasted with the treatment of the Bible as the inerrant word of God.

A group of German biblical scholars at Tübingen University formed the Tübingen school of theology under the leadership of Ferdinand Christian Baur, with important works being produced by Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach and David Strauss. In the early 19th century they sought independent confirmation of the events related in the Bible through Hegelian analysis of the historical records of the Middle East from Christian and Old Testament times.

Today, many Evangelical Protestants oppose the methods of the higher criticism, and hold that the Bible is divinely inspired and incapable of error, at least in its original form.”

As far as I know, the Mormons agree with Evangelical Protestants.

@mattbrowne actually the “Mormon” Latter-Day Saint belief is different. From the Church’s Articles of Faith: We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly….”

@willbrawn – I meant that both the Mormon and the Evangelical Protestant faith reject the Higher Criticism approach, which I support.

BTW…..this question suggests that Jesus wasn’t in the Holy Land at all before he was crucified. He began preaching at the age of 12, and he was 30 when he died!