Cable network is exploring a project about The Lost Years of Jesus. Since little is known of Jesus’s life from age 12 to when he started his ministry, I can only surmise that this project has less to do with the real Jesus and more to do with money.
The writer is Scot Kosas who co-wrote such artistic films as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Amityville Horror and The Crazies. Producers will be Eli Roth and Eric Newman who are associated with The Last Exorcism franchise.
As a matter of fact, Deadline Hollywood reports that The Lost Years was conceived in the horror genre exploring a theory about Jesus’ origins as an exorcist. The word Blasphemy comes to mind. But then again I considered the History Channel’s The Bible mini-series blasphemous.
Written by Roma Downey and her husband, the series was written from a left perspective based on the New International Version of the Bible that twisted, deleted, changed and mangled the Word. As presented by Downey and company, The Bible mini-series not only distorted the stories they attempted to tell but totally ignored the message of salvation which is, after all, the main purpose of God’s word. Downey used celebrity ministers T.D. Jakes, Rick Warren of Saddleback Church, Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church and Jim Wallis of Sojourners among others as advisors on the project, all of which teach feel-good New Age false doctrines.
While I fully support their right to make this project, I must admit it would certainly disappoint me if they did, just as it disappointed me that the Christian community swallowed the garbage known as The Bible mini-series.
There are numerous stories and traditions about Christ during the years before he began to teach. My favorite, and in my opinion, the most believable, is the Traditions of Glastonbury, researched, investigated and written by E. Raymond Capt in 1987.
A poem written in 1804 by William Burke and set to music in 1916 by Hubert Parry asks: “And did those feet in ancient times walk upon England’s mountain’s green? And was the Holy Lamb of God on England’s pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine shine forth upon our clouded hills?
While no one can definitely prove that Christ visited England with his uncle Joseph of Arimathea, it is a proven fact that Joseph, known by the Roman title of ‘Nobilus Decurio,‘ was in England on numerous occasions to visit the lead mines of the Mendip Hills. There is also tradition that some of the disciples and Mary traveled to Glastonbury after the crucifixion and built the first Christian Church. It was around this wattle church that the Abby of Glastonbury was constructed, dedicated to the mother of Christ. Testimony to the existence of this first church can be found in a letter of Augustine to Pope Gregory, attesting to the fact that the first Christian Church was established in England.
