Jesus i Japan?
Man kan bl.a. her http://www.perillos.com/info03.html læse følgende teori om jesus blandt knap 40.000 japanere som besøger landsbyen, Shingo:
June 1, 2006: A Japanese tomb of Christ ?
For two millennia the farming village of Shingo claims to have protected a tradition that Jesus spent most of his life in Japan. The village is the home of Sajiro Sawaguchi, a man in his eighties who claims to be a direct descendant of Jesus and whose family has always owned the land in which it is said that Christ is buried.
Mr Sawaguchi emerged as Jesus’ heir only in 1935, when a priest in Ibaraki discovered a document in ancient Japanese purporting to be Christ’s will. This document supposedly identifies Shingo as the location of the tombs of Jesus and Isukiri. About 40,000 Japanese visit the site every year.
According to the account, Christ arrived in Japan at the age of 21 and learnt Japanese before returning to Judaea 12 years later to engage in his mission and preach about the “holy land of Japan”. The official Shingo history is that Jesus’ place on the Cross was “casually” taken by his brother, leaving Christ free to return to Japan. On his return he fell in love with Miyuko, a local girl, and lived happily with his family among the rice fields until dying aged 106.
Det burde være interessant for de kristne at notere sig hvor mange forskellige historier der er om deres jesus. Men det forholder sig ganske anderledes. Når man kaster et kursorisk blik på bl.a. Usenet opdages det hurtigt, at den slags historier kan vække meget stor harme.
Hvorfor mon?
Fordi en skrøbelig historie ikke kan holde vand, og derfor bliver enhver ny teori farlig, ganske som jeg var inde på i mine indlæg om både Da Vinci og Rambaldi m.fl. Mere om den sag senere. Der er nye artikler på vej nu hvor domænet succesfuldt er overflyttet til ny og bedre webhost.
God weekend.