(OPINION) Express – A Japanese museum has introduced a full display of heresy, claiming that Jesus Christ did not die on the cross on Calvary Hill, Jerusalem, but rather fled to Japan where he lived out the rest of his days. According to the Bible, Jesus was sentenced to death by crucifixion in Jerusalem, before he was resurrected three days later and ascended to heaven. However, one Japanese museum tells an entirely different story, claiming the Messiah fled the Holy Land to live out the rest of his life in Shingo Village in the very north of the Japanese mainland.
The story first emerged in 1935 when a local named Kiyomaro Takeuchi claimed to have found 1,900-year-old texts which showed that Jesus traveled to Japan during the ‘Lost Years’ of the Bible. The lost years of Jesus are the 17 years in the Bible where there are no mentions of Christ’s life between the ages of 12 and 29. According to the apparent text discovered by Takeuchi, Jesus went to Japan to study theology before returning to Jerusalem. However, when Christ was sentenced to death, he fled the country and his brother, apparently called Isukiri, volunteered to take his place at the cross. READ MORE
