Jesus Birthplace Nazareth

Why are all of the New Testament epistles completely silent about Christian holy places?

In all the Christian writers of the 1st century, in all the devotion they display about Christ and the new faith, not one of them ever expresses the slightest desire to see the birthplace of Jesus, to visit Nazareth his home town, the sites of his preaching, the upper room where he held his Last Supper, the hill on which he was crucified, or the tomb where he was buried and rose from the dead. Not only is there no evidence that anyone showed an interest in such places, they go completely unmentioned. The words Bethlehem, Nazareth and Galilee never appear in the epistles, and the word Jerusalem is never used in connection with Jesus. Why?
byHisgrace: I am talking about the EPISTLES. Can you read?
NoChance, to use your nickname: What is the chance that all of them go completely unnoticed? The events of Jesus’ life should have been at the center of the minds of the epistle writers. What is the chance that they go completely unmentioned?

The focus of Christianity was (and still should be) on Jesus Christ himself, not wherever he happened to have walked by. Jesus even mentioned that holy places are irrelevant since we can have God’s Holy Spirit directly connect to us & can worship Him in spirit wherever we may be.

Here’s the except from the Bible that shows where Jesus answers to the Samaritan woman at the well relate to this question. (John 4:19-24) So those with a bias against reading scriptures, sorry but it does apply.
John 4:19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.
John 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
John 4:21 Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
John 4:22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
John 4:24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” (NIV) [1]

There is no need for a temple, or central physical places on earth to be revered as holy. We all can worship God in spirit directly, with no middle-man or limitations. Jesus paid it all on the cross so we can be considered children of God who can freely come to Him. [2] There was too many more exciting things to see and do, like avoid execution, heal the blind,& tell others about Jesus, than to take time and put a plaque in an upper room.

I think when governments, organizations, and land-grabs got involved with other groups taking and pushing people out then crusades and other misguided wars over the Holy places began. But it is not necessary for the 1st Christians and is not needed today either. Be cool to go and see the historical places & evidences as a tourist, but will have to wait until it’s a bit safer.

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