Wanted: Jesus Christ

[helemon]

http://www.carryabigsticker.com/images/jesus_poster_500.gif
http://www.carryabigsticker.com/images/jesus_poster_500.gif

[free thinker]

I would love to know what this man actually looked like!

Unfortunately Deguerre came along about 1840 years too late. I mean no disrespect. I realy would love to know what he looked like!!


Free Thinker

[helemon]

I would love to know what this man actually looked like!

Unfortunately Deguerre came along about 1840 years too late. I mean no disrespect. I realy would love to know what he looked like!!


Free Thinker
A recreation of one of his contemporaries:
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/jesus/photo/gallery/jesus_zoom5.jpg
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/jesus/photo/slide_05.html

http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/looklike.htm
If anything, people wondered how such an ordinary-looking man could be The Savior.

The Lord did hard outside physical labor, with Joseph in Nazareth, until He was about 30 years old. Back then, the building trade involved very strenuous physical labor with heavy stone and lumber, without any sort of power tools or mechanical digging equipment that are in use today. Unlike many religious pictures that portray Jesus as a pale, skinny, effeminate man with long hair and wearing a flowing white or pink robe (all of which may well be far closer to what Satan looks like), Christ could have looked nothing like that. His appearance would definitely have been that of a tanned, muscular, physically-fit young man dressed in durable and practical clothing - which made Him indistinguishable from the "blue-collar" Fishermen who were with Him when He was arrested. The prophet Isaiah confirms His ordinary appearance -

"He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces

The apostle Paul (see On The Road To Damascus) actually saw Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 9:1). Paul, a trustworthy man who wrote a large part of the New Testament, knew exactly what The Lord looked like. In 1 Corinthians 11:14, Paul wrote, "if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him." It's quite unthinkable that Paul would have made such a statement if Jesus Christ had long hair.

[Born Free]

You mean Christ was not a gun-totin', unprincipled profit-maxin' capitalist, conservative-voting , RV-driving, Pro-Life, redneck?

Must be readin' the wrong Bible!

Go wash your filthy mouth out with soap.

And Helemon, that countenance is nothing like the good Aryan folk depicted in the artwork in the Temple. Where did you get such a Mediterrean type from?

[free thinker]

You mean Christ was not a gun-totin', unprincipled profit-maxin' capitalist, conservative-voting , RV-driving, Pro-Life, redneck?

Must be readin' the wrong Bible!

Go wash your filthy mouth out with soap.

And Helemon, that countenance is nothing like the good Aryan folk depicted in the artwork in the Temple. Where did you get such a Mediterrean type from?
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I love it Daryl!! :cool:

Helemon that is another interesting portrayal.

Knowing how myths are created, I would be inclined to agree with any description that was antithical to what the mythology depicts.

" Almost thou persuadest me to be a christian" !!

Free Thinker

[dogzilla]

You mean Christ was not a gun-totin', unprincipled profit-maxin' capitalist, conservative-voting , RV-driving, Pro-Life, redneck?

Must be readin' the wrong Bible!

Go wash your filthy mouth out with soap.

And Helemon, that countenance is nothing like the good Aryan folk depicted in the artwork in the Temple. Where did you get such a Mediterrean type from?

That was funny. I, too, was trying to figure out how come Jesus was the one and only blond-haired, blue-eyed Jew from the Middle East? No wonder his parenthood has been questioned. We know Mary had dark eyes and dark hair... like any Jewish mom. God must be Aryan. . . :p ;)