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Odds are he was in no way a blonde-haired blue-eyed hunk?
Agreed, but was he tall or short, bald as a billiard ball or full head of hair, beard or clean shaven, hunk or skinny as a rail? We don't know because nobody ever gave a physical description of him.
IS 53:2 "For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He has no form [His life was/is a mystery,] nor comeliness [not a hansome man] ; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him."
Not hansome, so that woman would not follow Him for being hansom as a movie star but rather for the Truth/His Charactor.
I don't care at all what Jesus is depicted as looking like.
It doesn't matter.
at all.
to me.
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I was going to say the same thing.
Me, too. I don't understand why people get all bent out of shape over the many paintings of Jesus as a European. Do you think European artists were so well-traveled 500, 1000 years ago that they knew what Middle-Eastern people looked like? Yes, if someone nowadays insisted Jesus must have looked like a Dutchman, well, they're just not thinking.
I'm with the two above. Who cares? It doesn't matter.
These threads always make me think of the Good Times "Black Jesus" episode, when JJ paints Jesus as a black man using Ned The Wino as his model. Giggles.
Odds are he was in no way a blonde-haired blue-eyed hunk?
I saw the completely irreverant and offensive yet hilarious Book Of Mormon last month. Jesus has very light blond hair in the play. It's used a sight gag based on the perceived "whiteness" of the Mormons.
1. Jesus was a man of color based on his description in scripture: hair like wool and feet like bronze and its only one race on the earth that fit that description.
2. What does it matter what he looks like, while in the back of your mind, you know he is more than likely is a man of color.
3. I dont care what Jesus looked like at all, as it doesnt matter.
While I agree, its what Jesus did for us and who he was is what matters more than what he looked like, people have every right to question the feminine European portrayal of him, when history has proven the Europeans have whitewashed the bible and historical figures as well.
IS 53:2 "For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He has no form [His life was/is a mystery,] nor comeliness [not a hansome man] ; and when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him."
Not hansome, so that woman would not follow Him for being hansom as a movie star but rather for the Truth/His Charactor.
If we're going to make the mistake of believing this was a description of Jesus (it is not; it is a description of the "suffering servant", Israel
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Despite strong objections from conservative Christian apologists, the prevailing rabbinic interpretation of Isaiah 53 ascribes the “servant” to the nation of Israel who silently endured unimaginable suffering at the hands of its gentile oppressors.
then perhaps what Isaiah means by "He has no form" is that he has no physical body, but was rather a celestial Being who was made into a human form by his followers, much as the Greeks did with Hercules, by having Hercules assume a bodily form via the legends that grew up around him. Read Richard Carrier's
"On The Historicity of Jesus."
Seriously? You think Jesus is unhappy about the way he's depicted in art?
He is unhappy about being portrayed as a sinner, by those who in reality do not know him.
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