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quixux · 08-07-2004, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Toto

There's no reason to think that he would have been typical. After all, who grows up to be leaders? Usually people who are taller or bigger than average, or people who are shorter than average and are trying to compensate.

How do you know that he wasn't shorter than average, brown and trying to compensate?

Actually, the idea is silly. A short guy is being authoritarian, and he's trying to compensate. A taller guy is being authoritarian, and he's just living up to his potential. :devil3:

Oh, and I just remembered, the model pic in the original post is supposed to be of a male that is around 5'3-5'5" supposedly.

David Mills · 08-07-2004, 03:30 PM

No! No! All of you have it wrong. Our Lord and Savior actually looked like this. You can tell He's really Jesus by the look of omniscience in His eyes.

quixux · 08-07-2004, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by David Mills

No! No! All of you have it wrong. Our Lord and Savior actually looked like this. You can tell He's really Jesus by the look of omniscience in His eyes.

That you? If so, I commend you on your omniscience.

richard2 · 08-07-2004, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Answerer

I'm not sure where this belongs. But if Jesus existed, is this the way he really look like based on records?

Hey, isn't that Saddam Hussein?

Deacon Doubtmonger · 08-07-2004, 09:44 PM

I always loved Cheech Marin's take on this: "The Mexican Jesus has thorns all over his head and barbed wire all over his body. No pretty-boy Protestant with a blow-dry haircut. He bleeds. Catholics believe in redemption through torture ..." (I think this was in the Playboy interview.)

Answerer · 08-07-2004, 10:04 PM

:rolling: :rolling: :rolling:

So many funny responses.

Anyway, does anyone know how this picture of Jesus come about anyway? Through gene data bank? Or some wild surveys of Middle Eastern people's look?

I show this picture to some of my christian friends and they kept telling me that this "guy" must be John the bapist, not Jesus.

Toto · 08-08-2004, 12:42 AM

Discoery Channel

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The computer-generated image of what Christ might have looked like that was created for the program — a swarthy, coarse, vacant-eyed, short-haired man — has dismayed believers and non-believers since it was released at the end of March.

"We in the West have for about 2000 years been wrongly influenced by an Aryan Jesus, who looks like us, even blue-eyed and blond-haired. Nothing is more unfaithful to Jesus," said James Charlesworth, professor of New Testament languages at Princeton Theological Seminary, one of the experts consulted in the documentary.

Created with a 2,000-year-old Jewish skull, ancient religious images and documents, advanced software and the latest forensic techniques, the image is considered the departure point for the closest possible likeness of the historical Jesus: a 1st-century Jewish man who would have lived in the harsh conditions of the time.

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The new image was created by a forensic artist at the University of Manchester using the 2,000-year-old skull of a Jewish man from Israel. Cues on hair and skin tone were taken from frescoes of Jewish faces painted in the third century. The result is a dark-skinned, curly-haired man with a round, robust face and a stout nose.

Amaleq13 · 08-08-2004, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Answerer

I show this picture to some of my christian friends and they kept telling me that this "guy" must be John the bapist, not Jesus.

Why, because it is just a head?

Seriously, though, do they give you a reason?

Answerer · 08-08-2004, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Amaleq13

Seriously, though, do they give you a reason?

All are lame reasons like techniques used to reconstruct the face is deeply flawed as with carbon dating :banghead:, Jesus should be a very handsome guy ( while John was not) as stated in the bible

, pictures of Jesus found in the church are drawn more accurately than by some computer and science nerds :rolling: , etc.

JoyJuice · 08-08-2004, 03:58 AM

Nevermind Jesus, what did Paul, the founder of Christianity look like:

"He saw Paul coming, a man small in size, bald-headed, bandy-legged, well-built, with eyebrows meeting, rather long-nosed, full of grace."

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08-07-2004, 03:30 PM	#12
David Mills Regular Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Huntington, WV Posts: 209	No! No! All of you have it wrong. Our Lord and Savior actually looked like this. You can tell He's really Jesus by the look of omniscience in His eyes.

08-07-2004, 09:44 PM	#15
Deacon Doubtmonger Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Level 6, Inside a Burning Tomb Posts: 1,494	I always loved Cheech Marin's take on this: "The Mexican Jesus has thorns all over his head and barbed wire all over his body. No pretty-boy Protestant with a blow-dry haircut. He bleeds. Catholics believe in redemption through torture ..." (I think this was in the Playboy interview.)

08-07-2004, 10:04 PM	#16
Answerer Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Singapore Posts: 3,956	:rolling: :rolling: :rolling: So many funny responses. Anyway, does anyone know how this picture of Jesus come about anyway? Through gene data bank? Or some wild surveys of Middle Eastern people's look? I show this picture to some of my christian friends and they kept telling me that this "guy" must be John the bapist, not Jesus.

08-08-2004, 03:58 AM	#20
JoyJuice Regular Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Beautiful Downtown Tacoma Posts: 370	Nevermind Jesus, what did Paul, the founder of Christianity look like: "He saw Paul coming, a man small in size, bald-headed, bandy-legged, well-built, with eyebrows meeting, rather long-nosed, full of grace."

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