The face of Jesus.
Posted on: January 16, 2009 - 9:29pm
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The face of Jesus.
A thought just occured to me a little while ago and I thought I might share. I was thinking, hey, if Christians really believe that God exists, why does the physical form of Jesus seem to always be portrayed as to what God would look like? They have no other frame of reference. As a side note, how did believers come up with the features of Jesus if he didn't exist? I'm kind of on the fence about the existence of Jesus anyway. If the guy existed, he was just a whacked out hallucinator that convinced other hallucinators that he was the son of God. The only "real" depiction of God is in the Creation of Adam painting in the Sistine Chapel, but he looks so much like Zeus or Odin that it's laughable.
So, anyway, any thoughts?
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I'm not sure where they get it from either. Jesus always looks like a hippie, which is everthing the fundies despise. I would think if he existed at all he would look like other people from the area. Not some mid 30's "white america" guy.
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.
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I Cor. 11:14 - Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
Shows how well the jeebus phreeks know their own work of fiction. Another thing, how does nature teach them that point when hair will continue to grow until it is cut?
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See, it's shit like that that makes me go all Ambiguously Gay Duo. It's like where do these fuckers get their imagery??
Images of the jeebus were undoubtedly made when long hair was popular and people couldn't read or were not allowed to read the bible.
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The best Discription of Jesus was in Isaiah 53:2 "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him" He was ordinary looking. Yet, we all look at the white beautiful face that is commonly passed around. It is more attractive right? More acceptable, but that was not his view, or the view that God wanted us to have
You know the beauty that our society holds up, is not so biblical. It is inside the heart where the true beauty lies. When you see someone in need, and give them food to eat and take care of them, that is the true beauty.
Jesus possibly was more dark than white.
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After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.
The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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It's all about Buddy Christ. He's the only representation of a savior that should be in churches, on the sides of cheap Mexican candles and in place of those Latino prison tattoos. He'll smoke a joint, get hammered and tell you to be groovy every day, damnit.
This makes no sense. How would they know what god looks like to begin with? They can't, so how can they portray Jesus as looking like god? Unless you meant they portray Jesus how they think god would 'look'?
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring" -- Carl Sagan
...yeah.
Anyway, since I'm sure most Christians get depictions of Jesus through the bible, how did they come to the conclusion that Jesus would look the way he's portrayed? Did they just jot down notes on who they saw, eventually picked a guy based on muscled-up labor build to represent the every man of the time and said "make it so?" As I said, their god is only ever personified through Jesus and, as we all know, he's supposed to be the SON of God so, do the math on what believers "see" when they think about what their creator looks like.
For all we know, God is a rollerblading drag queen hopped up on absinthe and paint chips.