How do people know what he looked like?...Iam thinking about this because if i have hair the way Jesus has in those paintings of him iam going to dedicate my life to that while playing the guitar and saxophone...Some thoughts?
If you start a blues band you need minimum one person who looks like Jesus.. it just isn't the blue without Jesus.
Given that at the time that part of the world was occupied by Rome and the predominant hair style for men was short. Then add to that the prophetic description given in Isaiah 53.2-3; "He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. I actually think he probably looked more like Mel Brooks, a short plain, even ugly person with very Semintic features. On top of that they beat him beyond recognition when he was crucified. He most definitly did not look like the ruggedly handsome anglo-saxon type we see in the pictures.
no one knows what jesus looked like, most pics are just ideals from the time they were made... i guess in todays society jesus would look like a young hooligan with his pants halfway down his ass................
Reminds me of something I heard: "If Jesus were to walk into a room full of devout Christians in today's age without them knowing who he was, they would probably turn to him and tell him to move his dirty hippie ass out of the room".
I think I kinda look like Jesus. Actually any white dude with long darker hair looks like jesus to me even tho jesus was probably black or brown though
There is no way he was black. I am pretty sure he was good looking. In my mind he is a lot like Charles Manson. He probably had long hair because rebels have long hair. C'mon people, think. LOL.:biggrinjester:
he likely could have been as much North African as he could have been any number of races in the middle east at the time. Nubians, Ethiopians, Berbers and other dark skinned folk were in the various meditteranean reaches of the Roman empire and in Israel. there were a hundred other messiah figures like him at the time so any given one of these Jesus of Nazareth like people could have been North African. Migration was commonplace through the middle east and genetic samples prove that there is some african ancestry present in middle eastern populations today.
But not given his lineage. His lineage is very well recorded in the Bible, both maternal and paternal. He was a Hebrew, not Negro. Remember Hebrew is a racial designation, Jewish is a cultural designation. Any race can become a Jewish, but any race cannot become Hebrew. Why all the speculation? If you accept the Bible as a historical document, which most historians do accept it as such, then the answers about his racial origins are very well documented. And other Biblical references suggests that he was not extraordinarily handsome, just a regular guy in appearance.
Actually the predominant hair style of the time for men was short or at the very most shoulder length. C'mon people research then think about what you learn.
PB - and you think a crazy mystic like Jesus wore his hair like everyone else? He was walking on water for Christ sakes! What is the predominant style now PB?:smilielol5:
