The real face of Jesus

[Spicy McHaggis]

This article is a few years old so maybe it's already been discussed but this paints a completely different picture than all those paintings of Blond-Haired-Blue-Eyed-Surfer Jesus in every LDS chapel.

http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisur ... ate=120116

[wtfluff]

Surfer Jesus

HA!

Thanks for that giggle. Must remember this!

[RubinHighlander]

We all know now, thanks to the essays and apologists, that those artists are not really inspired after all. I mean, look how they portrayed the translation of the BOM! They totally had it wrong and deceived us all those years.

I remember hearing the stories about the inspired artists and their paintings of Jesus. Then I heard a first-hand testimony from a Norwegian actor that played Jesus in the BOM film made in the early 90s (I think that's when it was), then when they were doing his makeup, one of the 12 was there to verify that his look was "How the brethren like to see it." Given that when we drank the koolaid, many of us believed that at least the prophet had face to face chats with Jesus in that special room in the temple, the actor that played Jesus in the film was a dead ringer for those European artistic interpretations of what they thought Jesus should look like. In my book I'd side with the science and not those inspired men who claim they know the Jesus look and this is just one more pile of BS you can heap on the rest!

Even the scriptures say he was not a good looking guy. But I suppose Isaiah could have been wrong as well.
"For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him."

[telemoonka]

I believe we already have a picture of the real face of Jesus, and it's found on the Shroud of Turin.

[Hagoth]

I agree that's probably what Jesus would have looked like but I have always wondered why the artist made him look kind of stupid and bewildered.

[Red Ryder]

I agree that's probably what Jesus would have looked like but I have always wondered why the artist made him look kind of stupid and bewildered.

22 days into a long fast?

[document]

I have known a few LDS people over the years who have claimed to have met Jesus face-to-face. In every single instance they describe him as surfer Jesus, never as a Jew from the first century CE.

[wtfluff]

Along the same lines...



P.S. Where in the world is Jesus' favorite break? Pipeline? Teahupo'o?

[document]

For the same reason that we say "Jesus" instead of "Yeshua" -- the writers of the gospel wrote them in Greek.

[wtfluff]

For the same reason that we say "Jesus" instead of "Yeshua" -- the writers of the gospel wrote them in Greek.

How do you say "Surfer" in Greek?

[SincereInquirer]

I agree that's probably what Jesus would have looked like but I have always wondered why the artist made him look kind of stupid and bewildered.

22 days into a long fast?

This was drawn as he was sitting in the celestial room after going through the temple for the first time...

[alas]

My theory is that he probably had long hair, not just the shoulder length hair usually depicted, but never cut l-o-n-g hair. His cousin John the Baptist was a member of the Essenes, who never cut their hair, as was Samson. Think about how Jesus bad mouthed the Pharisees and Saducees. Doesn't it make sense then that he would be a member of the Jewish sect that was not a Pharisee or Saducees? The same Jewish sect as his cousin? So, Jesus probably never cut his hair. The Essenes did time off alone in the desert fasting.

Paul says that long hair on a man is shameful because Paul was a Roman citizen. He never saw Jesus when Jesus was alive, but saw him in a vision, which would match up with his personal expectation of what Jesus should look like, rather than what he actually did look like.

The long hair on Jesus would not be mentioned because it was normal for men of that sect to never cut their hair, and that would not be mentioned, but just assumed, unless like Samson he got tricked into having a woman chop off his hair.

Si, I disagree with this scientist's depiction on hair length at least.

[No Tof]

I just love to speculate on speculated ideas about speculated people.