What the real Jesus looked like

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09 Mar 2014, 2:51 pm

I am tired of these cliche, errant images of the Hippy Jesus. This is what I think the real Jesus looked like, more or less:

and I challenge Hollywood to quite churning out hippy Jesus films like Son of God and make a real film about a radical Jewish rabbi who dare turn on the establishment in favor of something different. The portrait of a daring, brave reformer.

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09 Mar 2014, 2:54 pm

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09 Mar 2014, 3:00 pm

I think he was more a rabbi than shepherd or peasant and that he had the stern look of one of the ancient rabbis.

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09 Mar 2014, 3:27 pm

Pictures of Jesus really scare me. I think I've got a bit of a phobia.

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09 Mar 2014, 3:42 pm

I don't find him scary at all.

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09 Mar 2014, 3:47 pm

I think it's because of all the supernatural stuff.

It's a bit spooky for me.

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09 Mar 2014, 3:49 pm

babybird wrote:

I think it's because of all the supernatural stuff.

It's a bit spooky for me.

I think he was a radical. It's a shame we never get to see the real Jesus.

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09 Mar 2014, 3:53 pm

So why do they make him out to be a miracle worker?

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09 Mar 2014, 4:03 pm

babybird wrote:

So why do they make him out to be a miracle worker?

Because Rabbis were more apt to be like this back then. They were multi dimensional and they would help people in many ways. This was before Christianity. So, instead of seeing nuns and whatnot performing various tasks, you saw people like the Rabbi and his apostles.

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09 Mar 2014, 4:39 pm

I've learned more today, than I've learned in the whole of my life.

You wouldn't believe it. I've been backwards and forwards between here and Wikipedia more times than Soft Mick's had hot dinners.

So Jesus was like Mother Teresa then?

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09 Mar 2014, 4:41 pm

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Hahahaha! Do you think he really was?

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09 Mar 2014, 4:43 pm

I don't know.

You said that they was like nuns. :lol:

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09 Mar 2014, 5:05 pm

babybird wrote:

I don't know.

You said that they was like nuns. :lol:

Nuns and whatnot.
So Jesus was more like a whatnot than a nun :lol:

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09 Mar 2014, 6:00 pm

You didn't like this Jesus?

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09 Mar 2014, 6:24 pm

That's so cute, Arrant! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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09 Mar 2014, 7:28 pm

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I think he was more a rabbi than shepherd or peasant and that he had the stern look of one of the ancient rabbis.

He was supposedly a carpenter. A blue collar tradesmen with hard muscles. Likely very 'peasant-like', and not your scholarly rabbi type.

My complaint is about the Jesus in all of the pics my grandma had of him in her Kansas home in which he was Wasp looking guy with blue eyes and auburn hair. He had to have been more semitic looking than that. More like a modern Arab, or an Oriental Jew than a Wasp Kansas Methodist.

But on the other hand - he could be also be interpreted as a political agitator and
revolutionary. "Ive come as lighter fires and wielder of swords"-something like that. If you cherry pick from his words you could come up with many different Jesuses. Its a conundrum.

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