Posted on 11/05/2002 2:05:43 AM PST by Timesink
I've always figured that the sallow, effeminate depictions of Jesus weren't right. After all, the guy was a carpenter in a time when everything was done by hand.
He'd have had big, strong, workman's hands and arms. He'd have had a face that was sharp-featured like the image on the Shroud of Turin -- something to set him apart.
He apparently met the expectations of those who though of the Messiah as a military conqueror -- meaning he was probably not smaller than average, possibly larger -- he certainly had whatever it is about natural leaders that fairly shouts, "follow me."
Joseph Lieberman, Paul Newman, Ted Koppel, Harrison Ford, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Kirk Douglas, Kevin Costner, Stephen Breyer, Yitzhak Rabin, Michael Landon, Lorne Greene, Mike Wallace, Benjamin Netanyahu, William Shatner, Douglas Fairbanks, Cary Grant, Leonard Bernstein, Paul Simon, Ariel Sharon, David Frost, Morley Safer, Ari Fleischer,
Steve Balmer, Jack Benny, Alan King, Casper Weinberger, Carl Reiner, George Burns, Red Buttons, Sam Levinson, Bernard Goldberg, Robert Downey Jr., Dustin Hoffman, Michael Douglas, Peter Sellers, Tony Curtis, Edward G. Robinson, Wolf Blitzer, Mel Torme, Paul Wellstone, Peter Falk, Leonard Nimoy, Jerry Springer, Arlen Spector, William Cohen,
Barry Goldwater, Robert Rubin, William Roth, Howard Metzenbaum, Hyman Rickover, Robert Reich, Russ Feinberg, Stanley Mosk, Arthur Burns, Milton Friedman, Bill Kristol, Victor Borge, William Kristol, Warren Rudman, etc.
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Maybe. But there is no Biblical evidence whatever to support the myth that he spent his life (after age 12) pounding nails.
Not true. Mark 6:3 says, "Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph,[1] Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.
At any rate, we do know he didn't really make an appearance as a spiritual leader until the wedding at Cana -- he had to have done something before then, and given that Joseph was a carpenter, it's reasonable to assume Jesus was, too.
IY?
Jesus got a fast car
He's got a ticket to anywhere
Maybe you can make a deal
Maybe together you can get somewhere...
No, the Times is cool. It's the Washington Post that's all anal-retentive.
Thus "What Would Jesus Do It Yourself"
For this you need forensic anthropology, whatever that is?
The Jesus, Mary, etc look Italian in paintings by Da Vinci, but German in paintings by Friedrich. Something about painting from posed living models, maybe?
There is a Biblical foundation for Jesus being very unattractive.
Isaiah 52:2 "...he had no form or comliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him." Vs. "...as one from whom men hide their faces..."(Revised Standard Edition.)
Are you gonna go my way?
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