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What did Jesus look like?

The Hammer

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Premium Member
I have had people tell me that there is no need to guess about what Jesus looked like.
There is a picture or rather, an image of him:

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The first one reminds me of Odin.
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Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I don't know what he looked like, but as a kid, my piano teacher had a beautiful painting of him as a black man with medium length dredlocks. It was my most favorite picture of him ever... if I ever saw a copy, I'd buy it, despite not being a Christian. The artist had managed to capture so much emotion in his expression... So often in artwork, he looks kind of stoic... but in this one he looked as human as the next guy. It was one of the few pieces of Christian artwork I found emotionally stirring.
I think black Jesus is cool. Especially with white hair.
 

MatthewA

Active Member
According to the bible he wasn't all that attractive, or all that everyone ever wanted. Could be wrong but either way, we all still bleed the same color, red.

Isaiah 53:2 “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.
 

Brickjectivity

Turned to Stone. Now I stretch daily.
Staff member
Premium Member
Some say black, some say white. I believe that he looked something like this:
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by Bas Uterwijk
Whatever he looks like he would not look good to you or to me or to whoever sees him. We would look away. We would not like the feelings that his visage gave to us.
"...he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not...." Isaiah 53:3 Chapter 53 is the suffering servant chapter that is referred to in the gospels.
 
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