Posted: 4/5/15 at 1:41pm
Is there one definitive description in the Bible, or does it change according to who you ask?
I hope he looked like Jeffrey Hunter. vavavoom
Updated On: 4/5/15 at 01:41 PM
Posted: 4/5/15 at 2:21pm
haha Jordan! I'm watching King of Kings now and it prompted my question.
Posted: 4/5/15 at 2:41pm
Posted: 4/5/15 at 2:49pm
Jesus looked like the Son of God...because that is who he was.
Updated On: 4/5/15 at 02:49 PM
Posted: 4/5/15 at 2:54pm
But that's like saying that Meryl Streep looks like an actress.
Posted: 4/5/15 at 3:10pm
Exactly. I'm asking for his appearance. What color skin, hair, eyes, etc. did the son of God have?
Posted: 4/5/15 at 3:13pm
I think the only thing we can say for certain is that if he existed, he certainly wasn't a white dude.
Posted: 4/5/15 at 3:52pm
My daughter has this adorable Fisher Price nativity set and the baby Jesus has blond hair and blue eyes. I laugh every time I pick it up.
There is no physical description of Christ in the bible. It's written in Isaiah that he had nothing remarkable about him. He wasn't particularly handsome and had nothing that made people drawn to his physical appearance.
Posted: 4/5/15 at 3:56pm
Interestingly, there are two possible descriptions of him in the Quran. "Red complexion, curly hair and blind in one eye," or, "a person of a yellowish-brown complexion, the most handsome that could be seen of such a colour of men."
Posted: 4/5/15 at 3:56pm
The Bible doesn't describe Jesus' physical description...but it does say in Isaiah 53:2b,: “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to Him, nothing in His appearance that we should desire Him.”
Posted: 4/5/15 at 4:16pm
oh, ok. thanks Jerseygirl and Carlos!
Posted: 4/5/15 at 5:04pm
Well scientifically, w only his momma's DNA- I'mma gonna guess he looked a lot like his mom.
Posted: 4/5/15 at 5:44pm
Well, since Mary was really only the vessel, he probably wasn't biologically connected to her. He wasn't human, so genetics wouldn't be a factor. He could look like anyone. Of course, if he resembled Joseph, that would be a problem. The bottom line is that, fact or fiction, there is little chance he was white with medium brown to sandy blonde hair as he is often seen in American culture.
On a related note, when I was a kid, I always pictured God looking a bit like Gandalf the White.
Posted: 4/5/15 at 5:54pm
God couldn't have looked like a man, right? I mean, didn't God crete everything? So he hadn't created man yet for him to look like.
Posted: 4/5/15 at 6:16pm
Genesis says that God created man in His own image.
Of course, Genesis and the rest of the bible was written by men and translated and tweaked by men and we know about egos. Many believe it's 100% the words of God that He guided men to write. It has been rewritten and changed so many times, that that belief holds no water for me. Satan, a huge part of all current translations was basically just a mischievous pain in the ass in early texts. Somewhere along the way, the Church was losing its grip on the masses and changes things around. I was also told by a theology professor that any mention of homosexuality was added by a king who kept many male lovers. He had the passages added to appease the Church. I can't swear to the validity of that.
Updated On: 4/5/15 at 06:16 PM
Posted: 4/5/15 at 6:44pm
Extrapolating from 1st Century countrymen:
"The result is shown in the left portrait above: a person with abroad peasant's face, dark olive skin, short curly hair and a prominent nose. His height would have been on the order of 5' 1"; he would have weighed about 110 pounds. Alison Galloway, professor of anthropology at the University of California in Santa Cruz , said that: "This [portrait] is probably a lot closer to the truth than the work of many great masters."
Jean Claude Gragard, used the left image in his documentary "Son of God," which was broadcast by the British Broadcasting Commission in 2001. He said:
"Using archaeological and anatomical science rather than artistic interpretation makes this the most accurate likeness ever created. It isn't the face of Jesus, because we're not working with the skull of Jesus, but it is the departure point for considering what Jesus would have looked like."
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/mar/27/broadcasting.uknews2
Posted: 4/5/15 at 6:57pm
He looked like a nice Jewish boy, with dark curly hair.
Posted: 4/5/15 at 7:39pm
King of Kings was laughingly referred to as I Was A Teenage Jesus. Max Von Sydow did well in his portrayal in The Greatest Story Ever Told.Other lesser names played him. One was Claude Heater who played him in Ben Hur. His face was never seen. You only saw him from the back and once in a front shot a distance from the camera.
I remember George Carlin saying "If Christ had been called Bloom, we would all be called Bloomers".
Updated On: 4/5/15 at 07:39 PM
Posted: 4/5/15 at 7:57pm
That's funny cuz it's true!
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