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I never said to worship a dark skinned Jesus, I said he was darkskineed. Again to say it does not matter what image is used is of the devil, God warned of this image and you say it does not matter, if the world use this image to inspire connection to God? even if you did wanted to have your own image of Jesus then harm yourself by doing so, don't go around killing people making them worship the beast's image as they did in the past. The beast/nation went over the whole "world' with this image, their intentions were wicked and evil. Their appearance was holy like with their garments and crosses on their robes but their mouth later spoke evil. Rev 13:11. The churches with this image of him all over is most likely cursed down to its very foundation.
The look of the face of Jesus during His years on earth matters less, if anything. It matters only in as much as anyone portrays Him as someone who in the least sense broke or rebelled against the law of God. For example, portraying Jesus clean shaven and/or with long hair would be wrong (Lev.19:27,21.5, Eze.44:20, 1Cor.11:14-15). Speaking of long hair, as we have no indications that He took any nazarite (not to be confused with nazarene) wows. As He kept the law in all, He must have worn applicable garments and can not have worn any immodest apparel. How Jesus looks like today has already been mentioned with the scripture of Revelation 1:13-15.
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TheRealTruth, I don't quite understand what you're trying to say.
Portraying Jesus as beardless wouldn't be wrong - and can't be. Even if it's inaccurate, Jesus wasn't born bearded; as a young man, he would have had his beard come in, and at any rate, art is representational, not literal - a "literal portrait" of Jesus doesn't exist and cannot exist.
There are and were light-skinned Judeans just as there are dark-skinned and light-skinned variants of all skin colors today. The Bible gives us characteristics, but I don't think they can be taken as authoritatively descriptive - bearded, yes, fine, but we don't know what kind of beard nor do we know what color his hair was. It's all assumptions.
Images of Jesus are representational only. As representations, it doesn't matter quite as much how accurate they are. An image used to inspire, not as an object of worship, isn't something that's "of the devil" or whatever -- and I don't think that it really matters what he looked like in your mind or mine, as long as we understand who He is and what He is for us.
Portraying Jesus as beardless wouldn't be wrong - and can't be. Even if it's inaccurate, Jesus wasn't born bearded; as a young man, he would have had his beard come in, and at any rate, art is representational, not literal - a "literal portrait" of Jesus doesn't exist and cannot exist.
There are and were light-skinned Judeans just as there are dark-skinned and light-skinned variants of all skin colors today. The Bible gives us characteristics, but I don't think they can be taken as authoritatively descriptive - bearded, yes, fine, but we don't know what kind of beard nor do we know what color his hair was. It's all assumptions.
Images of Jesus are representational only. As representations, it doesn't matter quite as much how accurate they are. An image used to inspire, not as an object of worship, isn't something that's "of the devil" or whatever -- and I don't think that it really matters what he looked like in your mind or mine, as long as we understand who He is and what He is for us.
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The oldest painting of Jesus comes from the Eastern Orthodox Tradition and was done in the 6th century in Sinai. This is what it looks like:
Here is an article about how this painting of Jesus was likely replicated from the Shroud of Turin. Here, read it: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...l_sinay.jpg/310px-Spas_vsederzhitel_sinay.jpg
The Shroud of Turin is also linked to be the Image of Edessa, read about that here: The History of the Shroud of Turin from Edessa to Constantinople
Here is an article about how this painting of Jesus was likely replicated from the Shroud of Turin. Here, read it: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...l_sinay.jpg/310px-Spas_vsederzhitel_sinay.jpg
The Shroud of Turin is also linked to be the Image of Edessa, read about that here: The History of the Shroud of Turin from Edessa to Constantinople
Looks like he's had a hard night. lol