What does Jesus look like according to the Bible?

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JaumeJ

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Everyone should consider that all who come to believe Jesus Yeshua are grafted into the original vint, Israel, but not the one of old and never theone today, but the Israel of God is all who truly believe. Israel may be tranlated fully as ruling with El, God.

Also elsewhere in the New Testament we are taught that we are adopted children of God when we come to Jesus Yeshua.

If anyone thinks the two Israel's that have been on this earth are the eternal, I have nothing but abject pity for them.
 

JaumeJ

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Adm may be said to be mankind while the root of adam is dam, meaning red. Dam Dam means bright red. Adam also means earth or dust. From Adam we come and to adam we return when we pass on.

Research it for yourselves. I have. I enen stayed on a kibbutz in Israel for six mongths.
 
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Adam does not mean that. It means human being. The word comes from a root word that means ruddy or red but that is a different word. Mixing definitions from root words is known as root fallacy.

H120
אָדָם
'âdâm
aw-dawm'
From H119; ruddy, that is, a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.): - X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Total KJV occurrences: 541

Green is the origin or root of the word, red is the definition, purple are the translation choices. Never mix them up.
It does.Your'e right.
 

ewq1938

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Adm may be said to be mankind while the root of adam is dam

No, the root is still adam but is written and pronounced slightly differently.

H120
אָדָם
'âdâm
aw-dawm'
From H119; ruddy, that is, a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.): - X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Total KJV occurrences: 541


H119
אָדַם
'âdam
aw-dam'
To show blood (in the face), that is, flush or turn rosy: - be (dyed, made) red (ruddy).
Total KJV occurrences: 10


Human = 'âdâm אָדָם
root word of human/adam = 'âdam אָדַם

Notice the slight difference in spelling with the small marks.
 

Blik

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God is not flesh at all, God is spirit. Spirit has no body, it is invisible to our eyes. We are not to make a fleshly image calling it an image of God, that is an idol we make in our mind, and we are not to worship an idol.

Why does God forbid making of graven images? Because any image that man makes is inaccurate and inadequate and it cannot represent Him.

Scripture is spirit, and the spirit of scripture uses symbolism. The OT is full of symbolism. To be circumcised is symbolically done by cutting flesh, symbolic of true circumcision. Biblical diet of the OT is symbolic of not feeding our minds anything dirty. Scriptures that tell of fleshly images of God are meant to be understood symbolically, God is not flesh at all.

John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
 

Bob-Carabbio

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Jesus was physically plain-looking. Not ugly, but not handsome either.

Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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.

....Which is a good thing so that we're not following Him around for all the wrong, shallow reasons.

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That covers it nicely. If Jesus and satan were walking side by side, satan would be the GOOD looking one. The monster with the horns, red pajamas, and tail is the way satan WANTS US to think he looks.
 

John146

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God is not flesh at all, God is spirit. Spirit has no body, it is invisible to our eyes. We are not to make a fleshly image calling it an image of God, that is an idol we make in our mind, and we are not to worship an idol.

Why does God forbid making of graven images? Because any image that man makes is inaccurate and inadequate and it cannot represent Him.

Scripture is spirit, and the spirit of scripture uses symbolism. The OT is full of symbolism. To be circumcised is symbolically done by cutting flesh, symbolic of true circumcision. Biblical diet of the OT is symbolic of not feeding our minds anything dirty. Scriptures that tell of fleshly images of God are meant to be understood symbolically, God is not flesh at all.

John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
God the Father is a spirit, however, Jesus is bone and flesh.
 

JaumeJ

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God the Father is a spirit, however, Jesus is bone and flesh.
It will be very depressing indeed if any believer does not know that our bidies will be as that of our Savior is NOW,not as it was during His first advent.
We do not know what He is like but we do know that we, male and female alike, will be just as He is, not He but like He is.

The glorified Body is not one of flesh and bone, but totally Spirit and totally eternal.
 

John146

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It will be very depressing indeed if any believer does not know that our bidies will be as that of our Savior is NOW,not as it was during His first advent.
We do not know what He is like but we do know that we, male and female alike, will be just as He is, not He but like He is.

The glorified Body is not one of flesh and bone, but totally Spirit and totally eternal.
The spiritual body of the Lord was flesh and bone after the resurrection. He could be touched and handled, he ate food, and yet, he could go right through walls. What we can know is directly from the word of God. Yes? Did the Lord change bodies when he ascended into heaven? Isn't he still a man and yet God?

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
 

JaumeJ

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As Isaiah has taught us in chapter 9 verse 6. Jesus Yeshua was to have such titles as God Almighty, Everlasting Father, Ruler of peace, Counselor, Covmforter and if I am leaving any of His titlesout, I am sorry but the ones I remember here cover the Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit.

I do not pretend to understand how this is, but due to the gift given me by the kFasgther, I believe this lesson of mystery. I do know it has a lot to do with when God spoke to Moses declaring He would be What he would be.

Keep teaching things you do not believe fully; it will get you nowhere. Follow Jesus Yeshua.
 
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No, the root is still adam but is written and pronounced slightly differently.

H120
אָדָם
'âdâm
aw-dawm'
From H119; ruddy, that is, a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.): - X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Total KJV occurrences: 541


H119
אָדַם
'âdam
aw-dam'
To show blood (in the face), that is, flush or turn rosy: - be (dyed, made) red (ruddy).
Total KJV occurrences: 10


Human = 'âdâm אָדָם
root word of human/adam = 'âdam אָדַם

Notice the slight difference in spelling with the small marks.
I don’t see the man Adam as the root of mankind. But to the point Jesus was white.
 
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121 is Adam the person.
120 is adam as in humanity
119 is adam which means red/ruddy
I think we believe close to the same, perhaps just different approaches.

The first time the word “adam” is used in Genesis 1:26 it has no article or particle which denotes adam is man, any man, men, mankind…

So at this point God is about to create mankind, the man Adam as not yet come into the fold.
 

ewq1938

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I think we believe close to the same, perhaps just different approaches.

The first time the word “adam” is used in Genesis 1:26 it has no article or particle which denotes adam is man, any man, men, mankind…

So at this point God is about to create mankind, the man Adam as not yet come into the fold.
So, are you saying "eth ha-adam" is specific for Adam of Genesis 2 and is not found in Gen 1 for the man created there?
 
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So, are you saying "eth ha-adam" is specific for Adam of Genesis 2 and is not found in Gen 1 for the man created there?
No… Not at all…

Literally, 'eth haa Aadam, means This same man (that particular being spoken of). So that:
in Gen 2:7 we know that "This same man" is talking about the one that the Lord God formed in the Garden of Eden;
however, the 'eth haa Aadam "This same man" in Gen 1:27 is speaking of the male of the species who was created in the image of God (which is male - all angels and God are male - there is no female form in a spiritual body). This can be seen by carefully reading the Scripture.​
The Particle and Article in Gen 1:27 is to denote that the man (the male of the species) is made in the image of 'Elohiym (God) unlike the female;

but in Gen 2:7 the Article and the Particle are to denote that this particular man (on the eighth day or after) in the Garden was formed by Yehovah 'Elohiym (the Lord God) apart from the males created on the previous creation (on the sixth day).
 

ewq1938

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So basically the idea of "eth ha-adam" is not specific to the Adam mentioned in Gen 2. Why mention it at all then? It does not prove Adam of Gen 2 is not Adam of Gen 1. I believe they are different people but "eth ha-adam" doesn't prove it.

In the past the claim was that "eth ha-adam" only appeared in Gen 2 and not Gen 1 and it was used to show the whole "8th day Adam" belief, until someone checked then that whole argument fell apart.
 
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So basically the idea of "eth ha-adam" is not specific to the Adam mentioned in Gen 2. Why mention it at all then? It does not prove Adam of Gen 2 is not Adam of Gen 1. I believe they are different people but "eth ha-adam" doesn't prove it.

In the past the claim was that "eth ha-adam" only appeared in Gen 2 and not Gen 1 and it was used to show the whole "8th day Adam" belief, until someone checked then that whole argument fell apart.
That’s where I believe you are making your mistake… There is no “adam” in Genesis 2..

eth-ha-adam in Genesis 1 denotes “adam”

eth-ha-adam in Genesis 2 denotes “ha-adam”

'adam
is man, any man, men, mankind.
haa-'adam
with the Article is the man.
'eth haa-'adam with the Article & Particle is this particular man Adam
 

ewq1938

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That’s where I believe you are making your mistake… There is no “adam” in Genesis 2..

eth-ha-adam in Genesis 1 denotes “adam”

eth-ha-adam in Genesis 2 denotes “ha-adam”

You just confirmed there is an "adam" in Genesis 2. What is my mistake supposed to be?
 
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You just confirmed there is an "adam" in Genesis 2. What is my mistake supposed to be?
There is no “adam” in Genesis 2 there is only “ha-adam”‘article… and eth-ha-adam article and particle.

I’m not trying to split hairs, but it’s important you notice the article in Genesis 2.
There is no mankind mentioned in Genesis 2 only the man. Singular.