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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

Why do all images of Jesus look like this?

http://www.jesuz.com/Jesus-christ_1.jpg

When in actual fact, being an Isreali he probably looked more like this:

http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Phot...

Is it to please Western culture?

Update:

Thick Mick my point exactly.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    It certainly is. You won't get many answers to this. All the western bible bashers will not like the idea of their lord being a "darky".

  • 1 decade ago

    Jesus would have been a very strong and have a lot of muscle. He was a carpenter and would have had to cut down trees, carried them, sawed wood and make furniture. A weak insipid man that history has depicted is not how he was. Plus he had to be betrayed with a kiss, so would have been dark skinned as a middle eastern man so he didnt stand out as different to any jew at the time.

  • Ptah
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The earliest depiction of a bearded Jesus was in the 4th century from the Catacombs of Commodilla. All other bearded Christs are copies of that one... He looks decidedly Jewish in that picture.

  • Sea G
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    The celts are mostly to blame for that. The church did as much as poss to make the whole Christian thing fit in with our perceptions. "holy festivals" were brought in line with Celtic festivals. Could go on for hours about this, easier for you to look it up

    Source(s): Studied old Irish history and part of Irish Clan revival and battle reinactors
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  • phrog
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    because of the recorded descriptions of him - the most common probably the archko volume or Publius Lentullus

    http://www.thenazareneway.com/likeness_of_our_savi...

  • 1 decade ago

    More likely the visualisation of the artist

  • 1 decade ago

    Probably

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes.

  • 1 decade ago

    true - I never got that!

    but really - asian jesus, black jesus, white, jesus, chinese jesus, mexican jesus they are all the same thing arent they?

    Zombie jesus is my personal favourite.

  • 1 decade ago

    You don't know he looks like that either

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