Jesus: The Baby Faced Philosopher

[Minimalist]

4th century image showing the godboy without a beard and wearing a toga.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-...e-29480874

El Mundo notes that Christ looks very different from later depictions: he has no beard, his hair is not too long and he is wearing a philosopher's toga.

Curiously, or not, the imagery matches a 3d century depiction from Doura Europus on the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia.

Makes one wonder when the bearded jewish zealot was introduced into the mythology?

[Aoi Magi]

Makes one wonder when the bearded jewish zealot was introduced into the mythology?

I am guessing that would be pretty close to the time when he turned into a white dude.

[Minimalist]

No, he's clearly as white as any other Greco-Roman philosopher of the times.

We get a bearded jesus in the 4th century.



Coincidentally, or not, this dates to the time when the proto-orthodox had triumphed with the help of Constantine and started peddling their jesus shit all over the empire.

[DramaQueen]

Reminded me of Uthman

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And Aten

[Rev. Rye]

Simply put, the way I understand it, knowing that God created Man in their own image, Man decided to return the favor when depicting Jesus.

Case in point: Christ in China.


Of course, a while back, I found an article that claimed to have reconstructed what Jesus would have really looked like. And, apparently, Jesus looked like Tuco from The Good The Bad and The Ugly.