Jesus Was
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There is not one single hint of what Jesus look like in the
Gospels. The author, like many uninformed christian who were
misled by the traditional image handed down from the less
than trustworthy Catholic church to believe Jesus was a
long-haired fully bearded buy, was just another fool with too
much imagination to believe Jesus being a brown-skinned man.
Gospels. The author, like many uninformed christian who were
misled by the traditional image handed down from the less
than trustworthy Catholic church to believe Jesus was a
long-haired fully bearded buy, was just another fool with too
much imagination to believe Jesus being a brown-skinned man.
Entirely true. This the famous sixth century Pantocrator at Saint Catherines Monastery on Mount Sinai is about the earliest surviving image. This doesn't show it well but in the Orthodox tradition Christ is portrayed with a reddish brown tint to his hair. Whether this comes from oral tradition or just imagination is unknown.
By the way interesting not one word in the op about being the Messiah/the Christ the only son of the Living God.
We've been over this many times before. You can certainly choose not to believe that he was the Messiah/the Christ. But attempting to argue that Jesus was fictional is both uninformed and just plain foolish.
My beliefs are mine and if you don't like them or accept that then you are the foolish one.
It's a pretty good fairy tale. Unlike Grimms and Disney the bible even dupes some people as they grow up and develop adult brains and critical thinking. Then again George bush became president of the worlds most powerful country. God bless the Christians and especially the Americans. May they continue to be protected from their own ignorance and stupidity
Not true, the miracles are fiction, but there was a Jesus of Nazereth. Probably was a follower of John the Baptist, who was a bigger figure during that time. But John didn't have Paul, to take his message to non-hebrews.
The muslim faith started about the time of the treaty of Nicea when the catholics codeified the faith, tossed some gospels and tweaked the facts.
You get the impression they learned something from watching the christians muck about for 600 years and thought they would fix it for themselves
Muslims do not allow images of Mo the way the christians did, so no icon or image worship.
The koran can only be written in arabic, so no mucked up translation issues between hebrew, aramaic, greek, latin and english to tinker with inspired word of the prophets.
Now if we can remove the power tripping popes, ayatollahs and chief rabbis from the mix, the concept of religion as a set ot moral guide posts versus dictates just might be useful.
You get the impression they learned something from watching the christians muck about for 600 years and thought they would fix it for themselves
Muslims do not allow images of Mo the way the christians did, so no icon or image worship.
The koran can only be written in arabic, so no mucked up translation issues between hebrew, aramaic, greek, latin and english to tinker with inspired word of the prophets.
Now if we can remove the power tripping popes, ayatollahs and chief rabbis from the mix, the concept of religion as a set ot moral guide posts versus dictates just might be useful.
everything written about Jesus are from second and third hand accounts, hearsays, and forgeries. and they all appeared after is alleged life and death.
Saying prayer to the images of Jesus or virgin Mary is
rather common among Catholics in various parts of the
world. While protestants are not as receptive to such
practice they generally have no problems with the sight
of any likeness of Jesus. A Muslim is more likely to be upset
by the display of a painting of Jesus than a Christian not
because Jesus isn't the saviour to their faith but because
they deem that to be disrespectful to a prophet. In some way
Muslims abide the second commandment more strictly than
Christians.
rather common among Catholics in various parts of the
world. While protestants are not as receptive to such
practice they generally have no problems with the sight
of any likeness of Jesus. A Muslim is more likely to be upset
by the display of a painting of Jesus than a Christian not
because Jesus isn't the saviour to their faith but because
they deem that to be disrespectful to a prophet. In some way
Muslims abide the second commandment more strictly than
Christians.
