Will they ever get it right?

[ríomhaire]

Will the church and christian artists ever stop depicting Jesus as a white guy with perfectly straight hair who wears imaculatly clean red and blue clothes with nails going through his hands and go with what he probably looked like; a middle-eastern with messy hair and dirty ragged clothes with nails going through his wrist?

 

[$kelet0r]

Who cares to be honest
everyone has there own personal image of god or lack thereof
so it doesnt really make any difference

 

[Da Funkey Gibbon]

We don't know where the nails went, it could well have been in the hands with the ropes supporting the forearms as well. I'd always seen him depicted in white cloaths myself. Though I agree with your point, it is kinda pandering to vanity, a little bit, though protraying him as clean on the outside is representative of cleanlyness on the inside, though I agree that often, in real life, clean people can be the most dirty on the inside.
As for skin colour, that is kinda bigotry on european's side, the fact that he was never really portrayed as a Jew during the whole of the middle ages kinda says a lot about the anti-semitisum that went of then *sigh*.

I'm sure there are a few artists that are portraying him the way you describe nowerdays though. It's mainly about culture, a black culture would see a black Jesus, our white culture saw a white jesus.

 

[The Monkey]

He probably looked arabian.

 

[Da Funkey Gibbon]

Probably looked a jew

 

[CptStern]

probably closer to this guy:

although he's always dipicted as this guy

 

[kirovman]

probably closer to this guy:

although he's always dipicted as this guy

I prefer Lawerence Fishbourne as black Jesus. It'd be a good movie I reckon.

I think his "freshmaker" image is from the pictures like Michaelangelo's days and that. It's more likely he was dark skinned, since he came from the Middle East, than that image.

Also it's worth noting that the nails couldn't have gone in the hands. The nail in the hand couldn't support the body's weight, the flesh would tear, the nail would have needed to gone through the wrist.

 

[CptStern]

ya Michelangelo was sponsored by Mentos ..who then sold the rights to Mohamed cuz he didnt have an image of his own ....see what I mean?

 

[kirovman]

Haha

That reminds me of: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/jesus.php

 

[CptStern]

I love that movie

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

The image doesn't really matter (plus I've seen plenty of depictions in which the artist portrayed him in a more Arabian manner)

 

[Edcrab]

I just find it laughable how some "Christians" can look uncomfortable when you mention the fact that Jesus was a Jew.

He didn't follow himself around, calling himself or his disciples Christian... that'd have meant he had one hell of an ego. Who did he think he was, the son of God?

That said, didn't Freud famously set the trend in referring to himself and his "faction" of followers as Freudians? Or am I thinking of one of his peers, or merely some fabricated memory that my subconcious desire for this much maligned man has produced?!

 

[Direwolf]

I'd be more surprised if the image of Jesus hadn't changed in the intervening two thousand years. It's just one of those things that happens. I doubt it will stay static from now on too.

It's not really about the image as others have mentioned. It's about believing in the guy himself. If his story gets people to treat others well, I can't criticize.

 

[Korgoth]

On my drive home from work everyday I pass by a house with a flagpole sitting in the front yard with our American flag on it, and surrounding the flagpole is the nativity scene, the flagpole being the center piece of the scene....

It makes me chuckle... I sincerely doubt Jesus was born under an American flag. And if he tried to enter America today, he would probably be strip searched at the airport and homeland security would follow him around until his visa ran out.