Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Jesus' Appearance



Isaiah 53:1-3 says, "Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.  He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him."
When I was searching "handsome Jesus" on google images and I was cracking up. I never understand why the media puts Jesus as a white handsome man, with nice long think brown hair and perfect skin. For some odd reason the Jesus on the right reminds me of Bradley Cooper... 
Painters from Medieval Times simply painted Jesus as being white because they were white. They painted Jesus of having a very masculine face before the Renaissance. Experts believe that Jesus was purely white, but some painters made Jesus have darker tones because that was more convenient for the desert climate. The color white symbols and identifies as purity. Also since Christ represent the Lamb of God, a fluffy white lamb represent Christ's spiritual purity.
We can say that Jesus was very brawny because he was a carpenter. Carpenters have long tedious hours and heavy labor. They work with a lot of big logs of rough-hewn wood. But he kept his strength under control, to show how humble he is. The media most of the time wants an attractive main character. They think if Jesus is the main character of the story, he should be handsome. They believe it will attract the audience more than Jesus being an ordinary Jew. But in reality, Jesus was an ordinary Jew that He can blend in with the crowd, he was an ordinary Rabbi. He's was not handsome as Aragon or looked like Aragon, the Bible said clearly that there was nothing special about His appearance only His words and actions towards the humanity.    

    









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