@failures art,
Quote:Then other creative interpretations exist that you believe would be more accurate.
Correct, as I have stated at the buttom of my last post what I perceive he truly looks like....
Quote:Why would the artist being white effect their desire to draw Jesus as white. I'm not black, but I have no desire to draw Michael Jordan as anything but.
Would you expand on why a white person would do this? Two possibilities exist in my head:
Benign: They simply didn't know what to make Jesus look like. His features were chosen out of ignorance.
No...
Quote:Creative Liberty: Jesus would be more appealing to Europeans if he shared traits with them. Getting the group to worship a person of dark complexion would be hard.
Yes...It was done in a way that Jesus knew before hand, how to reveal himself so that he would be embraced...Now, that people have to accept him, his appearance is irrelevant because once you get to "know Christ" there is no mistaking him, and no misguidance by him...he simply is there, always...So in all honesty, if he wished to reveal himself looking like Satan, and Satan looked like Christ (though Christ would never mislead or forsake, and I'm not suggesting he would) You would still know in your heart rather quickly who the real God was, and who the devil was....
Quote:Is this a good reason, in your opinion?
Yes and no, Yes, because God ultimately had to reveal himself, but understanding him goes way deeper than appearances...No, because foolish people will not challenge the picture they see of Jesus Christ, or are totally unaware that his apperance is not signifigant, but his message's are, and when he comes, you will know it him...
Quote:I disagree. Christianity is heavily reliant on it's imagery. Jesus on the cross is the staple go to. Given that such an image invokes guilt and sympathy for pain, having the victim (Jesus) be as immediately relatable is a means to an emotional bond. Would medieval European people be as sympathetic to images of a middleeasterner being tortured?
If he was God in the flesh, and did the things that Jesus did, then yes...
Quote:I'm skeptical they would. I think the portrayal of white Jesus is cognitive dissonance. It's ubiquitous. A factual portrayal is less important, and less desired than an emotionally appealing one. That emotion or rational thinking I believe is very common in Christianity.
Why would his appearance be more important, than what he did? in his life, death and ressurrection?? (to us believers, it's not) If you think otherwise, please explain why??
Quote:It doesn't matter, so choose white?
If the first people who embraced Christianity, and founded the church was in Africa, then he would have chose a darker skin color.. etc...This is validated by God saying in Revelations that people of every race and ethnicity will be in Heaven, If you think about it...Jesus if God, and all good things, and knows everyone, then he probably (in the Heavenly Father, is probably 1% of every ethnicity that exists...) (or something to the effect of that)
Quote:To a small degree, yes. Doesn't this support the emotional argument?
What supports the emotional argument is that people who believe he is the Lord, can feel the pain he went thru to save their lives...and that there not focusing on his image, but of his essence...this is proven to a certain degree, because people embrace the Lord, as their savior, and see him, but do not Identify him in their mind (that often) as on the cross, but alive, and living, speaking with them....
Quote:Why isn't it important? It's a part of people's relationship. When you close your eyes, you create an image of him. That image is what you relate to.
Yes. but the image is not solely based on what he looks like, but more to do with his presence, and what he says that pertains to your life, in understanding you, and accepting you, and telling you to follow and obey him...
Quote:Accuracy shouldn't matter? Details and facts aren't important? Perhaps this is symptomatic of a style of thought.
I never said accuracy isn't important, nor details and facts, I said that his presence, Him there is of the most importance, and you would know it was him if he was to reveal himself as something else...If he wanted to do this (again not saying he would, but he could)
Quote:That's a non-reply.
Also, who is to say that such a being hasn't already came back, and nobody recognized him because he didn't fulfill their aesthetic desire?
I highly doubt that has happened...If that is the case, than his whole story is bullshit isn't it? either he exists or does not, I don't think it's even plausible by his preachings, and life, death, and ressurenction to believe he is there, but none embraced him...
Quote:Like this? (picture)
Not really, More of a mental toughness than of a muscular person...
