THINGS ABOUT JESUS THAT MAKE YOU GO, "HMMM!"

In the beginning, the elohim created skies and earth.

Welcome back.  Let's think about Jesus of Nazareth.

The following is for my step daughter who is an anthropologist.

Christianity owes a huge debt to science.  It purges superstition.  For example, the pictures in this post are a depiction of what a first century Jewish man from Judah would have looked like.  

This reconstruction appeared in a BBC documentary.  It comes to us from the relatively new field of forensic anthropology which relies on analytic methods to reconstruct the past based on cultural and archaeological data combined with physical and biological data used to study different peoples.  

My question is this:  since Jesus would not have remotely resembled the long, flowing haired blue eyed Jared Leto-looking-Jesus so popular today, would a Jesus resembling this Jewish guy be loved by conservative Christians?  

Consider that the average height of a first century Jewish person back then was  5' 1" and the average weight was 110 pounds.  I honestly cannot picture anyone from Westboro Baptist Church bowing their heads and confessing such a man to be their god. 

Think about this too: in the Gospel of Matthew, the soldiers who came to arrest Jesus had to rely on Judas to single him out.  If Jesus had looked like Ted Nugent, then Judas's ass would have been the only thing he kissed that night when he kissed it good-bye.

Things that make you go hmmmm!

One more thing, would this guy be profiled in our great Christian Nation?  Would he be detained ever?  

You betcha...in Alaska too.


Indeed, Christianity owes a huge debt to science.  So how does this change how we think about Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus the Messiah?  

Hmmmm...

Blessings...