Is this the first ever portrait of Jesus?

interesting stuff thanks for this!

wow!

Thanks

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I wanted to take a look at that, but it shut my computer down.

(Don't get me started on the topic of computer shut downs. I spent a fortune on the most powerful computer that I could have custom built, and virus software of every brand. But I got shut out of every trade I tried to make that would have earned me instant fortunes in 2008. When I called the broker, they were too quick to announce that they weren't shutting down my computer, before I could even bring up the subject of my problem. They must have been screwing a lot of common people that way. Now my computer shuts down so regularly that it is hard to type a statement here.)

On the subject of Jesus' appearance.

I know what Jesus thought of people making pictures of him or describing him.

I think it was very likely that there were severe problems with his appearance in Israel.

In just about every conceivable way. (Pun intended!)

To people who didn't believe, or weren't allowed to be told about Jesus' origin, he only looked and seemed different from the rest of his family.

If his mother had been raped by a Roman soldier, he could have been at least half of any race.

He might have been Oriental or African.

He would have had to endure ugly rumors about his mother.

He might have had to fight a lot.

But he didn't want any human beings to make distinctions of race.

His words did not come from any race and they weren't directed at any race.

He didn't want any racial issues in the Church.

He wanted the apostles to see past race and not to encourage making those distinctions.

He explained to them that as they honored his Father in spirit by not making images of God, so they would have to honor him.

No one who understood Jesus would make an image of him.

They resisted even describing him.

Still, it's interesting to see old archaeological finds.

What someone wants to tell you about the find is as revealing as the truth, even when it isn't the truth.

Scientists love to speculate no less than religious archaeologists.

They often have ideas to sell.

what is her problem with me

I got a good laugh over this one!

This is ...

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It was probably often on Jesus' mind when he was a young man.

Look at the way he was treated even as an adult. He asks a woman at the well for a drink when he is obviously tired and thirsty from travel, and all she can do is argue with him.

Women have always responded to me like that too.

They always want to know why I'm talking to them rather than what I'm saying.

It's almost a torment.

No woman would ever just give me water if I asked for it.

"Why are you talking to me?"

What is her problem with me indeed!

It's unfathomable.

thank you OP, very interesting. Looking forward to more details to emerge.

This is six by six?

At least try to make it three dimensional.

We are all in six by six by six boxes.

But those of us who know it send our words out.

We neither live nor think in the box.

But we still have to live with it and we know people see us in a box.

It's a box of their own imagination and devising.

It can be racial or religious or anything else and it governs the way they relate to you, limiting your options to respond to them.

You have to keep your spirit and thoughts out of the box.

Your box and their box.

he more then likely looked like a Palestinian

2nd picture
looks like upside down triangle

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Fascinating!!

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04/03/2011 09:40 AM