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What's Wrong with this Picture?

ekulu by ekuluOG 2002 · Sep 24, 2003 · 357 views

This is a still from a movie caled "the gospel of John" about Jesus' life. BUt of course there are a lot of really bad innacuracies in here. Look at the picture. What do you see wrong with it?

http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/photodownload.asp?ID=14501

-Jesus and all the apostles have long, dirty lookin messy hair. Wasn't it against the law for Jewish men to have long hair like a women? And the hair is dirty and not groomed. would Jesus, walk around with dirty, long ungroomed hair?

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starshiptrooper #6 starshiptrooperOG 2003

they were extras from the Lord of the Rings movie, probably a battle scene.

fivezero #5 fivezeroOG 2003

i cringe whenever i see secular film and art depictions and renditions of jesus and such. theres seems to me thats theres NO right away to present them. and i don't think it should be done THIS way. these guys look like skeevy meth dealers who not only SELL meth, but USE meth.

malibu #5.1 malibuOG 2001

yeah but there is this part in the second isiah book where they used a wordly painting of jesus talking to ceasur.

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#5.1.1 jollycandymanOG 2001

yeah i noticed that. Thats a really awesome painting

thatdarngirl #5.1.1.1 thatdarngirlOG 2002

The colors in that picture are amazing..I don't know why that strikes me but it does.

fivezero #5.1.2 fivezeroOG 2003

it's a famous painting. it's credited. and that was Pilate, i believe.

magnum #4 magnumOG 2001

looks like a bunch of hippys, tree huggin hippys!

malibu #3 malibuOG 2001

another related though----
we were recently arguing about in every picture the society ever makes of jesus that he always has a bear because jewish men had to have beards (trimmed of course) but i remember seeing pictures where he didn't have them but i can't seem to find the proof.

tinser #3.1 tinserOG 2002

haha, you forgot the d in beard, so i thought you meant beer....and i was thinking....hmm, i don't recall jesus having a beer in his hand EVER!

thatdarngirl #3.2 thatdarngirlOG 2002

Wow..glad I caught who wrote this before I sounded like a complete idiot. Why I was gonna sound like an idiot:

I saw the "m" and though magnum and I was going to say how weird it was because Malibu and I were just in a fight with Jesse Hughes about how there are definetly pictures where Jesus doesn't have a beard. But..Malibu wrote that comment.

On the other hand I was wondering when Jesus ever wore a bear.

malibu #3.2.1 malibuOG 2001

awww man i got snagged twice. yes for anyone who was confused, i meant if there were any society picture where jesus did not heave a BEARD

tinser #3.2.1.1 tinserOG 2002

he heaved a beard???? he shouldn't do that....man, i'm such a loser for giving you a hard time

malibu malibuOG 2001

hahahah. no its okay. i just mess up so much. but there you are to correct them so evuantally i'll stop making them....

"i'm looking for a picture in which the society depicts jesus as no having a beard."

while writing this i wrote heave two more times, but i fixed it.

tinser tinserOG 2002

hahaha....well, now its almost right....except the no should be not....hahaha, but all these mistakes still make sense with the typos...so it doesn't matter...but now that i've started....

malibu malibuOG 2001

hahaha. i shall hunt down all your typos and incorrect grammer. hahahaha. the feud has started.

or we could both pretend that we are reaf and it doens't matter.

tinser tinserOG 2002

haha, ROFL!

oh, and btw: it should be doesn't :)

malibu malibuOG 2001

oh!!! foiled once again. you'll rue the day!!

tinser tinserOG 2002 malibu

muhahahhaha

iwz #3.3 iwz

yeah... and you guys think jesus was actually caucasian?

malibu #3.3.1 malibuOG 2001

how did you get that out of what i said? i don't think it matters whatever he was. i was talking bout the beard. (not meant to be said meanly in any way)

iwz #3.3.1.1 iwz

i didn't, i got it from the picture. he's usually depicted as a white guy. just wondering what you guys thought.

malibu malibuOG 2001

i always thought although he is usually white, look at the new children's book. we have definetly never seen him depicted so different!! like his skin is a lot darker and his eyes deeper set. but consider where jerusalem is and what kind of people live there now. he is definetely darker skinned. but it doesn't matter that much anyways. his example he set for us was good.

iwz iwz

: ) that's exactly the point i was making.

malibu malibuOG 2001

well i realize that. we were just discussing if he had a beard or not.

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jollycandymanOG 2001

Im not saying your wrong, but the people who live in Jerusalem now came from Arabia in the 800's and 900's when the Muslim's spread. The people who are Jesus color, most likely, are modern-day Jews, so he could be a little dark, but not as dark as people living there today....not that there is anything wrong with that

thefunkyfresh thefunkyfreshFounder

thanks there professor. why don't you go read a book

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#3.4 jollycandymanOG 2001

i think certain pictures of Jesus as a baby, he doesn't have a beard, but only certain ones

theremin #3.5 thereminOG 2002

I think it was something like pre-1940 the Society didn't depict Jesus as having a beard, because before then, the general public viewed people having beards, as crooked-men. You know, like men with something up their sleeve, and whatnot ...not trustworthy. So, if literature was being offered, with pictures of Jesus with a beard, the householder might not be so prone to accept. Obviously, when you're preaching, you don't want them to view him, in a wrong light. Especially during the 20s this was an issue. If you weren't clean-cut, even if you were worldly, forget it. But, of course the times marched on, and people that didn't fit this bill, began growing beards, also. So no longer, did it mean, you were a certain type of person, because you had a beard. Come like the 40s, they depicted Jesus with the beard. I just saw depictions of Jesus without the beard, a couple of weeks ago, at Bethel.

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#3.6 dgiaimoOG 2003

In "The Kingdom is at Hand" there is a picture of Jesus being baptized by John between pages 64 and 65, and he doesn't have a beard in that picture. In fact, he has blonde hair and blue eyes.

On a side note, did anyone else know that there is a topless picture of Eve on page 112 of "The Truth Shall Make You Free"? I just found it now flipping through some of the old publications that I have.

ekulu #3.6.1 ekuluOG 2002

r u sure you're lookin through christian publications?

theremin #3.6.1.1 thereminOG 2002

He's right on both of those, actually. About the first ...I just saw that picture at Bethel, a couple of weeks ago. And, about the second, I vaguely remember that from years ago, now that he brings it up, when looking through old publications in the library, at my old Kingdom Hall. Publications have changed through the years, as the light grew brighter. In fact, old Watch Tower's had crosses on them, and Satan the Devil, used to be depicted as how the World still today, depicts him. ...as being this creature that stands upright, with a tail and two horns. The light grew brighter, thankfully.

ilikebirds #2 ilikebirdsOG 2002

what are you talking about...

thatdarngirl #1 thatdarngirlOG 2002

Where did you find this? Were you randomly looking up pictures of Jesus?

tinser #1.1 tinserOG 2002

hahahhaa, he googled "jesus pictures"

ekulu #1.2 ekuluOG 2002

a google news alert about bible history, showed something about this movie, thought it was interesteing, though, the way they depicted it

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