If they used an accurate depiction of Jesus would Christianity be dominant in Europe?

[celticnord]

would a small thing such as how Jesus looked stopped it from conquering Europe? If they used an accurate depiction of Jesus would we still be worshipping Zeus and Poseidon or Thor and Odin?


How we pretend (and want to believe) he looked





how he most likely looked

[Comte Arnau]

Lol. Because that was the average look among Galileans 2,000 years ago, of course.

[Neon Knight]

Good question. The West also seems to have overlooked the teachings about forgiving enemies and shunning worldly goods.

[randomguy1235]

How we pretend (and want to believe) he looked





how he most likely looked

So the average galilean looked Iranian? The individual used as a "reference" is Iranian...

[Also]

Regardless of how Jesus really looked like, tribes represent Jesus in a way that they can identify with because they converted to Christianity, not the other way around. So my answer is yes.

[Smaug]

Galilee didn't display this phenotype in its population. Jesus probably looked more like Jeff Goldblum. Ancient Levantine.

[SobieskisavedEurope]

Jesus was depicted with white hair & red eyes.

Jesus died in his 30's!

Why did he have white hair that early!?

Why did he have red eyes!?

Sure sounds like a Caucasoid Albino to me!

[Peikko]

Actually they did a facial construction of Jesus based on what people in Israel looked like in the 1st century.


You can probably find the story by Google. I don't think it made a difference (and it didn't). People back then didn't have cameras or any other pictures of Jesus, so everyone probably pictured him in their own way. Churches portraits of Jesus came later.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...t=blonde+jesus

Not to worry, they do, my good man.

Properly long-faced, blond and neanderthaline Jesus.

Nobody looked like pic above me in middle east back then, and they don't now either. Brachy folk were probably more slavvy looking. Regardless, jews are nothing to do with what are today considered semites, originally. Those came out of arabia in just the last 1300 years.

[arian]

how he most likely looked

[/QUOTE]

Actually, he looked more like this, one of the earliest depictions of Jesus ever found (displaying "nappy" hair):



Archaeologists in Spain say they have found one of the world’s earliest known images of Jesus. It is engraved on a glass plate dating back to the 4th Century AD, reports from Spain say.

The pieces were in an excellent state of preservation – 81% of its original area has now been pieced together by scientists.

El Mundo notes that Christ looks very different from later depictions: he has no beard, his hair is not too long and he is wearing a philosopher’s toga.

(BBC News)