Was Jesus a hawt boy?

[SatanicSheep]

I was reading a few alleged descriptions of Jesus by some Roman officials.

http://www.thenazareneway.com/likeness_of_our_saviour.htm

Most descriptions are a hair away from full blown man crushes. Looks like Jesus was the Nazarene version of Brad Pitt. Why would god make his son the best looking guy out there? Isn't there something in the Bible about vanity and modesty? Easy for you to say Jesus!

So is being attractive Christ like?

 

[TragicMonkey]

You didn't think the Apostles were in it for the religious stuff, did you?

 

[SonOfLaertes]

I was of the impression that such ancillary documentation of the existence of Jesus was lacking from Roman records. It comes as a bit of a surprise to me that this letter from Publius Lentullus exists and basically trips over itself to describe Jesus in a slavish way.

The letter indicates that Publius Lentullus was a contemporary of Jesus. Can anybody here confirm the authenticity of this letter? By confirm I guess I am asking if the source is controversial.

 

[SatanicSheep]

Wiki says it's bogus, but there's not any sources...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Lentullus

This makes the claim that there was at least a guy with the same name at the same time, but 1400 years still seems like a long time before the letter got made known.

http://www.umich.edu/~classics/programs/class/cc/372/sibyl/db/H002.html

 

[Sun Countess]

You didn't think the Apostles were in it for the religious stuff, did you?

His milkshake brought all the boys to the yard.

 

[KingMerv00]

You'd think someone would write down the physical description of the savior of mankind in the Bible...

 

[MG1962]

I was of the impression that such ancillary documentation of the existence of Jesus was lacking from Roman records. It comes as a bit of a surprise to me that this letter from Publius Lentullus exists and basically trips over itself to describe Jesus in a slavish way.

The letter indicates that Publius Lentullus was a contemporary of Jesus. Can anybody here confirm the authenticity of this letter? By confirm I guess I am asking if the source is controversial.

I would argue it has to be a fake. A lot of very good historians on both sides of the argument have searched for independent sources for the existence of Christ - The fact no one is running with this is very telling

 

[Marduk]

You'd think someone would write down the physical description of the savior of mankind in the Bible...

Luckily we have the shroud of Turin to tell us what he looked like
apparently he was about a foot taller than the population average and he had a middle ages style beard
oh and he was nordic

 

[MG1962]

You'd think someone would write down the physical description of the savior of mankind in the Bible...

Why? even if we assume the Bible is an historical document, little hum drum stuff ever gets written down.

The best example of this I have seen in the logs and diaries of Francis Drake during his voyages. In all those document he never wrote down once what he ate for a meal

 

[KingMerv00]

Why? even if we assume the Bible is an historical document, little hum drum stuff ever gets written down.

Hum drum? The man is supposed to be the most important being in all the universe. He was power and wisdom made flesh! A little base level journalism would be nice.

 

[Marduk]

Hum drum? The man is supposed to be the most important being in all the universe. He was power and wisdom made flesh! A little base level journalism would be nice.

No thats Chuck Norris

 

[CurtC]

Out of all the times I've heard religious apologists try to defend the historicity of Jesus through ancient writings, I've never once heard this Publius Lentullus fellow mentioned. That makes me think that even hard-core Christians who seem to believe anything don't accept this one.

 

[MG1962]

Hum drum? The man is supposed to be the most important being in all the universe. He was power and wisdom made flesh! A little base level journalism would be nice.

Yeah just pull out the word processor and do a blog entry

 

[MG1962]

No thats Chuck Norris

You will note the original post you replied to was in past tense. Norris is the current center of the Universe

 

[KingMerv00]

Yeah just pull out the word processor and do a blog entry

They had the time to handwrite all of the "begats", they can spend a paragraph on what divinity looks like.

 

[Sunsneezer]

Well Some old testament prophet predicted he would be a good looking youth. And then end up looking like a dried up root.

 

[TragicMonkey]

Luckily we have the shroud of Turin to tell us what he looked like
apparently he was about a foot taller than the population average and he had a middle ages style beard
oh and he was nordic

In my experience, the more a story gets told the more it gets distorted. So I guess that means that since all the art is of Jesus as a white dude with brown or blond hair and a beard, he must really have been an immensely obese albino woman, or a cleanshaven dwarf with glowing green eyes and dark skin. Or perhaps he was just a typical Hebrew guy, only with robot arms and legs and enormous perky bosoms. How they'd bounce as he raced along on his robot legs at 100 mph! He made all his money from the invention of the sports bra, and then he blew it all on building the Vatican and filling it with classical and Renaissance art. Robot limbs are no substitute for sound financial judgment.