why do poeple think that jesus has long hair?

Answer 1

Didn't you know, Jesus had long slightly curly hair, stubble, and was white?

Seriously just look at all the art work done on him in the past 2000 years.

Despite the fact that everyone who lives in that area in the world now is dark skinned, with various hair styles and lengths, but I see short is much more common, and various amounts of facial hair.

The only thing we know of what he looks like is from the pictures that we see of him. Many people are too lazy too look up what it says in the bible his description was.

Answer 2

The paintings of Christ are simply artists' conceptions and have no Scriptural authorization. At least one historian of His day described Him as being a tall man with chestnut-colored hair, parted in the middle, with short hair which turned up at the end. In the book, THE MODERN STUDENT'S LIFE OF CHRIST by Irving Vollmer, published by Fleming H. Revell, the author says, "Archeologists object to the conventional pictures of Christ because they are not true to history." A German painter, L. Fahrenkrog, says, "Christ certainly never wore a beard, and His hair was beyond a doubt a closely cut. For this we have historical proof." The oldest representations going back to the first Christian centuries and found chiefly in the catacombs of Rome all pictured Him without a beard. All the pictures of Christ down to the beginning of the first century and even later are of this kind. Students of the first century and of Roman history are aware of the fact that the time of Christ was characterized by short hair for men. This author has seen many coins and statues which bear the likenesses of emperors who reigned during and after the time of Christ. Such likenesses reveal that the Ceasars and other rulers and emperors had short hair, and of course, the subjects followed the example set by the emperor. The plain simple truth is that during the life of Christ, short hair was the acceptable style. That Jesus wore the conventional style of His day is proved by the fact that Judas had to kiss Him to point Him out to the soldiers. Had Jesus been somewhat different, as a long-haired freak, Judas could have simply told the soldiers that Jesus was the One with the long hair. This, of course, is not true, as Judas had to place a kiss on Him in order to identify Him.

Answer 3

That's what all the pictures in Sunday School showed. I think the modern image of Jesus looks nothing like what he really would have looked like. He should have darker skin, wear long hair on the sides, and a yarmulke like any other Jewish man in his region during that time period. The modern image of Jesus was done, I believe, because people wanted to make God look like them, as in white and Protestant.

Answer 4

I think Jesus had long hair because He was a free man living in a Roman occupied territory. Roman citizens had long hair, while the hair of slaves and conscripted soldiers was cut very short. Anybody who cut his hair short could easily be mistaken for an escaped slave.

Answer 5

Because that's how the artists who most popularized his image drew him. If you look at pictures of Jesus from other countries, he's shown differently. If Jesus came about in the 1930s, he'd be depicted wearing zoot suits.

Those who claim "they didn't have shavers back in those days" need to explain why the Roman officers in those paintings had buzz cuts.

Answer 6

That was the usual hairstyle that men had at that time. Anyway there was more to Jesus than just a man who had long hair and wore a toga.

Answer 7

Since they didn't really have razors or scissors at the time, most people probably had long hair. The only ones you see depicted with short hair were Roman emperors, and that's probably because they had luxuries like someone to dress them and do their hair or whatever.

Imagine hacking at your hair with a knife, probably not fun/easy so better to let it grow to an extent.

Answer 8

One who took the Nazarite vow (yes, like Sampson) was totally dedicated to God and if this fit anyone, it fit Jesus. Part of the vow was to not cut your hair among other things like no relations with women. This was a double fit as he was from Nazareth. Everything in his life fit to a -T-.

Answer 9

I believe it's because in those times, men wore their hair natural. No one went to the barber for a fade or whatever was in style for the day.

Answer 10

Because Michealangelo ( who was a homosexual pagan) painted him that way and it became the widely accepted image of Jesus.