Jesus in pictures is fake?

Answer 1

I'm stunned....

Answer 2

We have no pictures of Jesus from when He walked on this earth. So artists have painted Him the way they imagined Him, and at the beginning, before an orthodoxy was imposed, these paintings were radically different. Many cultures claimed Jesus for their own, so what is wrong with giving Him the skin tone the painter was familiar with? The problem began when the Western European versions of Jesus became imposed as the standard for the rest of the world. It wasn't "fake," but it was "cultural imperialism."

BTW, note that loincloth in all those paintings of Jesus on the Cross. Then research the way the Romans actually crucified people. They especially made sure to do that in first century Palestine due to circumcision: "See, yes, we have one of your fellow Jews under our punishment system." All those paintings are historically incorrect, but I wouldn't call them "fake." The artists did not want to portray the indignity the Romans did to Jesus, from pious motives.

Answer 3

All alleged pictures of Jesus Christ are not true Jesus
Christ Those are paintings, woods made by a carpenter, stone, plastics and others which came from the imagination of the one who made it.

Can you not imagine that there are some pictures of Jesus which are black, some are not, some are hondsome, some are ugly?

There was no photography at the time of Jesus Christ, so be it.

Answer 4

Isaiah 53:2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Jesus was not handsome as the paintings/pictures show him to be. His beauty came from within.

Answer 5

Yes, its fake. Digital pictures are very easy to touch up and redo, why would it be any different in His day.

Answer 6

so? what about the picture taken from the holy shroud of turin, re-touched it looks just like Jesus did on earth. we are not forbidden to look upon his face. I love pictures of him.

Answer 7

It's strange how most painting perceive Jesus to be light skinned. It doesn't make much sense.

Answer 8

Of course. Jesus was of the tribe of Levi, they wore their hair short. He was Middle Eastern, not Anglo Saxon. Want me to go on?

Answer 9

Okay, so they didn't get the ears quite right. But "fake"? That's harsh man. You make artists cry.

Answer 10

The best information we have says that he looked like this:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282186.html

I don't think this looks anything like the pictures or sculptures we see.

Answer 11

religious icons
of course its fake