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Largo

Sport climber

The Big Wide Open Face

Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 12, 2013 - 07:26pm PT

So I got this photo of Baby Jesus and I'm thinking, Didn't our Savior come from, like, the Middle East? So why does Baby Jesus look like a Swede?

Just sorter wunderin'

JL

Ward Trotter

Trad climber

Jul 12, 2013 - 07:38pm PT

I thought he came from Kenya, like Obama.?

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Jul 12, 2013 - 07:44pm PT

The anxwer is money, Kroners, likely.http://www.babyjesusdoll.com/catalog_c29620.html

steveA

Trad climber

bedford,massachusetts

Jul 12, 2013 - 07:44pm PT

John,

This thread could go a million different ways.

Don't get me started on Religion. My views have changed over the years.

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Jul 12, 2013 - 07:45pm PT

Got or not?

Ghost

climber

A long way from where I started

Jul 12, 2013 - 07:49pm PT

So why does Baby Jesus look like a Swede?

How many Americans (or Euros, for that matter) would worship a brown person?

bluering

Trad climber

Santa Clara, CA

Jul 12, 2013 - 07:54pm PT

How many Americans (or Euros, for that matter) would worship a brown person?

I can't speak for all, but I would. It's all about values, not skin-color.

And Jesus was a Semite, A Jew. Prolly olive-skinned, or Italian looking.

splitter

Trad climber

SoCal Hodad, surfing the galactic plane

Jul 12, 2013 - 07:54pm PT

i can gurantee you that He had/has shoulder length black hair. most likely how He will look when your time has come to meet Him face to face. i had a very vivid encounter with Him hanging on the cross between heaven and earth. AKA as a vision, when I was 19 years old. i couldn't see his face, i was looking down from directly above (Dudes ripped, btw) very heavy experience, perhaps i will share it here sometime. Cheers!

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Jul 12, 2013 - 08:02pm PT

Sounds like standard Seeker's Vision number ten, Splitter. :) I know you got religion.

I'd be interested in hearing the story, someday, as well.

donini

Trad climber

Ouray, Colorado

Jul 12, 2013 - 08:04pm PT

Not your ordinary baby, virgin birth and all. I guess that means he doesn't look like mom.

Paul Brennan

Trad climber

Ireland

Jul 12, 2013 - 08:06pm PT

Think about genetics, and parentage. Its obvious innit? God has the genes of Dolph Lundgren.

Though thinking about genetics is the first step towards thinking about science, and evolution, and all sorts of difficult things. So probably best stop thinking.

Jennie

Trad climber

Elk Creek, Idaho

Jul 12, 2013 - 08:06pm PT

Even today, there is a wide variation of skin tones in the Middle East.

In New Testament times...were members of the tribe of Judah lighter? I don't know...but there were Egyptian pharoahs that archeologists have manifest as "red-haired".

Was Christ blonde? I suppose it's possible...but I wouldn't paint a blonde characterization because I doubt many, including the faithful, would peep forth for more than two seconds...

but blondeness has its place in Creation...

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Jul 12, 2013 - 08:13pm PT

Well, if yer gonna be testing the people's faith you would be a dumb god to
send someone that looked like everyone else.

donini

Trad climber

Ouray, Colorado

Jul 12, 2013 - 08:17pm PT

Yep...create them, give them faith and then test it....find some wanting and throw them into everlasting hell fire. Could be a great Reality Show....much more knarly than just kicking them off of the island.