Wednesday, 9 May 2007
The true face of Jesus.....
However history has portrayed the physical image of Jesus, from whatever religion or culture, my belief is that the true face of Jesus can be said to be from Jesus' own teachings. Although i carry an image in my mind, placed there through my upbringing and cultural background, and the fact that i may use it, feel comfortable with it and accept it, i also recogonise that this image is not the true face of Jesus. 'He died for us so we could live', this for me means in our own way live as Jesus. Therefore the true face of Jesus should be our own reflection.............
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Tuesday, 8 May 2007
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
Ichthus
Symbol...Jesus
The Greek name of Jesus Christ is spelled IhsouV CristoV. This means that his initials are the Greek letters "I" (iota) and "X" (chi). His monogram, or "sign," is formed from the superimposed first initials ("I" and "X") of his name.
The initials of his name also happen to be Greek Numerals. The Attic Greek Numeral "I" has a value of "1" and the Numeral "X" has a value of "1,000." The product of the two numerals is therefore = 1000 units. If the circle holding his sign is assigned a circumference of 1,000 units, the diameter of the circle by calculation is 318 units, which is the gematria value of Helios ('hlioV), the Sun. This is just one of the many examples you will find in this book of how the Greeks used gematria to equate Jesus Christ with the Sun. The sign of Jesus Christ has decorated Christian religious objects and churches throughout the world from the 1st century to the present.
The Passion of Christ
The Passion Of The Christ is an extremely powerful film, for me, it heightens and intensifies my love for Jesus and reminds me to be thankful. In the film Jesus is portrayed typically as he is in Western society, the actor is a handsome man with the most beautiful endeering eyes. But for me i couldn't care less what the actor looks like, the film is to show how God gave his son for us, who was killed and tortured under the most brutal acts of violence.
'God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' John 3. 16
Friday, 27 April 2007
The real face of Jesus?
There is not one place in the New Testament that describes the appearance of Jesus and Isaiah is usually quoted by Christians when describing the physical appearance of the "Son of God":
52:14 As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
53:2 For 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.
53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Does the picture in Popular Mechanics show the real face of Jesus?
Israeli and British forensic anthropologists and computer programmers, using the techiques of forensic anthropology, produced this artists' conceptualization and is largely based on the work of Richard Neave, retired medical artist from the University of Manchester in England.
Black icon of all time...
In 2004, Jesus was voted greatest black icon of all time by the New Nation newspaper, which prompted a debate about Jesus' skin colour. "Despite the common depictions in Western cultures of Jesus as a blond, blue-eyed hippy looking man, all reasonable evidence points to the fact that Jesus could not have been of Scandinavian extraction and certainly was a brotha of colour," said the paper.
The debate is not new. Throughout the 20th century, black theologians argued that showing Jesus as a white-skinned European is not only historically inaccurate, but profoundly alienating for non-Europeans. Some 20 million Africans were taken as slaves to the New World by Europeans between the 16th and 19th centuries, and images of a white Jesus reinforce the idea that Christianity is a "white man's religion".
Black theologians argue that since Jesus came to bring good news to the poor and oppressed – to set them free from their chains – he should be shown looking like the poor and oppressed, and not like the world's rich and powerful.
Above, left: 'Black Jesus Blesses the children' 20th Century painting.
Right: Bill Taylor's 'Black Jesus' 1939-1942, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
RACE OF JESUS
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
"Black Jesus" redirects here. For the Papua New Guinea cult leader, see Steven Tari.
The race of Jesus has been a subject of debate since at least the 19th century. The physical appearance of Jesus of Nazareth, though with no explicit emphasis on race, was also debated by theologians from early on in the history of Christianity. Different societies have depicted Jesus and most other biblical figures as their own ethnicity in their art, for example he is primarily white in the West, and black in Africa. Such representations are not, in the modern day, usually intended to be historically accurate. The current dominant opinion among secular historians and scientists is that he most likely had swarthy skin, resembling modern-day persons of Middle Eastern descent. Others, however, have suggested other possible racial backgrounds. For some Christians the question is complicated by the belief that his birth was a unique miracle, an "incarnation in flesh of divine substance."
Image of Christ
Christ - Pantocrator, 'Ruler of all', Serbian monastery Hilandar, Mt. Athos, 13th century
Thursday, 26 April 2007
Piss Christ
Andres Serrano, 1987
By Andrew Hudgins
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2000, at 3:00 AM ET
If we did not know it was cow's blood and urine,
if we did not know that Serrano had for weeks
hoarded his urine in a plastic vat,
if we did not know the cross was gimcrack plastic,
we would assume it was too beautiful.
We would assume it was the resurrection,
glory, Christ transformed to light by light
because the blood and urine burn like a halo,
and light, as always, light makes it beautiful.
We are born between the urine and the feces,
Augustine says, and so was Christ, if there was a Christ,
skidding into this world as we do
on a tide of blood and urine. Blood, feces, urine—
what the fallen world is made of, and what we make.
He peed, ejaculated, shat, wept, bled—
bled under Pontius Pilate, and I assume
the mutilated god, the criminal,
humiliated god, voided himself
on the cross and the blood and urine smeared his legs
and he ascended bodily unto heaven,
and on the third day he rose into glory, which
is what we see here, the Piss Christ in glowing blood:
the whole irreducible point of the faith,
God thrown in human waste, submerged and shining.
We have grown used to beauty without horror.
We have grown used to useless beauty.
By Andrew Hudgins
Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2000, at 3:00 AM ET
If we did not know it was cow's blood and urine,
if we did not know that Serrano had for weeks
hoarded his urine in a plastic vat,
if we did not know the cross was gimcrack plastic,
we would assume it was too beautiful.
We would assume it was the resurrection,
glory, Christ transformed to light by light
because the blood and urine burn like a halo,
and light, as always, light makes it beautiful.
We are born between the urine and the feces,
Augustine says, and so was Christ, if there was a Christ,
skidding into this world as we do
on a tide of blood and urine. Blood, feces, urine—
what the fallen world is made of, and what we make.
He peed, ejaculated, shat, wept, bled—
bled under Pontius Pilate, and I assume
the mutilated god, the criminal,
humiliated god, voided himself
on the cross and the blood and urine smeared his legs
and he ascended bodily unto heaven,
and on the third day he rose into glory, which
is what we see here, the Piss Christ in glowing blood:
the whole irreducible point of the faith,
God thrown in human waste, submerged and shining.
We have grown used to beauty without horror.
We have grown used to useless beauty.
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