BEARDED and long-haired, the widely accepted image of Jesus Christ may in fact be a myth.

Archeologists have unearthed one of the earliest depictions of Jesus, inside a religious building in the ancient town of Castulo, Jaen – and he doesn’t have a beard!

The smooth-skinned figure is engraved on a glass plate believed to date back to the fourth century AD.

It shows Jesus wearing a philosopher’s robe flanked by two apostles, believed to be Peter and Paul.

In fact, the conventional image of a fully-bearded Jesus with long hair did not become established until the sixth century in Eastern Christianity, and much later in the West.

 

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6 COMMENTS

  1. The reason nobody knows how Jesus actually looked is because Jesus didn’t exist. Go to any part of the world and Jesus looks like the people of that part of the world. In Spain he looks Spanish, in Ireland Irish, in Africa he’s black etc etc.
    Funny how 2000 years ago reading and writing was fully extant, yet not one historian, philosopher of that period wrote anything about this man Jesus. Philo of Alexandria lived at that time, and in the same area as the so called Jesus, yet, never mentioned him in all his writings.
    Given that the bible tells us repeatedly Jesus was known throughout the land, it is unbelievable that nobody would write about these events.
    The four gospels in the Bible are only a story and allegory about the cycle of life, Jesus being the SUN and the main character. That is why nobody mentions him in contemporary history. The State wont admit that’s the truth, as the State depends on religion, and religion on the State.
    The biggest fraud in history

  2. Indeed Robert : in the earliest writings of that time ( about 240 writings..) there is no mention of Jesus, or any rebel …nore any apostel… And the whole jesus/son af God/resurection/12 apostels…is a copy of the Egyption story of Ra….

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