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Jesus' physical appearance
What is the most common physical appearance of God to everyone?
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I see you already received a long answer already but I did not see the answer I expected to see so I will elaborate a bit.
You asked about the appearance of Jesus... the answer you already got was adequate in that Jesus should be portrayed in paintings and such as a middle eastern and look much like your average man from Iraq/Iran/Pakistan, etc. with darker complexion, darker hair, not super tall, blonde, blue eyes... etc. After all, Jesus was from (if my geography isn't as horriffic as I think) modern day Iraq.
What does God look like? I use a new life translation bible, a study bible as the King James and other versions go much too far over my head... I just can't get any kind of spiritual reading out of those bibles as I have to concentrate too much on what on earth they are saying!!! So, my NLT bible says in Genesis 1:27 that Got created human beings in his own image. It goes on to make clear that...
"Knowing that we are made in God's image ... provides a solid basis for self-worth... Because we bear God's image, we can feel positive about ourselves. Criticizing or downgrading ourselves [or others] is criticizing what God has made and the abilities he has given us." And something my pastor has said before is that it is not good to use the phrase "after all... I am ONLY human". Because we are made in God's image... we should be proud of who we are and feel we can do anything because after all... we ARE human.
That's more than you ever asked for LOL!!!
I don't know what your purpose for asking is... for a school project, an arguement solution, personal growth... etc. but I hope between my answer and the others you have received, that you got a good answer that will help you.
Good luck.
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That's a tough question.
The most common answer is that God has no "true" appearance that is perceivable by humans, and that whatever form he may show himself to us in is a mere shadow of his actual magnificence.
If we're talking about Jesus here, the most common portrayal represents him as a wise, healthy looking Caucasian guy with long, flowing hair, like this one:
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However, technically speaking, such a portrayal is grossly inaccurate, and was mostly invented by Caucasian painters because they didn't want to portray him as the racial minority he actually was. In fact, the only skin color we know that Jesus WASN'T was white. In reality, he probably looked like a typical Arabian man, such as this one:
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However, you contradicted yourself a bit in the question. You started by saying you wanted "Jesus' physical appearance", but then asked about "God's most common physical appearance to everyone". Well, there are only two billion Christians in the world. Literally billions of people do not believe that Jesus was the son of God, and their mental idea of the "appearance" of God is quite different than the ones I've mentioned. The Hindus believe in Ganesh, who looks like a many armed elephant. The Muslims believe in Allah, whose appearance is considered to be so sacred that it can only be expressed in a symbol:
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Plus, this doesn't account for the hundreds of millions of atheists, agnostics, and other secular groups around the world.
There really is no "common" physical appearance of God to everyone.
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