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Thread #77817   Message #2292962
Posted By: Bee
19-Mar-08 - 04:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: What did Jesus look like?
Subject: RE: BS: What did Jesus look like?
I noticed the Shroud of Turin came up.

http://www.sillybeliefs.com/shroud.html

Quote: "There are serious anatomical problems with the image. Jesus' face, body, arms, and fingers were unnaturally thin and elongated (like figures in Gothic art), his left forearm was longer than his right, and his right hand is too long. The man is impossibly tall, being 6ft 8in (2.03m). The head is disproportionately small for the body, the face unnaturally narrow and the forehead foreshortened, and ears lost. The front and back images, in particular of the head, do not match up precisely, and the back image is around 2 inches (5cm) longer than the front. The back of the head is wider than the front of the head. The Shroud image is, in fact, so unusually very long and narrow that one pro-Shroud pathologist suggested that Jesus must have had Marfan's syndrome!"

So, if the Shroud is authentic, then Jesus was a skinny giant with a small, misshapen head, and one short arm, who appeared to have a serious genetic disorder. You'd think one of the Apostles might have mentioned that in passing...