Due to the rampant amount of people on here claiming to have seen Jesus on the Astral Plane, I decided to make this it's own post.
WHAT DID JESUS LOOK LIKE
Okay, I've hit the books and here's what I've come up with. None of the Christian gospels offer a description, but there is this clue in Luke 4:23 where Jesus says to his audience "You're sure to recite the proverb to me "Doctor heal thyself."
But why would Jesus's audience think he needed healing? Healing from what?
I have turned to Christian apologists for answers. Origen, an early Christian writer, reported that a non-beliver named Celsus questioned Jesus, by saying "Surely a god would never have such a body as yours, that is so contemptable, being subject to such numberous and considerable imperfections."
Origen does not rebutt Celsus claims, but states that Jesus body was so unusual because he was created by divine impregnation.
Tertulliam in 207 CE said that Jesus was "Was not even of honest human shape."
Clement of Alexandria said he was "Ugly of countenance."
And Andrew of Crete said Jesus had "Eyebrows which meet."
Christian writers, all.
Both Acts 8:32-33 and John 12:38 equate Jesus with the suffering slave in Second Isayah. The suffering slave in Second Isayah 53:1-12 is described as "Having neither proper shape nor beauty, lacking good looks that would have attracted him to us...We regarded him as someone contaminated, plagued and afflicted by the gods."
Since each of the authors of the Gospels include a scene where Jesus is "transfigured" and becomes very beautiful, we can conclude that the message they are trying to send is that even though Jesus was very misshapen and ugly on the outside; he was beautiful on the inside. (Don't judge a book by it's cover.)
Oh, and Phillipians 2:5-9 states that Jesus deliberatly took on a lowly physical appearance in order to show his great humility.
Of all the people here who claim to have seen Jesus on the astral plane, not a single person has yet to describe a hunch back with a mono brow.
Leyla,
Those descriptions sound very much like those made of 'Socrates' by the Greeks...which, in a primarily Greek speaking world, as a first century model for 'salvation' as 'the name of Jesus' is, a comparison to Socrates is not as far-fetched as it sounds... :cool:
~Beth