Thanks
And yes that is suppose to be Joey Smith...
But the mormon jesus is depicted the same...
only with robes on...
Blonde hair, blue eyes...
The Word of God, the Third person of the Trinity became flesh and dwelled among us (John 1:14) as a Jew, a man from the Middle East, brown eyes black hair...with a beard...(Isaiah 50:6)
but that doesnt stop the mormon artists from painting their idea of jesus as a fairskinned white and delightsome man with blue eyes and salon perfect blond hair...
the twin of their paintings of Joey Smith...
the same guy posed for both...
Lol okay now I’m confused, I even looked it up in the K’tuvim, I don’t see anything in Isaiah 50:6 about his hair or skin being any particular color. I would really love to know that if it’s written somewhere.
But I think we’re not supposed to know because He is to be approachable to all. And if we have a preconceived notion of what He looks like, well, I wouldn’t want my first reaction to seeing Christ to be, “hey, that’s not how I pictured Him”
In the last six months I’ve become acutely aware of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 4 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God...”
How do we just sort of like, ignore that?