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To: WaveThatFlag
Thanks for the Peggy Ping!
6 posted on 12/27/2002 9:33:53 AM PST by Salvation
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To: Salvation
It was an extremely interesting look at the various depictions of Jesus, from what seems to be the first depiction of him, in 290 CE, when he was a Hercules lookalike--beardless, with a lamb over his shoulders--didn't Hercules always have a lamb? Or was it a stag?

Sorry, Peggy, but you're wrong:

The first representation of Christ on record is actually a derisive graffiti on the wall of a house on the Palatine Hill in Rome. It pictured the body of a man being crucified but with the head of an ass. The inscription reads: "Alexamenos worships his god."

FOUNDATIONS of OUR FAITH; A LOOK at the EARLY CHURCH

7 posted on 12/27/2002 9:58:09 AM PST by eshu
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