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To: Zavien Doombringer
It looks like a caucasian male from the 12th century, not a Hebrew male, which Jesus was.

Other than your opinion on the matter, can you give us anything that would show us what a "Hebrew Male" looked like back then? I don't buy your claim.

For example, assume that a modern-day Rabbi shares many facial features with Hebrew males of the age. If we beat up the Rabbi on the left, might he not look very similar to the image on the right?

Jesus's face would be unrecognizable to be a man. He was beaten to a pulp

Not true. First off, we do not hear that his face was beaten to a pulp. He was struck about the face, and a crown of thorns was shoved over his head; but mainly he was whipped. The post-resurrection Gospel does not mention a beaten-to-a-pulp face, which it probably would have had it been too nasty. Still, we do read that He was not recognized by the men on the road, so perhaps his face was rather bruised and battered.

, his tongue would be swollen from dehydration.

Jesus was not on the cross long enough to become severely dehydrated. The cause of death was most likely exhaustion, asphyxiation, shock, and heart failure.

The first person in the tomb after the resurection was Peter, he saw the burial clothes, but he never mentions an image on them.

Peter apparently didn't examine the clothes closely, and the Gospel doesn't go into detail about them anyway, so we can't say whether he saw anything or not.

Jesus didn't stay long enough in the burial cloth for any thing to happen in it.

This guy's experiment only had the cloth on him until it dried -- a matter of hours. Jesus was wrapped in the cloth for three days -- plenty of time for the mechanism described to have taken place.

12 posted on 06/12/2003 8:30:23 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
Other than your opinion on the matter, can you give us anything that would show us what a "Hebrew Male" looked like back then? Then again, IMHO - If you were to travel the world and see the difference in facial features of the local nationals, you can probably tell the ancestry of people,

the picture on the shroud looks "nordic" in stature. Possibly a Crusader.

To some, whom have never been able to experience traveling to other countries, as I have, courtesy of the United States Government, I probably couldn't either.

Can you tell the difference between a Philippino from a Mexican? How about Chinese from Japanese, Korean, and Thai? There are distinct differences.

14 posted on 06/12/2003 8:41:08 AM PDT by Zavien Doombringer (Private 1st Class - 101st Viking Kitty.....Valhalla.....All the Way!)
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