Who Jesus Was - Part 4: What Jesus' face Looks Like?
Written by: Delbert Magusara Haim
September 5, 2012
Edited by: Kaye O.G.
Written in the Book of Genesis that the image of man was said to be in the likeness of God.
Jesus Christ confirmed this truth when one of his audiences did ask him about the heavenly Father.
In other words, the face of Jesus was of the Father for they are one.
For those who believe in God's’ words, an evidence presented that a man did not came from the image of apes or from rocks in the big-bang theory but from the image of God like Jesus’ image. When God created man in his image it does not mean that all of us have the same faces "identically and literally" as His, but it means the same figure of Him. The word “Image” in Hebrew text is “tseh'-lem” which means a phantom, (figuratively) illusion, or an imaginary shape/figure. Thus, using man’s image we can figure out the image of God, like Jesus.
The question on “what's Jesus face looks like” is one of the mysteries that people are trying to discover. And because of this, groups of researchers came out and claimed the remained of a linen cloth used to wrapped Jesus’ body that could figure out his physical appearance, but how? They call it as the Shroud of Turin. The proponent said; The shroud is rectangular, measuring approximately 4.4 × 1.1 meters (14.3 × 3.7 feet). The cloth is woven in a three-to-one herringbone twill composed of flax fibrils. Its most distinctive characteristic is the faint, brownish image of a front and back view of a naked man with his hands folded across his groin. The two views are aligned along the midplane of the body and point in opposite directions. The front and back views of the head nearly meet at the middle of the cloth. The shroud was kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Northern Italy. People who preserved the shroud had thought that it was used to wrapped his body in the sepulcher as recorded in the Gospel of John.
In October of 1978 a team of American scientists and researchers “the STURP” – an international team of experts, conducting examination of the Shroud and said: We can conclude for now that the Shroud image is that of a real human form of a scourged, crucified man. It is not the product of an artist. The blood stains are composed of hemoglobin and also give a positive test for serum albumin. The image is an ongoing mystery and until further chemical studies are made, perhaps by this group of scientists, or perhaps by some scientists in the future, the problem remains unsolved.
September 5, 2012
Edited by: Kaye O.G.
Written in the Book of Genesis that the image of man was said to be in the likeness of God.
- Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Jesus Christ confirmed this truth when one of his audiences did ask him about the heavenly Father.
- Joh 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
- John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
In other words, the face of Jesus was of the Father for they are one.
- Joh 10:30 I and my Father are one.
For those who believe in God's’ words, an evidence presented that a man did not came from the image of apes or from rocks in the big-bang theory but from the image of God like Jesus’ image. When God created man in his image it does not mean that all of us have the same faces "identically and literally" as His, but it means the same figure of Him. The word “Image” in Hebrew text is “tseh'-lem” which means a phantom, (figuratively) illusion, or an imaginary shape/figure. Thus, using man’s image we can figure out the image of God, like Jesus.
The question on “what's Jesus face looks like” is one of the mysteries that people are trying to discover. And because of this, groups of researchers came out and claimed the remained of a linen cloth used to wrapped Jesus’ body that could figure out his physical appearance, but how? They call it as the Shroud of Turin. The proponent said; The shroud is rectangular, measuring approximately 4.4 × 1.1 meters (14.3 × 3.7 feet). The cloth is woven in a three-to-one herringbone twill composed of flax fibrils. Its most distinctive characteristic is the faint, brownish image of a front and back view of a naked man with his hands folded across his groin. The two views are aligned along the midplane of the body and point in opposite directions. The front and back views of the head nearly meet at the middle of the cloth. The shroud was kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, Northern Italy. People who preserved the shroud had thought that it was used to wrapped his body in the sepulcher as recorded in the Gospel of John.
- John 20:7 And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
In October of 1978 a team of American scientists and researchers “the STURP” – an international team of experts, conducting examination of the Shroud and said: We can conclude for now that the Shroud image is that of a real human form of a scourged, crucified man. It is not the product of an artist. The blood stains are composed of hemoglobin and also give a positive test for serum albumin. The image is an ongoing mystery and until further chemical studies are made, perhaps by this group of scientists, or perhaps by some scientists in the future, the problem remains unsolved.
And to determine that the shroud existed exactly in the first century, In 1988, scientists at three separate laboratories conducting carbon date test of the shroud sample and the result was the Shroud dated to a range of 1260–1390CE.
However, many artists continued examining the shroud, and creating three-dimensional graphics view of it. Until in 2010 Ray Downing Macbeth a computer graphic artist used today’s most sophisticated electronic tools and software in a yearlong effort to recreate the face imprint on the Shroud of Turin. And finally the face on the shroud appeared as this.
If this picture of Jesus happened to be true, then it is our privilege that we may able to see him this way for we cannot see him when He was on Earth.
Because the second coming of Jesus with his kingdom as he promised to come is not by observation or a physical/visible seeming on Earth, but a spiritual one who directly dwells in the inner-man of a person he chose. His body now is in our hearts the new kingdom from the heaven that he made, a building not made with hands.
Now, can we prove Jesus’ image by faith or by sight?
To be Continued……
- Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; John 16:10
- And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. Luk 17:22
Because the second coming of Jesus with his kingdom as he promised to come is not by observation or a physical/visible seeming on Earth, but a spiritual one who directly dwells in the inner-man of a person he chose. His body now is in our hearts the new kingdom from the heaven that he made, a building not made with hands.
- And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:20
- 2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
- Mark 14:58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
- 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth IN YOU? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple YE ARE.
Now, can we prove Jesus’ image by faith or by sight?
- Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
- 1 Corinthians 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
To be Continued……