Saturday, May 5, 2012

Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Whenever I see a picture of Jesus, whether its a big painting on a Church or Cathedral wall or window, it always shows jesus with long dark (or light) brown hair that reached his shoulders. But does it not say in the Bible that this is sameful?



Corinthians 11:14 says "Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?"



Can someone please explain?



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Hmmm not sure I haven't read that lately.



I thought all people had long hair back then.



Maybe to them his hair was short, as you know hair grows much longer then that and women wear it down their backs.



My sisters hair was so long at one time that it almost reached the floor.



No kidding she had a thing for really long hair and I hear she actually cried when she had it cut.



Women!



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Thank you Christian



Isn't it funny how short hair has goten. Report It



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Doubting your faith there, Christian?



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Because everyone had long hair in those days.



Buzz cuts weren't in fashion.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

cz jesus was into fasion and stuff, trying to impress some chicks around



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Long hair is OK as long as you wash it !



Why did Jesus get upset with the Pharisees when they asked him why the desciples eat w/ filthy unwashed hands?



Whats wrong with washing your hands before you eat ??????



Mark 7



1 The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus



2 and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.



3 (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.



4 When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles. [a])



5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?"



6 He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:



" 'These people honor me with their lips,



but their hearts are far from me.



7 They worship me in vain;



their teachings are merely HUMAN RULES.'



.......



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Because he was rather girly and eunuch-like, he didn't go for women nor men apparently. I suspect Jesus didn't know whether he was Arthur or Martha.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

He was a woman. With a beard



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Maybe it was a sin to cut your hair back in those days?



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Because it was the style of the times. Corinthians was written after the death and resurrection of Christ.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Because these mind control cults change their schtick to suit the times.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

This image of Jesus was created during the time of the Renaissance by Europeans because that is how most Europeans looked at that time.. That image has stuck with us for over 500 years.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Early painters (and sculptors) did not know that scripture and they portrayed Him according to what they expected His looks to be like.



They is why Jesus is often shown with long hair, or blue eyes, over 40 years old, etc...



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Cuz he was a hippie. I mean, just look at his shoes! Probably Naots rather than Berks, just based on geography... but He was definately a hippie!



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

It also defines long hair as: "Doth know thine hair is too long when it drags the ground where the serpent lies"...so, though JC's hair was long, it was not too long.



Even if it WAS too long, the dudes dad was GOD! I think he might get special treatment.



WWJD - Whats Wrong/Jesus' 'Do'?



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

He was a Nazarite, which the church decided meant that he was from Nazareth. But that is wrong. A Nazarite was a person who did not cut their hair or beard and were vegetarians. They were also scholars. There are several refferences to that should one actually read the bible.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

You shouldn't be asking these kinds of questions.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

This is just Paul speaking of certain customs of hair and grooming



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Does it matter what He looked like,,,it is what He done for us that really matters...



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

"Long" is a subjective word. Long can mean middle of the back or below the sholders. Maybe Jesus' hair wasn't considered long.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

The Renaissance painters portrayed Him that way because that is how they looked. They also painted him with blue eyes alot which is doubtful.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Why any of it? The beard, the bedroom blue eyes, the milky white skin, the blondish shoulder-length Vidal Sassoon locks. It's conventional.



The historical "Jesus" was probably 5 feet tall, swarthy, and unwashed (per the Gospels). "Christians" who have spent their lives worshiping the whitewashed Latin image would be in for a shock if they could glimpse the reality.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

I have also wondered about that.



Furthermore I wonder why they portray Jesus as a blue eyed European white guy instead of the Middle Easterner that he supposedly was.



This is what happens when people worship fiction.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Hello, Christian:



When the N.T. discusses hats and hair, it is refering to modesty and morals--don't dress like the other sex.



The O.T. Abslom and Naserites wore long hair, it was a sign of piety. And the church historian Josephus, described Jesus with sholder-length hair.



And, believe it or not, there just might be a surviving representation of Jesus, as the Gentiles were not ashamed to make statues, busts, and pictures. See: www.revelado.org/likeness.htm



Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Back in those days having long hair meant REALLY long hair, like below the waist. The apostles themselves had long hair by today's standards.



It's all a matter of perspective. In the early 60's, the Beatles were considered to have long hair. By the end of that decade that same look would be considered nerdy.



The Corinthians quote you made has to be interpreted: It was an advise, telling men to concern themselves about their general appearance; not a standard on how long your hair should be, because that's something that changes with fashion...



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

The question you should be asking is why does this bother me so much!



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Honestly I do not know, the Bible says Jesus was a Jew, I haven't read where it says he had long hair and a beard, but if I do I will let you know. Today nobody knows what Jesus looked like, but one day we will see him face to face, and truly know how beautiful he is. God Bless閳?br>Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?



I recently got a flier from the local art museum. They're having an exhibit on Christian and Muslim art. There was one Christian piece dated 480 AD and anything else Christian was from the 1500's on up.



So, they (the medieval artists) pictured him as white (like them) and thought he was poor so he wouldn't have short hair since he couldn't afford a haircut. They probably made it neat in appearance b/c who's going to paint a picture of JC with unkempt hair? And everyone after that just followed along.



In reality, he's supposed to be of Jewish decent and have short hair. I think there's even a verse in the NT that describes him as plain-looking. Not bad or good.



Edit: Oh, BTW The picture of him from 480 AD on a cross was a raised sculpture thing that showed him with kinda short hair and very boring-looking. It was long after di died but at least it was still close to that era. (You might want to look up the Council of Nicaea)



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

Those pictures are from before the 'Extreme Makeover' sessions.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

It has to do with a strange confusion in the New Testament between the ascetic Nazarite sect and the term for people that supposedly live in a town named Nazareth.



Here's a bunch of confusing information from Wikipedia on the subject that will probably not be terribly helpful:



Nazirite vows do not appear to have been understood by the Gentiles, nor are they even mentioned in patristic writings; therefore, some look to "nazirite" rather than "of Nazareth" or "the Nazarene" for the origin of these Hebrew/Aramaic epithets for Jesus. This conclusion is based in part on the prophecy in Matthew 2:23 that says of Jesus, "And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene." It is doubtful that the prophets had actually said 'Nazarene', rather than 'Nazirite', because reference bibles state that the prophecy cited in Matt. 2:23 is in reference to Judges 13:5-7 concerning Samson's description as "a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death". In addition, there is no word translated 閳ユゴazarene閳?or any reference to a city of 'Nazareth' in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). Furthermore, although Luke 1:13-15 describes John the Baptist as a Nazirite from birth, John implied that Jesus was holier than he in Matthew 3:13-15, which says, "Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him". Thus Jesus was baptized, immersion in water being a fulfillment of the nazirite vow.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarite



Basically, the Nazarite ascetics didn't cut their hair. Matthew seems to be saying that Jesus was somehow related with the Nazarites because he lived in Nazareth. So, its assumed Jesus didn't cut his hair. Its a weird screwy thing that looks like a flaw in the book of Matthew.



The problem comes down to the fact that Matt. 2:23 is either referencing Judges 13:5-7 or its referring some portion of Jewish scripture that got lost and no one knows about anymore. If it is referencing Judges 13:5-7, then it appears that the author of Matthew had an incorrect understanding of Judges 13.



At some point, it appears that it became common in Christianity to just gloss over the confusion in the reference in Matthew and just assume that some of the stuff in Judges applied to Jesus and that he therefor must have had long hair.



However, even if Jesus didn't have long hair, Corinthians 11:14 is still a problem because Sampson definitely had long hair and God didn't have a problem with that. Moreover, all the members of the Nazarite ascetic sect had long hair and it was God that told them to do it. So, the verse in Corinthians seems to be a fairly obvious contradiction.



Some Christians say that the verse in Corinthians was a cultural thing that only applied at that time. If so, it would have been nice for God to have somehow made this fact to be explicitly stated in the text. If people begin assuming that some parts of the Bible are OK to ignore because of cultural issues, then you get to the point where people will just pick and choose what they like and obey only that, (which is basically what most Christians do anyway).



Of course, if you don't believe in Biblic inerrancy and literalism, then this conflict shouldn't be a problem. If you do believe in those things, then....good luck.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

It was probably the way men wore their hair at the time. Without the modern scissors and razors, keeping hair short like men wear it now would not be easy. They were probably referring to hair that was longer than the norm. Long like women's hair. Women always wore their hair really long in those days- so that was probably what they were calling long.



Remember that things like that change throughout the times. What we call short hair, differs from what they called short hair.



Why do Churches picture Jesus with long hair?

It's just the idea of the artists. As a carpenter, long hair would get in the way so Jesus would probably not have it long.



P.S. Please don't say "sucks"

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