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Posted: 11/30/2018 1:00:09 AM EDT

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After all he was a carpenter (some have even speculated he was a stone cutter).

So he would most likely have been a strong man from doing physical labor.

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Everyone did physical labor back then

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:00:10 AM EDT

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I'm talking about how people portray Christ as if he was weak.
(I'm not catholic so I don't see statues etc of him).

It always struck me as odd since it's apparent he was a strong man.

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I am Catholic and our crucifix in our church has a pretty strong and lean looking body on it.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:03:46 AM EDT

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Posted: 11/30/2018 1:04:01 AM EDT

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You will get your chance some day God's Word says every knee will bow

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I'd fight him.

You will get your chance some day God's Word says every knee will bow

Haha. No.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:04:08 AM EDT

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I kinda thought this was a troll post at first but now I think otherwise.

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Posted: 11/30/2018 1:08:09 AM EDT

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I've never seen a jacked carpenter

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Just wait, this is GD. Your comment will bring on the deluge of them.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:08:31 AM EDT

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I'm talking about how people portray Christ as if he was weak.
(I'm not catholic so I don't see statues etc of him).

It always struck me as odd since it's apparent he was a strong man.

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Wait? Only Catholics can see statues of Christ? Is this a superpower!?! Was it granted to us at baptism or were we just born with this power?

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:08:55 AM EDT

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After all he was a carpenter (some have even speculated he was a stone cutter).

So he would most likely have been a strong man from doing physical labor.

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See if in 2000 years people are still discussing your body with reverence in purpose-built structures.

Body of Christ

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:10:42 AM EDT

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I've never seen a jacked carpenter

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Truer words have never been spoken

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:12:48 AM EDT

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Actually Jesus was most likely average looking, since he could disappear in a crowd without attracting attention...just saying.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:12:56 AM EDT

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Jesus had the body of a yoga master. Everybody (except one crustacean) knows that.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:13:34 AM EDT

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Jesus had the body of a yoga master. Everybody (except one crustacean) knows that.

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Not a crossfitter? Not impressed then.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:20:57 AM EDT

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He’s also a blue eyed white guy with flowing blonde hair.

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Yes. He certainly wasn't a short, swarthy fellow like literally every other man.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:21:51 AM EDT

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OP, I understand the point that you are making. It is probable that he had some notable physical strength, considering his trade.

I don't know how 'big' he was. I don't know if it matters very much at all. But as you point out, he probably had some physical strength and probably didn't resemble a physical weakling of a man.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:31:26 AM EDT

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Wait? Only Catholics can see statues of Christ? Is this a superpower!?! Was it granted to us at baptism or were we just born with this power?

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I'm talking about how people portray Christ as if he was weak.
(I'm not catholic so I don't see statues etc of him).

It always struck me as odd since it's apparent he was a strong man.

Wait? Only Catholics can see statues of Christ? Is this a superpower!?! Was it granted to us at baptism or were we just born with this power?

Must be the secret catholic gene.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:34:05 AM EDT

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Our Father
Who lifts in heaven
Hallowed be thy Gainz

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:34:53 AM EDT

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Posted: 11/30/2018 1:38:22 AM EDT

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A fictional character can be anything you want them to be...

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Whether you believe as I do that he is the son of God it has been historically documented of his cruxifiction by Pontius Pilate. So Jesus of Nazareth is not fiction.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:38:36 AM EDT

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Posted: 11/30/2018 1:43:05 AM EDT

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Regardless, most carpenters named Jesus are not big men

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:44:22 AM EDT

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He walked a lot. Cardio isn't the best for bulking up.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:46:24 AM EDT

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Regardless, most carpenters named Jesus are probably not big men

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Yeah, I worked carpentry for a summer. No way that guy is a legit carpenter. Carrying 2 1x's at a time? Would've been harassed by the journeyman with a hell fury that would make grown man Jesus weep!

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:47:17 AM EDT

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How did he have time work when he was sitting around chatting with people all day. Probably unemployed.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:47:28 AM EDT

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Passion of the Christ - Worthy is the Lamb - Hillsong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUp15UfxCUw

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:50:34 AM EDT

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Yeah, I worked carpentry for a summer. No way that guy is a legit carpenter. Carrying 2 1x's at a time? Would've been harassed by the journeyman with a hell fury that would make grown man Jesus weep!

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Regardless, most carpenters named Jesus are probably not big men

https://i.ibb.co/PmY42JT/77-BA6014-1905-4-D0-E-9355-752-B0-D6-B2-D89.jpg

Yeah, I worked carpentry for a summer. No way that guy is a legit carpenter. Carrying 2 1x's at a time? Would've been harassed by the journeyman with a hell fury that would make grown man Jesus weep!

Lol, he’s a little too clean as well, but hey it’s Jesus so who am I to judge.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:53:26 AM EDT

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Posted: 11/30/2018 1:54:57 AM EDT

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I see what you did

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:55:08 AM EDT

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Lol, he’s a little too clean as well, but hey it’s Jesus so who am I to judge.

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Regardless, most carpenters named Jesus are probably not big men

https://i.ibb.co/PmY42JT/77-BA6014-1905-4-D0-E-9355-752-B0-D6-B2-D89.jpg

Yeah, I worked carpentry for a summer. No way that guy is a legit carpenter. Carrying 2 1x's at a time? Would've been harassed by the journeyman with a hell fury that would make grown man Jesus weep!

Lol, he’s a little too clean as well, but hey it’s Jesus so who am I to judge.

Also worked as a painter/taper for a few years and that guy wouldn't have been capable of destroying entire walls for minor repairs. Painters would cringe if they followed a carpenter repair in a near final build.

Ahh...a carpenter's been here. But his repair is on the opposite wall...Why'd he make this hole? Oh... right... because he had a hammer and just like Christ with water into wine he wanted to prove he could.

Posted: 11/30/2018 1:57:29 AM EDT

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Korean Jesus ain't got time for yo shit. He's got Korean shit to worry about

Posted: 11/30/2018 3:14:24 AM EDT

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A weakling......I've never believed him to be portrayed that way. He IS GOD, God in the flesh!!!!!!

Posted: 11/30/2018 3:18:40 AM EDT

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He must be strong because he lent my 97 year old grandma his strength to beat me and my cousin when she saw us rubbing the PP on a statue of him.

Posted: 11/30/2018 5:22:58 AM EDT

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Lol.

Anyway, it may be because if medieval depictions of piety and not emphasizing the flesh. Make him appear humble and submissive by being the image of human weakness.
I always wondered about that as well. He is depicted by different cultures in different ways.

He was real as a human as documented in a couple of contemporary sources like Josephus and some Roman record, as I understand it.
How you deal with the gospel of his death, burial and resurrection is up to you.

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Historicity of Jesus is shaky at best and there are no contemporary references.

Posted: 11/30/2018 5:52:45 AM EDT

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While Western culture is accustomed to depictions of Jesus as a lanky white guy with long, straight, perfectly-conditioned hair, or, much less often, as a modern-day black man living in Compton, scientists have a completely different idea of what the real man actually looked like.

Through the process of forensic anthropology they've constructed the image above to demonstrate the appearance of an average man of Jesus' time, place and background, Popular Mechanics explains.

While they admit that the face above is certainly not the actual face of Jesus, it is likely vastly closer to reality than the face we usually associate with him.

Although Jesus' body isn't depicted, the average Semite man of that time was 5-foot-1 and about 110 pounds, so Jesus was probably a lot shorter than you'd imagine, too.

Posted: 11/30/2018 6:19:02 AM EDT

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Did he even lift bro?

No squats, no deadlifts, no bench press, shitty macros, you gotta eat big to get big, weak AF.

Posted: 11/30/2018 6:24:26 AM EDT

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Whether or not jesus existed, or was real, was never really the debate. There are so many different accounts of him, not just in the bible.

If you want to say GOD and heaven, etc is all made up, well then that you could debate, but most all historians believe that he existed.

Posted: 11/30/2018 6:48:04 AM EDT

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If crucifixes featured a small, dirty, under-nourished hairy fellow with curly hair and a hooked nose it would negatively impact revenue.

Posted: 11/30/2018 6:59:38 AM EDT

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Whether or not jesus existed, or was real, was never really the debate. There are so many different accounts of him, not just in the bible.

If you want to say GOD and heaven, etc is all made up, well then that you could debate, but most all historians believe that he existed.

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"I still can't help wondering how we can explain away what to me is the greatest miracle of all and which is recorded in history. No one denies there was such a man, that he lived and that he was put to death by crucifixion. Where is the miracle I spoke of? Well consider this and let your imagination translate the story into our own time possibly to your own home town. A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his father' shop. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of his father's shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in the nearby countryside, walking from place to place, preaching all the while, even though he is not an ordained minister. He never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at the most. He does this for three years. Then he is arrested, tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal, so he is executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial place for him so he is interred in a borrowed tomb.

End of story?

No, this uneducated, property-less young man has, for 2,000 years, had a greater effect on the world than all the rulers, kings, emperors; all the conquerors, generals and admirals, all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who have ever lived all of them put together. How do we explain that unless He really was what He said He was?"

- Ronald Reagan

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:03:48 AM EDT

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I'm talking about how people portray Christ as if he was weak.
(I'm not catholic so I don't see statues etc of him).

It always struck me as odd since it's apparent he was a strong man.

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I think that they are portraying Him as compassionate, which is often mistaken for weakness.

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:06:34 AM EDT

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He looks like he was in pretty good shape to me

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He averaged five receptions and a TD per game.

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:09:01 AM EDT

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I have not read where he was physically weak.

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:13:42 AM EDT

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When you obey God perfectly, that’s pretty strong.

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:23:56 AM EDT

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Been a major disinformation campaign against him in this world since the day he was born into the human race.
Likely there was a disinformation campaign against him in Heaven as well that lead up to the rebellion that saw 1/3 of the company of Heaven thrown out
and down upon the earth.
Those enemies of Christ and their human counterparts are not going to stop with their lies until the day of judgement.

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:39:28 AM EDT

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Strong enough to carry the weight of the world's sins

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:41:32 AM EDT

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I like to picture my Jesus with giant wings, singing vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:45:46 AM EDT

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Romans 1:30 talks about how Reprobates are haters of God...

If someone didn't have a PMAG, but went in all the magpul threads to complain about how awful they are, you'd call that person a hater of magpul

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A fictional character can be anything you want them to be...

Romans 1:30 talks about how Reprobates are haters of God...

If someone didn't have a PMAG, but went in all the magpul threads to complain about how awful they are, you'd call that person a hater of magpul

Show us where poorman exhibited hate for, or complaint about, God.

Go on, we'll wait...

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Posted: 11/30/2018 7:47:08 AM EDT

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Meekness doesn’t mean weakness

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meek
/mek/
adjective
adjective: meek; comparative adjective: meeker; superlative adjective: meekest
quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive

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Posted: 11/30/2018 7:49:32 AM EDT

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You will get your chance some day God's Word says every knee will bow

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I'd fight him.

You will get your chance some day God's Word says every knee will bow

God's word - written by men.

A.W.D.

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:58:06 AM EDT

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I like to picture my Jesus with giant wings, singing vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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Your Jesus looks like your avatar!!??

Posted: 11/30/2018 7:59:19 AM EDT

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I'd fight him.

You will get your chance some day God's Word says every knee will bow

Posted: 11/30/2018 8:04:07 AM EDT

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I'm talking about how people portray Christ as if he was weak.
(I'm not catholic so I don't see statues etc of him).

It always struck me as odd since it's apparent he was a strong man.

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Evidently, the only one portraying him as weak is you.

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