I hate how Jesus is portrayed to us visually. Always as a weak, plain, joyless, effeminate, suffering figure hanging on the cross. No one wants to become like that and it's enough to repel most from his message. You're seeing him at the worst point of his life and an example of what can happen to you if you follow the same path (and for a long time it did, when even small protests was enough to get people burned as heretics).
When the way he should be presented is how he was at the highest point of his life, which was most of it. He should be portrayed as the loveliest, happiest, most powerful man you could ever imagine, and in a way that communicates his high consciousness, and what must have been unusual charisma to make an impression on the simple people of that time. The child actor who plays him in "Jesus of Nazareth" is very good and has a real sense of the divine or holy spirit about him (it almost scares me or puts the fear of God in me to look at him). That's how he should have been presented to inspire us.
Instead we get movie stars portrayed in a more glamorous way. So most men would rather be James Dean, the way things are, when in reality he would have been far beyond that and much more than our imagination is capable of. But people who see it like that hardly exist, because that's not what's been given to us. I think Jesus was mostly here to demonstrate high consciousness and communion with the divine, and everything that comes with it, but somehow it hasn't been brought across or understood. But I think it was to his first followers, and that's what made the faith grow so fast and become impossible to suppress, so we ended up with was this watered-down version of it which most don't begin to understand before they're on their deathbed.
When the way he should be presented is how he was at the highest point of his life, which was most of it. He should be portrayed as the loveliest, happiest, most powerful man you could ever imagine, and in a way that communicates his high consciousness, and what must have been unusual charisma to make an impression on the simple people of that time. The child actor who plays him in "Jesus of Nazareth" is very good and has a real sense of the divine or holy spirit about him (it almost scares me or puts the fear of God in me to look at him). That's how he should have been presented to inspire us.
Instead we get movie stars portrayed in a more glamorous way. So most men would rather be James Dean, the way things are, when in reality he would have been far beyond that and much more than our imagination is capable of. But people who see it like that hardly exist, because that's not what's been given to us. I think Jesus was mostly here to demonstrate high consciousness and communion with the divine, and everything that comes with it, but somehow it hasn't been brought across or understood. But I think it was to his first followers, and that's what made the faith grow so fast and become impossible to suppress, so we ended up with was this watered-down version of it which most don't begin to understand before they're on their deathbed.
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