Paul's letters do not have to be forgeries. Saul of Tarsus himself was a forgery and the Christianity of the NT is according to him.

LOL, My husband, when we began dating in the early 1970s, looked exactly like this picture. When my parents met him, my dad used to go around saying, "You should see the guy Dawn is dating. She's dating Jesus Christ!"

(My real first name is Dawn)

@yayagoddess wow, you must be old...you dated jesus.

@yayagoddess I have a granddaughter that is dating a guy that looks exactly like that except his hair is straight. In a long sleeve shirt he looks strikingly angelic but his tattoos take away that image quickly in the summertime.

@MsKathleen geebush geehobah ghostholes never existed zero Palestinian rebelS survived Roman crucifixion.... Even if one did it is pure cannibalism to drink his blood eat his skin EUCHARIST

snopes isn't exactly a reliable source either

Snopes is a great fact check site.

I’ve heard some rumors about Snopes but every time I’ve checked out those rumors it turns out it’s conspiracy theory. They are a pretty good source for debunking myths so I still trust them.

Please accept my apologies and I will add your info to the Post.

@Lorajay snopes like wiki are extremely biased against Atheists and Atheism pro Vatican.... This report on the Borgia's looks consistant with female popes exposed by a chair high up where Cardinals may walk underneath through a hole to examine the sacred testicles testament to papal penis requirements.... No apology needed

@HelenRoseBuck wiki blocks me from removing outright lies against me in my own biography.... And the biography of Charles Chilton Moore.... snopes&wiki are conspiring against truth telling

There is no proof at all but Cesare was actually used as the model, what is more likely is that the modern image of Jesus was emerging at about that time, and of course it followed the then popular fashion, of what a handsom man should look like was used. While Cesare, being a fashionable man would also tend to follow the same look, in the pictures of himself, though being the supermodel of the time, he may also have influenced the look, to some degree.

I see this meme a lot. How, exactly, can we have a more “realistic” portrait of a fictional character? Just asking. For a friend ...

@The-Krzyz Inform your "friend" the the picture shows what a young 30-ish Nazarene male might look like in AD 30.