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Of course instead of people being made in God's image Jesus was made in a real person's image.

Unfortunately I did not check this out and a knowledgeable poster tells me Snopes says it is a hoax.[snopes.com]

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Lorajay 9 May 12
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Yeah it’s kind of technically absurd

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Rather appropriate, isn't it really? The Gospels made up Jesus character and life decades after he supposedly lived and about a third of Paul's letters are considered forgeries by biblical experts, so why not a faked image of Jesus as well? It just caps off the full hoax of who Jesus is or was - if he was at all. Certainly, the depictions of Jesus in writing and portraits are not of an actual man but highly embellished at best.

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.

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Cesare was my favorite Borgia, and I’d sooner worship him than that loser from Nazareth!

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I can only say, it would not have surprised me one iota if this had been true. Even as a child, I questioned how a supposed Jewish man could look so much like me. This is the image presented to me in my childhood, I still have the “holy” cards...blonde hair, blue eyes? A Jewish man?

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
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This is misinformation.
[snopes.com]

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.
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Level 9

Lucrezia Borgia's brother.

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A more realistic portrait of JC:

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.
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My lawn guy's name is Jesus. He's from Ecuador, and he's way better looking that this Borgia character.

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Stop supporting gangster culture and themes wherever they occur, u$a. There's no instance of that culture being funny or valuable to human society. Ever. From Cesare to Caesar (Julius), Capone or DJT, it has proven deadly.

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While I get the point, somehow I don't think that Cesare Borgia would care about people worshiping his image. Something tells me he'd be just fine with that.

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Yes, it is sometimes questioned, but certainly there was no standard image of Jesus in the Middle Ages, and the modern standard one certainly looks a lot like the portraits of Cesare.

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