i am a Christian, but does anyone have ideas about how to be more like Christ. smell like him, look like him etc.
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OK: to look like Him, you need to let your hair and beard grow out, and wear a long robe and sandals.
And skip the soap, toothbrush, toothpaste and antiperspirants, too.
Finally, choose marginalized people for your friends: you know, gays and lesbians, the homeless, the very poor, the disabled -- and tell your well-off friends and the people at your comfortable church that they need to give up everything they have and serve those people, and that the Kingdom of God belongs to people like the ones I just mentioned.
You will become very, very unpopular with your former friends and the people at your church -- but very much like Jesus.
Wow, not only look like him, but even smell like him? This is even worse than the early Star Trek geeks wanting to get their ears and eyebrows surgically altered to look like Spock's. This guy sounds deserving a "Christ Ultimate Fanboy" Award.
And I second Sandman's observation that this person seems to have missed the whole message of trying to ACT like Christ -- highly illogical of him.
~David D.G.
I think we have all missed the number one thing to "look" like Jesus.
You kind of need to be...um...Arabic. Specifically, you need to be Lebonese.
Then you need to grow a beard, but keep it short, no moustache. Oh, and keep your hair curled with olive oil, like all Semitic men did 2000 years ago.
Come to think of it, do you really want to look like Jesus? 'Cause Jesus would probably not be allowed to board a plane in the USA now...
Yes, you can love thy enemy,feed the poor, don´t judge lest you´re not be judge.............Oh no, you want to hate liberals and wear a hippie-like aspect!!
To look:
Dress in a tunic woven in one piece, probably from brown, grey, white, or black wool. Find yourself a prayer shawl with tassels and wear it constantly. Find yourself some sandals, and you've got the garb.
Grow your beard out, and don't trim the sides of it or your hair. Walk around in the Middle Eastern sun without sunscreen.
To smell like him: Walk around in the Israeli desert for a couple of years. Take a bath periodically, when you manage to get into a town with a bath. Help pull in the fishing nets. Carve some chairs. You'll smell like him in no time
I don't think Jesus was as fetid as we think he was though. He talks about baths, and it was ritual for the Hebrews to take purifying baths before the holidays, and perhaps on the Fridays before sabbath. However I'm sure that by the end of the day he smelled like every other dirt encrusted, prespiring male in Israel.
Papabear, nice!
You could go down to the moneychangers, or bank, I suppose, and whip everybody you see with a cat 'o nine tails, you could hang out with drunks and whores, drink wine, and nail yourself in the sun for an afternoon. that should be a good start.
"smell like him"
Don't bathe.
Sure. Wear a white robe and sandals everywhere from now on, even during the winter.
Oh, and have someone nail you to a cross.
Put on a robe and sandals. Roll in some fish entrails. Then nip down to Home Depot and grab some lumber and tools. While you're putting together a new cabinet or some shelves with your bare hands, make sure you're working outside in the sun and let your beard grow out (don't worry about the splinters - just yank 'em out with a tweezers).
Love thy neighbor as yourself.
That which you do to the least of my people, you do unto me.
Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.
Look and smell you can probably experience if you go to Palestine, to a rural area where there are lots of sheep and donkeys around. He looked like the people living there, and he probably smelled like the people living there too.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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