@igotnopicks  
ENGLISH MOTHER####ER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?

@Penguin Dragneel  
WHAT

@Penguin Dragneel  
Yes!

@Penguin Dragneel  
?Que?

@igotnopicks
 
@Goku Black  
Are our minds linked at the moments?

@Myoozik  
I am repulsed and impressed at the same time
 
 
@Count Adramélekh Sear  
N’aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwww~

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
Too much human, not enough shark.

Jesus Christ is actually a very muscular man and short haired. Not that he was majorly depicted by the bible as long haired and fair built.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
Jesus is also brown. Not white like many western churches depict him.

@Count Adramélekh Sear  
Wait what? Source?

@Goku Black  
Shh! If we let the commoners know, they might start seeing people from the Middle East as people! We can’t have that! /s

I still need source on that Jesus being shorthaired and muscle-y.

@phoenixacezero  
Then y’know what I’m saying!

@tehwatever  
The short hair bit I’ve heard people infer from 1 Corinthians 11:14, which calls it disgraceful for a man to have long hair. Although what’s considered long and short changes with time and culture so it’s not like we should be imagining him with a buzz cut or anything.
 
Carpentry is also a physically demanding job so you’d expect him to have some muscle.

@pixel  
I dunno I’ve seen some carpenters with pretty impressive beer guts.

Praise our holy lord and saviour Stephen Vincent Christ.
 

@pixel  
Yes but was there any record of anyone saying it?
 
For example, despite having very little visual art of the prophet muhammad, there IS a detailed description of muhammad’s physical appearance in the hadith collection including:
 
-neither brown nor white  
-neither tall nor short  
-had broad shoulders  
-broad pecs  
-flat stomach  
-strong arms  
-long neck  
-thick, long black wavy hair, going down to just above his shoulders  
-would part his hair in the middle, or wear it braided.
 
Have western artist been mistakenly drawing Muhammad all this time? It certainly would be hilarious had that been the case.

@pixel  
Carpentry doesn’t necessarily mean muscly. That would mean that a large portion of people in the past were literal bodybuilders, since there were a lot of farmers, ranchers, smiths and carpenters; all of these are physically demanding.

@tehwatever  

 
The fuck are these vague descriptions? These could literally mean anything. I mean, I can’t blame them since racial differences and metric system weren’t discovered yet (or at least not that well made) but that’s such a weird way to say “He’s just average but stronk”.

@Scrabbleman  
Means he was of average height. He didnt tower over the average men nor was he too short that ppl would notice.
 
He wasnt brown enough to be called a dark skinned arab, nor was he white enough to be called pale. He was ’Arab, everybody knew he was arab, so it wasnt that he was racially ambigious tho.

They seemed to prefer saying things in roundabout ways like that. Read hadith and seerah and you know how they regularly use via negativa, metaphors and hyperbole, my guess is to invoke emotions.
 
Reason being? Oral traditions. Muhammad’s crowd in the 7th century didn’t write things down so they had to rely on memorization, and they were good at it. One way to memorize is to tie emotions or story into it. Excitement, awe, sadness, anger etc. Easier to remember what you were excited about, than the same information delivered in a dry, matter-of-fact manner.