When relating to fictional figures why would it matter what the characters look like, whatever they look like surly that would be up to the author to decide?
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Because the subject of the portraits is NOT being depicted as a fictional character, all the pictures are supposed to show Jesus Christ, the son of God and the Saviour of all man-kind as he was!
Quite obviously they do not but are still named as being portraits of Christ, yet not one of them, regardless of who painted them or when makes the slightest attempt to make him look like a Palestinian Jew.
The Bible is supposed to present, presents, Christ as the living, breathing Saviour of Mankind!
Why are there no portraits of him made during his ministry, no portrait made by someone who was at the Feeding od the Five Thousand, none by someone who actually witnessed the clearing of the Temple.
Personally I am convinced that Christ is a fictional character, but millions, if not billions, of Christians are convinced that he is, was, real. So why, like the Gospels, were all the records of this monumentally inportant character, basis of the Christian faith, written or painted post-mortem, in the case of the paintings one to two thousand years post-mortem!?
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