Today in western civ, we started a new unit. It has to do with Christianity and how it found its place in the roman empire. At the begging, the Romans despised Christianity, because they believed that it went against their roman religion. But after Christianity supposedly helped the Romans win a key battle, they slowly starting accepting it.
A detail that caught my attention in the whole topic of the evolution of Christianity is the debate on what did Jesus really look like. According to historians, Jesus is supposed to look nothing like the pictures that are drawn of him. Despite this, we have been reading a book in religion class called "Heaven is for real". This boy called Colton claimed to have visited heaven on a near-death experience. With this, he pointed out a picture that most accurately portrayed how Jesus looked like when he went to heaven. This claim seems to conflict with the image of what historians thought Jesus really looked like, based on his origin. But it cannot be confirmed to this way which picture actually shows how Jesus really looked like. But maybe both of them are wrong, who knows...
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