Is da Vinci’s Last Supper accurate?

[Lewis]

No it is not accurate as a matter of fact all of it is wrong

Is da Vinci’s Last Supper accurate?
http://godwords.org/462/is-da-vincis-last-supper-accurate/

 

[jeff77]

Did Jesus really have long hair? I have heard that men did not have long hair during that time, that it was something influenced by the Romans or Greeks.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

No it is not accurate as a matter of fact all of it is wrong

That's what happens when you divorce yourself from everything Jewish/ Mosaic and you become ignorant of those things.

But the most obvious thing wrong is that looks like the kind of table that the kids would have to sit at, not the adults.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

The person immediately to Jesus' right looks photo shopped in.

 

[Willie T]

I would dare say there is probably almost NOTHING accurate about that painting.

The painter did what we still do today, considered everything only in context of his (and our) contemporary times.

And, BTW, I'm pretty sure this is not the original, in the least.

 

[TOG]

Here are a few inaccuracies that the article doesn't mention.

• Everybody is sitting on one side of the table, as if they were posing for a photograph. If they were sitting at a table at all (which the article correctly points out is unlikely) they would have sat all around the table. Even reclining at a table, which was the custom of that time, they would have been all around it.
• The table stretches across the entire room. Not very practical at all. I would have been more likely to be in the middle of the room, to allow for people walking around it.
• There aren't enough people. The Passover meal was a family gathering. The Bible tells us that Peter was married. (Jesus healed his mother in law, which some say might be the reason Peter denied him). Where's Peter's wife? Andy wives or children would have been present
• They're using the fine China. They probably wouldn't have had any fine China to use, but would have used wooden or clay utensils.
• You will probably have to enlarge the picture to see this one (or have better eyes than I do). They have glasses that are actually made of glass (transparent). Wooden, clay or metal cups would have been more likely at that time.
• Everybody on the picture except Judas and (you're not going to believe this) Jesus has a halo.
  
• There's a lake that can be seen through the windows in the background. The upper room was in Jerusalem, and there is no lake visible from there.
• There is no bowl for dipping
• There are no bitter herbs
• The table is way too small. There is not enough room on it for enough food to feed all those people

The TOG

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Everybody is sitting on one side of the table, as if they were posing for a photograph. If they were sitting at a table at all (which the article correctly points out is unlikely) they would have sat all around the table.

What kind of weird holidays have you had?
Everybody knows you scrunch around to one side of the table at holiday dinners:

• The table stretches across the entire room. Not very practical at all. I would have been more likely to be in the middle of the room, to allow for people walking around it.

That is a sign of wealth. Don't you know anything about the prosperity gospel?

• There aren't enough people. The Passover meal was a family gathering. The Bible tells us that Peter was married. (Jesus healed his mother in law, which some say might be the reason Peter denied him). Where's Peter's wife? Andy wives or children would have been present

Just because the picture doesn't show the card table set up for the kids doesn't mean it isn't there (learned that in the theology folder).

• There are no bitter herbs

Right after they eat they're all going to log on to christianforums.net and go to the Theology discussions to get those.

There, don't you feel so much smarter about these things?

 

[for_his_glory]

Can any picture truly show what Jesus really looked like. Other than those who saw Jesus physically while here on earth before He ascended to be with the Father can only assume an image of what He might have looked like.

This is something I found a long time ago that I found interesting.

"From analysis of skeletal remains, archeologists had firmly established that the average build of a Semite male at the time of Jesus was 5 ft. 1 in., with an average weight of 110 pounds. Since Jesus worked outdoors as a carpenter until he was about 30 years old, it is reasonable to assume he was more muscular and physically fit than westernized portraits suggest."

The Gospel writers record an account when Jesus avoided violence by an angry mob simply by mingling with the crowd. Judas had to identify Him with a kiss of betrayal. Obviously, these incidents show us that Jesus looked like any other Jew of His day.

According to Numbers 6:1-6 the person taking a Nazarite vow pledged to abstain from wine and grapes, to avoid touching a dead body and to not cut his or her hair until the end of the vow's duration, when the hair had to be cut. But the Gospels record occasions when Jesus drank wine, which means He would have broken a Nazarite vow had He been under one. I would only assume he had short hair.

The apostle John was given a vision of what Jesus looks like today in His glorified form. In Revelation 1 Jesus is said to have hair "white like wool," "eyes like a flame of fire" and to appear "like the sun shining in its strength" (verses 4, 16).

Here are some scriptures that depict what Jesus looked liked.

Isaiah 53:2, 3

Hebrews 2:17

Luke 24:35-39; 25:15-16

John 20:15, 16

John 21:4, 12-14

Mark 16:12

Revelation 1:12-18

 

[TOG]

What kind of weird holidays have you had?
Everybody knows you scrunch around to one side of the table at holiday dinners:

That is a sign of wealth. Don't you know anything about the prosperity gospel?



Just because the picture doesn't show the card table set up for the kids doesn't mean it isn't there (learned that in the theology folder).


Right after they eat they're all going to log on to christianforums.net and go to the Theology discussions to get those.

There, don't you feel so much smarter about these things?

Yes... I feel much smarter now. And since we're on the subject of feeling smart, tell me this: Can Q6 be a subgraph of K50,n and if so, for what values of n? Support your answer!

It's just past 9:30 PM and I need an answer to that before midnight. It's part of an assignment in a discrete mathematics class I'm taking. It's okay for me to cheat though, and get the answer from somebody else. This is
in a university, and it's called "research".

The TOG​

 

[Jethro Bodine]

Yes... I feel much smarter now. And since we're on the subject of feeling smart, tell me this: Can Q6 be a subgraph of K50,n and if so, for what values of n? Support your answer!

It's just past 9:30 PM and I need an answer to that before midnight. It's part of an assignment in a discrete mathematics class I'm taking. It's okay for me to cheat though, and get the answer from somebody else. This is
in a university, and it's called "research".

The TOG​

Hey, no problem. I do this stuff in my sleep. Please be aware though that I'm having connectivity problems and so if I don't get all the way through the problem before I lose my internet connection you'll know what happened.

But anyway, because we know that Q6 is

 

[TOG]

Hey, no problem. I do this stuff in my sleep. Please be aware though that I'm having connectivity problems and so if I don't get all the way through the problem before I lose my internet connection you'll know what happened.

But anyway, because we know that Q6 is

LOL... I did manage to figure it out, and I just turned my assignment in a few minutes ago (at about 12:55 AM). Q6 is a subgraph of K50, n for all n more than or equal to 32. Btw, since the last thing you said before you lost your Internet connection was about what Q6 is, maybe I should explain it for those who don't know. Q6 (the 6 is supposed to be subscript) is a so-called n-cube graph, which is a graph where all the lines are of equal lengt and at right angles to each other. The number tells you the number of dimensions. Q1 is a straight line. Q2 is a square. Q3 is a cube. Q4 is a hypercube (4-dimensional cube). Q5 and Q6 have no names, as far as I know, but are 5-dimensional and 6-dimensional cubes, respectively.

The TOG​

 

[Willie T]

Don't let Jethro fool ya.... He's a whiz at Combinatorics.

 

[AirDancer]

No it is not accurate as a matter of fact all of it is wrong

Is da Vinci’s Last Supper accurate?
http://godwords.org/462/is-da-vincis-last-supper-accurate/

It is a painting which was rendered hundreds of years after the fact. Da Vinci utilized modern (in da Vinci's time) concepts and ideas.

His painting should not be taken as a realistic representation of the actual event ... instead, it should be viewed as an artist's viewpoint of what that gathering could have looked like.