That's the plot of "The Devil Conspiracy," possibly the best movie ever made about an evil biotech cult trying to clone Jesus. Yes, Satan is real, and so are angels, and the battle between Heaven and Hell is about to come to Earth! Jesus was probably not physically tall, but His height is meaningless in terms of bowing the knee to Him and acknowledging “that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:11).But here's the thing: cloning these historical geniuses isn't the cult's endgame. They plan on stealing the Shroud of Turin and using the blood stains on the supposedly holy artifact to clone Jesus Christ himself. But wait, there's more. Not only does the cult want to clone Jesus - they want to use the clone baby as the host for Lucifer himself. A person who is 7′ (213 cm) is just as much created in the image of God as a person who is 4′ (122 cm). While there are likely more advantages to being tall than there are to being short, being tall does not make anyone superior in the areas it really matters. Some of us may need a mindset change regarding height. His height has absolutely nothing to do with any aspect of His ministry, death, or resurrection. Ultimately, it does not matter how tall Jesus was. Jesus Christ was infinitely superior to us morally, spiritually, and intellectually, but, physically, He could have been simply average. In contrast, unlike us, “the LORD looks at the heart,” and often it is the plain, the average, and the overlooked who are God’s choice. Villains are supposed to be ugly or misshapen in some way. We want our heroes to be tall, strong, and strikingly handsome. “People look at the outward appearance,” after all (1 Samuel 16:7). Our natural association of being tall with superiority is based on our inclination to infer moral qualities from physical traits. For these reasons, many of us have in our minds a portrait of Jesus as a tall man. Centuries of artwork have furthered the idea that Jesus was rather tall, with a commanding presence. We view Jesus as better than we are-and, of course, He is-and since, in our minds, being taller is better, we tend to picture Jesus as being taller than we. This conclusion bothers some people because, generally speaking, being tall is looked upon favorably and being short is looked upon unfavorably. So, how tall was Jesus? Very likely, He was of average height for His time and place, between 5′ (152 cm) and 5′5ʺ (165 cm). If Jesus had perfect genetics, and if that made Him significantly taller than other people, then His appearance would not have been ordinary, again in negation of Isaiah 53:2. But again, the problem with this theory is Isaiah 53:2. Besides the fact that Scripture never indicates that Jesus was a genetically perfect man, this theory ignores the other factors that help determine height, such as nutrition and environment. According to this theory, the lack of genetic defects would have made Jesus tall. Others point to the fact that Jesus was sinless and, from that, extrapolate the idea that He had perfect genetics. His height-head and shoulders above everyone else-would have made Him attractive and desirable, in contradiction of the prophecy of Isaiah 53:2. That would have definitively made Him above average. Second, if Jesus was 6′1ʺ, He would have been approximately a foot taller than most of the other men in Israel during His time. First, it is highly unlikely that the Shroud of Turin is truly Jesus’ burial cloth. There are two primary problems with using the Shroud of Turin in this manner. That artifact portrays a man around 6′1ʺ (185 cm) tall, and so some conclude that Jesus was approximately that height. Some use the Shroud of Turin to guess at how tall Jesus was. This is significantly shorter than the average height of men today, which is between 5′5ʺ (165 cm) and 5′11ʺ (181 cm), depending on the part of the world they live in. Based on skeletal remains and other evidence, most anthropologists believe the average height of a Jewish male living in Israel in the first century AD was 5′1ʺ (155 cm). ![]() Even arriving at that average leads to divergent opinions. ![]() With that in mind, the best speculation as to how tall Jesus was would be the average height of a first-century male Jew living in the land of Israel. It could be said that Jesus was average-looking. There was nothing spectacular about His appearance. The only physical description the Bible gives of Jesus is found in Isaiah 53:2, and that verse provides little information: “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” This essentially means Jesus was ordinary. The only people in the Bible who are mentioned in reference to their height are Saul (1 Samuel 9:2), Goliath (1 Samuel 17:4), and Zacchaeus (Luke 19:3). ![]() Height is not something the Bible regularly mentions. The Bible does not say anything about how tall Jesus was.
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