"As my family sat a few rows behind the deacons one sacrament meeting, all I could think about before the opening hymn was that one of the deacons had failed to properly tie his long tie and correctly tuck in his wrinkled shirt. I thought someone should have helped him out. After all, when passing the sacrament, deacons should be an example of the Savior in action and dress."
I took the above passage from the September 2013 issue of the Ensign. Apparently this parent never realized that Christ never wore a suit and tie!
I suppose we'll really never know. Galilee of 2000 years ago held a mixture of diverse peoples -- different cultures and various life styles. As far as I can tell, even among observant male Jews there would have been differing haircuts, differing ways of grooming facial hair, etc.
Well-to-do folks probably dressed differently when they attended some special social gathering, than when they were working around their crops and animals.
Of course trousers and neckties had not yet come into fashion, and the people living in the area in which Jesus is said to have grown up probably dressed something like desert Arabs or Egyptian farmers do today. Some go barefoot, many wear sandals, some can afford shoes.
If modern churchgoers believe that their "Sunday best" has any tangible connection with what a Jesus son of Mary would have worn into the synagogue on Saturday, twenty centuries ago, they are dreaming.
Stumbling Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nor did He make babies with a wife....
I'm not so sure about that being true.
Seems to me that at a very early date the celibate priests and monks began to exercise a heavy influence over Christian teachings and practice. It would not surprise me at all, if references to a married Jesus were edited out of the old oral traditions before the gospels ever got written down.
At one point Jesus is reported to have entered a synagogue and there been extended the privilege of performing the Sabbath reading from the Hebrew Scriptures. While such an honor may have occasionally been bestowed upon an unmarried Jewish man, I suppose it was a rarity, and the established family men in the congregation would have first of all been afforded that honor.
I won't even attempt to get into the _Sangreal_ theories.
I guess that since Jesus didn't wear a shirt and tie and because he wore long hair, Jesus wouldn't be welcome in most Mormon chapels. I wonder if before 1990, they would have threatened to cut his throat in the temple endowment ceremony too. So the church with his name in it isn't about him after all.