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"Can anyone figure out", say I, "Why this Jesus always appears as an adolescent and not as an adult male with a beard. I mean the way we are used to seeing images of the Risen Christ in artwork, looking much the same as before his death, beard and everything, but with whiter clothes. Stella replies, "It would be because in his resurrected form he would really look very different. More adrogynous, like an angel, and eternally youthful and radiant with the transfigured beauty of a teenage boy." "in the Gospels", says Carl, "We read that the diciples never recognized him at first after he rose from the dead." "That would be the reason why..."