Among all the biblically accurate characters in scripture, the human ones might surprise you the most. They looked nothing like the Hollywood actors or Renaissance paintings that shaped our imagination.
Moses didn’t look like Charlton Heston, and Mary wasn’t a pale European woman in blue robes.
The biblically accurate humans described in scripture were Middle Eastern folks living in a dusty, ancient world, and their real stories are way more interesting than the sanitized versions we grew up with.
Take Goliath, who at around nine feet tall would’ve been a medical marvel suffering from gigantism, not just some cartoon villain.
Or Adam, who the Bible says was formed from red clay (his name literally means “red earth”), making those lily-white paintings pretty far off the mark.
These biblically accurate humans lived real lives with real problems. Moses had a speech impediment and murdered a guy, Mary was probably a teenager when she got pregnant, and most of them would’ve been shorter, darker, and tougher than any movie star who’s played them.
We’re digging into what scripture actually tells us about these biblically accurate humans, from their physical appearances to the gritty details of their lives that Sunday school tends to skip over.
Spoiler: they were a lot more relatable and a lot less perfect than you might think.
