"Son of God"-Not the Jesus in Your Bible

A new Jesus movie is coming to theaters today.

This one Yahoo points out is the 'first Latin Jesus.' The hook of the article mentions reaching out to a population that is somewhere around 600 million. Throw in the rest of the evangelical Christians and Catholic population and there is bound to be box office success. (Just don't tell the Southern Baptist that Jesus isn't white or American…I can say that I'm Baptist.)

Now, I have no problem with a Latin Jesus. After all, I do dig Latin based foods.

However, this Jesus might be a little unscriptural.

Isaiah prophesied about Jesus' homeliness: "he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him."

If Isaiah casted "Son of God," he would have overlooked Diogo Morgado. (His name just rolls off of the tongue, doesn't it?)

Diogo Morgado, who also starred as Jesus in "The Bible" on the History Channel, clearly would not struggle to get a date. It's not like he would have to heal the girl first. Not only is he an actor, but he is a model, too.

Need more proof the Morgado is too handsome to be Jesus? 

If you translate morgado from Portuguese to English it is rendered "Latino Brad Pitt." (Only kidding, it's really "first born.")

But you can't blame Diogo Morgado for carpe diem-ing the role of Jesus. He is just being who God created him to be. And you can't blame Mark Burnett and Roma Downey for casting talented people.

On a serious note, Isaiah didn't necessarily say Jesus was going to be ugly; rather, that there wasn't anything special about his physical appearance that would draw people to him.

I love that about Jesus.

He didn't manipulate people or put up false pretenses to get people to follow him. He could have come as the most attractive person in the history of ever. But he desired followers who came to him out of belief of who he was, not blinded by rugged good looks.

Humanity has always been willing to follow the attractive. (You don't have to look past any reality series on E! to see that.)

But Jesus took that element out.

Just like he chose David based on David's heart, he made the people who saw him in flesh make the same decision. Those who followed him didn't do so because of his hipster trendy beard, rather because there was something about him. This is something he still does today.

That's part of his beauty.

So maybe Diogo Morgado doesn't represent the most scriptural Jesus, but I'm excited to see this movie. For now we are going to have to wait for someone to ugly up Jesus for a movie.

Are you going to see "Son of God?"