Since he played the character, Jesus, in the 1977 movie, Jesus of Nazareth, Robert Powell’s photos are hung in churches, homes, cars, schools, offices and many holy grottos all over the world to drive off evil forces and attract good fortunes.

However, Powell has cried out in the social media that he is not Jesus and that people should stop worshiping him. Rather, they should respect the true Jesus and worship God. His is among the most trending stories on social media in January 2016.

In his words: “I never cease to say and I repeat it to the world since 1977. I am not Jesus Christ, I am just an actor and British comedian. I am tired of seeing my photos displayed in places of worship and other places for worship. I just make a film for a living. Burn my picture and worship the only God in truth ! I am just an actor… Jesus is Lord!”

Another actor who played Jesus is Jim Caviezel. According to clipd.com, “Jim is arguably one of the most famous portrayals of Jesus in acting history. He played Jesus in Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion Of The Christ,’ which is the greatest selling Christian movie of all time. Jim won one award for his portrayal as Jesus, and several other nominations.” He too may soon beg people to stop worshipping him like Powell.

Here Powell’s profile as published by Wikipedia:

“Robert Powell (born 1 June 1944) is an English television and film actor, best known for the title role in Jesus of Nazareth (1977) and as the fictional secret agent Richard Hannay. He is also known for his role as Mark Williams in BBC One medical drama, Holby City, and as David Briggs in the sitcom The Detectives alongside Jasper Carrott.

His distinctive voice has become well known in advertisements and documentaries, especially in World War II documentaries such as World War II in HD Colour, Hitler’s Bodyguard, The Story of the Third Reich and Secrets of World War II.

Powell was born in Salford, Lancashire, the son of Kathleen (née Davis) and John Wilson Powell. Powell was educated at Manchester Grammar School (where one of his classmates was the actor Ben Kingsley), then a direct grant grammar school for boys in the city of Manchester in North West England, and later at the Royal College of Advanced Technology in Salford.

Powell took up acting while an undergraduate. He had aspired to become a lawyer and in 1963-4 attended an external London University LLB degree Course at the Manchester College of Commerce but at the same time quietly took acting roles under Trevor Nunn. At the College of Commerce he swapped roles with Bernard Brandon in a week-long College Revue of Comedy Sketches to see which role gave him “the best laughs”. This early comedy experience was later to be fulfilled with Jasper Carrott. After this he secured a post at a repertory theatre in Stoke-on-Trent.His first film part was in Robbery when he played the driver of the driver who is coshed in the Stanley Baker film about the great train robbery. He had a small role in the original film version of The Italian Job (1969) playing one of the gang, but had to wait a few years for his first success, playing scientist Toby Wren in the BBC’s science fiction series, Doomwatch in 1970. Having been killed off in the last episode of the original series, at his request, Powell became a pin-up and a household name, following up with starring roles in several BBC serials, including television adaptations of the novels Sentimental Education (1970) and Jude the Obscure (1971). He also appeared in the 1975 series Looking for Clancy, based on the Frederic Mullally novel Clancy.

For several years Powell continued as a television regular, with occasional forays into film, as the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in the Ken Russell biopic Mahler (1974) and Captain Walker in Russell’s film version of Tommy (1975). His role in Tommy had no lines at all and apart from a few early scenes during the overture with Ann-Margret, he is primarily seen through the mind of his son as played by Barry Winch (Young Tommy) and Roger Daltrey. In one of those scenes Captain Walker is shown in a crucifixion pose.

He then played Jesus Christ in Jesus of Nazareth (1977) following a successful second audition with Franco Zeffirelli. The two-part television film had an all-star cast, including Laurence Olivier, Ernest Borgnine and Stacey Keach, Christopher Plummer, Rod Steiger and James Mason. For this role, Powell was nominated for a BAFTA award, and collected the TVTimes Best Actor award for the same performance.

In 1975, Powell married his girlfriend, the Pan’s People dancer Babs Lord, shortly before he was due to start filming for Jesus of Nazareth on location in Morocco. On 23 November 1977, they had their son, Barney, followed in 1979 by a daughter, Kate.

In 1978, Powell took the leading role of Richard Hannay in the third film version of The Thirty Nine Steps. It met with modest success, and critics compared Powell’s portrayal of John Buchan’s character favourably with his predecessors. His characterisation proved to be enduring, as almost ten years later a television series entitled simply Hannay appeared with Powell back in the role, (although the Buchan short stories on which the series was based were set in an earlier period than The Thirty-Nine Steps). Hannay ran for two seasons.

In 1980, Powell appeared in the film Harlequin, playing the Harlequin of the title who seems to have the power to cure the son of a powerful politician. For this performance, he won the Best Actor Award at the Paris Film Festival. In 1982, he won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for his role in Imperativ.

Powell then agreed to a request from his old friend and golf partner, comedian Jasper Carrott, taking the part of an incompetent detective in a succession of sketches that formed part of Carrott’s television series. The Detectives was so popular that it was turned into a sitcom, Powell’s first and only venture into this genre.

In 1984, Powell made his U.S. film debut in What Waits Below (as known as Secrets of the Phantom Caverns).

In 1986, Powell narrated and co-starred in William C. Faure’s popular miniseries Shaka Zulu, with football legend Henry Cele in the title role. In 1992, he starred in the New Zealand World War I film Chunuk Bair, as Sgt Maj Frank Smith. In 1993-1995, he was the voice actor of Dr Livesey in The Legends of Treasure Island.

Nowadays Powell appears in person less often, but his distinctive voice is frequently heard on voice-overs, advertisements and as a narrator of television programmes such as Great Crimes and Trials and The Century of Warfare and World War II in HD Colour. He read the novel Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime, and has also narrated many audio books including The Thirty Nine Steps, abridged versions of many of Alan Garner’s books, and several abridged novels for ‘The Talking Classics Collection’. Powell has also lent his voice to musical works, such as David Bedford’s album The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,[4] or the 2002 rock opera The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Clive Nolan and Oliver Wakeman, where he played the role of John Watson. He also narrated on two rock albums by Rick Wakeman called Cost of Living and The Gospels (1987).

On 29 October 2001, a state-of-the-art theatre named after him was opened at the University of Salford.[5] He became a patron of 24:7 Theatre Festival in 2004, and continues to operate in this capacity as of 2014. In early 2005 he became a regular in the UK TV medical drama, Holby City, where he remained for six years before departing to return to theatre.[6] On 9 February 2008, he performed as narrator in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf with the Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa in the North of England.[7] He currently has a regular spot narrating literary passages on BBC4’s The Book Quiz and will appear in Aladdin at the Malvern Theatre this winter .

On 20 December 2014, he took on the role of “Ebenezer Scrooge” in Neil Brand’s BBC Radio 4 adaptation of A Christmas Carol.”

Other actors who have played Jesus in movies are:

Jeffrey Hunter, Max von Sydow, Jeremy Sisto, Chris Sarandon, Claude Heater, Henry Byron Warner, Christian Charles Philip Bale, Willem Dafoe, John Rubinstein, Brian Deacon and Cameron Mitchell.

Source: http://thenewsnigeria.com.ng/2016/01/actor-robert-powell-stop-worshipping-me-i-am-not-the-real-jesus/

Pic one: Robert Powell as Jesus

Pic two: Robert Powell as Jesus

Who knows what Jesus really look like?

In the next 10 years... when Christianity comes to its senses... they'll burn all pictures depicting Jesus... because that dude ain't White...

If you'll attack me... come at me with facts... abeg...

iPopAlomo:
In the next 10 years... when Christianity comes to its senses... they'll burn all pictures depicting Jesus... because that dude ain't White...

If you'll attack me... come at me with facts... abeg...

GBAM!

Jesus is coming soon, then we will see His real face

Viktor1983:
Who knows what Jesus really look like?

No one does and that's because he never existed. He's a fictional character created by the Romans at the council of Nicea in AD 325

Kingebukasblog, vooks, winner01, hcpaul, italo, malvisguy212, jeromejnr and other delusionists. This thread is beckoning your attention.

How una dey by the way? Una no dey even ask of person sef

Lalasticlala, update the fp with this thread na. We need to enlighten our Christian brothers and sisters o so they don't go to hell over a case of mistaken identity

hahn:


No one does and that's because he never existed. He's a fictional character created by the Romans at the council of Nicea in AD 325

you atheist or agnostic?

Viktor1983:


you atheist or agnostic?

Atheist. You?

hahn:


No one does and that's because he never existed. He's a fictional character created by the Romans at the council of Nicea in AD 325

True.....and from there they decided his divinity............

oteneaaron:


True.....and from there they decided his divinity............

They must have been on some really strong sh*t though

hahn:
Kingebukasblog, vooks, winner01, hcpaul, italo, malvisguy212 and other delusionists. This thread is beckoning your attention.

How una dey by the way? Una no dey even ask of person sef

Lalasticlala, update the fp with this thread na. We need to enlighten our Christian brothers and sisters o so they don't go to hell over a case of mistaken identity

Hahn, a puny athei-ard. Real christians concern themselves with much more important things. Threads such as this only concern those who worship images. Go do something useful for yourself.

Ok

winner01:
Hahn, a puny athei-ard. Real christians concern themselves with much more important things. Threads such as this only concern those who worship images. Go do something useful for yourself.

You mean real christians worship imaginary characters from a Jewish story book. Copy

hahn:




You mean real christians worship imaginary characters from a Jewish story book. Copy

Yeah we imagined everyone of them, archeology has a different story to tell you though.

winner01:
Yeah we imagined everyone of them, archeology has a different story to tell you though.

Show evidence where Jehovah and Jesus were discovered by archaeologists

We will continue worship u

hahn:
Kingebukasblog, vooks, winner01, hcpaul, italo, malvisguy212 and other delusionists. This thread is beckoning your attention.

How una dey by the way? Una no dey even ask of person sef

Lalasticlala, update the fp with this thread na. We need to enlighten our Christian brothers and sisters o so they don't go to hell over a case of mistaken identity

Na so oooooooo we must enlight dem

hahn:


No one does and that's because he never existed. He's a fictional character created by the Romans at the council of Nicea in AD 325

Please Hahn , can you provide a video of the Romans at the council of Nicea in exactly AD 325 creating a fictional character of Jesus ? If you cannot provide proof to authenticate your supposition then you just told blatant lies .

I need a video to prove that Romans actually did create fictional Jesus . This video should contain the venue , the faces of those responsible for creating this "fictional Jesus" .

Anything short of my request will not be taken likely .

Thanks

KingEbukasBlog:


Please Hahn , can you provide a video of the Romans at the council of Nicea in exactly AD 325 creating a fictional character of Jesus ? If you cannot provide proof to authenticate your supposition then you just told blatant lies .

I need a video to prove that Romans actually did create fictional Jesus . This video should contain the venue , the faces of those responsible for creating this "fictional Jesus" .

Anything short of my request will not be taken likely .

Thanks

Bubu my guy! How far na?

The use of photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman, who started manufacturing paper film in 1885 before switching to celluloid in 1889. His first camera, which he called the "Kodak," was first offered for sale in 1888.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_camera

So, you now see that unfortunately the video camera wasn't even invented at the time of the council of Nicea. However you can check proof of it's existence @ https://www.google.com.ng. It's a very informative website. Thank me later

Following your logic, kindly provide a video of Jesus walking on water, changing water into wine, fixing Peter's ear, multiplying 5 loaves and 2 fish to feed thousands etc. You know the drill na. All those imaginary stories you believe in and pattern your life by.

How's life and work?

hahn:


Bubu my guy! How far na?

I dey my guy ... how body ?

So, you now see that unfortunately the video camera wasn't even invented at the time of the council of Nicea. However you can check proof of it's existence @ https://www.google.com.ng. It's a very informative website. Thank me later

But you sounded so sure that Jesus is indeed a fictional character . You also mentioned that the Romans plotted this . All these with no video or photo . Ok provide a compelling evidence and not mere suppositions

Following your logic, kindly provide a video of Jesus walking on water, changing water into wine, fixing Peter's ear, multiplying 5 loaves and 2 fish to feed thousands etc. You know the drill na. All those imaginary stories you believe in and pattern your life by.

Faith ? I believe the bible by faith . Do you believe Jesus is a fictional character by faith

How's life and work?

Jesus is Great . I thank Him for everything

Unfortunately for him, these Christians will worship you whether you say or not. it has happened before

KingEbukasBlog:


I dey my guy ... how body ?

Chilling ooooo. Still on the grind. That kind thing

But you sounded so sure that Jesus is indeed a fictional character . You also mentioned that the Romans plotted this . All these with no video or photo . Ok provide a compelling evidence and not mere suppositions

Bro, this issue it not a belief system. You can do yourself some good and research. Or are you scared of what you might find?

Faith ? I believe the bible by faith . Do you believe Jesus is a fictional character by faith

Well, faith is the absence of evidence or fact. So you believe it whether it's true or not. I dig

Jesus is Great . I thank Him for everything

Nice. I just wish he existed enough to realize you are thanking him for something he is receiving unmerited credit for. Well

hahn:


Chilling ooooo. Still on the grind. That kind thing

Bro, this issue it not a belief system. You can do yourself some good and research. Or are you scared of what you might find?

You know the above applies to you . Are you scared that you will find that Jesus existed after some good research

Well, faith is the absence of evidence or fact. So you believe it whether it's true or not. I dig

No . Now faith is the confidence of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 . Try to get the right definition next time

Nice. I just wish he existed enough to realize you are thanking him for something he is receiving unmerited credit for. Well

Well its my gratitude to Him not yours

KingEbukasBlog:



You know the above applies to you . Are you scared that you will find that Jesus existed after some good research

Not at all. I'd love to have him perform some miracles. Probably multiply the figures in my bank account. Change the water in my bore hole to wine . And heal me whenever I am sick. It's so sad it's only wishful thinking

No . Now faith is the confidence of things hoped for , the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1 . Try to get the right definition next time

Fancy way of saying you believe in it whether it is real or not. Me likey

Well its my gratitude to Him not yours

No mind me joor. I no sabi mind my own business

hahn:


Not at all. I'd love to have him perform some miracles. Probably multiply the figures in my bank account. Change the water in my bore hole to wine . And heal me whenever I am sick. It's so sad it's only wishful thinking

Fancy way of saying you believe in it whether it is real or not. Me likey

You know that Obama is the US President and you've not seen him in real life , presumably . But you are certain he is the US president . That's what faith is for Christians . We are certain those miracles happened during Jesus' time though we did not witness it . Faith is a beautiful thing.

Atheists every now and then exhibit faith . You are certain that God does exist and is not the creator even though you did not witness the genesis of the Universe - that's you employing faith . You have faith in science - that it will someday provide all the answers to the questions pertaining the existence of the universe

Stop mocking me for what you do too

No mind me joor. I no sabi mind my own business

You are forgiven - what Jesus does too

KingEbukasBlog:



You are forgiven - what Jesus does too

The guy sef no sabi mind him own business

I worship the resurrected Jesus!!!
The way the truth and life.

Samunique:
I worship the resurrected Jesus!!!

The way the truth and life.

Yes. He's the topic of discussion

hahn:
Kingebukasblog, vooks, winner01, hcpaul, italo, malvisguy212, jeromejnr and other delusionists. This thread is beckoning your attention.

How una dey by the way? Una no dey even ask of person sef

Lalasticlala, update the fp with this thread na. We need to enlighten our Christian brothers and sisters o so they don't go to hell over a case of mistaken identity

And who ever told you I was worshipping that guy or that image?

The Jesus I know doesn't even look like DAT.

Be saved my friend!

hahn:


No one does and that's because he never existed. He's a fictional character created by the Romans at the council of Nicea in AD 325

I thought u guys once said he was created by the Jews?

There is no difference BTW u guys and conspiracy theorists.

Jeromejnr:


I thought u guys once said he was created by the Jews?

There is no difference BTW u guys and conspiracy theorists.

Please quote where I said that