It was a Monday, June 21, 1971, when Time magazine had a picture of Jesus on its cover; obviously not an actual photograph, since the necessary technology was yet to be conceived of in 1st century AD, but instead a likeness. An accurate likeness to the real Christ is doubtful, but rather a similar likeness of Him as depicted by religious paintings and icons; the earliest known portrait was discovered in Syria around 235. (^ Brandon, S.G.F, “Christ in verbal and depicted imagery”. Neusner, Jacob (ed.): Christianity, Judaism and other Greco-Roman cults: Studies for Morton Smith at sixty. Part Two: Early Christianity, pp. 166–167. BRILL, 1975. ISBN 978-90-04-04215-5) The Times’…