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When will Christians learn that appearance is deceiving?

Just because a guy has horns and a forked tongue doesn't mean he hates you and wants to kill you. - it could mean he feels vulnerable & insecure about his extreme disfigurement.

Just because a guy looks good, dresses sharp and puts on a friendly grin, doesn't mean he's a saint. - he could be a conman, attempting to charm you out of your money.

The important thing to note is that either of these two could or couldn't be the bad guy easily, but there are other pointers other than appearance alone, such as their ideals, motives, reasoning and actions too but you can only know these things after communicating with an open mind.

I know many Christians are prejudice and love to pass judgment before they really know anything about a person.
That's not prejudice, its generalising. And I didn't say ALL.
Really, so you're not prejudgmental towards homosexuals?

That happens to be the most important lesson anyone could learn in order to become a Christian. After all, who on earth would have thought that a man, despised, forsaken and beaten nearly to a pulp before humiliating crucifixion was God incarnate? Who in their right mind would have seen Jesus on the cross and thought, "God's love is being shown to me, a sinner, with Jesus taking my place and bearing my punishment on that accursed tree"? Or, even more fantastically, "Wow! The powers of evil and darkness are being defeated, right in front of my eyes, here at Calvary!"

No, not even Jesus' closest disciples understood any of that, at the time. It wasn't until after Jesus was resurrected that they began to understand just who this unassuming man actually was.

"Just as there were many who were appalled at him; his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness - so will he sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand. Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not." (Isaiah 52:13-53:3)