2006-06-13 11:16:25 · 14 answers · asked by daryn h 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i have never heard of that but is it anymore odd than thinking jesus, a man who never even visited europe, was somehow european looking? Odds are jesus looked more like Sadam Hussein or bin laden than he did the frail hippie looking figure most accept without question
2006-06-13 11:22:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What?
It might simply stem from the tradition of portraying Jesus according to the culture a person belongs to. Iconography from China portrays Jesus looking very Chinese. I've seen Stations of the Cross from Africa where Jesus appears very African. We're all familiar with the "white" Jesus of Renaissance Art. When St. Jean de Brebeuf came to Canada as a missionary back in the 1600s, he reworked the Christmas story into a framework that the native Hurons would understand.
Jesus isn't the Messiah of just one people group, but of all of us, and as such, each different society's art reflects an image of Jesus according to their culture, while recognising that historically, Jesus was a 1st century Jew.
2006-06-13 11:27:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
African Americans do not think that Jesus was a black man any more than Irish Americans think Jesus was Irish.
Jesus was a Jew and would have resembled the Jews of his time. But people like to represent him as looking like them to help them identify with him.
2006-06-13 11:23:17 · answer #3 · answered by jakejr6 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How come white Americans think Jesus was a white guy with pale skin, flowing brown hair and a neatly kept beard? Where did THAT start?
2006-06-13 11:41:21 · answer #4 · answered by Qchan05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know this one.... It's from Bruce Almighty. Jesus actually looked like Morgan Freeman... He wore a hat because it was a hot day at the beach....
2006-06-13 11:26:30 · answer #5 · answered by Whoosh 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every religion paints Jesus into their religion. Haven't you ever noticed how Jesus and Mary look Catholic? And when did they convert? Hmmm?!?!
Haven't you ever wondered how/why Jesus got blue eyes & dirty blonde hair?
He was Jewish, folks!
2006-06-13 11:31:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be more correct to assume that Jesus was light to dark tan, being a Middle-Easterner and all.
2006-06-13 11:21:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
jesus was not a white, male protestant, a catholic or a black man.
according to the bible jesus had one black ancestor in his lineage. that ancestor was not recent to him.
jesus was not an oriental.
he was a jew. white or dark, he was a jew who lived in palestine of the late, last century bc.
2006-06-13 11:43:31 · answer #8 · answered by Stuie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, white people believe he was fair skinned with long brown hair and blue eyes. Thats wrong, if he was anything, he was a dark-skinned middle-eastern.
2006-06-13 11:21:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well its like white ppl thinking that Jesus is white , honestly no one trully knows what Jesus looks like , his color especially. Does it matter anyway ? Jesus is Jesus no matter what color he is.
2006-06-13 11:22:55 · answer #10 · answered by questioneer48 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋