Do black folks think Jesus was black or white?

Question

Sorry if this sounds stupid.....it's just something I've always wondered.

Answer 1

I know many blacks that see Jesus as a black man. I am white but if you want to be realistic. The genetic make up of the people in the area where he was born would make him have dark hair and light brown or olive skin. Jesus according to the Bible has of the true Hebrew race, which by definition was dark skinned.

Answer 2

He is what he is in your mind's eye. It's like asking someone to describe God. He means something different to everyone. Given that today people are black but speak chinese or one parent is white and the other black, yet the child comes out white, why are we even bothering to have this debate? How do we know that Jesus wasn't green? Was you there?

Answer 3

It doesn't sound stupid.... :) I always wondered that too. I don't know for sure, but just like we think Jesus was white, blacks probably think He was black. Same goes with every other kind of person.......whatever "color" they are, they might think that He was the same.

Answer 4

Well there's a few suggestions. One is what people looked like in that area, and the other is what the shroud of turin displayed.

Here's a link that best displays the likely face of Jesus or man durning his time. Not black perse, no white perse.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcfa.htm

Answer 5

This is an excellent article on what Jesus looked like.

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From the first time Christian children settle into Sunday school classrooms, an image of Jesus Christ is etched into their minds. In North America he is most often depicted as being taller than his disciples, lean, with long, flowing, light brown hair, fair skin and light-colored eyes. Familiar though this image may be, it is inherently flawed.

Answer 6

Me as a Black African woman think Jesus was black due to the time frame of his presence. When any scholar study the origins of man they have to study Africa. They said his hair was like wool sort of like mine, see I have dreads. My skin color is bronze, like how Jesus complexion was mentioned in Revelation.

Answer 7

I'm black (or mixed) and I teach our youth not to try to define a limitless God with something as trivial as race. However, I do know believers who think He's black and others who assume that he was tanned with brown hair and eyes based on his birth place and time.

Answer 8

um not all black people think alike... i dont think he was black but he certainly wasnt pasty white with pink lips and blonde hair and blue eyes. He probably was darker and had different features seeing that he was jewish and lived in the desert

Answer 9

it isnt stupid...but it is tru... he was jewish...however, as for his skin color then it is diff...he def wasn't the "white man" that the masses have been used to seeing and claim as being "Jesus"

but if you really want to look at it...

for Jesus, Mary and Joseph to hide away in Egypt when Jesus was a child they had to have some pigmentation to thier skin to hide and not be noticed....

so yes he was jewish with dark skin....
Therefore he was Niether BLACK nor WHITE...

but i pose this one to u....does it matter?

Answer 10

Perhaps there's a reason why the bible never mentioned the color of Jesus. Because He has no specific color orientation, He can be all things to all men.