Who feels this way about the Passion of Christ?

Question

That it is just a little messed up to make a movie about the Son of God and have record that he was not white and still have a white actor play him. Something about that just seems a little evil to me. I mean it's not like your making a movie about Santa Clause it's a movie about Jesus Christ. Yet every depiction of Christ is caucasian. That's like Bush killing in the name of God.

I just mean if White Christians can't follow Christ knowing he was not white than maybe they shouldn't be Christian because they're not following Christ.

You say I should get a life it's only a movie? So if Jesus was here would you explain to him why his race was always changed to make White Hollywood happy, or tell him we did it time after time because it was only a movie?

Are you retarded the Bible says he has Bronze Skin the color of many Arabs, A certain Sect of Jews with darker skin and kinky hair, And Northern Africans like Egyptians!

Dear Duke don't know how you can burst my bubble when you can't even read what I wrote. I never said Jesus looked liked Tupac Shakur or Michael Jordan what I said was he didn't look like the actor who played him with painted tan skin. If your goona tell me that you've never seen Egyptians and people form that region that have tan skin and black kinky hair that fit the Bible's desciption of Jesus then you are retarded!

Answer 1

Most of us know what color the man Jesus must have been he was a dark Arab. The Jews are a religion now, not a race, they intermarried with Europeans for over two thousand years. The Arabs are more closely related to the people in the old and new testaments and of course to Jesus.
We did not go to the film because we had already heard crying and breast beating about it. It was about a bloody murder of a man by his own people, not much to do with the message.he brought.
Movie just an excuse to remind people to feel guilty over enjoying life and show a lot of torture.
Also wanted to remind some folk that the Jewish direct line of Kings included the child of Solomon and Sheba, who was black.

Don't have much to say about that fool of a president either.

Answer 2

From the time the ancient beliefs and customs were stamped out by the Christians , the converts perceived Jesus to be white, nothing was ever said to dissuade them and as the centuries passed and man became literate, it would not have boded well for those in charge if Jesus was portrayed as he must have been, bronze with dark woolly hair.

As for the Passion, I left the theater, some young children were crying and some of the Fundamentalists where doing the bit about , Amen, Hallelujahs and oh, Lord. The film was a bloody mess!

Answer 3

First of all, the magnitude of the story being told is much bigger than the color of the actor's skin portraying Jesus. If we get caught up in the details, we'll miss the whole point of the movie. It doesn't matter who played what roles. The story of the crucifixion is what is important here. The fact that Jesus was willing to face the suffering and brutal death that he did for you and I to have a chance to spend eternity with God is what's important. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish but will have eternal life". That's the message, and that's what the movie was trying to convey.

Answer 4

Yes, a caucasian man (Jim Caviezel) played Christ in "The Passion" but his overall complexion and hair color are closer to what I picture Christ's was when He walked the earth. We see images of Christ every day portraying him as having blue eyes and sandy-blond hair......WRONG! Christ was born to a Jewish mother and was the only begotten son of God, therefore He would have looked more like an Arab than caucasian. I think Jim Caviezel was a good choice for The Passion, he looked more like Christ than some of the others who have played the part!

Answer 5

I liked the Passion of Christ it was an excellent movie. I ecspecially liked how it was mostly in aramaic because that was the langauge Jesus spoke. I agree with you though that he must have looked more mideastern instead of white. Walking in that heat had to make him dark complected. I have told some christian friends what I think and they get angry saying NO he was white! Why get angry? Hes the son of God and the color of his skin isnt going to matter when we face him after we die.

Answer 6

I understand what you mean....I asked myself the same question and then with the next breath I told myself that I should love Jesus regardless of the color he may be depicted as by the masses. But If your gonna make a movie and try to recreate the that time then yes, there should have been more colored folks in the movie!

Answer 7

Here we go again. He was not black either. And the word in the Bible is "COPPER" like a penny, and hair like a sheep (in ringlets). So what you wind up with is a curly headed orangish faced guy. Get over this. Your problem is that you can't deal with a Jesus who is not black. Here's a thought you make that film and see how big an audience you get. You make it and I will promise you that I will watch it just to see if it makes any difference. Personally I thought Gibson showed a great deal of guts to make the film in Aramaic and Latin the way it should have been. If you want realism. That was realism.

Answer 8

Well, the Bible doesn't say what color he was so that ALL could be united through Him. My problem with the Passion of Christ was that ESP thing going between Mary and Jesus at the courthouse.

Answer 9

The casting could have been done better, yes. And the film could have focused more on the message of Christ, like the importance of giving to the poor and helping the needy, instead of 2 hours focusing only on the crucifixion.

Answer 10

Not to burst your bubble, bunky, but most Semitic people can 'pass' for white. They certainly don't look like blacks. Granted, the occasional blonde blue-eyed Jesus is definitely incorrect; but a dark haired, brown-eyed 'white' Jesus is more than plausible.