why is jesus always depicted as being a white man when obviously he was'nt white?

Answer 1

Because the white man wants everything perceived as good to be related to them. Ethonocentrism.

Answer 2

Because he is considered The Man For All Seasons ,The Savior for all people ...it has been common practise to give Jesus the image according to the people worshipping Him.There is no known image depicting Him, so anyone can use His image in any color they choose. Mexican people have a black Jesus as do African believers,white for white,and so on. Jesus does not care about that only that you love him. If putting a skin color on Him helps to make Him real, more approachable to another so be it. Hope that helps
*And He is a real person it has been proven that he existed

Answer 3

Because God is an English Man and Jesus is his son so it follows that Jesus is a white man. Also, he speaks only English, but with a proper English accent (rather like the Queen) not an American one or some other perversion.

God Save the Queen!!!


No, I'm only joking. Jesus was a black man just like Moses and the rest of them and the church has become so used to its lies that it believes them and most Christians are too ignorant to know any better.

Answer 4

i think he should be portrayed differently too. I know it shouldn't matter...but it gives ppl a misconception that Jesus was actually Jewish and from the middle east. His skin would have been brown. *shrug* i think the reason why the catholic church originally portrayed him as a white man because it was easier for the pagans of Europe to convert them to a "god" that looked like them.

Also, during the time of the Roman Catholic church after the fall of the Empire southern Europe and north Africa were being invaded by the Moors which were not welcomed. (For ppl who don't know who the Moors are they are Arabs) I think if the Catholic church who was raising an army to fight the Moors drew Jesus with any type of resemblance to the Moors the ppl wouldn't except the faith. Hence, the Catholic church would have fallen and the Moors would still have a foot hold in southern Europe.

Answer 5

There is a Western European bias on illustrations of Biblical events. Sure, Semitic peoples had darker skin, but most Europeans had never traveled more than 25 miles from their homes in the Middle Ages. They wouldn't know that there was a problem with Jesus being white. In the Renaissance, if one of the painters had defied Church doctrine and made Jesus Semitic, he would have been in trouble. That tradition has remained strong because of the influence of those men. Remember, Western Europe and Anglo-America dislike brown people. We drop bombs on them, not worship them.

Answer 6

Because the people who put all the books of the Bible together and translated it into multiple languages just happened to be white and Catholic, and believed that Europeans were the only people blessed by God and to be anything other than white was a sin. What amazes me is that they think he actually went to the Middle East just so THEY could have their Bible and exclude everybody else in the world from going to heaven. Seems it would have been easier for him to just do his thing in Europe.

Answer 7

I think that, at the time that Jesus was being depicted more and more in artwork, during the Middle Ages, artists would paint Jesus as they saw the people around them. Most people, I would think, know that Jesus was most likely not light-skinned, with brown hair and blue eyes.

Answer 8

Good question. Movies has always depicted Jesus as a white male with long hair.Even though he was a jew. Noone will ever know until they meet him face to face in the afterlife.

Answer 9

He lived in the Middle East. Theres no way he was white, unless he was an albino or stayed home all the time, which is highly unlikely becuase he was a carpenter. They depict him as white becuase most of his followers are white. QJust like asking why is Mohammed tan or why is buddha brown? or why is P diddy black?

Answer 10

ahahaha.
Good one
For a fact Jesus was not,French, Italian, German, Latvian, English,Romanian, Dutch, Irish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Greek, Spanish, or an American.If by white you mean Caucasian i agree.I kind of like how they also put Israel and Egypt out of the African continent. It really does not matter too much as Jesus never really existed as an actual person. So to ask what combination of *******,Caucasoid or Mongoloid ethnicity Jesus was is not a provable thing.

However check this out:

Revelation 1:13-15
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

( My Grandma used to give me that olive skin stuff too. When i told her i had only seen
green or black olives, she said yes black, but you can't say that directly, folks don't like to hear that.)

Song of Solomon 1:5-6
How right they are to adore you!
Dark am I, yet lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
dark like the tents of Kedar,
like the tent curtains of Solomon.
Do not stare at me because I am dark,
because I am darkened by the sun.

Have a blessed day