Why can't you admit that JESUS CHRIST was a black man?

Question

What's with all this white Jesus BS? Have you been to the middle east? Have you ever seen a native "white" person? Very few, that is correct. And the white people who are there now, were not there in Jesus' times, thank you immigration. The overwhelming truth is that JESUS CHRIST was a black, or very dark skinned man. Deal with it.

It's amazing how you can make an incindeary statement into a believable question, and get serious responses. Does any one here actually believe that I care whether or not Jesus was white or black? Thank you all for providing the knee jerk background noise that covers up what is really happening in this world. Keep it up?

Okay, if one more uneducated boob says Jesus lived in Isreal, I am going to hit something. People, Isreal was not even invented until 1949 AD, just a little bit after his death. Perhaps some one noticed.

I like the one who says " wasn't he born to Joseph and Mary? Caucasians?", wow! Talke about a white centered universe this girl has. No honey, more likely than not, Joseph and Mary were not Caucasians from the Ural Mountains.

Answer 1

And how long did it take you to know that? Duh!

Answer 2

I don't really think what color skin Jesus had is relevant. There are very accurate desciptions on record of what the typical jewish man of the day looked like. Jesus is described as being a typical jewish man of the time, which by the way was not a black man. What's more relevant is did the Jesus told of in the Bible really exist at all? The only record of his short mythological existance is the Holy Bible, which was originally written by the scribes and scholars of the Roman Catholic Church at the insistance of Emperor Constantine and the second Emperor Constantine. The earliest writings of the New Testament can only be dated to roughly 200 years after Jesus' reported death. Not any of the apostles to which these writings are credited had anything to do with writing them. In fact, nobody who ever had contact with, or knew the actual Jesus ever wrote a single word about him, and he's not mentioned in any historical references of the time. The verifiable writings of the apostle Paul who never knew Jesus either yet supposedly started most of the Christian churches in the ancient Roman Empire consist of a one paragraph letter, yet many volumes are credited to him. The Catholic church has a long and storied history of making things up and changing things to suit the needs of their agenda. I think the man Jesus probably had "some" basis in fact, but the diety he has been turned into would be unrecognizable as the living man. He may have well been one of the last "Sacrificial Kings" of Isreal. In those days Isreal was big on sacrifices and each year they chose a willing man to be the sacrificial King for one year during which time he was treated royally. At the end of the year he would be sacrificed to God as a Messiah or Savior, a sacrificial lamb slaughtered to pay for the sins of all the Jewish people. When the Romans took over they put a stop to these public ritual sacrifices by the Jewish religion, and there were many others, most of which were outlawed as barbaric by the new Roman Government. These and other equally disturbing events are documented in various historical accounts. So, the answer to your question is... that I most definitely cannot admit Jesus was a black man, in fact I can't admit Jesus ever really existed at all.

Answer 3

First, I don't think you need to use Jesus' name with an explicative remark.

Second, I agree that Jesus would have been of a dark skinned race, as Middle Easterners are. It is an ego centric thing to think Jesus was Caucasian or Hispanic or African or Pacific Islander. However, the Bible states that humans were created in God's image, so in a way all depictions of Jesus, no matter what skin color could be Jesus, and all at the same time. It is one of those complicated things about God that is hard to comprehend with our limited human understanding about the supernatural.

And nevermind telling others to "deal with it". That sounds overbearing and critical. It would far better help your cause if you learned to accept that everyone that believes in God, and believes that Jesus was God's Son, typically things of God as looking like themselves and that is okay. It is not wrong, it is just ego centric and quite a normal human trait.

Answer 4

A simple study of the Bible will tell you that Jesus is not a white man nor a black man. He is a semite. And many semites have dark skins and many have white skins. And some such as those who claim decendancy from Solomon and Sheba have black skins. To suggest that Jesus is white or black is academically dishonest at best and academically bankrupt at worst.
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Answer 5

Sorry. Don't agree with you. Don't forget, Jesus was a Jew who lived in the area of what is now known as Israel. At that time in history, any blacks in the region were probably slaves right along with anyone who came from a country conquered by the Romans, e.g. the Greeks.
Also, the people in most of the middle east, although they have dark eyes and hair, do not have black skin like people from India, for example.
Besides what does it really matter? Jesus was here to save souls and to teach us how to attain heaven. Another reason why I doubt that he was black is because, if he were, it would become an issue amonst the people he lived with. Jesus gave the Romans and Jews enough issues to contend with regarding himself as our Saviour. Being black at that time in history would have distracted people from his message.

Answer 6

I know he may have been dark skined as some jews are but dont believe He was black.Really though It doesnt matter.The only ones that would get hung up on that issue have a problem with prejudice.Coming from blacks or whites.When it all comes down to the nitty gritty we are all descended from adam and eve and it doesnt make any difference.It's just another thing the devil uses to cause division.

Answer 7

I am absolutly sure that you are correct. Can't you just hear the Father and Son laughing about the portraits of Jesus in most Protestant churches. Jesus probably would have needed to invent sun-screen while He was on earth,

Answer 8

I knew that He would have been a dark-skinned man. I have no dispute on that. Our artistic concept of Caucasian and long hair comes from the Rennisciance. I have no problem with understanding the truth on this and making it correct in my own artwork.

Answer 9

I believe as Jew in the middle east , he was probably olive complected. However, it really has nothing to do with the message he spread so why argue semantics. Who cares what color he was? It does not elevate any race above another to say he was white, black, red, or yellow. Deal with that.

Answer 10

Firstly, if you are consumed by humanistic ideas surrounded by someone such as Christ, you are missing some pieces to the puzzle. If you are going to claim that Jesus Christ "was" something, you should couple that with "is" and those attributes should be less like what color skin he had and more like how he was all things good.

Answer 11

I don't personally care what race or nationality Jesus Christ was. Our Lord's skin color is trife compared to what He did for us. He died for us. Black, white, Hispanic, Indian, Native American, Asian, what have you, He died for our sins on the cross.

All cultures come up with their own Jesus images. Christians of African descent depict Christ as having African characteristics. Hispanics portray the Lord as being Hispanic. Caucasians give Jesus white features.

Again, His race had no bearing on His life.