do you really belive jesus was white??

Question

i mean think about it he was born in the middle east and people from the middle east are not white. people who's forfathers were born there anyway?

i have seen many films and jesus is played by a white man and there are many paintings of him with blond hair and blue eyes?

i did know that wayne i also know the jews were not white either.

why are some of you having a dig at me?? i am a whie male without a rasist bone in my body all i'm doing is pointing out the obvious??

sorry i meant to say white male

Answer 1

No

Most people below will answer you by saying he was jewish. They are ignorant of the fact that jews back then did not look like the european jews in the middle east today. The original jews were from ethiopia, and they then migrated to egypt, and then to the Holy Lands.

Answer 2

The 'white'-ness of Jesus is entirely based on a brine-soaked piece of cloth that was used to help temper a bronze statue of Jaques DeMolay. This process transferred a negative image onto the cloth, and voila! The shroud of Turin. I don't know how they determined skin-tone from a negative, but the beard and underlying bone-structure are those of a european male, so paintings that date from when the shroud became available began showing Jesus as white.

I don't know why in Michaelangelo's paintings neither Adam nor Noah nor Moses seem to be Semitic though.......

Answer 3

The bottom line is that there is no historical reference to anyone named Jesus, other than in religious texts. There were plenty of references to many people and events in and around the time and place of Jesus' alleged existence. You would think that some one would write something about a person healing the blind and turning water into wine. On top of that, not a word of the new testament was written until 40 years after Christ's alleged death by unknown people that never even met or even saw Jesus in person. Beyond that, there aren't even copies of copies of copies of the original texts. All of these things combined lead me to believe that Jesus was so white that he was transparent (.....as in non-existent)

Answer 4

It would appear that scientists do classify those of middle-eastern descent to be caucasian ("white"). If you are using a "nazi" or "Klan" definition of "white", it would seem that very few of those who classify as "white" in the census qualify. "White" is not a race of humans. In the late 60's, under race in an application, I put C for caucasian, which I thought was correct and saw it erased by the official and replaced with W. I actually was naive enough to ask "what race does W stand for?".
Race is not a color, and in fact doesn't mean much to me except in certain medical matters which seem to follow around with certain genetic heritage. It would certainly should mean even less in any religious sense.
It would seem that many of the people answering this Q confuse race and color. That is however the common speech. The reference to Cleopatra, however particularly caught my eye. She was the last of a Greek dynasty established by Alexander The Great and most probably had no Egyptian or North African genitic material in her DNA. She was the only one of her family known to have bothered to learn the Egyptian language or even the basic geography except for where the gold mines were, she even bothered to learn the names of the gods honored by the people she ruled and gave her life trying to keep them free of Roman rule. Give her all credit she is due, but she wasn't African except for by choice.

Answer 5

I know what you mean, it is annoying that he is always portrayed as some kind of white beardie hippie in films, when he was a middle eastern jew. I would love to see a film with a black man portraying Jesus, makes as much sense as a white man doesn't it?

Answer 6

I agree with you in that considering where Jesus was born He wouldn't be white.
Jesus is the Son of God. We don't know what color Jesus' skin was, for all we know maybe God wanted Jesus to stand out among all the middle-east skin tones, curly dark hair, and brown to black eyes.
Of course, it could of been the Jesus movies that wanted Jesus to stand out among all the middle-easters.

Answer 7

I've never seen a picture of Jesus with blonde hair and blue eyes. The one's I've seen show Him with dark hair and dark eyes, like the Jews.

Answer 8

Jesus was born from Jewish mother. Of course Jewish people are white, not like Irish or English perhaps, but nevertheless white. What do you think means the definition ,,Caucasian,,? It does not mean that all Caucasians are from the Caucasus, which is in South-Eastern Europe. It is just have scientific meaning, like white, black, Afro-American etc etc etc. All people are equal. Jesus is equally a Lord and Savior for all of us on the earth. (I mean people who belive in Jesus, of course, but they are majority)

Answer 9

Jesus was from the Middle East therefore he wouldnt be white. Probably tanned, brown or even have some black descent.

Answer 10

I think you believe every white person thinks Jesus is white. Which isn't true. Only insecure minorities focus on this point. Every race wants Jesus to be there color. Take the Mexicans making shirts of Mother Mary look hispanic holding a baby in the background of some hoopties. I'm not sure if he was white or black, I'd say he was the color of a typical Middle Easterner.

Answer 11

Jesus was of jewish descent. So he was probably closer to a tan or an olive color. Unless an artist was able to paint Jesus while he was still alive, we really don't have an accurate depiction of what he looked like. Most pictures are based on the culture of the painter.