Sorry! Second question to the colour of Jesus' skin one...?

Question

We are all supposed to live under his dads rule...excuse me if I'm being flippant about it...So why do certain groups hate other coloured people, and use the Bible as their excuse? Jesus was of a darker skin so why hate those you don't know?

Maybe I'm niave, but I was brought up to believe we were all equal.

I'm sorry if you felt used by the other question I posed!

Im sorry!! I could have worded that better!

sorry if it seemed as though i was using skin clolour as my "hard headedness", but i've seen people while i've been here in the USA using skin colour as an excuse to harrass other people, and the Bible is mentioned when doing it.

To me that's wrong

Answer 1

There are many reasons why people are racists (hate others because of color). I'm not a racist, so I can't tell you why. All we can do is pray (for those that believe in prayer) and hope that they someday change for the better in that area.

We are all equal, but making others accept it is a different story. Being colored makes you no less than any other race/color. It does not dictate your future, nor does it make you worse than anyone else in any way. Some believe it does, but if they were born a different color, they wouldn't see things that way.

Besides, why would a perfect Creator (God) allow for an imperfect race to exist? It doesn't make sense. The Bible tells uses the words, "...each after their own kind." This phrase has been abused and will be abused to the end of time; especially by racists. In reality, it was referring to how animals (including humans) were created to reproduce as in a bird will mate with and produce another bird, a dog will mate with and produce another a dog, etc. It additionally goes to further elaborate that a cow can't produce a giraffe. All animals, including humans, were created to mate with their own kind and to produce their own kind.

This to applies to humans; not by color or phylum, but as an entire race (the human race). Humans are to mate with and produce humans.

Humans (those certain ones...) are the ones who twisted it to have it mean, "Stick to your own kind" on a racial basis. This is not what the Bible means. If so, a person of the brown race and a person of the white (or any other color combination) would not be able to reproduce...

You ARE NOT not naive and don't let anyone lead you to believe any different. If anyone, racists are the ones that are naive.

You mentioned Jesus being darker, remember, he was hated for many reasons also and I'm sure one of them could have easily been because of race/color; look what they did to him for being 'different'...now think, if being darker is supposed to be so bad, why would God allow for it in his, "...only begotten son"?

For those that state the Bible doesn't mention Jesus' skin color, it does state in Rev 1:15, "And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace" (start reading at verse 13 to see the correlation).

Answer 2

Let's see if we can sort you out here. Yes, the Jews began in the Middle East, in the land called Israel or Palestine. Jesus was born and raised a Jew, but started a new religion which most other Jews rejected. So Jewish and Christian history do not have a lot in common. Christianity became popular among gentiles (non-Jews), especially Europeans. They didn't start drawing pictures of Jesus until centuries later, so no one knew what he looked like (the Bible doesn't say), but they figured they'd draw a friendly, familiar face. That's pretty much how Jesus came to be "white". In most countries, pictures of Jesus resemble the predominant race, "Allah" is just the Arabic word for "God". If you only believe in one god, then its the same god for all monotheists, even if they don't all believe the same things about this god. Jews believe in one, true god. So do Muslims. Christians also believe in one god, but their belief is more complicated because Jesus is involved. Middle Eastern counties are mostly Muslim, but there are also Jews and Christians living there. And when they refer to "God" in Arabic-speaking counties, the word they all use is "Allah". Because Jerusalem was destroyed by Rome in 70 CE, the Jews did not have a homeland before 1948. They got used to living on the fringes of Christian society and making do. There was some intermarriage, but they worked hard to keep the Jewish way of life alive. But it was a little different in different places. The two predominant Jewish cultures are the Ashkenazi, based in the general area of Poland, and the Sephardic, who concentrated near Spain. There are even more Jewish cultures in other parts of the world. They have some customs in common and many different ones, including language. But because Judaism has a culture to it, with ritual and dietary requirements, it's hard to be Jewish one your own. So it's not surprising you haven't met a Jew in your small New Mexican town. The odds of meeting one increase in the bigger cities.

Answer 3

People have always used the Bible to back up their own prejudices or to condone their own actions and sooth their consciences. Women have been seen as lesser than men because of Bible scriptures, white supremacists use the Bible saying that Cain's mark was dark skin(!), to deny gays and lesbians basic rights. Jews, Muslims, every other religious group has been persecuted either by the "Holy Church" - IE. the Crusades, the Inquisition, Witch burnings in Europe, Britain and the Colonies in the Americas, or individuals claiming to be "Christian."

More atrocities have been done in the name of God and Jesus over the past 3,000 years than for any other reason. Whole civilizations wiped out because they looked and believed differently than the Church.

Answer 4

I think Jesus may have been black. Even if he wasn't black, he was almost certainly VERY dark and tan. So I don't think he was actually BLACK, but he probably did have a darker skin tone since he was from the Middle East and was a Hebrew. The paintings of him show a tanned Jesus.

Some people are just hateful and racists. We should just ignore THOSE people and go along our lives as equals. We should pray that those people get a life and live it to the brim. (It's New Year's Day and I'm about to be saved!)
What broke my heart one time, I looked over at this little black girl and smiled at her b/c she was a cute girl. She couldn't had been more than 4. She looked like she was about to cry and tolled her sister that I kept looking at her. Are we so mean that we have little 4 yr old black girls looking out 4 racists 2? I don't know about u, but that's not the kind of world i want to live in!!
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Answer 5

Where have you have heard people using the Bible to justify racism? If you are naive, it is about Christianity. People assume that countries and groups that are predominantly Christian (or stereotypically Christian) use religion as a pretext for hatred and bigotry. Most western nations are secular.

I can't speak for all Christians, but I was raised going to Church three times a week; my grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher, my uncle was an Assemblies of God preacher, my wife's father was a preacher, as was her uncle. My dad was a bishop in the Pentecostal Holiness Church, my Mom played the organ, and my aunt played the piano. I went to a Christian school, with daily Bible readings and religious devotions. Have regularly attended Presbyterian, Pentecostal Holiness, Apostolic Pentecostal, Charismatic, Assemblies of God, Southern Baptist, Roman Catholic, Nestorian, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Cambelite, and United Pentecostal services from Florida to Honolulu, Australia, Singapore, and Hong Kong. I have met many priests, preachers, pastors, deacons, chaplains, and bishops.

With that resume in mind, I have never met anyone who used the Bible to justify racisim. All I have ever heard from every Christian that I have ever met is that all people were created equal.

Wait, I take that back. A preacher once came to our Church and made a slightly off-color remark about another race. He did not say anything overtly derrogatory, but he imitated the accent of another ethnic group. My dad stood up and stopped the preacher on the spot, and he was permanently removed from the Church.

Now, I'm not saying that everything is roses. I have encountered plenty of racism... but always from secular people who have either never attended a Christian Church, or who had left the Christian Church years before. And none of them tried to use the Bible to justify racism.

Just look at the responses posted so far - not a single attempt to justify racism. Everyone who expresses an opinion agrees with you that Jesus was dark skinned. I will add that I have not met any Christians who think that Jesus was Caucasian.

Answer 6

Yes maam toe-jam,
I believe that you are tight on with your decription of people. There are a number of people who follow the customs of man rather than the words of Christ and HIS Apostles in their rendition of following HIS WORD. They seem to pick and choose what they want to follow and what they do not. We must be more believing in the FATHER and less in our old out-dated customs. The Jewish leaders were the same way in Jesus' day and they were dead wrong! Hopefully this will strike up a good thinking on your readers. Man is to follow GOD not the other way around. Follow the Lord and have a great week.
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Answer 7

Jesus was a white man. God created him that way (White) to show the world that white men are Superior and god like. Its the same reason that god made George Bush A White Male and Pat Robertson of the 700 club. If God wanted women to be important he would have just made them white and male at birth.

J/K! Some people think this way isn't that scary?

The "just and righteous" Noah (6:9, 7:1) plants a vineyard, gets drunk, and lies around naked in his tent. His son, Ham, happens to see his father in this condition. When Noah sobers up and hears "what his young son had done unto him" (what did he do besides look at him?), he curses not Ham, who "saw the nakedness of his father," but Ham's son, Canaan. "A servant of servants shall he [Canaan] be unto his brethren." This is a typical case of biblical justice, and is one of many Bible passages that have been used to justify slavery. 9:20-25

Answer 8

We can not know anything about His appearance He may have been very dark or very light I live in Israel and my hair is blonde and my eyes is a Narilyn Monroe blonde (natural) and I am white so U C that geography has nothing to do with it Frankly, wqho, caresa honor the man hE WAS NOT THE SUPPOSED COLOR OF hIS SKIN

Answer 9

The answer here is that those people you speak of are hiding behind liars and the old ways. Jesus loved all people no matter their skin color and anyone who would judge another because of their skin color is mocking the Fathers creation!

Answer 10

So you are saying that Christians hate people of different colours? I have never heard a Christian say they hate someone because the Bible tells them so. Where are you getting your info?You are not the only one who believes all men are equal, so do Christians. I really wonder about your research on this one.