Why do people believe in a white jesus?

Question

To believe Jesus looks like the white blonde haired man we have all been shown is not historically accurate and is in some ways perverse to have an image of the son of God. White people will tell you it doesnt matter what color he was but yet they will not condemn this image of the christ looking like a hippie. As a matter of fact the only image they would condemn is a non white image of Jesus.

truth d how about the falasha jews from ethiopia who exist to this very day?

Answer 1

Most people acknowledge that the paintings are not accurate. Everyone knows he was born in the middle east and therefore must have looked like a typical person born in that area.

Answer 2

Why do people believe in a _male_ god? 'Cause they're dum-da-dum-dum.

Of course Jesus' depiction as white is not historically accurate, but since when have whites been concerned with historical accuracy. We can't hardly come up with a reason we thought in the first place that our skin color and way of life was superior to blacks', so we conveniently decided to enslave them and then required an actual _war_ to decide whether they were human or not. We're truly ridiculous.

And to say that "it doesn't matter how we depict Jesus because we don't really know what he is, and he's everything" leads me to ask ... then WHY DON'T we depict him accurately? WHY DON'T we depict him as purple and green and blue or as a sea monster or DVD or crystal of salt? It's simply another obvious example of Christianity's (and America's) ignorant Euro-centrism.

Answer 3

That comes from the fact that most of the depictions were done by European's and a the time they had no concern for accuracy, only in establishing a connection and the main way to do that was to make him resemble them. It also allowed Europeans of the middle ages and later to create lineages that included biblical characters (like Noah) and the only way to do that was to had them look like Europeans. It was also an effot to remove christianity from its origins in Judiasm. Even today there are people that DON'T understand the fact that Jesus was Jewish and not, in fact, a Christian. It has become tradition and no one is relly comfortable with making it accurate, espeically in the current political climate.

Answer 4

No one does... this gets asked 20 times a day, there will be a few answers from non christians claiming we believe in a white Jesus and wouldnt worship any other color and then every Christian will inform you we know He was from the middle east and looked like the rest of the middle easterners which was not white with blonde hair and blue eyes

And then you will most likely believe what the non believers say over what we say... so... oh well.

Answer 5

Are you serious? I'm white, and I've always thought of Christ as a Jewish man, which could pretty much mean anything (as you know many Jews are as white as your white American or European or dark like Africans or some Middle Easterners). But, when it comes down to it, I don't think it matters so much what a picture does or does not depict, but that the picture invokes deep thought and spirituality. Whatever works for someone draw closer to Christ, that is what they should be using.

Answer 6

White Jesus? Come on, dude, nobody really believes Jesus was white! It is true that many have created black, white, Hispanic, Asian pictures of Jesus. Many would say He belongs to each race, each individual equally. A Savior that looks like us may be comforting, but no one thinks he looks like those silly Renascence portraits.
Check this out for starters:
http://www.skete.com/index.cfm?currentpage=1&fuseaction=category.display&category_id=26&sortby=sku

OR

http://mattstone.blogs.com/photos/aboriginal_icons/ethiopian_christ.html

Answer 7

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Answer 8

heres one just point out the fact that he lived in the mediteranian area and ask them to find a person of true decent from there and ask them what color they are i believe it's olive or dark plus the hair color should also be darker than blonde.

Answer 9

I have seen Jesus portrayed as white, black, spanish and asian. I always believed him to be the color of the person who was worshiping him, God is above color and race, it is man who tries to put one on him.

Answer 10

I would think Jesus looked like the people he came from in the middle east.