I believe jesus was black just by geographical default. He may not have been completely black he might have been brown or light brown, but to believe jesus was a blond haired blue eyed white guy is a flat out lie. Jesus did not become white until King James wrote the "white" version of the bible. And also has anyone noticed that the bible, koran,, say the exact same thing? Also did you know the egyptian book of the dead which is older than both of thoses books say everything the bible and the koran say?
2007-02-03 17:24:52 · 23 answers · asked by Richard L 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'm a white guy, and I agree that the painting on the walls of my church are not really correct. I guess we all want Jesus to look like us, but I'm begining to think he just may be black - don't tell anybody I said so :)
2007-02-03 17:37:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is described in the Bible as having skin of bronze and hair of wool. "Black" is way off the mark. The masses KNOW that Jesus is not a blonde haired blue eyed anglo but they portray him as such for wider acceptance. Can you imagine a picture of a deep brown skinned man with tight curly hair on the walls of any Christians who have fed into the big lie? It won't happen. People in general just will not see the truth. Even the Pope hasn't recognized the true image of Jesus. Until this wrong is righted it's all a farce.
2007-02-03 17:37:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't know of anyone who thinks that Jesus was a white guy with blond hair and blue eyes.
What has the King James Bible to do with anything? It says nothing at all about Jesus' skin color.
And how can a Bible translation be a "white version"?
2007-02-03 17:36:11 · answer #3 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Given he was born in the Middle East, of Middle-Eastern parents, chances are better than even he was at least brown, rather than pink. Thanks to the racist fools of the Dark Ages, he has been portrayed as a Northwestern European for about 1000 years.
As for the Egyptian Book of the Dead predating the modern "holy books:" Judaism, Islam and Christianity have been ripping off prior religions for thousands of years. Why should this surprise anyone? The virgin birth, the lead god's only son, the death and resurrection ... all old ideas from other faiths. But hey --- they're the most entertaining ideas, so why not?
2007-02-03 17:41:03 · answer #4 · answered by weary0918 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ok the bible doesnt say what he looked like but he was a jew so he had olive skin and dark hair(he wasnt black!) the koran does not say the same things as the bible and the egyptian book of the dead may have been originally composed (but later changed to suit the egyptians)by moses since he was ankhnaten aka tuthmosis aka amenhotep. this is my field of study. read my book - seven thunders uttered isbn#1413740251
allah was just a minor moon god in a pantheon of 365 gods in ancient saudia arabia some 1,200 years before mohammed wrote the koran
2007-02-03 17:36:14 · answer #5 · answered by seventhundersuttered 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was looking like people of his area, certainly similar to the Palestinians or Lebanese of today. In the West, the representation of Jesus were based on local people, some famous person would pay the artist in order to be depicted as Jesus. Whites were the only models they had, most of the artists in the Middle Ages did not travel much further than one day walk of their town, and therefore did not know how people in the Middle East looked like.
2007-02-03 21:08:48 · answer #6 · answered by Reindeer Herder 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Obviously he was not blond blue-eyed...
But to say that he's "black". How do you know how was the population of that place at that time? That place suffered inumerous invasions after Jesus. I have no idea how people in that place during Jesus time was like. And I don't care cause I don't have a political agenda.
I SEE EVERYBODY HEAR KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THE POPULATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST 2.000 YEARS AGO. I HAVE NO IDEA AND I'M THE ONLY ONE BEEING HONEST HEAR.
JEWS... WHAT A JOKE THAT ARE BLACK ETHIOPIAN JEWS, THAT ARE BLOND BLUE-EYED JEWS FROM CENTRAL EUROPE... PEOPLE HERE ARE TRYING TO GIVE A DESCRIPTION TO JEWS.
Anyway, this is Fouad Siniora, prime minister of Lebanon
http://medias.lefigaro.fr/photos/20060807.WWW000000352_27464_3.jpg
Emile Lahoud, president of Lebanon
http://www.voanews.com/vietnamese/images/ap_lebanon_pres_emile_lahoud_19mar05_210.jpg
Tariq Aziz, former member of Saddam's regime
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2002/09/18/GALLERY3.jpg
Bashar al Assad, president of Syria
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/middleeast-crisis/gfx/assad_cp_1562024.jpg
I don't what's beeing white to you. But if I had to choose "white" or "black", I'd put them in the white label.
2007-02-03 17:33:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Palestinian Jew would be black, or dark, I expect. Not only do I not believe that he was blonde, fair-skinned and blue-eyed, I would also suspect he wasn't as good looking as he is portrayed. Throughout the Bible black and dark is depicted as evil while white and light is good, holy and pure. No wonder racism and paranoia exists towards ethnic and darker coloured races.
2007-02-03 17:33:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It relies upon, 80's black jesus, isn't any adventure for ninety's black jesus. The 80's black Jesus vs the 50's white Jesus may lose. notwithstanding, the ninety's black Jesus will beat fairly a lot any jesus except perchance the ninety's mexican jesus.
2016-11-02 06:46:23 · answer #9 · answered by dewulf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being from Israel, Jesus is most likely middle-eastern. Also the Bible says that He had no form or comeliness that we would desire Him. It says a number of times that He disappeared into the crowd. I don't think He vanished but just blended in with the crowd which He couldn't have done with blue eyes.
2007-02-03 17:32:22 · answer #10 · answered by Jan P 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋