why doesnt Jesus Christ resemble a middle eastern accent?

Question

I have often wondered looking at several paintings of Jesus Christ that he doesnt resemble the heritage he was born around?

Answer 1

~ Tania b...

~ You were created in His image

~ What do you look like?

~ Not to worry, Tania b... soon enough we will be under His wing... being protected and cared for and loved more that we have ever known.

Answer 2

Most painted, or sculpted images of Christ didn't appear until several hundred years after he actually lived. This is because early Christians would have been 1) literate in Hebrew, as well as Greek, Latin, and Aramaic along with many other languages prevalent in the middle east at that time. They could read write and speak these languages fluently, which diminished the need for images as a method of communication. 2) Required to convert to Judaism if not already Jew, which prohibits Idolatry, or idol worship. and 3) persecuted (tortured and killed) for having such images reflecting their Christianity. It wasn't until Christianity began to spread through an Illiterate, Pagan Europe around 400 Ad or so, that painted and sculpted images began to appear. This practice became necessary with in the church as a means to educate/convert people who until then had no written language. Therefore they used paintings and statues of people and events to get their point across. In order to do this, the church commissioned artists who were citizens of these European regions, who had never seen Middle Eastern people. So, they Painted what they knew. Europeans.

Answer 3

That's true... and it's because Christianity wasn't found until Constantine - the first Emperor of Rome- embraced Christianity as a religion, and had announced the Holy Trinity to be God, Holy Spirit and Son of God...

before that Jesus was known to be a moral person who died after being crucified, but because of some political issues, Constantine and his consultants decided to create a one God in a one religion that keeps the Epic idea of having several Gods which is put clearly in the concept of " Trinity" . They have created the whole idea of Immortalizing Jesus and paint him as the God of salvation.....

Anyway, as Constantine was the Emperor of Rome, which is in Europe, all the artists started to draw Jesus and his followers and the Holy Mother, looking up to the aspects and rules of painting and drawing that was known in Rome, because this new religion wasn't even known in Asia or the place where Jesus was born. The Idea was continued to grow larger and larger in contribution with the Gods of the Ancients as the Saints of Rome tried to put some Epic concepts into Christianity like:

Drawing Mary holding baby Jesus with a Halo surrounding her head, these concepts where found in the Ancient Egyptian Art where they carved and sculpted their queens and goddesses holding their children just the same way Mary is holding Jesus.

all the Churches of Europe started to adapt the idea and have drawings of Jesus until the time people from Asia and other countries started to have commercial relations with Europe it is then when the Christian Art started to develop in other countries but it is still embracing the European techniques as it is believed it's closer to Jesus' real life.......


Hope that was useful...

Answer 4

Almost all of those paintings were painted by the Catholic church in the middle ages and resembled Catholic teaching (Jesus with long hair, etc) and contemporary social, curtural norms. (Arches in the famous last supper pictures were Crusader arichitecture, which was 1000 years after Christ). Once that cncept was instilled in the minds of people, it became "gospel" to them and anything else was heritical.

Answer 5

Like you said, "paintings" --. a mans remediation. The Bible does not speak of Jesus ever having His picture painted. Obviously, there were no cameras,movies, etc. back then. The pictures, paintings, drawings, that we see are all what the artiest thought He might have looked like. I think the paintings are in error but His portrait, what He looked like, isn't the important thing. What He did and does is all that really matters.

Answer 6

He was painted to resemble the believers, not his people.

Black churches sometimes paint a black Jesus, hispanic churches sometimes paint one with darker skin, which is actually closer to what Jesus really was.

Answer 7

given which you're a "Jewish Democrat" and Jesus grew to become into additionally Jewish i will ask you 2 questions. Do human beings evaluate you a "midsection jap Terrorist" provided that the two you and Jesus are Jewish? given which you're Jewish, do you look like a "grimy Arab finding darkish skinned guy? in case you replied no to those questions than Jesus does no longer be considered a terrorist or a grimy Arab finding darkish skinned guy.

Answer 8

This goes to show the white Christians wants people to believe that he was a caucasian.

Answer 9

Jesus was Jewish. He probably looked Jewish. We know there was nothing extraordinary about His appearance.

How well do you know Him?

Answer 10

I don't know why.