Jesus was most definitely a black man?

Question

All people resident to that region during that period were of a dark skinned orientation. much darker in fact than they are today. The only white people to have ventured into that region of any notibility were the roman's. Dont you think the bible would have mentioned the fact that this man who entered there lives and claimed to the son of god looked different from them and was in fact the same colour of skin as the invading romans?
All indications lead to the fact that Jesus was in all probability, black....as were the three wise men...as were mary and joseph, the list goes on.
Which also leads to the question, if god supposidly created man in his own image....is god black too?

Answer 1

Jesus being a physical man from the middle east was very dark. God being an Invisible Essence is not any color. The image that we are created in is this Invisible Essence and not a semblance of a body. Spirituallity of man is based on abstract principles such as love, justice, harmony, charity and more. It isn't the beauty of the body or anything perishable. Look at the beautiful body after it has been around for a while. What is it that is imperishable? It is the soul.

Like the original Palestinians, jews were semitic and quite dark, even black until the conversion of the white Euro Khazzars into the religion of Moses. From that point the skin of mid east jews started to lighten due to the migration to the mid east by the khazzar jews.

Answer 2

i am Jordanian, the country that has the River Jordan where Jesus was baptized and very near to where he was originally born. People of this area are not black, the only relatively dark people are the ones who live in the Jordan valley which is fairly South and these are numbered. no one should have a problem with what color of skin Jesus had, but usually the population of Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon are not black.
and may i add i have no roman ancestors at all, it's not very true when you say only Romans were white and the original inhabitants were black.

besides, skin color comes as a human being's way of adaptation throughout the years, darker skinned people usually originate from Africa or Latin America where the weather is very hot all around the year, so they need more melanin in their skin to fight off the harmful rays of the sun they're exposed to, melanin causes coloration of skin and thus the black skin. but here in the middle east, we have normal 4 seasons, our summers can be hot but not as hot as the ones in Africa and Latin America so we don't need that much melanin, so our skin is relatively "whiter"

and as for God being black or white, does it really matter?
God is not a Man, he's neither black nor white, neither male nor female...the son descended and took the form of a Man just to be able to communicate to us, but God is not just the Son, he's "father and son and holy spirit"
but if you want to believe he's black go ahead and do so i don't think he'd mind as long as you try your best to follow the example he set when he was here on earth.

Answer 3

Jesus was a man from the Middle East, so he most likely would have had an olive-skinned complexion with dark hair and brown eyes. God is pure spirit, which according to the teachings of Jesus, resides in all human beings, regardless of racial features. Hence, we are all children of God in a metaphorical sense; and basically, our skins are all just various shades of brown, from the lightest to the darkest tones. We should focus more on our common source rather than on our differences and the world will be much better off.

Answer 4

Jesus was born to Jewish parents. Jews are not typically black. The people of the middle east, surrounding Israel, are not black. Jewish people do look different from Romans, or the current day Italians. The wise men could have been black, but most scholars believe they were from Asia.

While I believe that Jesus was not black, as we see it today, why would it make any difference if he was? When God made man in His image, it was not necessarily the way we look, but more likely the way we act, think and feel.

Crawl back under your rock and stop trying to stir up hate.

Answer 5

I suppose it makes sense that Palestinians had darker skins back then than now - could be. So Jesus would obviously have been that colour. Yes, he was a Palestinian Jew, and whatever Palestinian Jews look like now is probably different to what they looked like then. There's been a lot of begetting since those days.

Don't know why people should get so upset by your assertion about Jesus. It seems pretty innocuous to me.

Anyway Jesus existed, so he got the chance to be some colour or other. God doesn't, so he's kinda colourless.

Answer 6

I agree, we need to get a definitive answer to this so we can know what color God is. In all the pictures of Jesus, he looks like a white dude. I don't see the typical African facial traits in Jesus' pictures: lips, nose, curly black hair, etc. I guess he was Middle Eastern, however he shows no sign of a uni-brow. Maybe he plucked his eye brows before those pictures were drawn because he know the importance of "always looking your best!"

Too bad photography wasn't invented when Jesus lived. Or even camcorders. It might help to straighten things out, and also add a sort of "multi-media" dimension to The Bible. That dusty old book leaves WAAAAAYYYYYYY too much to the imagination.

Answer 7

Get a grip dude, dont think like that, you'll give your self an anurisime... Havent you seen the life of Brian, he was clearly white. Not that it matters. Now adays in London you could never have a reanactment of the event 2007 years ago as you couldnt find 3 wise men and a virgin. The only virgins in London are ugly 9 year olds. God has to be black by the way. If he stays in heaven above the clouds far far away, how could he wash himself eh? On the other hand he can't get dirty so no need. Might smell a bit though.

Answer 8

The established churches are most definitely full of institutional racism. St. Thomas was most definitely black and you will be most surprised to learn ancient scriptures do indeed indicate God Almighty as Black as Ebony. Massive “Christian egos” will no doubt claim nothing of this is mentioned in the bible and will claim the word of God is theirs alone and that all other scriptures are meaningless. And they still have the gall to insist they follow the Incarnation of Humility and Innocence.

Answer 9

God is all colours and no colours - if you adhere to the notion of God, that is. I am puzzled as to why you are making this (flawed) statement about Christ. Does it really, really matter what colour he was? Anyway, Jews are not black. Some are fair skinned and blue-eyed, some are darker skinned with brown eyes, but as a race they are not black. Where did you get this idea from?

Answer 10

First of all, do you care if Jesus is black? I don't think the Bible makes mention of color except in the Book of Solomon. I always pictured Jesus as being a lighter shade of tan, as Mary was Jewish and middle eastern, but in the end, does it really matter?