If jesus is a COLOR-LESS spirit, why do people portray him as white or black?

Question

OK,so Jesus is a man. Why do people portray him as WHITE OR BLACK?

Answer 1

Jesus is non-existent. How do you portray that?

Answer 2

An artist portrays Jesus as s/he sees him in their mind's eye. For many, this has been White. For some, this has been Black. Both were off the mark, since Jesus was Middle Eastern, and most likely tanned. Back in those days, SPF didn't exist, and since he was a carpenter, he got lots of sunlight without SPF protection.

Ah yes, they also portray him as young. Being in the sunlight back then every day, especially the HOT sun, and without SPF, one's skin would be weathered and they'd look older by today's standards.

EDIT: Hey, I clicked on that link and saw the photo. This was exactly the image I had in mind, because I saw a television program that showed how this model of Jesus was made. It was so cool.

Answer 3

People portray him in paintings and art works this way because
1 you can't portray a colorless spirit or you would have a blank canvas.
2 it is a matter of identification, Jesus is in you and me so we paint in image of ourselves to be able to identify with the image and understand that.
3 Finally we portray Jesus in his physical form as a man which no one is sure what that exactly what that looked like so no portrayal is right or wrong

Answer 4

Starting with the assumption that Jesus resembled a typical peasant from 1st century CE Palestine, Richard Neave, a medical artist retired from the University of Manchester in England, and a team of researchers started with an Israeli skull dating back to the 1st century. They then used computer programs, clay, simulated skin and their knowledge about the Jewish people of the time to determine the shape of the face, and color of eyes and skin. Mike Fillon followed the research and wrote an article about the portrait in 'Popular Mechanics' magazine. He said during a CNN interview that: 'There are very strong rabbinical laws in Israel that you cannot tamper with a skull or any bones, so they needed to reconstruct the skull. Using a cat scan, which is very common in hospitals, they were able to recreate the skull precisely and make a cast of it. Then they put small wooden pegs, based on anthropological data, to figure out what the muscle structure and the skin would look like, and so they layered that on using clay-like substances.'

The resulting portrait can be found by clicking the link below: a person with abroad peasant's face, dark olive skin, short curly hair and a prominent nose. His height would have been on the order of 5' 1"; he would have weighed about 110 pounds. Alison Galloway, professor of anthropology at the University of California in Santa Cruz , said that: 'This portrait is probably a lot closer to the truth than the work of many great masters.'

Answer 5

Jesus as well as god and thbe angels and satan were all referd to as as collorless it was a way for the people who translated the Bible wich had been writen in a laungage that had not been used in almost 897 years this was just one of the many troubles they faced when they began the task of writeing translating and at the same time trying despratly to stay as close as possible to what was writen.in the actual scripts I as well as many think they were trying discribe that these intities were with out substance and could be seen unless they chose to be............I started studying God and religiuon as a whole when i was about 8 years old and I was an avid disbealever until i turned 23 NO one and I do mean NO one could get into a debate with me were I came to a loss I could turn to Bible to prove my own points every single time as well as disprove any one elsees argument againts and all I have to say about all those years and the ears and hearts that listend to my stupidity is Im sorry and Pray for my own soul.

Answer 6

There are several non-biblical documents that confirm Jesus' existence (one of which is Josephus, a Jewish historian during the time of Nero). Whether or not Jesus was the "Messiah" the Christians' claimed him to be is subject to debate and faith. Nevertheless, the man History knows as "Jesus" (although his name was really Yeshua) was a middle-eastern Jew and likely dark-skinned (not African "black" or Anglo-European "white") as are all peoples from the Palestinian region where Jesus was born and raised.

Answer 7

I'm a Jehovah's Witness. In our articles, we portray him as a man with a blak\ck beard. I don't think of him as black or white. He is definitly not black in our pictures but he's not reall white either. He's just kinda dark. We only have them in our magazines to help people's picture side of their brain. We don't say "This is what Jesus looked like!" Does it really matter? No.

Answer 8

Jesus is not a colorless spirit. God the Father is Spirit and the Holy Spirit is obviously. Jesus has a body, therefore he has some sort of ethnicity. However, that really doesn't matter to me. He is Savior regardless of His physical appearance.

Answer 9

Jesus is not a colorless spirit. But, it doesnt matter what color He is. If we care what color He is, we wont be in heaven. But, the Bible describes Jesus, as of bronze skin and wooly hair, does that sound white? Yes < I am white. But Jesus isnt. Doesnt matter what I think or you or anyone else. Onlymatters what God says. Get a Bible and read for yourselves. A colorless spirit, that is not jesus....But, Jesus is colorblind, as it doesnt matter... color has nothing to do with value, nor does gender, etc. Its your heart that matters..... and whether you love God enough to belive in Him, and accept Jesus as your own saviour, and love Him enough to obey Him . there you go. Jesus saves, and is the ONLY WAY.

Answer 10

Jesus is a man, the son of God...

What are you talking about???

---Most men are white, or black, or somewhere in the middle. What color do you think He was? Purple?

Just because He was the Son of God doesn't make Him different from other men. He had skin color just like you and me.

Answer 11

He was alive. Supposedly he'll come back. People just want to be able to recognize him when he comes back (but of course, that's all but impossible without some distinguishing marks or tattoos or some better physical description than we have). All we can really do is rule things out. He's not asian, probably. Do we really know even David's skin color? Abraham?

Face it, you can't draw a picture of the man without choosing one of the crayons or paints or whatever.