Jesus is Black?

Question

Why do you people portray Jesus as a white man when in fact he was black! Does this not show that your faith is portraied on a lie and that you all worship the devil!

Answer 1

He could have been black..

It doesn't make him any less who the bible says he is... Does it...

Answer 2

I don't portray Jesus one way or the other. And frankly, religious types that get all worked up about this crap need to get their butts out of church and start doing "what Jesus would do" - feed the hungry, shelter the vulnerable, comfort the sick. Surely an all-powerful God doesn't want you wasting time arguing about this stuff while a full one third of the world goes to bed hungry, right?

All religion, including whatever one YOU subscribe to, is intellectually bankrupt. That is, these systems of faith are patently contemptuous of science and the laws of reason. Doesn't it make sense that any all-powerful, all-knowing God would be logical? But look at the teachings of your Bibles, Korans, Torahs, Bhavadad Gitas or any other religious text - they are so fraught with contradiction that the lessons and laws they promote would have to be insulting to such a god.

Religious types everywhere need to pull their heads out of their butts and start worrying about REAL problems instead of what color Jesus' skin was. Quit being a tool - the powers that be want you to be distracted by this stuff.

Answer 3

It is the same reason why Jesus is portrayed as having long hair. It is because most of the art work was done by white, long haired Renaissance artists. They also picture him hanging on the cross with a little blood dripping out of his head and a little blood trickling around his hands and feet and a little trickle of blood where the sword pierced his side. Which is not an accurate depiction; the Bible says that he was beaten beyond recognition.

Answer 4

Jesus was Jewish and does not neccessarily mean He was black, despite the fact there are dark skinned Jews. No one really knows. The color of Jesus is not of real importance. 2 Samuel 16:7 says, ".....man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart". There are people who think Jesus is black or white, and it has not made one bit of difference in their life. They still go on sinning just like they are going to hell. So, whether Jesus is black or white is of no importance.

Answer 5

Lets base this question on from an American vantage point. 400 years ago, if a middle eastern man had traveled to Sierra Lione on for trade, or some sort of mission, and he was seen by some of the white men who where there to raid villiages for slaves to bring to America. Would Jesus have passed for white, or would he have been taken as well. Most likely, he would have been taken, based on the year ( there wasn't centuries of interacial, and intercultural breeding) and based on his middle eastern descent, in that age he most likely would have still had a darker complexion, and woolier(as I have heard it put ) hair. When he got to america or whichever country his ship was bound for, he may have been picked out by one of the elite to be a house "negro" rather than a feild "negro" do to his lighter complexion than a the other natives of Africa. So was he black, maybe not in the sense that we see it now, but he wasnt white either.

Answer 6

Jesus was Jewish, and born near the Mediterranean so he would be of middle eastern decent, not white, not black, but brown.

no, what it shows you are accusing people of ignorance when you clearly are equally ignorant of facts.

Apparently however your "faith" is based on hate and is there for a false faith and is led by the "devil".

But if you truly are a person of faith, which i highly doubt by the tone of your question, you would not ask these questions.

5 gets you 20 your just here to tick people off.

Sad...

really sad...

Answer 7

Jesus was neither black nor white. He was Jew from Nazareth which was in present day Turkey. Jesus' skin tone would have been closer to that of Osama Bin Laden's than black or white. Let's keep it real and try not to condemn everyone who doesn't share your point of view.

Jesus would probably be disappointed that His message is being completely missed by people who want to waste time with such petty issues like trying to match up skin color.

Answer 8

Jesus is not black!!! Have you ever seen an Israeli Jew? That is what He looked like. Get over the race issue. My faith is based on Jesus Christ being my Lord and Savior not on the color of His skin. My faith is based on the fact that this perfect being came to earth to die for my sins, was resurrected on the third day and Ascended into Heaven. It is not based on something so worthless as someone's skin color.

Answer 9

"Fact"? There is about as much evidence and "fact" that Jesus was Black as there is that he looked like the Western European that he is portrayed as in so much of the art work around.


Those who are so concerned with his race of origin, are really missing a major point of his message, and that is that race does not matter to his message.

Answer 10

Jesus was not black. The basis for that argument used by those who are adamently trying to convince everyone of thier bleif. The argument thier argument is from a passage in the Bible that says his (Jesus) hair was as wool. Except that they intentionally leave a word out. And that word is " white". The passage actually says "his (Jesus) hair was as white as wool". Not that it was like wool. Only that it resembled wool in color. Not in texture. Look it up yourself the passage is Revelations 1:14. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.

He is potrayed as a white man because the people who became early Chistians were from Europe. And in the middle ages. So they made Jesus in all thier artwork look like them. Witch he obviously did not. Seeing as how he was not from England or Europe. Nor did he have any European ancestry or African for that matter. His geneology is stated in the first book in the gospel of Matthew. Geneolgy means his family tree. his ancestors. And guess what they are all middle eastern!!!!


Jesus was from the middle east. He was jewish. And from Isreal. And in those days jews from the middle east. Isreal included looked like modern day Arab people. Jesus was from the middle east. Not from Africa. Not from Europe. And Not from far Asia for that matter. He was from the middle east. Mary and Joseph his parents were from the middle east. In the bible it says how Jesus desended from King David and from him all the way down he decended from people of the middle east. HE WAS MIDDLE EASTERN!!! I don't see the confusion.

Further more regurdless if he was white, black, or purple with blue poka dots. What does that have to do with worshiping a devil??????????????????? How does that make any sence? If he was black and is portaid as white HOW does that mean people worship the devil??? That makes NO sence. That's like saying The sky is blue but Tom said its green so we all should go jump off a bridge? What are you talking about????????

Answer 11

What are you trying to prove or stir up with this question? Jesus was born a Jew, so what? Chill out and just accept this. It doesn't make any other race other than Jewish second rate. Race matters not. Jesus looks at our hearts when He judges us and the last time I heard, all races have the same color of hearts!!!