Can you really believe that Jesus was white?

Question

-hair like wool
-feet of brass
-born in the Middle East, which is African soil

Not that it really matters, but can you really connotate these characteristics with a white man?

Im interested in hearing your views regarding this.

THIS IS FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE... not to stir up contraversy between those who do not... a friendly discussion!

Thanks!
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Ancient Jews are not white... converted Jews are white!





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Im thinking that He looks more Arabic...

And Jewish is a religion... not race.

Thanks for all of your comments!
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Answer 1

Sure why not, he was the same hapelogroup as me M9, and I am white...but I do have ancestors who were obviously middle eastern or tanned in colour...

Answer 2

I dont think Jesus was light coloured. HE was middle eastern so thereofre he probalby had dark skin and dark hair and curley hair.

The reason that Jesus is depicted as being white with blond hair ins sooo many paintings is cos most of those painitngs were done in athe middle ages when the Bible was in europe, but ppl had no idea what the culture and the people of the middle east were like. Most ppl in the north had fair skin and light/brown hair. So they visulised Jesus to be like them as they did not know what other ppl looked like. Traveling was also very rare. Many ppl of that time had never seen a black person and maybe just heard stories.

Answer 3

This is a question that has reared its ugly head once again. The answer is he may have been as the area you mention is in southeast Asia and in the north east of Africa where some of the people are of lighter skin than say Ghana but at the end of the day does it really matter.

Answer 4

I don't think Jesus is white. He probably looks more Arabic than white. With a more Olive complexion. I hate to say this but with stariotypeing and Most if not All Catholic leaders being White and the discrimination against anyone who isn't "white" from many I really have to beleive Jesus being White is a label put on him just like Santa being Fat in a red suit with a white beard. St. Nicholos was White but he didn't look like that. It's what people have made him look like. (I know how cool that "Santa was real")

I don't really care what color he was but I do think that he was a more Olive tone despite the fact everyone probably wants Jesus to be their color. (I'm as white and pale as they get)I guess all who beleive in him will find out in Heaven if we can even tell the color of people there.

Answer 5

I believe Palestine would be considered part of Asia? It's really actually a bridge between the two continents.
He was Semitic. I think that would be classified as "white", but darker than what we usually visualize - the typical Anglo Saxon looking Jesus with long, well brushed honey-blond hair and pale skin!
So we needn't exaggerate one way or another.
The important thing is that He became man, human. So he was like US, whoever US may be: African, Asian, European, ... etc.
I really am not sure that God recognizes us so much as different races to separate us anyway.

Answer 6

Let me explain this phenomenon to you, Jesus soon thereafter became the world's biggest religious icon. Therefore his fame was widespread, this effect in turn caused peoples to adopt him as sort of thier own. Research shows that almost every race has a Jesus like character, that is depicted like icons of thier particular breed. The Caucasian depiction of "Christ" is nothing more than a medevial rendering of how they're people imagined Christ to be like. Since The Caucasian Race hold strong economic powers, you will see this depiction even more than any other. However the second commandment warns us of such actions, as forbidden by the Father, so only those whom know more than God would be dumb enough to make an image of a Heavenly Icon like Christ.

Answer 7

No, I don't believe Jesus was white. I think He was probablly olive-skinned, and looked like a modern-day Middle Easterner. No way was He a white guy while on Earth. The paintings you see are artists' concepts, since there are no photographs.

Answer 8

I have always had a problem with the pictures of Jesus protraying him as a white european looking guy when in actuality he was born in the middle east, at that time people were quite short also so in my head I always pictured him as a dark, muscular (given the fact he was a carpenter), short, and stocky man. I don't know why society has always protrayed him as a white, european guy...probably because of how Leonardo first drew him in The Last Supper picture...I don't agree with that though obviously!

Answer 9

Jesus is only white in the eyes of artists who shaped the western world's perception of him.

As long as they remember that the physical man most probably looked like what we call "Middle Eastern," then I don't have a problem with portraying Jesus as any race, since it helps many people identify with him.

Answer 10

I think that nobody can really resolve the issue of Jesus' skin color in this lifetime, but I would assert that we can have a fair level of certainty that Jesus was not white if we were to base it upon where he was born and grew up. My "gut feeling" is that art has given us a "westernized" view of what Jesus looked like, but that has no bearing on what he really did indeed look like.

Answer 11

No the bible describes Jesus as having a olive complexion, so I see him as being dark complected he looked like the other Hebrews of his time. The middle east is not African soil. It is Turkey,Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, Syria and several other countries but definitely not Africa.