Why do some african people think God is black?

Question

LMFAO mama_tee, I am ROLLING HERE.......I am not white. LOL> I am native american. DON'T ever forget that!

um the Image of God is Jesus Christ.......and yes, God is Jewish. Funny how people THINK God is.

To answer your question horacepembleton, I believe that Jesus Christ is God. Hence (IMAGE of God).

He has come to me in the Image of God which is Jesus Christ milly_1963.

No I do not think God tends to people they way people imagine Him up to be in peoples heads Zimmia. I believe God is a man.

If you don't mind me asking, where did you come up with the I D Zimmia?

Damn it to hell pey, I do not believe peoples origins come from africa. Your link is no good to me, but thanks anyways.

Right on point_less.......

God looks like Jesus Christ wondergirl. Thats all you had to say.

Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:.......

2 Corinthians 4:4
.......,lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

And just to clarify you all that stated something or other about God being white.......I never said I thought God is/was white.

I am not falln for that one kilroymaster, I DID NOT COME FROM NO APE, CHIMP, MONKEY, OR GORILLA.......simple as that. I believe I was created in God's beloved image whom happens to be the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

According to evolution people evolved from chimps, monkeys, gorillas, and apes. Dont try to correct me on this SENTENCE because that is as far as I will take it when it comes to evolution.

Soooo giving evolution the benifit of the doubt like a good open minded person. In order for people to have been Evolved, people would have had to come from somewhere.......science says ^^.

If God had to go through an animal or a beast to create people, wouldn't God have to say other wise other than "In His Image".

Again, Who is the Image of God? The Image of God is Jesus Christ. Does Jesus Christ look like a beast or an animal? I do not think so. He looks like a human being.

This is not a racist question whatsoever.

Answer 1

God the Father is without race. God the Son (Christ) is Jewish. The Holy Spirit is light.

Representing God the Father as African is simply a metaphor, i.e. he is all races, since all of mankind were created in His image.

Answer 2

As a child a had a similar experience in Panama and Columbia, only he was a hispanic Jesus/God. I see it all the time in US churches that show God/Jesus as a white guy. I think people as a whole create God in their own image in an egotistical way. Sort of a reverse of the Genesis story where man is created in His image. Truely I believe the creator is without race/creed as we are all a facet of the creator. Jesus on the other hand was clearly of middle eastern descent due to the region of birth and familial ties established through his "birth" mother. He would have resembled the local people to best fit in and get the whole "human" experience.

Answer 3

God Himself, aka God the Father, is a pure spirit and therefore cannot be described. Jesus, aka God the Son, was born of Jewish parents and therefore had Jewish features. For the part of the world he was in, that means he had darker almost coppery skin and thick dark hair. God made Man in his image and likeness. Does that mean that God prefers to be thought of in a human form? Who knows His mind...certainly not humans. Aside from what Jesus looked like, we will never know how God looks until the Last Day.

Answer 4

First of all "Africans" don't think that God is not white. African Americans know from known fact known as the Bible, that God had copper skin and hair like sheeps wool, nothing white comes out of the Middle East at all. This is not a hard to deal with detail, but fact.

Answer 5

Why would anyone think God was White?

God has no colour at all God is Spiritual energy. Energy has no colour. Why not believe he/she/it is Black or Oriental if it brings comfort?

And if Jesus Lived he would look like the people of the Middle East. He would not have blue eyes and Blond hair. He would have darker skin and probably dark eyes.

Peace to all

Answer 6

I've met some of those so-called star people who were black and looked like the Egyptian God Anubis.I have heard that God is actually pure energy so maybe he can be any color he or it choses to be. Black people have the right to believe whatever color they choose their God to be anyway. It doesn't really matter to me.

Answer 7

Segue Time: There are Gods and Goddesses of many colors of skin. The color, or lack, of a human's skin is tightly connected to the environments of predecessor generations and genetically passed on. As the slow ending of bigotry and racial fear and so much of the environment being controlled and artificial, the blends of genes will reach a median.

Answer 8

God is Red; that's what Vine DeLoria said.

First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating 3 decades in publication with a special 30th-anniversary edition, this classic work reminds us to learn "that we are a part of nature, not a transcendent species with no responsibilities to the natural world." It is time again to listen to Vine Deloria Jr.'s powerful voice, telling us about religious life that is independent from Christianity and that reveres the interconnectedness of all living things.

Answer 9

Well it is simple enough to see... The first man to walk on this earth and have thought was a black-man... That is the long and the short of it.... There was a medical team that traveled thru-out this entire earth taking blood samples for every group of human that inhabit the face of this earth... And what they found out was that every human being on this earth can have their blood lines traced back to one African tribe located in Africa of course...... and after years of research they stated that there is not one human being of the face of this earth that does not have black ancestors in their blood line...... And these white doctors stated that life itself on this earth started with this small and simple african tribe... So if God stated that let create man in our image and according to the entire earth blood line then Adam and Eve were black and as a white man and seeing people from all over this earth its not to hard to see the truth of their blood test and it does not bother me one iota that my ancestors were the black men that roamed the african plains.......... Now as for you die heart racist the fact are in and there is nothing any man can do to change these fact.................... And hating black people means that you also hate yourself and I find that easier to believe in moderen times............ And that also means the American Indians have blacks in their blood line as well.... So all this lets hate Blacks and all dark people.... Just show that even in these time the world is still full of idiots that don't like who they really are..................................................

Answer 10

For the same reason that to me God usually manifests as a woman - God will appear to us in that way which makes us most comfortablt.