The Rasta Jesus and the All American strawberry-blonde Jesus can't be the same guy surely?... I've seen African Jesus's and Spanish looking one's even Chinese Jesus's, it's really silly.
2007-08-30 03:03:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ricks: okay then let's say he is a race shifter, various racial types do have distinctly different physical shapes however.
2007-08-30 03:16:56 · update #1
King James: It's advertising art promoting the product to the locals as attractively as possible, I think it's quite a cynical ploy and totally fake like the product itself.
2007-08-30 11:20:10 · update #2
Nothing to explain really. If Jesus ever existed, he would have been a Jew and would have looked like the Semitic people does, generally dark haired, dark eyed with brownish skin.
Its just christianity's high-jacking of the Jewish faith that led to a white, golden-haired Jesus and well, the others followed suit, casting Jesus to look like them so that people can relate to it with more ease.
Silly really but then religious types usually are and we all know that the churches preach propaganda on the same level as politicians do...
2007-08-30 03:12:30 · answer #1 · answered by Jingizu 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If people represent His skin tone in a way they think he may look, how does that make him a shape shifter? I mean he is not turning into a wall or cat.
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races do not have different shapes! Some races have different or more pronounced physical characteristics such as Asians tend to have slanted eyes, Africans tend to have wider nostrils. Other than minor characteristics, you cant look at an outline of someone & determine the race. A Mexican will not be shaped differently from a white person from Russia.
What you are very poorly trying to make reference to is skin tone/color. Some people feel comfortable picturing Jesus to look like them. & I feel there is nothing wrong with that. Like it has been said over & over here & should be obvious to anyone who can type a question, Jesus was of middle eastern part of the world & most likely looked as such. It is highly improbable that he was of that region with blonde & blue.
And lets not forget, it is not Jesus that is changing, just peoples perception.
2007-08-30 03:12:32 · answer #2 · answered by ricks 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's called representational art.
the real Jesus was Jewish. He was every bit as Middle Eastern as Osama binLaden. (Oh, I'm gonna get some thumbs downs on that one.) Acourse Jesus was quite a bit nicer, but it's true.
How artists portray Jesus as white, black, Asian, whatever is a way to say that Jesus became human and identifies with all people of any race/ethnicity.
It's art making a symbolic statement. Everybody knows the real Jesus had dark, Middle Eastern skin.
2007-08-30 03:09:04 · answer #3 · answered by Acorn 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jesus would have been a typical "brown" color with the addition of his Jewish features, relatively short by today's standards, and would have spoken Aramaic. I believe he spoke only to those in his nearby vicinity. "... to visit all his beloved Slaves. As God, he should have done that because his presence on the earth is for that purpose." Slaves? I hope not. I'm not even a christian and even I understand that his presence on earth was for something far greater than just a visit! Just sayin'..........
2016-04-02 07:13:58 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well go to the library and take out a book called the "The Hero with a thousand faces" Joseph Campbell. OR look it up on the web
The trancendent is beyond all human concepts. Our attempts to describe it use local folk images.
Jesus as a Jew, African,asian,plant or animal. All are metaphor for what cannot be put in human terms.
2007-08-30 03:11:11 · answer #5 · answered by Rich 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
As in another answer, he never posed for a portrait. The pictures depict the artists' desires and of course, the purchasers.
Having perfect genetics, he could have fathered any race just as Adam did. He looked like any other Jewish boy and man.
2007-08-30 04:13:46 · answer #6 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man made god in his own image.
Now Man is making the son of god in his own image too.
The one Jesus that seems to be missing from almost all these representations is the Middle Eastern Jew Jesus. Ironically the only version that has any chance of being close to correct.
But then, can you see some of those Southern Baptists out there praying to "a **** Arab on a cross" ?
2007-08-30 03:19:38 · answer #7 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No one really knows what Jesus looked like. You know that he never sat down to have his portrait done, right?
2007-08-30 03:09:13 · answer #8 · answered by Mark 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not silly, it's Art. It's also a good representation of how Jesus is universal, so it doesn't bother me one bit.
2007-08-30 03:09:57 · answer #9 · answered by King James 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Jesus and Maria ate my nachos. Now...which Mexicans am I talking about...for there are THOUSANDS of Jesus' and Marias in the latino world....
2007-08-30 03:09:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋