Why dont people depict Jesus as he mostly like would have resembled?

Question

why dont people depict Jesus as an arab he was from the middle east he couldnt have been white

Jesus was born in the middle east back in those days there were mostly arabs there and jews are not a race sayiung Jesus is a Jew and not arab means nothing have you been to israel most of them are arabs aside from the people who came there after world war 2

Jews back in Jesus time would have been arab all natives to that area are arab period

Answer 1

Because people always characterize people as themselves. Latino Christians have a Latino Christ, European a white Christ. Africa a black Christ.

Answer 2

Jesus was a Jew, not Arab. I personally know a lot of Jews who are white, even in the middle east. Most depctions come from Catholic art out of the middle ages. For one they always presented him as having long hair, which the Bible says that He did not. I think it is best if you have no picture in your mind of what he looked like.

Answer 3

The first paintings of Jesus were done by Europeans during the middle ages so that image stuck since then and it still stands today. So basically in our minds Jesus is a middle ages European.

Answer 4

yes, you are probably right. i have had this conversation with a lot of people.

there is no way he was blonde and very fair skinned..no way..

he was from the middle east..so he definitely had a little darker skin (don't know HOW dark, but definitely NOT pale) and dark hair.

Answer 5

Because getting a white southerner to turn his life over to someone who isn't white would never work.

Answer 6

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