Deuteronomy 7:6-7
For you are a people holy to the Lord. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
I believe that the Lord Jesus may have been born into a minority group. What are your thoughts?
2007-10-09 11:15:50 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Calm down everyone! It was just a question. I love Jesus no matter what color He was. I love everyone, I don't care about color. I just think that some people that are colored would probably follow the Lord if they knew He was colored too.
2007-10-09 12:12:45 · update #1
The Bible clearly states that Jesus was a jew, and that he hair hair of wool and skin that was bronze. Does that sound white???? He was a dark sinned jew. Look at the ppl born there and see what color they are and there you go.
But what difference does it make? Only reason I see to understnad this is to silence all the white supremicists that claim to hate blacks and yet stand for so called Christianity.
Other than that, it just doesnt matter. God says we were all made in His image and created equal. HIS IMAGE< THE IMAGE OF LOVE. God hates racism, and if we are racists, no matter what our color, we will not enter the gates of Heaven. Only those that love as God loves will be allowed to enter in, those that lvoe and obey.
I hopr your question makes ppl think ...and then pray..
2007-10-11 18:50:53 · answer #1 · answered by full gospel shirley 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There were times when Jesus' enemies were searching for him among a crowd and he managed to avoid them. Do you think he could do that if he looked different from the average Jewish 30-something year old man? If you call Jews 'whites', then yes, he was a 'white man'.
The Bible shows, though, that God cares about the problems minority groups face today, and the day is coming when he will undo all that (Acts 10:34, 35; Gal 3:28; Rev. 21:3,4)
2007-10-09 11:42:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dear heart, in light of where he was born, grew up and probably spent all of his 33 years of life, Jesus was dark-skinned, short (not much more than 5 feet high), sported a beard and long black hair, dark eyes, a Semite nose, and not what we today would consider the cleanest chap. Folks in the boondocks of the Roman Empire, not the Romans, who bathed, but the locals, such as Jesus, rarely if ever washed from hair to heel. He ate with his fingers or with a wooden spoon (forks came long centuries later), spoke the tongue of the common people, consumed a lot of fish and coarse bread and wine, and more often than not, slept outside, urinated and defecated behind bushes, and knew both magic tricks and the ABCs of the Judaism of the time. Was he white? He was not European, who were light skinned in the upper reaches of that continent. And he was out in the sun a heck of a lot. He was only one of hundreds of preachers on the Roman roads in this minor bit of Earth, and one of dozens who were claiming to be the Jewish Messiah.
2007-10-09 11:47:52 · answer #3 · answered by Yank 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No Jesus Isn't white ! He's a Jew and Jews are dark skinned. I don't care what color He is...He gave His life for the sins of ALL humanity. I look white,but am I ? I'm part Cherokee Indian and only God knows what else. So who could be classified as white ?
2007-10-11 20:17:23 · answer #4 · answered by Isabella 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was the race he'd been born in (but on a spiritual level, he's one of all of us). He's Jew; Jerusalem needed a good story to protect themselves from the Roman Empire, and what better way than make a simple man into a God? Jesus represented love and spirituality, but man has gone ahead and exaggerated who he really was, shrouding who he really was in fairy tales.
The same thing was done to "Prophets" from other cultures.
2007-10-09 11:22:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
what difference does it make! Jesus lover, do you love Jesus for who He is, or how He looked!
What is important is Him not the color that He was born in.
Edit:
Do you really love him! do you realize that by asking this question you are opening the doors for those who don't like him to mock him, not those who drew his pictures!
Do you ever wonder or ask what color was Moses, Adam, Ibrahim, or Muhammad! or, just Jesus!
It seems that people are diverting their attention from who was Jesus, and focusing on how He looked. How He looked shouldn't matter. It is who He was.
May God Bless You and Yours
2007-10-09 11:23:21 · answer #6 · answered by Bravado Guru 5 · 12⤊ 1⤋
He was probably darker skinned. It doesn't matter. Jesus is God, and He died for our sins on the cross and rose again. Whoever believes that, goes to heaven. Whoever rejects it to their dying breath, will go to hell for eternity.
2007-10-09 11:18:34 · answer #7 · answered by CJ 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was a Jew. Now what color skin he had is up to debate. It doesn't matter to me.
2007-10-09 11:20:35 · answer #8 · answered by Future Citizen of Forvik 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was Hebrew,not white ,he was born in the middle east
2007-10-09 11:20:39 · answer #9 · answered by 5brats 3 · 8⤊ 0⤋
He was Jewish.. Not black, not white, not latin, but what does it matter anyways, Jesus is Savior and Salvation is open to any skin color...
2007-10-09 11:19:54 · answer #10 · answered by TVT 2 · 8⤊ 0⤋