2007-11-07 08:29:43 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He would have looked like this http://www.throneworld.com/pix/people/oded_fehr.jpg
2007-11-07 08:33:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It's a convention, a principle or procedure in todays society accepted as true. Not necessarily accepted by many but depicted by many as an established truth..or what we wish the truth to be. Jesus was most likely dark skinned because he is from the middle east being of Africa...so he had a dark complexion. His race is really irrelevant and something Jesus wouldn't want us to focus on nearly as much as being saved and living a life for God.
2007-11-07 08:37:05 · answer #2 · answered by SMX™ -- Lover Of Hero @};- 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When Christianity reached Europe and America, the whites made him look white. There is a Chinese-looking Christ, a Filipino-looking Christ, etc. These depictions of Christ is called indigenization.
2007-11-07 08:35:37 · answer #3 · answered by Averell A 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their wives were a branch of the Syrian family. Some of their women were slaves, likely Cushites or Ethiopian so yes, they were dark.
The light picture with long hair and blue eyes is the depiction of a Roman god.
Jews also could not have long hair as a woman so Jesus was nothing like a white hippy.
Debbie
2007-11-07 09:11:48 · answer #4 · answered by debbiepittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt they could have been black as anchient writtings have a tendency perceive blacks as being from Nubia and Ethopia- Christ could have been olive to brown complected with darkish hair and darkish eyes and he would not be nordic looking. Orhtodox icons at the instant are not suppsoed to be real looking yet do use brown on the hair and eyes by means of fact the style became progressed by way of mideasterners and Greeks.
2016-12-15 19:54:53 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people take the scant descriptive information about him and depict him as they wish he would be. Its not just the image either; he is given traits he did not have in the Bible also - constant compassion, omniscience, justice.
2007-11-07 08:38:17 · answer #6 · answered by davster 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the same attempt to create a god of ones own liking.
Evangelicals have generally been, and are of eastern descent.
So along with everything else modern-day christianity has changed, this has also been changed.
2007-11-07 08:36:02 · answer #7 · answered by Zay Bones 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ive never seen a white hippy looking guy in my two tours in Iraq or in Kuwait. Ive always wondered that too.
2007-11-07 08:34:09 · answer #8 · answered by Me, Myself, and thats it 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Um... well, everyone knows that he would pick the BEST color, right?
Seriously, I've even seen blond haired blue eyed Jesus pictures.
I guess "we" as in white people (as I am one) could identify with him better?
I've often wondered how black people relate to the white Jesus?
2007-11-07 08:36:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am with ur first answer....ur on the right track! go deeper...don't leave the subject "Middle East" when u think of Middle East what religion do u think of?
2007-11-07 08:37:10 · answer #10 · answered by baba where art thou 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blame the catholic church they were the first to create a form of "depiction"
2007-11-07 08:34:05 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋