Only a human being would be stupid enough to make that mistake...Don't you think God would of made sure that all religious figures were of all nationalities to show us that we are all equal? Just a thought!
2007-11-18 14:36:19 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Many of the old artists painted with the models available to them. If you lived in Renaissance Florence, you might not have access to people all over the world.
But you are making a mistake that atheists and agnostics often make, you are blaming God for something that people do. Just because an artist creates religious imagery, doesn't necessarily mean that he believes in what he is creating. And human shortcoming doesn't reflect on God's glory. It merely reflects on human shortcomings.
2007-11-18 14:41:19 · answer #1 · answered by Sharon M 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Oh, that's so no longer authentic! all of us know the dinosaurs have been secret minions of devil and on NASA's lacking day they flew around the full worldwide in a sleigh and left their bones everywhere to trick human beings into accepting evolution. The rat interior the KFC became purely attempting to unfold the reality even though it became cooked alive, and now all of us who seems at rats on the same time as eating hen would have undesirable good fortune for seven-hundred years. nicely at some point bill Gates ate some as a rat became working around the floor, that's why Vista crashed, so the persons at Proctor and Gamble accidently added Sodium Laureth Sulfate to the shampoo because of the fact their computers exploded and that they lost the ten secret herbs and spices that have been meant to flow into the shampoo. and due to this we consume babby on Christmas.
2016-10-17 05:41:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible is a history of certain people in specific areas at certain times. No, not everyone was white, depending upon the geographical locations that are mentioned in the Bible, there were people of many different races and ethnic groups.
2007-11-18 14:50:52 · answer #3 · answered by mollymormonconvert 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, of course the bible was written by man. The bible was pieced together by religious scholars over a period of 600 years. In fact, several of the books of the bible had competing versions and scholars had to chose which version to include. This issue became all the more obvious when the Dead Sea scrolls were uncovered. Despite the competing versions and the length of time it took to compile the bible, it was intended to reflect what people at the time believed to be true, they were inspired by God. It was only in the 1800s that people started claiming that the holy bible was authoritative and actually the word of God.
The bible was pieced together by religious scholars and their world view certainly shaped their writing and interpretations. The pictures were, however, created by white artists trying to give meaning to the stories of the bible so that they could earn a commission. They weren't necessarily inspired by God and I'm not aware of any religious scholar that has claimed that the pictures are somehow authoritative.
2007-11-18 14:47:53 · answer #4 · answered by ekimdiaz 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The Bible was inspired by God. The paintings are different, depending on the publishing house. The painting are really not relevant to the word. The are visual responses to the word created by artists. Each person has a vision of what the characters in the bible might look like, it is their unique vision. An artist has been blessed with the talent of creating that vision.
Pam
2007-11-18 14:46:08 · answer #5 · answered by purpleflyer2008 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Israelites are not white, neither are Egyptians. The Queen of Sheba was from Ethiopia, she visited Solomon. Abraham's descendants include Jews and Arabs. . . . Arabs are not white. The Wise Men from the East, may have been Asian (Chinese) or Persian, or even from Siberia, and not white. So, the answer to your question is that every figure in the Bible is not white, therefore, the bible is not, on that basis, man made.
2007-11-18 14:43:03 · answer #6 · answered by Ron D 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There are no illustrations contained within the Bible, not the original texts that is. In fact, you are mistaken to believe that the only figures created are of white skinned people. It simply isn't so, they may be the most numerous, but in many different parts of the world, you can find images in the "likeness" of the locals. I've seen images of a Black Jesus and a Japanese Jesus, for instance.
2007-11-18 15:32:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
"every figure in the bible is painted with white skin"
OH you are so going to fail art history.
Yes European artists did tend to depict Bible characters as having paler skin then they probably actually had but Ethiopian artists painted them with dark skins and if you take a CLOSE and THOROUGH look at various Renaissance paintings you will see a variety of skin tones!
PS Rembrandt used a point of trying to use Jewish models so his Biblical characters would look more authentic 1
2007-11-18 14:53:46 · answer #8 · answered by JeeVee 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Damn MY Bible never had pictures. I wish it would have. Might have been more interesting.
Constantine demanded that all art be universal in order to suppress pride, a deadly sin. By the time art came back around, you had a bunch of Italian guys using their imagination to paint what Jesus and God might have looked like. Hence, Jesus looks an awful lot like a Renaissance Italian dude
2007-11-18 14:51:02 · answer #9 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You are so ignorant it's not even funny. There are no paintings in the bible. The paintings were made way after the bible by white painters in white communities.
The bible is man-made, but your reasoning is entirely naive and.. let's admit it, stupid.
2007-11-18 14:44:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋