2007-11-23 02:29:31 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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i have seen all three, white, brown and black portraits of Jesus, all over the country, well, in the country of the United States...love to travel...so, i am wondering, where are you from, to justify that question?
besides, Jesus was Jewish, most of the Jews i met were brown, well, tan like brown.
not only that, but i have African friends who are whiter then i am, some African American friends who were white.
i am part native north American,
2007-11-23 02:32:00 · answer #1 · answered by FarmerCec 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Which Biblical Scholars are those? The more likely fact is that the man the stories of Jesus were based on was a Middle Eastern looking guy with black hair, brown eyes, and tanned skin.
2007-11-23 10:34:40 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Biblical scholars believe Jesus was a Jew with Middle Eastern features. He wasn't even remotely African or American.
2007-11-23 10:32:06 · answer #3 · answered by atheist 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are a big ******* idiot.
Ok, African American refers to people, LIVING in AMERICA who are of African decent. Blacks living in America. Now, since America was not Universally known to the western world until 1492 when Columbus landed, and Jesus lived somewhere around the year 1-33, give or take a few years, and the only people living in America at the time were indigenous peoples, please tell me how he could have been African American. Furthermore we know he would have been born in the middle east and he was of Jewish origin.
What I think you were trying to say is that Jesus was Black and you were trying to use the politically correct term for that. The politically correct term for black people is not African American, as not all Black people are African Americans.
Finally, there is no evidence that Jesus was of African heritage.
2007-11-23 10:56:09 · answer #4 · answered by fifimsp3 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is not one single Biblical scholar who believes Jesus was "African American." There was no America when Christ walked the earth, for one thing, and He was in the Middle East, not Africa. He was of Jewish lineage through His mother.
Where do you GET this stuff?
Merry Christmas!
2007-11-23 10:45:32 · answer #5 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
That's a good one. I never heard that before.
Who are those Biblical Scholars ?
They say that America had been already discovered when Jesus was born ?
2007-11-23 10:53:17 · answer #6 · answered by Ludd Zarko 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
African American ??? African AMERICAN !
Please, take your medicine, and lay down.
The LORD Jesus was borne a Jew, the Jews are/were a Semitic Race. That is a separate race from Blacks from Africa, or Whites from Northern Europe.
Every Culture where Christianity flourished, depicted The LORD as one of themselves, not accurate, but not wrong either.
God Loves You ! He Really Does !
~OM~
2007-11-23 10:38:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Biblical Scholars? Who? Name one.
2007-11-23 10:32:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Every nation has their own mental picture of Christ.
No single one is wrong.
Since Jesus was born in the Middle East, His skin probably would have been on the darkish side, though not black.
2007-11-23 10:33:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He wasn't an african american, He was from what is today the middle east. His skin would have been a tannish color. He is depicted white probably due to racists iconalogy or something, I don't know.
2007-11-23 10:33:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋