Wasn't he a Hebrew with olive skin and dark features, but some say he was light-featured or of african descent? Why do people assume ridiculous things about his origin?
2007-11-24 09:23:00 · 18 answers · asked by Yasmin K 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everyone wants a Jesus they can relate to. White people want a White Jesus. Black people want a Black Jesus. The truth is, he was from the Middle East, so he's going to look Middle Eastern. Just ignore what they think. They are entitled to their opinions after all.
2007-11-24 09:31:48 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah R 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, Jesus was always a WASP = White Anglo-Saxon Protestant as I recall (my experience in Churches).
Later he became olive skinned since that apparently is what many persons believed he looked like (Biblical).
The European Vatican a few years ago stole the idea of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist, and made Jesus Christ a black man (typically stealing innovations which have come from other cultures and then claiming them as being completely original - my view).
When the gene researchers are done with Jesus Christ, Jesus may glow in the dark; however, there are lots of Jesus nightlights which already do that.
2007-11-24 09:34:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, He was born into the Hebrew family, from the tribe of Judah, lived most of His life in Galilee. Oddly, no one in the Bible ever tried to disprove His Jewishness.
The fact is that we will never know what He looked like, from a human standpoint. The important thing is that He came to deliver us from the penalty of sin and to bring salvation.
2007-11-24 09:32:58 · answer #3 · answered by Brother Jonathan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He was Jewish. With tan skin and dark features. Or that's just what I believe reading the Bible and where he was born and what-not. Who really knows. We didn't live back then.
2007-11-24 09:32:07 · answer #4 · answered by [Catastrophic.Accidents] 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is normal when loving someone to be anxious to know or imagine him .All Prophets not only JESUS peace to be upon all of them,came from middle east ,JESUS 's mother Saint Mary was from Palestine so it is accepted to be white with light brown ,may be blue or green eyes and light brown or chestnut hair,all these are imaginations but are closed to features of people of Palestine .he was sent to ISRAEL children to spread peace and worship of one GOD
2007-11-24 09:47:55 · answer #5 · answered by nerman h 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they feel that if Jesus is the same race as them, that they share in his accomplishments. I would agree that this is a totally ridiculous concept.
2007-11-24 09:26:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Why are things ridiculous!! dont think a white Christian deep south American would still be Christian if Jesus was black?!
2007-11-24 09:31:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
for comfort. jesus is often pictured with white skin and blue eyes but the odds are he looked like an arab.
2007-11-24 09:31:07 · answer #8 · answered by god_of_the_accursed 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I sound like you have a ridiculous concept about what he looked like and the funny thing is, it doesn't matter.
2007-11-24 09:27:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Black people want a black jesus and white people want a white jesus because we as humans are so arrogant that we want to worship a supreme being that reminds of ourself.
2007-11-24 09:27:46 · answer #10 · answered by Gnostica 2 · 7⤊ 1⤋