Why do races change religious figures to look like there race?

Question

if you go to a hispanic church you see Jesus looking hispanic, go to a black church some have Jesus looking black while in some he looks whites, go to a white church he looks white, why cant people leave the race of Jesus alone and keep things the way it is

he was from the middle east 9 times out of 10 he was middle eastern or arab

Answer 1

Actually, there is a scripture where Jesus takes three Disciples to a mountain and reveals his true appearance. He then tells them not to tell anyone what they saw.

Jesus is a spirit being that was temporarily infused into a human body to serve a purpose. That body is not who Jesus is. The body that he was in was of Israeli lineage. Jesus existed before the world was made so no human form could be the real him.

Answer 2

I only buy jesus figures if he has Olive skin because he was not white, and he was not black. Im hispanic and have been to mexico a lot and have never seen a Hispanic looking Jesus. Just the normal dark skin...

Answer 3

Yeah we are each and each of an analogous race, yet some have merely adapted to specific aspects and function considerable valuable components. some races would have a gaggle of smaller human beings, yet another race in line with risk greater effective human beings. i don't think of there's a race smarter than yet another. each and each race has their share of clever/not so clever human beings. As for the main progressed....i don't think of that would somewhat be mentioned because of the fact the entire worldwide is blended with distinctive races that artwork jointly and strengthen jointly. as an occasion united states of america of america has a great style of great minds that are all distinctive races and we are a enormously progressed team of human beings.

Answer 4

While your detail is possibly correct there really is no description in the Bible except after He was scourged in the soldiers' quarters(mauled so bad as to be unrecognizable) and God purposely left Jesus' description out so there would be less idolatry which is still a problem to this day!!

Answer 5

It is human nature. When you are selling snakeskin oil you change the pictures you show to the natives. They will believe the picture where it shows one of them.

Same way how you believed that god looked like one of your people.

It is only now when you have grown older and wiser, have attended school which taught you to not be so unscientific in your beliefs that you question where you had been before.

Come to think of it, hey you still believe that god has the shape of a human being, is a guy, etc

Answer 6

Good point, i guess the whole race thing is about superiority, they probably figure if Jesus was their race, that would make them the supreme race, stupid if you ask me, people should just leave it alone and recognize him for what he has done and what he really stands for, which is not superiority over others.

Answer 7

Just wait till Christians convert some aliens - then we'll see a weird looking Jesus.

Answer 8

Yes, Jesus was a Middle-Eastern Jew, but He actually trancends all cultural and ethnic boundaries. He belongs to all of us, and all of us to Him, regardless of our race, nationality, or ethnic origin. He is portrayed this way in all cultures as being "one of us" because He, in reality, is. God chose that particular time and place to become human, for His reasons and purposes, but "we are all one in Christ Jesus", as the apostle Paul has written.....

Answer 9

Simply human mind percepts what it sees to be as its own imagination. It depend on that regional craft-mans culture. So, their "regional" art is applied on the statue. Anyway this can be seen world-widely in other religions too.

Answer 10

I wonder if American Muslims have a white Muhammad?