im a native american, so my question is, howcome jesus is always depicted as pale blonde haired guy, i mean afterall he was born in the middle-east right, and aren't they all like the same skin color as me, why with that reasoning, maybe he was black, or maybe it looked kinda red, right? But since this is a white dominated world, it's only fitting that he be depicted solely on that race right? (or maybe just maybe he was a mix of all races, that are each apart of him, just that each unique feature is taken from him on placed among differenent races, chinese, native/mexican, white, black. LOL can you imagine how that would like like?)
2007-12-24 19:28:02 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He would look like a Jewish person Black hair dark skin, he was a descendant of the Jewish people therefore he would look like them. In revaluations its speaks of his glorified countenance as eyes of fire and snow white hair and beard and copper colored skin, a white garment down to the foot and a gold sash on his shoulder.
2007-12-24 19:43:03 · answer #1 · answered by dustylee33 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well Jesus was born in Bethlehem...here is a picture I found of some typical people in that area:
http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/2006-autumn-newsletter-focus-on-bethlehem.htm
The most famous pictures we see often were painted mostly in Europe (mostly Italy, during the Renaissance)
I remember hearing that DaVinci used his uncle as a reference, so who we are really looking at his DaVinci's uncle :) ...
I'm sure it was not some huge conspiracy to turn Jesus white, it's probably just that artists (and everybody else) didn't get around much thousands of years ago and didn't know.
Plus in the middle east there are lots of laws against making an image of a person, so there wouldn't have been pictures depicting Jesus as a person.
So thats just how it came to be.
2007-12-24 19:38:41 · answer #2 · answered by ☺☻☺☻☺☻ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blonde blue eyed depictions of jesus are not jesus at all. they are actually of some philosopher and was somehow labeled jesus. and yes he was middle eastern so that's what he would look like.
2007-12-24 19:33:25 · answer #3 · answered by Dr. R PhD in Revolution 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know how the Vulcans on Star Trek and wise, strong, and good looking? Maybe it was something like that.
2007-12-24 19:32:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would have looked more like a young Yasser Arafat than any of the Christian portrayals of him.
2007-12-24 19:35:12 · answer #5 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he was white with blue eyes, because that's what gawd lurves!!!!!1111
ok, no really, he was a middle easterner with dark skin (if he even existed)
2007-12-24 19:31:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋