What Color is Jesus?

By ometrick carson, published Sep 15, 2006
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The question on whether Jesus is white has been a topic of debate for many years and those who have both supported and went against this idea have made good arguments, but can they be proven or disproven? the bible says that no one shall worship any graven images or the like and yet when ever a person goes into a church, all they see is staues and paintings of saints, the virgin mary and jesus on a cross.

The question is how can be one of the ten commandments be clearly violated and no one say anything against it? Also if you look at where and how Jesus lived, you could see that the likeness in paintings, sculturpes, etc. cannot be right.. first of all, Jesus or Yashua, in Hebrew, was a Jewish male and jewish males do not wear their hair all the way to their backs nor are blond and have blue eyes.

History has Jesus portrayed as a hippie in a bathrobe, but that's not the case. Jesus was not white neither. He was probably fair-skinned and and short or braided hair and was more like a stonemason than a carpenter. Jesus caould have been black. Who knows? I know that those images in churches, on your mother or grandmother's wall and elsewhere is not accurate and should be taken down in respect for the graven images commandment and besides, Jesus is bigger than any image.

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it is important to ask the question because it puts the situation between the west and middle east in prospictive. the fact is that Jesus more than likely looked like what we prosive as a terriost than a white man with brite blue eyes. and really what are the chances of him wearing a white robe? not to mention he was probly about five foot tall too.

Posted on 09/17/2006 at 6:09:00 PM

 
First, your question should be what color "was" jesus, not is. And second, if you are any kind of a "christian" at all, it absolutely should not matter, so this would be a pointless arguement.

Posted on 09/15/2006 at 10:09:00 PM

 
As a teen, we lived next door to a Jewish family whose son indeed had blonde, curly hair and bright blue eyes. Maybe the exception to the rule, but it only takes one. Also, the Catholic church and Lutherans, divided the 10 commandments differently than the Jewish and rest of the Protestant world. They combine 1 & 2 to minimize the "graven image" part (I guess to allow for all the statuary) and split #10 (coveting) into 2 to give the list a nice round 10.

Posted on 09/15/2006 at 10:09:00 AM

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