Posted on 12/12/2013 7:33:20 PM PST by Impala64ssa
The evidence for his existence is much stronger than any detractors. And I’m an OT believer.
If Mary was a virgin what bloodlines in Matthew and Luke even matter?
“And while he was based on St. Nicholas, a white man, his exact description is largely left up to individual interpretation.”
Why not make his face half white and half black like the Star Trek, Last Battlefield character played by Frank Gorshin?
2) JESUS was the SON of GOD. Whatever pigmentation HIS skin contained... does not matter. HE was the color that HIS FATHER made him. HIS color was therefore perfect... whatever the shade.
If Santa wuz black, hed come in a window with an empty sack
White is a very broad category. The US census considers Arabs and Greeks to be white.
Many of the Persians that I know are blue eyed.
Many of the dark skinned eastern Europeans are descended from slaves captured by Artaxerxes.
>> “Were there any red headed people in this world or could it be that only red heads originated from Israel ? that God marked them and put it in their DNA that their hair would be red to set them apart from the rest of the peoples of the world?” <<
Read Jacob’s prophecies over the children of Joseph. You will then understand that a substantial portion of the “white” race are Joseph’s descent.
>> “If Mary was a virgin what bloodlines in Matthew and Luke even matter?” <<
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One of those genealogies is of Joseph, the other is of Mary, whose Father was also named Joseph.
Both Joseph and Mary were Netzers, but only Mary counts.
5th-6th century Byzantine art had colors. It might well have been ethno-centric, so any depictions of Christ might be better understood as how these Greeks saw themselves. It is lighter skinned moreso than darker skinned, although Peter below appears "olive?"
The depiction of Peter also suggests Byzantine understandings of color:
Finally, the Mother of Jesus also was viewed in the following manner by the Byzantines:
Ah man you are going to get coal this year.
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