Posted on 06/27/2020 8:26:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Well said.
The Bible gives some good clues.
He obviously looked like an ordinary person of that area in 30 AD. Judas had to identify him to the soldiers.
He was descended from David on his Mother’s side. The Bible describes David as having a ruddy complexion. That would be like your average Scot.
My favorites are Our Mother of Sheshan in China (now probably obliterated by the CCP) She lifts the infant Jesus high above her head, not cradled in her arms.
And Our Lady of Akita, Japan mainly because of her message to the world.
Stomp out the iconoclasts!
That one of them would remove St. Michael’s icon is very, very telling.
Could it be.....?
Jesus doesn’t have a race. He’s the King of Heaven. There’s no race in Heaven.
Jesus was born a Jew. His family was Jewish. His mother was Jewish. He founded Christianity. The roots of Catholicism, I which He founded, are Jewish. The Catholic Mass is modeled on a Seder meal. We share the same Old Testament. Catholicism teaches to not hate anyone, individuals as well as groups
What could be the problem? Jesus has no race. He’s not here. While He was on earth, He was whatever race God chose Him to be. He’s no better or worse than anyone else. His spirit doesn’t have a race No does any of ours. It’s tge basis of why we’re not supposed to be prejudiced. We’re all equal.
What I have read is that there was a rather infamous Pope (Alexander VI, who had many children by his many mistresses) whose son was also rather renowned (Cesare Borgia)... Kardashians if you will... and that the Pope commissioned a painting of Jesus and his own son was used as the model in a painting many centuries ago... and it was so popular and ubiquitous that it became THE Jesus appearance to use. He happened to have flowing hair and blue eyes, and was chosen expressly because he was more European-looking.
Makes sense to me.
His human parents were of the peoples of the Middle East. While it may not be perfect to classify Middle East persons as “white”, they are generally light skinned and certainly lighter skinned than most central and southern Africans.
Yes, most portraits of Yeshua were first done by Europeans, who may have made Yeshua look more European than Middle Eastern.
But, that distinction is less of a stretch of the truth than if their early portraits had made Yeshua black, like most Africans south of the Sahara.
Biblicaly speaking, there is/was no painting of Jeseus because... it would be a graven image according to the Ten Commandments.
Maybe for the reason we see here, we are arguing about the Son of God’s physical features and not his message.
He looks a bit like Jeff Chandler...
Christ was as foretold from the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Levi... it is confusion to ignore the 12 tribes of Jacob. They were never called Jewish’.. Except from those that practice new age wisdom... each tribe was given their own specific inheritance... even to the last days..
I am silly enough to believe Jesus is light, He does have a glorified body now, but now He is like the shekinah glory that once filled the temple .
As for his color in Bethlehem it would have been brown.
Isaiah 53 1-3
1 Who has believed our message
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
What Christian doesn’t know Jesus was a Jew? It doesn’t matter what he looked liked though it is certain he looked like what the Jews of the time looked like. What *is* absolutely critical is not his looks but that his own people, Jews, were responsible for his crucifixion.
Well, if an entity shows up tossed out of heaven, who would know the difference.. Christ said the majority of the inhabitants on earth would be deceived... course that bit of wisdom gets A mass case of ‘whitewash...
“Nice” is a bourgeois mannerism. Jesus was never nice.
White Jesus?
They broke up in ‘73
Yes indeed. The episode of the woman at the well not knowing who he was could tell he wasn’t Samaritan and that he was Jewish. It could have been his clothing or his physical appearance but even so he wasn’t a blue eyed blond.
“ruddy” means red. Pale complexion is the northern european meaning of the word. The Egyptians weren’t pale and considered themselves “red” as compared to the peoples south of them which they depicted as black.. Given that the Jews spent centuries in Egypt, I opt for that meaning.
Adam and Man are the same word in Hebrew. Isn’t that odd?
Whatever
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