"Forgive me, Lord... the Jeffersons was right!"
Posted on 07/16/2020 6:15:10 PM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, July 13, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church does not share the opinion of the head of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who said amid protests against George Floyd's murder that Jesus Christ might also have been a black man.
"If such rhetoric is now used to reconcile people of different races, maybe there are some good intentions behind it, but we can hardly use rhetoric of such a nature seriously," Metropolian Hilarion, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said on the Rossiya 24 television channel.
It would be more appropriate in those countries where racial conflicts take place to talk about the Christian teaching, forgiveness, about that there is no need to avenge the evil done, that any indignation against the current order may be turned into constructive criticism, which would yield positive results and that all Christians are meant to pray for those alive and dead, he said.
Returning to the subject of the color of Christ's skin, the metropolitan mentioned that there are many theories about the Savior's ethnicity and origin, but according to all four Books of the Gospel, Jesus was Jewish.
"And we don't know what color His skin was, but it is utterly impossible to suggest that he was Black, because He was not an African, and those people who live in the region where He lived, they have either white or olive skin, but not black skin," the metropolitan said.
It does not matter for Christians what color Jesus' skin was, because they honor him as the incarnation of God, he said.
"Forgive me, Lord... the Jeffersons was right!"
That’s a useless topic for a debate. No one really knows.
May as well argue about the total number of angels fitting on the head of a pin.
The Russian Orthodox Church. Saying things American churches won’t
I think it and other minor things are important.
Accuracy and the truth are always the right thing.
647
I think Jesus would have thought it wasn’t important at all. I think he’d be very sad to see that people think it is important 2000 years after he spread a message of love and forgiveness
The gospels tell us almost nothing of what Jesus looked like.
That’s how many can fit?
Oh, okay. Now I know.
He was Jewish.
By current liberal definition that means that he was white.
Although sometimes it means he is a "person of color".
They are not very consistent.
But if they mean sub-saharan African then no. He also was not Han Chinese. Or American Indian.
So was Sammy Davis Jr.
Catholics think its 647. Evangelicals think its 648.
Jesus was not a convert.
They don’t have guilt.
“I’m the Candy Man!”
Jesus was Jewish, of the House of David (a Jew). His mother was Jewish, and his father was Jewish. Nowhere in the lineage is there anyone of sub-Saharan Africa.
Yes we do. Jesus was a middle eastern Jew. We know his genealogy. Just like we know that Cleopatra was Greek by blood. Not Egyptian, not black.
Lol
And you don’t want to know how much time it took to find that out :-)
Elizabeth Taylor owns the Hollywood version of Cleo, for better or for worse.
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