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thantos88
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Well, only people in america think he's white. If you go to Africa, he's clearly black. It kind of depends where you live!
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Rastifarians belive he was black and have a good argument to suport that
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I think what he SAID is more important than what anyone thinks he looked like.
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There is several religions that say the city of Nazereth was in Ethiopia. I believe he was black.
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Depends on who's art work you are looking at. I've sen him look different ways and different colors depending on who's doing the painting.
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When we imagine someone we have not seen, and we have little experience with the world outside the one we have grown up in, we always do it through the filter of our own culture. Since most of the art Americans, British and Australians know is European, it is hardly surprising that depictions of the human figure, even of Jesus, more resemble Europeans than anything else. But as you widen your knowledge of Christian art, you will find a surprising array of facial features for the Saviour, almost all seen through the eyes of the culture of the artist. Below are representations ofBalinese , Japanese and Maori images of Christ. If we think logically, however, Jesus more probably resembled people we see in the Middle East, as he was Jewish when he was on earth in the first century AD. Many modern representations in art depict him this way. He would have had darkish skin, dark hair, probably shoulderlength, and a beard and moustache (these were cultural things).
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I had heard that the usual picture one sees in the Western world (long, pale face, beard) was based off a depiction commisioned in Europe in the middle ages. The artist was looking for a good return and the lords favor, and so he made it look like his liege lord. Thats just what I heard though, so it may or may not be correct. Sounded likely to me though.
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That's just a result of artists, especially in the Renaissance. I wouldn't take it seriously.
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Because white people will not worship someone who does look like them.
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No one can demonstrated Jesus existence beyond doubt, so no matter what racist depiction you may get, they all depict a dubious character. If he was a Jew, then he should look pretty much like Yassir Arafat, Jews are of course Arabs.
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One more contradiction in the Bable that the fan club refuses to address
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