Was Jesus Black?

[kipper]

Originally Posted by Itsnotgonnaspankitself...

Oh wait, no...she was Hindu...(and absolutely gorgeous)

...er...hypothetically speaking...

Someone asked me what's a Hindu, I said it lays eggs, apparently that was not the answer..

[Itsnotgonnaspankitself...]

Originally Posted by kipper

Someone asked me what's a Hindu, I said it lays eggs, apparently that was not the answer..

hahahaha...nice...


so then which came first: The Hindu, or the egg...?

[indianajoe]

was jesus black..???..i have a better question...Does it matter?

[squirt]

not in the least lol

[Itsnotgonnaspankitself...]

Originally Posted by indianajoe

was jesus black..???..i have a better question...Does it matter?

*Better*...??!?


Well, I guess that depends on who's judging...and who's being judged...

[indianajoe]

judging what or whom ?

[Itsnotgonnaspankitself...]

Originally Posted by indianajoe

judging what or whom ?

haha...you tell me.


You seem to think you have a *better* question...

[hortysir]

Originally Posted by Itsnotgonnaspankitself...

So, some recent examples of racism here towards Blacks got me wondering: Was Jesus Black?

Many agree that he likely was Black...or at the very least, olive-skinned...kinda like the people of Iraq, Iran, and various other countries in the Middle East.

This, of course, didn't sit well with Hitler and his nazi goons, who wanted desperately to believe that Jesus was Aryan....yup, blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jesus...and then later, from their teachings, it became widely accepted in North America that Jesus was some white, biker-lookin' dude...which seems kind of odd considering where he would have lived.

The bible itself said that Jesus had "skin of bronze" (apparently), and scientifically speaking, due to the amount of sun a carpenter would get in Nazareth, he was bound to have an extremely high melanin (sp?) content in his skin, making him brown-skinned, or even black.

So....what say ye...?

I'll include a picture to help people picture this...just in case they have trouble picturing a Black man in light of such a revelation...(and don't say I never gave you anything)



no wonder he called us all his bretheren...

Recent examples of racism??? If you say so...
But in answer to the OP:
Though He was born in Bethlehem, He was also able to "blend in" in Egypt for 12 years while in hiding from Herod. So logic tells me He'd at least be olive-skined, if not mostly brown or black.

[Itsnotgonnaspankitself...]

Originally Posted by hortysir

...So logic tells me He'd at least be olive-skined, if not mostly brown or black.

Well, HS, I can't argue with that logic...

This is the picture that my room mate and I
had of Jesus in the baracks back in the 80's....lol
Well I KNOW He didn't look like that.....He woulda had the crowds following
Him alright; crowds of the lay dees !!




There is something in the OT that gives us a clue of Christ's physical appearance, from the prophet Isaiah:

Isaiah 53:1-3
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 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. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Too bad their wasn't camera's back then.
Keta

xxoo