What Color was Jesus?

[Kyteland]

So instead of hijacking a perfectly good thread, I started this one.

Posted in the New Avatars! Thread

Originally posted by: edro13
Hahahaha! LOL!

I love those black jesus statues and stuff.... it's funny only because Western Society has been brain washed into thinking he was white.

While I totally agree that he wasn't white, I am also surprised by how many people are convinced that he was black. Neither of those groups had much of an influence in that area at that time, especially within the Jewish community. I'm not sure which modern day "color grouping" he would fit in to.


Please note that I'm not trying to start a flame war, although I'm already convinced that it will become one.

 

[iamwiz82]

well, since he was born and raised the mid-east, i'd say arabic.

 

[Red Dawn]

He probably looked more like this than he did Caucasian

 

[imported_Papi]

hmmm how long will this last....

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
well, since he was born and raised the mid-east, i'd say arabic.

I don't think that that applies either. Jeruselem was conquered by the Babylonians ~600 years before then, but the Jewish community as a whole still didn't mix much. Those that went back to rebuild Jeruselum were the ones that didn't mix with the Babylonian culture. What we think of as Arabic also wasn't reallt integrated with the Jewish community during that time.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: iamwiz82
well, since he was born and raised the mid-east, i'd say arabic.

I don't think that that applies either. Jeruselem was conquered by the Babylonians ~600 years before then, but the Jewish community as a whole still didn't mix much. Those that went back to rebuild Jeruselum were the ones that didn't[/] mix with the Babylonian culture. What we think of as Arabic also wasn't reallt integrated with the Jewish community during that time.

You mean he looked more like this?

 

[Kyteland]

ha ha. no

 

[Geekbabe]

What Color was Jesus?

lol,I dunno,never met the dude! ask Harvey,he might be old enough to remember

 

[Rob9874]

I'm sure no one here believes the Shroud of Turin is real, but the image on that looks just like Osama. However, if Jesus was Jewish, why wouldn't he look like Jewish people today? More like a Jerry Seinfeld / Woody Allen kind of look?

 

[Red Dawn]

More like a Jerry Seinfeld / Woddy Allen kind of look?

Ahaha Jesus as portrayed by Woddy Allen

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Rob9874
I'm sure no one here believes the Shroud of Turin is real, but the image on that looks just like Osama. However, if Jesus was Jewish, why wouldn't he look like Jewish people today? More like a Jerry Seinfeld / Woody Allen kind of look?

I would say that the image on the Shroud has a middle eastern appearance, but I wouldn't say that it "looks just like Osama."
And Jesus would not have looked like Seinfeld or Woody Allen because they are Jews of Europeans descent. Jews did not move into Europe until the Diaspora, which occurred after Christ's time.
I think the issue of "what color was Jesus?" is totally meaningless, but if an answer must be told, he wasn't white, he wasn't black, and he wasn't Arabic. If he resembled any modern peoples, then I would say that he probably looked much like how Palestinians look today.

 

[nakedfrog]

Being of divine conception, couldn't he have been ANY color?

 

[Moonbeam]

I don't know what Jesus looked like, but here are some pictures of God.

 

[SagaLore]

Well, our first clue is that he was a Jew.

Our second clue is that people in those days had some mighty dark tans.

He was neither "white" nor "black", he was just "dark".

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I don't know what Jesus looked like, but here are some pictures of God.

Oh great, a self portrait.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
I don't know what Jesus looked like, but here are some pictures of God.

Here's a real picture of God

 

[ndee]

I think he was a little bit of everything(RAINBOW COLORS!). His father was God right? What was God then? How did it mix with the virgin Mary? We will never know.

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: SagaLore
Well, our first clue is that he was a Jew.

Our second clue is that people in those days had some mighty dark tans.

He was neither "white" nor "black", he was just "dark".

I thought that semites don't get tanned...

 

[ryzmah]

He would have had the generic mediterannean look of the time - tan. Anything else and you think there would be comments about how he looked different from everybody else.

 

[vtqanh]

transparent!

 

[BooGiMaN]

Jesus is brown..he is mexican and he is my mechanic...btw you pronounce his name ..hey-zoos or call him chewie that is his nick name

 

[DanTMWTMP]

there's a movie that's gonna be made by mel gibson...and it still has jesus as a white dude....wat gives.....

there was a time magazine article about it also awhile back..was it time or something else? forgots...or was it national geographic?..forgots.....
and they had like a cg and a clay model of the possible face of jesus...

 

[human2k]

Jesus rocks.

 

[0roo0roo]

he was chinese, u know it!

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
he was chinese, u know it!

i assume he had SARS - j/k