Posted on 04/23/2017 1:00:16 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Jesus: social justice warrior? Apparently so, if you believe Jacqui Lewis, senior minister of the very liberal Middle Collegiate Church in NYC. During her appearance on Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show this morning, Lewis described Jesus as a “brown-skinned Palestinian man who understood he needed to resist.”
The notion that Jesus was Palestinian has been thoroughly debunked. He was Jewish, after all. But that hasn’t stopped anti-Semites like Barack Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, from also making the claim.
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Of course He was Palestinian. That's what the Romans called the territory that included Israel. He just wasn't an Ay-rab.
P.S. Nobody called the assorted Jordanians, Egyptians, and Arabs who were living in Palestine "Palestinians" until Arafat invented that silly lie in 1968.
Back when the State of Israel was created in 1948, the word "Palestinians," even according to the anti-Semitic British Foreign Office, referred only to the Jews.
That is correct. And descent from a wife of a Hittite..Uriah, who David killed to get her.
In one of the tombs of the kings of Egypt, there is one of the paintings on the wall of the slaves under them working in the mud making bricks. It depicts some as blond and white skinned, light hair with slightly brown skin, brown skinned with black hair etc.
Now why would they paint them that way?
***I thought Cleopatra was Egyptian?**
Ancestor was Ptolemy, a Greek General of Alexander’s. When Alexander died Ptolemy became ruler of Egypt. Cleopatra’s linage is well known. Now certain people have hijacked her claiming she was black. She was not.
**it was Constantine who named the area Palestine**
It was one of the earlier Caesars, Hadrian, in 130 AD, who rebuilt Jerusalem. Jerusalem had been completely destroyed in 70AD, and later renamed Aelia Capitolina. Judea was renamed after the ancient enemy of the Jews, Syria Philistina or Palestina.
Idi Amin was black. Oh wait . . .
Thanks! I wasn’t really sure - I had read something many moons ago.
Thanks, folks....I got it...8^)
yes
For people that don’t believe in God, they sure do bring up Jesus a lot.
Among the treasures of King Tut, there is the throne and a footstool with the "enemies" of Egypt on them. One is the Asiatic, sharp nosed, bearded. robed.
The other is the Nubian. Black, big lips, slanting forehead.
You can definitely tell the difference between Egyptians and Nubians.
According to the Bible, Jesus was Jewish and understood our responsibility to “render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s”. My guess is she got the brown skin right, although the Bible does not mention His skin tone.
I’m only saying that Arafat stole the term for himself and the media went along with it. There are no “Palestinians” as it is currently accepted, and there never were. They pretend to be native to that area when they are not. They’re mostly invaders and refugees. The name Palestine actually refers to the Philistines, the old enemy of the Jews. It was first given by the Romans after destroying Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
Only racists are interested in the color of Jesus skin. They need to study his message.
He came from an area that has been referred to as “Palestine” by a variety of rulers for almost two millennia, so whilst it is somewhat anachronistic to call him “Palestinian” it is no more so than calling Christopher Columbus “Italian” when no state called Italy existed in his time.
He was from the Middle East and so would look pretty much like the people who live there today, Arab and Jew, swarthy, dark-eyed with black hair (certainly not the pretty boy, blue-eyed, blond Jesus I saw in pictures in my youth), “brown skinned”? I would say that might be a reasonable description of such a man, especially as he spent so much time in the outdoors, preaching and working along with his fishermen followers.
Did he understand the need to resist? Well he certainly wasn’t a docile believer in the status quo. He didn’t like a lot of what he saw, he wasn’t interested in leading a Jewish rebellion against the Roman occupiers, whom he regarded as something of this world and not relevant to the important message about the next world he was promoting.
He had a lot of problems with Jewish authority, of that we can be certain, he wanted to shake things up. He had no compunction about using violence against the money-lenders in the Temple. Jesus was no wilting violet, he was no wimp, he was a tough guy.
All in all, you can quibble with some of this woman’s statement and choice of terminology but not the essential point she is making.
Whether she is correct in then trying to attach Jesus to the modern, leftist, anti-Christian, statist, pro-abortion message she is perhaps trying to align Jesus with is a different matter altogether.
[Nubian]
Hmmm. On a side note, just for naught, that reminded me of “The Nubian Liberation Front” that Damien tells the U.S. President as responsible for blowing up the Aswan Dam. (IIRC)
Omen 3 - certainly not Biblical but it had some interesting scenes - of course it gives out a lot of wrong ideas regarding Biblical Prophecy.
Mine has a picture of Jesus in it. ;-D
” . . .and the erection of a temple to Jupiter on the Temple Mount.”
There is also another temple to Jupiter by the same architect in Baalbek Lebanon, very similar design,
From it we can understand the Dome of the Rock in Jersulem is built on the direct foundations from it.
Since this Lewis woman is supposed to be a biblical scholar maybe she can explain
1 Corinthians 14:34-35New International Version (NIV)
34 Women[a] should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.[b]
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