Posted on 12/25/2013 7:48:44 AM PST by madison10
For two thousand years, he has been worshiped and adored. Multitudes look to him each day. And yet nobody really knows the face of Jesus. That has not stopped humanity's imagination, or its yearning to draw Jesus as close as possible. So when this Christmas season brought a torrent of debate over whether Jesus was a white man, it struck a sacred nerve.
"That statement carries a whole lot of baggage," said Rockwell Dillaman, pastor of the Allegheny Center Alliance Church in Pittsburgh. "Political baggage, spiritual baggage, emotional baggage. Especially in a culture like ours where the relations of white people to other ethnicities has often been marked by injustice and distrust."
Why should we even care what Jesus looked like? If his message is God and love, isn't his race irrelevant? Some say God wanted it that way, since there are no references to Jesus' earthly appearance in the Bible. #But the debate was a reminder of just how difficult it is for anyone to transcend race — even a historical figure widely considered to be beyond human.
"I find it fascinating that that's what people really want to know — what race was Jesus. That says a lot about us, about Americans today," said Edward Blum, co-author of "The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America..."
(Excerpt) Read more at monroenews.com ...
Read Luke 3:23-38. That’s Mary’s genealogy. Joseph’s genealogy is given in Matthew 1:1-17.
I will never forget the Jim Cavezel of the movie, “ The Passion of the Christ”. He is the closet to looking like the King of Kings.
AMEN! Merry Christmas!
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ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL, That photo looks like it should be up with the shooters, Adam Lanzer, James Holmes, and Eric Harris.
Jesus looked nothing like that. He was of Adam, David, and Solomon and they are described in the bible as ruddy-complected, and fair.
As an aside from, I saw a nativity display yesterday with a seriously blonde Mary. C'mon!
Lots of Judahites are blond.
You have to remember that everyone tries to create God in their own image.
That’s the one.
;]
Through Judah.
>>What does ‘white’ mean (or cover)? Is that everyone on the planet that can pronounce the word ‘ask’?<<
If need be, the media will settle on “White Jew” (ala Zimmerman).
I think read that Josephus mentioned him having auburn hair.
What He looked like doesn’t matter, really.
What He did matters.
That is seriously cool.
Gotta web link for that?
Get out!
I was posting to another thread and posted that accidentally in this one.
Check out this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3105127/posts
for more interesting pics.
Oprah said that Jesus was a famous Zulu Warrior, .....................Not if she was born here and claims her family were here as slaves. Zulus weren’t slaves, they would have been too warrior like for the Arab traders to handle.
I was thinking Guy Penrod
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