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Jesus wasn't white: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew. Here's why that matters
Australian Broadcast Company ^ | March 28, 2018 | Robyn J. Whitaker

Posted on 04/01/2018 4:53:43 AM PDT by C19fan

I grew up in a Christian home, where a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. I still have it. It is schmaltzy and rather tacky in that 1970s kind of way, but as a little girl I loved it. In this picture, Jesus looks kind and gentle, he gazes down at me lovingly. He is also light-haired, blue-eyed, and very white. The problem is, Jesus was not white.

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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: australia; faithandphilosophy; jesus; ntsa; race; strawman
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To: C19fan

White guilt again. I remember years ago seeing a book that had paintings from different countries of Jesus. Every one had the skin tones and features from the country of the artist. I doubt the artists were criticized by their fellow citizens. The Bible says He was not notable in appearance, He was just an average looking person.


61 posted on 04/01/2018 8:15:44 AM PDT by robel
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To: C19fan

Only 8% of humans have blue eyes.


62 posted on 04/01/2018 8:19:59 AM PDT by barbarianbabs
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To: C19fan

63 posted on 04/01/2018 8:20:03 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: barbarianbabs

How does the Bible describe King David’s appearance?


64 posted on 04/01/2018 8:21:29 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: C19fan

Pray tell why the racists are so hell bent on getting their choice of color for Jesus? Is it that to a libtard, skin color is always more important than one’s character or deeds.

America will be truly free when it is as against the law to give race a preference as it is to discriminate against LGBTQ, etc. crowd.


65 posted on 04/01/2018 8:35:25 AM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: Neoliberalnot

“Jesus was not a Jew. He was of Semitic origin as most of the middle easterners are.”

Jesus was most definitely a Jew. It could be said he was not a Judean, however, since He was from Nazareth. To complicate matters the word “Jew” is from “Judea” but that doesn’t change the fact that Jesus was a Jew.


66 posted on 04/01/2018 8:57:44 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: C19fan

It’s been said that people who met Jesus at the time all had different descriptions of him. Although the physical appearance of Jesus as seen by the Shroud of Turin shows a moderately tall man for the period. When it comes to the appearance of Jesus, he would have had brown eyes, brown hair, and well tanned face and limbs. Today we call it a Farmers tan.


67 posted on 04/01/2018 9:05:16 AM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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To: fini

That sounds a little like adjusting the weather station raw data to come up with the anticipated and desired result.


68 posted on 04/01/2018 9:05:47 AM PDT by Stingray51
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To: C19fan

We all have our personal Jesus...

mine looks like this.....


69 posted on 04/01/2018 9:18:28 AM PDT by Koracan
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To: C19fan

The middle east has been a crossroads of genetic diversity since prehistory.


70 posted on 04/01/2018 9:19:01 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: C19fan
Abraham originally came from today's Iraq area, so I assume he had black hair, brown eyes and a tan. He is the father of the Jewish people, so I assume people during Jesus’s time had similar features.

Ishmael, Abraham's first born, is the father of several Arab tribes and ancestor of Muhammad.

So, if the Jews are Caucasians, then Arabs are Caucasians. LOL.

71 posted on 04/01/2018 9:19:02 AM PDT by Fishing-guy
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To: Neoliberalnot
Jesus was not a Jew.

You must have read a different set of scriptures than the ones familiar to me.

72 posted on 04/01/2018 9:21:12 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Fishing-guy

Jews and Arabs are both Caucasians.


73 posted on 04/01/2018 9:22:25 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: silverleaf

“I believe the historian Josephus described Jesus as fair haired and there are also other sources from Roman correspondence.”

I can remember Sunday School many years ago, when a teacher discussed the then-latest and new and shiny non-Christian “Biblical Research.” At that time they were saying Mary was not a Virgin and Jesus was the out-of-wedlock progeny of a Roman soldier.

So now the devil is trying to stir up discord by reversing that old and failed propaganda trick? Won’t work now, either. Christianity is not based on racism.


74 posted on 04/01/2018 9:26:38 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70
At that time they were saying Mary was not a Virgin and Jesus was the out-of-wedlock progeny of a Roman soldier.

No, that was Brian .... she must have thought it was a documentary ...


75 posted on 04/01/2018 9:53:27 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: C19fan

To Yeshua the color of someone’s skin did not matter, but to the Marxist inspired (divide everyone by every category of “class”) Yeshua’s skin color, perversely, matters a lot. I think Yeshua would not support their tactics and would actually consider it a “defamation” of HIS character.


76 posted on 04/01/2018 9:54:45 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: uncbob

He started the Christian faith. Christians are not Jews, right?


77 posted on 04/01/2018 11:22:47 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: Popman

You may be Jewish, but recall Jesus started the Christian faith. Remember, he was crucified by the Romans at the instigation of the Jews.


78 posted on 04/01/2018 11:24:34 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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To: C19fan

I could care less, but since he was in the middle east, you have to think he would look like a middle eastern Jew, but it doesn’t change anything, if he were black or purple.


79 posted on 04/01/2018 11:41:53 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: Hugh the Scot

Jesus, being the founder of Christianity I think broke from Judaism. He was hung a cross for it at the behest of the jewish leaders.


80 posted on 04/01/2018 11:42:05 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC ...)
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