See What A White Christian Posted On Facebook About Ethnicity And Appearance of Jesus
The argument about the ethnicity and skin colour of Jesus Christ prompted this white supremacy believer to post this on Facebook:
Our
attitudes and thought that shape our minds remains the starting point in
building the ideological concept, which we express in public.
Those who
espouse self-serving dogma operate as if they represent the supreme ruler,
authority, or have the sovereign rights over other humans.
This denigrating comments against Africans was
posted on Facebook by a Christian who believe in white supremacy
What is pathetically
sad is some people, who claimed religious affiliation may use it to spread heinous
views without considering the feelings of other people.
Portraits of Jesus depicted in different ways
What was the Race and
Appearance of Jesus Christ?
These have
been a lot of debate about the appearance of Jesus since the early Christianity.
Though no scholarly agreement on his appearance but over the centuries, he has
been depicted in multitude of many ways. These is no documented accounts, and
the New Testament did not make any description of the physical appearance of Jesus
before he left the earth, and its narratives is generally indifferent to racial
appearances, it is generally clear that Jesus would have been a Hebrew descent
, since his genealogy being attested as of the Hebrew patriarchs in the Gospel
of Mathew and the Gospel
of Luke.
We have read
how various theories about the race of Jesus have been advanced and debated.
While the Christian world wide have a fixed mental image of Jesus drawn from
artistic depictions, these images often conform to ethnic- European stereotypes
which cannot be back up by historical evidence, but based on people’s interpretations.
The only
account of Jesus’s descriptions can be found in the Bible Book of Revelation in
“John’s vision of the son of man” which describes Jesus as:
…… And his
head and his hair were white like white wool, like snow; and his eyes were like
flame of fire;
And his feet
were like burnt bronze, when it has been cause to glow in a furnace, and his
voice was like the sound of many waters.
And in his
right hand he held seven stars; and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged
sword; and his face was like the sun shining in its strength. – Revelation 1:
13-16
But this
vision cannot be refer to Jesus appearance during his earthly life.
In 2001, the
television series Son of God used one of three first-century Jewish skulls from
a leading department of forensic science in Israel to depict Jesus in a new
way. A face was constructed using forensic anthropology by Richard Neave, a
retired medical artist from the Unit of Art in Medicine at the University of
Manchester.
The face
that Neave constructed suggested that Jesus would have had a broad face and
large nose, and differed significantly from the traditional depictions of Jesus
in renaissance art. Additional information about Jesus' skin color and hair was
provided by Mark Goodacre, a New Testament scholar and professor at Duke
University.Using third-century images from a synagogue—the earliest pictures of
Jewish people—Goodacre proposed that Jesus' skin color would have been darker
and swarthier than his traditional Western image.
He also
suggested that he would have had short, curly hair and a short cropped beard.
This is also confirmed in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, where Paul the
Apostle states that it is "disgraceful" for a man to have long hair.
As Paul knew
many of the disciples and members of Jesus' family, it is unlikely that he
would have written such a thing had Jesus had long hair. Although not literally
the face of Jesus, the result of the study determined that Jesus' skin would
have been more olive-colored than white, and that he would have looked like a
typical Galilean Semite.
Among the
points made was that the Bible records that Jesus's disciple Judas had to point
him out to those arresting him in Gethsemane. The implied argument is that if
Jesus's physical appearance had differed markedly from his disciples, then he
would have been relatively easy to identify. – Culled from Wikipedia Encyclopedia
See What A White Christian Posted On Facebook About Ethnicity And Appearance of Jesus
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