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.


The CGI model created in 2001 depicted Jesus' skin color as being darker and more olive-colored than his traditional depictions in Western art.


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





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