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jesus was middle eastern...so why is he portrayed fair-skinned?


the above question plz...

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anyone?

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He had to be Americanized in order to trick us Americans into believing that crap and to give the churches here more money.

I'm sure that in India he's portrayed as Indian.
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I'm sure that in India he's portrayed as Indian.


No he is not.

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they also portray Him as being some skinny little boy hanging on a cross.

He was a carpenter- He hit wood for a living.

He was in his thirties. Hed for sure filled out by then.

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He is portrayed as light skinned in Western art.

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which is totally false...so why keep up the lie?

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This is the same guy that is also portrayed as walking on water and returning from the dead after being bolted to a cross right?

Yeah, nuff said .

I'm right, you're wrong. Deal with it!

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Most middle easterners are fair skinned.

king of saudi arabia: http://a.abcnews.com/images/International/ap_king_abdullah_071029_ms.jpg

king of saudi arabia next to pope:
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/abdullahG_468x609.jpg

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no not really only the ones mixed with white. In the bible it said he had coarse hair and other traits the betray him as not being white or as you say "fair skinned".

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LOL so? This thread reminds me of the "God was not black" one. Jesus is God, he could've been red, pink, black etc. He can do anything with his skin LOL. I believe Jesus was white-skinned, but very tanned.

Wasn't he Jewish? Well he was. The Jews in the Middle East are pale-skinned, well not all of them. But yeah, Jesus had light skin (tanned when he got older).

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They are pale-skinned now, cause the the whole nation was uprooted and took that little trip into Europe a couple of 100 years ago and mixed with other European races. Else they would all look similiar to the people from the countries neighboring Israel like Iran, Iraq and Serbia.

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Your history is correct, but your theory can be debunked very easily.

The Philippines was occupied by Spain for about 340 years than by Americans for about 50 years. The Japanese also raped many women during their short occupation during WWII (Japanese are pale skinned too). Even after 390 years of breeding with pale-skinned individuals, the Filipinos still have dark tanned skin.

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Did you say Serbia?

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Sorry Jesus is not God. I don't know what religion you are but if you are christian (which many christians beleive this) Jesus is not God. Jesus and God are two different things.

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Wrong. Jesus IS God.

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Thank you for your time-traveling insights. :)

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It's like how Coca-Cola portrayed Father Christmas in a red coat. It just caught on.

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Andy: I fell.

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He is portayed by Morgan Freeman, who is black.

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To your post,
he's actually portraying God - not Jesus.

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Doh! I always get the Jesus guy and the God guy mixed up.

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Are you talking about in this movie,
because there was no Jesus in this movie.

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A) Jesus was not in Evan Almighty, so are you just trying to piss people off or what?

B) How do you know what Jesus looked like, read the bible, study history, read any legitimate source regarding Jesus and you won't find a physical description that goes into Jesus race. Jesus was born in Bethlehem; the meeting point of Africa and the middle-east (i.e. He could be black or middle-eastern), a trade route for Europeans (he could be white), he was a Jew (Jew is a race), a racial super center (i.e. he could be a lot of different things)

C) He's the son of God who went to great lengths to ensure that his race ambiguous as if he wanted to transcend racial boundaries. If God has no race, than how can Jesus have one?

D) I like to believe Jesus was a ten foot tall purple haired Albino, still doesn't change anything about the fact that I have no basis for that belief


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Actually the bible does give descriptions of Jesus and noah and some other ones. Along the lines of fair-skinned an red hair, or something. Although because the bible was heavly Europeanized because of Catholisism and Vatican, who knows what has been edited and taken out an such. This is why I am not a bible following christian. I am a deist.. I do believe that many things are based of some facts, maybe there was a boat, but is like school.. hey did you hear jim threw a rock at chris? Hey did you hear jim punched chris an knocked him out? Hey did you hear jim threw chris down some stairs? Over time things get added to stories.. the bible was writed thousands of years ago..

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First of All Jew is not a race, neither is Arabs. There are black Jews white, hispanic, asian etc. And whats up with the list of people that has nothing to do with deciding Jesus's race. None of those people look alike.

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