Jesus....

[Michie]

...a brown skinned Palestianian Jew.

~ Rev. William Barber II

 

[Sword of the Lord]

He wasn't European and he was a Jew. What was his point?

 

[Michie]

My point is I love Pastor Barber. Kareem is on now.

 

[Michie]

He wasn't European and he was a Jew. What was his point?

I think it means He is universal but He did not come as the privileged class.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

No one today knows what exact skin color Jesus Christ had. It could have been darker or it could have been light. I think the reason it's not mentioned in the gospels is that we should be focused on the more important things about Jesus.

 

[LoAmmi]

No one today knows what exact skin color Jesus Christ had. It could have been darker or it could have been light. I think the reason it's not mentioned in the gospels is that we should be focused on the more important things about Jesus.

Your best bet is to look at the color of Sephardic Jews who's communities never left Israel.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

No one today knows what exact skin color Jesus Christ had. It could have been darker or it could have been light. I think the reason it's not mentioned in the gospels is that we should be focused on the more important things about Jesus.

Notice how it's almost always non-whites who talk about his color?

 

[LoAmmi]

Notice how it's almost always non-whites who talk about his color?

Don't ever visit Stormfront. Your statement would be proven hilariously wrong.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

I said almost always, and Stormfront is an idiotic place.

 

[topcare]

Famous Sephardic Jews

http://www.lastar.org/sephardic-culture/famous-sephardim/

http://hub.yourtakeonspirituality.com/hub/sephardi

 

[Fantine]

People were shorter, too. I read once that Jesus was 4 foot 9. What matters to me is inner beauty.

 

[Sword of the Lord]

People were shorter, too. I read once that Jesus was 4 foot 9. What matters to me is inner beauty.

Lol. They can't even know that.

 

[Michie]

Jesus is God. Seriously, does anything else matter?

 

[Sword of the Lord]

Jesus is God. Seriously, does anything else matter?

I will argue that God isn't a Hobbit until my death.

 

[LivingWordUnity]

Notice how it's almost always non-whites who talk about his color?

Or liberal whites.

 

[dzheremi]

Your best bet is to look at the color of Sephardic Jews who's communities never left Israel.

Why would Jesus be Sephardic, not Mizrahi? I thought Mizrahi Jews included those in the Levant area.

 

[LoAmmi]

Why would Jesus be Sephardic, not Mizrahi? I thought Mizrahi Jews included those in the Levant area.

I generally just consider Mizrahi to be Sephardic due to following the same traditions. Most breakups of groups I see don't include the Mizrahi as a third group but group them with Sephardic.

 

[Michie]

Galatians 3:26-29 comes to
my mind.

 

[dzheremi]

I generally just consider Mizrahi to be Sephardic due to following the same traditions. Most breakups of groups I see don't include the Mizrahi as a third group but group them with Sephardic.

Oh, okay. Thank you. I am aware that there are various traditions followed among different Jews, but I thought they were also subdivided according to their places of origin, since when you look up, e.g., Sephardic Jews in English-language reference works, it basically says "Jews from the Iberian peninsula, including those originating from there found in Morocco, Turkey, etc."

 

[Fantine]

I think they could estimate his height from the Shroud of Turin.

Actually, that analysis says 5'8" to 5'9".

http://greatshroudofturinfaq.com/Science/Image/height.html

This scholar says 5'1".

If I was to take an educated guess I would say that Jesus would probably not be the 5′ 11″-6′ 2″ that seems to be suggested by the Shroud Of Turin. The fact is that 6′ 0″ by today’s standards can be considered tall in some nations and even in some parts of the US, due to ethnic demographics. The other suggested height of 5′ 1″ seems more reasonable, although it seems to me to be a little on the short side, but how would I know what the average male height of people in biblical israel be.

http://www.naturalheightgrowth.com/2012/12/20/how-tall-is-the-height-of-jesus-christ/

The average height and weight of Israeli men at that time was 5'1" and 110 pounds.