Are there any white people in the bible?

[Hazelelponi]

I guess Pontius Pilate was white, and some of the Greek Philosophers that saint Paul encountered in Athens were probably white, but Jews weren't, they are more or less like Arabs are today.

Can you think of any white people of faith and importance in the bible?

We've come to this point have we?

Has the racism that's pushed in American culture to divide the people for war now coming for the earliest Christians to divide them according to their race too?

The Bible has an answer to all:

"In Christ there is no Jew or Gentile" Galatians 3:28

Don't join the Marxist's in attacking what is Holy.

 

[trophy33]

I may be wrong, but Titus looks like a Latin spelling.

Yeah, you are right, Titus is a Roman name. According to tradition, he was from Crete. Maybe a Greek with a Roman name.

Or his name was Titos and Bible got it latinized.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Don't join the Marxist's in attacking what is Holy.

Some allegedly Christian groups are essentially white supremacist as well as right wing in their politics. I worry a lot more about them than about imaginary Marxists.

 

[returntosender]

It's interesting there's never been a list put together, or has there? Google?

 

[returntosender]

This is an interesting link: How Did Different Races Come into Existence as God's Wonderful Created Image?

 

[ozso]

There are three genetic races. Negroid (mainly African), Mongoloid (mainly Chinese and Japanese) and Caucasiod (everyone else, including most of the people in the bible).

 

[returntosender]

Mongoloid refers to Mongolia.

In the early 20th century someone started calling people with Down Syndrome mongoloid because their eye shape resembles those who are Asian (epicanthic folds). It was dropped in the 1950s.

Yes, it came to me so i deleted it and you brought it back. Chagrin

 

[bling]

I have a hard time remembering who is black, white, yellow and red in my Bible class.

 

[The Barbarian]

I do not want to be rude but what is the point of this? did not GOD create humans all humans, white yellow black there are no differences, the same with hair colour or eye colour, can we judge people by colour, absolutely not. why do you want to know, it is the same as asking Jesus hair colour or eye colour, probably brown, yes there were probably "white skinned people" in the bible certainly. would it change your perception if you knew?
At the end we are all god's children made in his image.

Quite so. The ancients were much less obsessed by race than we are. And they were, in that respect, much closer to God. I doubt very much if Jesus would have been able to eat at a lunch counter in Little Rock in 1960, even if he was clean-shaven and in a business suit.

 

[ViaCrucis]

I guess Pontius Pilate was white, and some of the Greek Philosophers that saint Paul encountered in Athens were probably white, but Jews weren't, they are more or less like Arabs are today.

Can you think of any white people of faith and importance in the bible?

Over the last couple hundred years "whiteness" has changed. In the 1800's Italians and Greeks weren't considered "white". They've only become white in the 20th century.

So in one sense, it depends on what one means by "white". Presumably there were plenty of people among Paul's missionary journeys in Greece and parts of Anatolia who we would, today, call "white".

But, I'd argue more importantly, the whole concept of "white"; and the whole notion of "races" of human beings is nonsense rooted in a highly modernistic, and intrinsically racist, view of humanity.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[ViaCrucis]

There are three genetic races. Negroid (mainly African), Mongoloid (mainly Chinese and Japanese) and Caucasiod (everyone else, including most of the people in the bible).

This isn't true. The entire field of genetics has rendered theories such as this utterly obsolete.

There aren't any genetic races. There's just human beings. And we come in a massive gradient of phenotypes.

-CrptoLutheran

 

[returntosender]

I think there was a reason for everything God did. Including the different color of eyes and people.

 

[Jonaitis]

I guess Pontius Pilate was white, and some of the Greek Philosophers that saint Paul encountered in Athens were probably white, but Jews weren't, they are more or less like Arabs are today.

Can you think of any white people of faith and importance in the bible?

"White" is a label that was created much later in history. In the biblical times, ethnicity was equivalent to our idea of "race". An Israelite and a Moabite were two different people groups in the ancient world, though genetically very similar. Even today, the construct of race makes no sense. The human population is gradient, rather than distinct. Mediterranean shares affinity with Southern Europeans ans North Africans. West Asian shows affinity to East Asia and Middle East and Eastern European. It is not useful to use such categories in the real sense. It is very imaginary and divisive.

 

[RileyG]

What about the book of Maccabees and it’s reference to Gaul (modern day France)?

 

[Rose_bud]

"White" is a label that was created much later in history. In the biblical times, ethnicity was equivalent to our idea of "race". An Israelite and a Moabite were two different people groups in the ancient world, though genetically very similar. Even today, the construct of race makes no sense. The human population is gradient, rather than distinct. Mediterranean shares affinity with Southern Europeans ans North Africans. West Asian shows affinity to East Asia and Middle East and Eastern European. It is not useful to use such categories in the real sense. It is very imaginary and divisive.

Thank you for your thoughts.
A very limiting label. For example, when I call someone just a white person. I've missed the opportunity to understand their ethnicity, their heritage, their history. Same goes for a black person, I miss out on the opportunity to know, that someone is a X speaking person from the Y clan, but also decended from Z. So much I miss out on knowing because all is seen is a colour.

We, as Christians find our identity in Christ. We are all his children, but we are not clones. There is beauty in our diversity.

 

[RandyPNW]

I guess Pontius Pilate was white, and some of the Greek Philosophers that saint Paul encountered in Athens were probably white, but Jews weren't, they are more or less like Arabs are today.

Can you think of any white people of faith and importance in the bible?

I'm not sure the Bible categorized people by "black, white, yellow, brown," etc.? They obviously came from different families, tribes, and nations, carrying the DNA of each group. The distinguishing features and colors isn't something treated much in the Bible, though it is there.

And I think it's the same with people, recognizing that they have differences that make the various groups unique and yet related. This kind of diversity appears to have been God's plan for mankind. The different features did not make any people greater or less--they were all people, made in God's image.

As a side note I would suggest that just as there is a common physical DNA inherited in each group there is also a common *spiritual DNA* inherited in each group. There are certain sin inclinations, I think, in the various groups, which is something that each group may either capitulate to or fight against. But this may or may not be disputable.

 

[RandyPNW]

Why do you profess to be Christian but have a tag on your profile "Unashamedly pro-Trump Conservative Republican and against RINOS, Democrats, Socialists, and Atheists..."? I'm a Democrat. I think political views are inappropriate in a Christian forum where we should focus on what unites us - Christ - and not what divides us. I'm new here and your tag really made me feel uncomfortable in an environment that I should not.

I don't separate my religion and my politics. It's really that simple.

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

I don't separate my religion and my politics. It's really that simple.

Which is first place? Your politics or your religion and can you tell us about examples that illustrate it?

 

[RandyPNW]

Which is first place? Your politics or your religion and can you tell us about examples that illustrate it?

My political position, informed by my religion, is self-explanatory. I have no interest in getting dragged into a political battle by those who have hate for my positions.

I'm stong in my position because I lived through years of hateful propaganda poured out against the politics that I believe in. The media worked together with wealthy heads of corporations, the entertainment industries, and the Democratic Party (as well as Education) to illicitly plant evil ideas about the party previously in power. It worked...for a time. "Russia, Russia, Russia...."

And in the last American election we've seen a massive number of lawsuits designed to rob the Republican nominee once again by underhanded means. All this would be argued by those who hate Trump.

Though I respect the idealism that uses taxes to help the needy, I've found that Big Govt is as corrupt as anything else. I believe people who earn money should be able to spend it as they see fit, and help the poor as they see fit.

A certain amount of Govt. help is fine, but not Govt control of speech, assembly, religion, etc. I don't want masks forced on me, or anybody telling me to stay home during pandemics. I don't trust those who praise Fauci, etc. etc. I despite Anti-Semitism as much as I despise descrimination against African Americans.

Yes, people can turn off the TV/computer/phone if they don't want to hear the speech/opinion/proopaganda. But it affects our society in a very destructive way. And so, I'm adamantly opposed to what the Democrats have become, with the Extreme Left leading them presently.

 

[linux.poet]

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Why do you profess to be Christian but have a tag on your profile "Unashamedly pro-Trump Conservative Republican and against RINOS, Democrats, Socialists, and Atheists..."? I'm a Democrat. I think political views are inappropriate in a Christian forum where we should focus on what unites us - Christ - and not what divides us. I'm new here and your tag really made me feel uncomfortable in an environment that I should not.

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