I have seen some pictures depicting Jesus Christ as a Caucasian, some even depict him having blue eyes.
Do you think it was possible he was actually white?
Do you think it was possible he was actually white?
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Do you think it was possible he was actually white?
I don't think that Jesus had even existed.
However, if he had existed, I doubt that he was white, unless you include "Jewish" in the category "white".
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Pictures like that one exist because we all like to think of Jesus as looking like a person of our own race. In other parts of the world, he's depicted as looking Asian or African.I have seen some pictures depicting Jesus Christ as a Caucasian, some even depict him having blue eyes.
It's very unlikely, but there is an argument that he might have been. However, it assumes that he was either born of a human father or that Mary was not Jewish.Do you think it was possible he was actually white?
Jesus was Jewish, thus he would not have been white.
Is this even important?
Is this even important?
Given where he was born? No.I have seen some pictures depicting Jesus Christ as a Caucasian, some even depict him having blue eyes.
Do you think it was possible he was actually white?
For the purpose of identifying Jesus with what is known as the white race (as in WASP), Jesus was 'white'.
Jesus was a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant?
It rather depends where someone is going with it.
To take the extremes. If a White Jesus is used as an image to white people and the intent is simply that Jesus was in a way a man just like you and me, no problem.
If the same white Jesus is used preaching to Black or brown (or most ironic middle eastern) people and the message is Jesus was white, not like you, then there is a big problem.
And the later does happen, sometime by intent sometimes by accident.