Jesus was black?

Gerard · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: Jesus was black?

On the video section of the CNN site I saw a video about a new Jesus film called "Color of the Cross" by director Jean Claude Lamarre in which Jesus is depicted as a black man. In the interview TJ Holmes asks Lamarre if this is a metaphor of some kind or if this is meant as historically accurate. Lamarre answers that what we know of the area (Roman Palestine) would suggest that Jesus was probably black.

sleepr · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject:

doesn't seem to be much of a website as far as content goes, maybe they are new...
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Hurtman2000 · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject:

The Discovery Channel has Jesus looking...well, my avatar is from their website Smile

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Gerard · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject:

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jaycorath · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:55 am Post subject:

the 'black jesus' seems to me just a reaction against the typically WHITE JESUS we're all familiar with.

As i've said on these forums many times: If Jesus had existed, he probably would have looked a lot like osama bin laden or some other such middle eastern terrorist. (which of course, isn't to say jesus is a terrorist, although i know any christian reading this pry jumped to that conclusion).

Although I think there's a chance jesus could have been a very dark skinned middle easterner. When we say "black" we usually mean "African", so he wouldn't have been black, but possibly could have been "black" in a less specifically african sense.
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SvZurich · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:49 am Post subject:

Oh come on people! Jesus was Nordic! Just look at the vast majority of the art! Surely that bias of those cultures isn't responsible for god's son's form, surely God is White! Just ask that paragon of Xian values known as the KKK if you doubt me. Wink

In fact, being lily white in the Middle East was HOW THEY KNEW HE WAS THE SON OF GOD! HE STOOD OUT LIKE A SORE THUMB! Very Happy

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Aridiris · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:45 am Post subject:

rickyroma · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:36 am Post subject:

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Ophis · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:07 am Post subject:

Jesus was Icelandic. Bjork is a direct descendant.

Gerard · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject:

Nordic you say? Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who is regarded as one of the inspirors of certain aspects of National Socialism, argued that Jesus was in fact not Jewish but a descendant of the people who populated Galilee after the disappearance of the ten lost tribes. He hints that this population may have had some Aryan influences through the Greeks and Persians that ruled there for a long time (mind that Aryan applies in this sense to the Indo-European speaking people's and not nessecarily equals "Nordic").

pr126 · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject:

How Nordic can you get? Inuit, maybe?
(looking in the bible if he wrestled with polar bears)

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SvZurich · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject:

Jesus was most certainly Nordic.

Fair of skin, blue of eye, and sandy blond of hair, the art never lies! Wink

He was but one of many sons of Thor.
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SvZurich · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:37 pm Post subject:

Jesus was most certainly Nordic.

Fair of skin, blue of eye, and sandy blond of hair, the art never lies! Wink

He was but one of many sons of Odin, and is linked to an aspect of Thor.
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