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I'm not quite sure(as I or no one else knows what they looked like) if the actual St. Nicholas from whom Santa Clause is based on or Jesus of Nazareth would be perceived as being white in the mainstream Anglo-American sense. However, they would be census "White"!
It's not he almost certainly did not look European. He definitely didn't, 100%. I don't know what image that is supposed to be, but I'd imagine Jesus looked similar to the Jews that inhabited that area, and (most) Jewish people in the Middle East do not look like that
I would say 99.99%, sometimes a recessive gene or some other abnormality shows up. You would think that if Jesus looked strikingly different from the main population that it would have been mentioned in the NT though.
No one states what Jesus was, claiming what he was without knowledge is silly. Nothing said he looked different than his contemporaries, who were not white, but frankly his skin color is not a concern. Jesus cared for all of humanity no matter their race. Be more like Jesus, and less like David Duke.
Santa is a fictional character. His real historical predecessor, St. Nicholas, was Greek and light brown skinned. Who was about kindness and generosity. I don't think any representation cares the color of the package of that generosity and kindness, save those who are so shallow they cannot see past the color of the cells on the outside of people's bodies.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Uh; Greeks are usually "white" and so are Arabs. Not all of us are pasty color skin with light hair and eyes. Sheesh!
[quote=chad3;32591574]Scientists studied the people around the area were Jesus lived, and they have created computer model photos of what Jesus would have looked like (and Jesus was not white.)
The following link shows what Jesus would have looked like.
Looks like an olive complected Mediterranean white guy to me. About the same skin color as my 100% white sister-in-law actually.
Even so, how can anyone actually know that this is what Jesus really looked like? We can offer something like this as our best educated guess. Odds are that he did have olive skin, but we don't actually know that for certain. Many Jews and others in that time and place had lighter skin as well. And hair varied as well. To this very day, there is naturally occurring red hair/pale skin that still pops up among Palestinians every few generations. (It's been popping up ever since anyone can remember.) Perhaps that hearkens back to Esau the brother of Jacob who apparently had red hair. Jesus probably had brown eyes but it is possible that they were some other color. Blue, gray and green eyes did exist in that place and time, though most had brown eyes. We have no idea if his nose looked anything like that. The cheeks, chin, forehead, eyebrows and everything else is just a rough average and a best guess. The science might be sound enough, but there is no corner of the world that does not have a great deal of variety in its people's facial features. That picture may look nothing like Jesus of Nazareth.
We can say with great confidence that:
A.) He was almost certainly not black. If he had been black, it would have been an extreme exotic rarity among the rest of the Jews of his time. If he had been black, somebody in the NT would have definitely mentioned it.
B.) He most definitely did not have your stereotypical Scandinavian light skin and flowing blonde locks of hair. Again, that would have been such an exotic rarity in that time and place that somebody would have mentioned it in the NT
C.) In keeping with Nazarite customs for Rabbis, Jesus would have definitely had a prominent beard.
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It's not he almost certainly did not look European. He definitely didn't, 100%. I don't know what image that is supposed to be, but I'd imagine Jesus looked similar to the Jews that inhabited that area, and (most) Jewish people in the Middle East do not look like that
And what did they look like over 2,000 years ago? You have no idea, but Jesus was certainly not white. He must have looked Middle Eastern; it's only logical. I would imagine that forensic sociologists and other scientists would know just a tad more than random people on a message board.
You have to be dumber than a box of rocks to believe that sketch of what Jesus looked like is based on anything but pure imagination.
Having said that he almost certainly did not look European.
The photo is based on the tribes that existed in and around the area Jesus lived during the times he lived. He would have been much darker than a white European for sure. He also would have had the heavier facial features that are shown in This photo. So it is actually quite a bit more real than you would expect, based on current high technology. It is fairly scientific to make these representations the same way forensics can recreate facial features and age missing people, or recreate people based on parts of a skull. It is somewhat imaginative, but mostly pretty realistic.
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