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When Jesus walked the earth in flesh there were no cameras so when his word spread different groups of people tried to find meaning and relate to him. We all want to see ourselves in Jesus. The problem is that some make that physical instead of spiritual. We don't need to look like Jesus, we need to love and serve like Jesus.
To some...Jesus was tall, long straight brown hair, with blue eyes, and fit....this hunk Jesus might appeal more to northern Europe...
...to others Jesus was black with wooly hair....this might appeal more to people in Africa.
The honest truth is that Jesus likely looked like the people of Israel region do today.
Speaking of blue eyes...which are slightly rare...both my husband and I and our 2 children have them...and my parents and my brother...what are the odds of that!
And he coulda worn color-changing contacts for all we know!
LOL. You're so funny. In the old day, there were no contact lens, not to mention colour-changing ones. Like your sense of humour and your posts though. Cannot stop laughing.
LOL. You're so funny. In the old day, there were no contact lens, not to mention colour-changing ones. Like your sense of humour and your posts though. Cannot stop laughing.
You don't have to go back to very old days!
In 1978, I was in a year-long executive secretarial school course. As part of the curriculum, we had a class in Advertising. There was a project where we had to break into small groups, and we had to come up with a product and create an advertising plan for it.
My group's idea? Contact lenses that changed the colour of your eyes. When they came out years later, I wondered if someone in my old school had gone to work for Bausch & Lomb.
Note that yea though I am an American, I'm living in a country where they use the "u" in colour, as you did, so I did, too.
When Jesus walked the earth in flesh there were no cameras so when his word spread different groups of people tried to find meaning and relate to him. We all want to see ourselves in Jesus. The problem is that some make that physical instead of spiritual. We don't need to look like Jesus, we need to love and serve like Jesus.
To some...Jesus was tall, long straight brown hair, with blue eyes, and fit....this hunk Jesus might appeal more to northern Europe...
...to others Jesus was black with wooly hair....this might appeal more to people in Africa.
The honest truth is that Jesus likely looked like the people of Israel region do today.
Speaking of blue eyes...which are slightly rare...both my husband and I and our 2 children have them...and my parents and my brother...what are the odds of that!
Yes, if Jesus existed, he probably resembled what he was: a Levantine Mizrahi Jew. That not to say he couldn’t have had blue eyes. It’s not unheard of for people of Levantine background, including Palestinians, Syrians, Jordanians, and Lebanese, to have either or both light hair and eyes. But they’re definitely in the minority, and if Jesus had blue eyes, they presumably would have been commented on as a fairly distinct physical feature (like King David’s red hair and ruddy complexion).
And your blue-eyed family background isn’t that unusual. 93% of (non-Jewish) Europeans carry at least one of the variants associated with blue and green eyes. So do 83% of Ashkenazi Jews, as do 45% of Middle Easterners. My son is the fourth straight generation to have blue eyes in his direct paternal line, and his having anything but blue eyes would have been incredibly unusual, since my wife also has blue eyes (although it’s not impossible). Even African-Americans (specifically meaning Black descendants of slaves who have around 20% European ancestry on average) have a 38% chance of carrying one of the variants.
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When Jesus walked the earth in flesh there were no cameras so when his word spread different groups of people tried to find meaning and relate to him. We all want to see ourselves in Jesus. The
Speaking of blue eyes...which are slightly rare...both my husband and I and our 2 children have them...and my parents and my brother...what are the odds of that!
It's extremely rare for two blue eyed people to produce offspring that do not have blue eyes. it does happen on occasion.... but more than likely it was the mailman.
That's fine. But it's not fine that many christians have westernized a Middle Eastern figure.
The "westernization" of Jesus is not a deliberate campaign to appropriate a Middle Eastern faith. The appeal of Christ's teaching come from its unique moral philosophy that has shaped traditional western culture. Leonardo Da Vinci was influential in his depiction of the Savior dressed in western garb. Hollywood blockbuster movies casting white blue-eyed American actors contributed to our image of not only Jesus (Jeffrey Hunter) but Moses (Charleston Heston) too.
The "westernization" of Jesus is not a deliberate campaign to appropriate a Middle Eastern faith. The appeal of Christ's teaching come from its unique moral philosophy that has shaped traditional western culture. Leonardo Da Vinci was influential in his depiction of the Savior dressed in western garb. Hollywood blockbuster movies casting white blue-eyed American actors contributed to our image of not only Jesus (Jeffrey Hunter) but Moses (Charleston Heston) too.
It's dishonest. Period. And the reason it was dishonestly done is because some white westerners might not be so quick to join a church with a Jesus who looked like Jesus probably looked.
It's dishonest. Period. And the reason it was dishonestly done is because some white westerners might not be so quick to join a church with a Jesus who looked like Jesus probably looked.
2000 years ago, people generally looked pretty scruffy. Jesus did not brush his teeth like we do. He probably was not dressed like William Dafoe in his role as Jesus in the movie "Passion of the Christ". Life was rough back then. Men neither trim their beards with electric shavers nor bathed using soap and shampoo.
2000 years ago, people generally looked pretty scruffy. Jesus did not brush his teeth like we do. He probably was not dressed like William Dafoe in his role as Jesus in the movie "Passion of the Christ". Life was rough back then. Men neither trim their beards with electric shavers nor bathed using soap and shampoo.
White westerners are drawn to Jesus' teaching.
I'm not talking about whether he was scruffy or sparkling clean...although I can see a lot of people being turned off to scruffiness, too.
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