Jesus was black and so are you

[WillJ8787]

It's always interesting to me... belief and how it creates illogical thoughts. 2000 years ago in Nazerath, I'm pretty sure snow white individuals with strong Caucasian features were few and far between.

For all of us, our common ancestor of only a few thousand years ago was a brown/black skinned person most likely living in the Lavant with origins from Central Africa. We are black at our core. Skin color is a function of geography and time(about 6 generations give or take).

You can easily find out more about your own human ancestors by taking a course or reading some books on Anthropology and early humans and discover the various species of humans that existed and went extinct including Neanderthals.

 

[Bad_Egg]

If everyone is black, then racism is a myth.

https://media.giphy.com/media/39AYxLwkmrMrVlUKnJ/giphy.gif

 

[Ramone45]

So what?

 

[hogjack]

When Jesus was in North America he was tall and angular with a deep tan and famously blue eyes.

According to Mormons.

Basically he looked like Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[Tryharder62]

Jesus was a middle eastern Jew. He is part of the triune God Christians believe in. However another part of the triune God is God the Father. He said all people were created in his image. Therefore, all races were made equal and are a representative of God.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Jesus was a middle eastern Jew. He is part of the triune God Christians believe in. However another part of the triune God is God the Father. He said all people were created in his image. Therefore, all races were made equal and are a representative of God.

ALL of them? I'm having a hard time accepting the Irish as equals.

 

[hogjack]

part of the triune God is God the Father. He said all people were created in his image.

However, this does not help Jesus if He were, for example, picking out clothes. Certain skin tones don't work with some colors. Some styles accentuate the best features of a person's physique. Jesus had a sense of style. That's one of the ways others were drawn to Him.

You know He chose clothing that best highlighted His specific skin tone and body shape.

 

[Lazaran]

Jesus was a middle eastern Jew. He is part of the triune God Christians believe in. However another part of the triune God is God the Father. He said all people were created in his image. Therefore, all races were made equal and are a representative of God.

If by " in HIS image " you mean in the image resulting from evolution and adaptation due to mutations that were advantageous to survival depending on the conditions present in each area of the world where humans were geographically located, then yes, they were made in " HIS image ".

I also believe people have a universal survival instinct, and that societal harmony depends on a somewhat uniform set of values to help facilitate peaceful coexistence, which may equate to a universal spirit, especially to someone prone to magical thinking.

The fact that there ARE catastrophic mutations in humans, and endless fighting between individuals and groups, demonstrates quite clearly that there is no intelligent design at work in the universe. Humans actually have a chaotic history of trial and error that resembles a mad scientists experiment.

A metaphor of " God " being a mad scientist is something I might get behind, because no one knows how things are going to turn out.

PS...... The fact that you assign a gender to " God " shows just how brainwashed you are.

 

[hogjack]

Humans suck. Jesus chooses to live as a non-human life form.

 

[OldJourno]

ALL of them? I'm having a hard time accepting the Irish as equals.

98 percent of them can drink me under the table, so there's that.

 

[badbabysitter]

Christian gnosticism suggests man was created in God's spiritual image and not the physical one as literalist and creationists tell us


otherwise, we'd all look identical

 

[KeithD]

If being a white homeboy in a MAGA hat was good enough for Geeezusss, it's good enough for me.

 

[Tryharder62]

ALL of them? I'm having a hard time accepting the Irish as equals.

Irish Proverb:May you be at the gates of Heaven an hour before the Devil knows you are dead.

However, this does not help Jesus if He were, for example, picking out clothes. Certain skin tones don't work with some colors. Some styles accentuate the best features of a person's physique. Jesus had a sense of style. That's one of the ways others were drawn to Him.

You know He chose clothing that best highlighted His specific skin tone and body shape.

Oh my gosh why did I google..why...tell me why?
https://www.amazon.com/What-Would-J...s a large magnet,dyed shirt and surfer shorts).

 

[Tryharder62]

If by " in HIS image " you mean in the image resulting from evolution and adaptation due to mutations that were advantageous to survival depending on the conditions present in each area of the world where humans were geographically located, then yes, they were made in " HIS image ".

I also believe people have a universal survival instinct, and that societal harmony depends on a somewhat uniform set of values to help facilitate peaceful coexistence, which may equate to a universal spirit, especially to someone prone to magical thinking.

The fact that there ARE catastrophic mutations in humans, and endless fighting between individuals and groups, demonstrates quite clearly that there is no intelligent design at work in the universe. Humans actually have a chaotic history of trial and error that resembles a mad scientists experiment.

A metaphor of " God " being a mad scientist is something I might get behind, because no one knows how things are going to turn out.

PS...... The fact that you assign a gender to " God " shows just how brainwashed you are.

Everything would have been perfect in the garden. You decide why they aren't now. Obviously, God can handle adaptation.

What frustrates me is that people want choice. You want to be able to choose the way you live your life. God allows that. When it leads to chaos in human history and things that resemble a mad scientists experiment then you want to blame God. People don't want to admit that bad choices have consequences even to innocent people. There won't be a consensus because people will never agree on how they want to live there lives. You can't have it both ways. You either want choice or you want God to make every decision for you.

PS: You are right and you are wrong in your last sentence. (Wrong--I am not brainwashed)

Right: It is habit. Plus how do you describe and indescribable God? This is the truth in better words that I could write.

Although it’s true that God has revealed Himself in the Bible as a Father who has many masculine traits, this isn’t quite the same thing as saying that He is a “male” God in the style of Zeus, Apollo, or Hermes. If you have trouble grasping this, remember that while the Lord is a personal God, He is neither human nor sexual in nature. There’s an important sense in which “masculine” is not necessarily the same thing as “male” – at least not when we’re talking about God. As we’ve already attempted to explain, human beings reflect the Trinity in many ways, but there is no single human individual who is an exact image of God. Humans eat and drink, but this doesn’t imply that God has to ingest food and water in order to sustain His life. The same principle applies to many aspects of our specifically human maleness and femaleness. Men and women may be different in many important ways, but they are both created in the Image of God.

Hope that helps.

 

[butters]

not really







religion. ugh.

 

[nowisthetime]

He sure wasn't a blonde, blue-eyed Aryan.

He had wooly hair and copper skin.

 

[Brains_N_Boobs]

He sure wasn't a blonde, blue-eyed Aryan.

He had wooly hair and copper skin.

Was he a Sasquatch?

 

[IrezumiKiss]

look, all I know is when my homie Cthulhu comes back through,

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SharpPalatableAmurratsnake-max-1mb.gif

it is over for you basic bitches!

plus, that motherfucker owes me twenty bucks! he thinks I forgot about that shit!

 

[Bad_Egg]

What's Vera Bad been up to lately?

Christian gnosticism suggests man was created in God's spiritual image and not the physical one as literalist and creationists tell us


otherwise, we'd all look identical

https://media.giphy.com/media/Z9OGuQyrfHAE8/giphy.gif

 

[Tryharder62]

not really







religion. ugh.

Oh come on. You may not like religion but you have to admit I'm growing on you.
(No not like a fungus)
(At least I hope so)

 

[rae121452]

i prefer 'tan'. also, i don't accept the idea of a historical jesus so his skin tone is irrelevant.

 

[Bad_Egg]

The Jesus we need.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/63/c1/85/63c185719e80868040e5d4cc0d1b87b1.png

 

[sundries]

not really

religion. ugh.

come on. You're the most religious person that I know.

Aren't 95% of your threads about disseminating Jesus's teachings?

 

[BeatMan]

Christian gnosticism suggests man was created in God's spiritual image and not the physical one as literalist and creationists tell us


otherwise, we'd all look identical

gnosticism also says the material world is evil and sex is evil and women cannot enter the kingdom of heaven unless she becomes a man

 

[Rightguide]

It's always interesting to me... belief and how it creates illogical thoughts. 2000 years ago in Nazerath, I'm pretty sure snow white individuals with strong Caucasian features were few and far between.

For all of us, our common ancestor of only a few thousand years ago was a brown/black skinned person most likely living in the Lavant with origins from Central Africa. We are black at our core. Skin color is a function of geography and time(about 6 generations give or take).

You can easily find out more about your own human ancestors by taking a course or reading some books on Anthropology and early humans and discover the various species of humans that existed and went extinct including Neanderthals.

Jesus was only black in Ethiopia.