Sadly, nobody knows what jesus looks like. The closest thing we have is the shroud of Turin, which is quite possibly not jesus. If he was truly a godly entity he could probably look like anything he wanted to
All over he's portrayed differently, in the Middle East, he's middle eastern. In Africa, he's black, in a predominantly white society, can you guess what he is? White. Duh
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I think it's kinda nice that people represent Jesus in a way that makes it easier to relate to him- I mean, I don't think he would mind :)
I agree. I do like that people kinda personalize him to relate. But I would prefer if in movies where they stress authenticity, and the majority of the other actors are Jewish and middle eastern, that they would represent him as he most likely was.
My biggest gripe in religious movies is a cast of Anglo Saxons.
Nobody knows what he looked like people just keep making up looks for him and that's wrong he's a prophet people shouldn't do that
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Well, he was Middle Eastern, so we can assume he looked at least vaguely Middle Eastern, and he taught love and forgiveness, so I don't think he would mind because it helps us to connect to him. Well it helps me, anyway :) (btw i'm not racist i just live in a predominantly white community)
Why do you care? If you want to believe jesus is white black brown or purple believe what you want. He dosn't care as long as you believe in him.
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i don't think jesus really cares about whether we believe inn him or not, as long as we're doing thr right thing and are happy (just adding my 2 cents)
Who cares? I get so sick of people trying to play "Gotcha!" with white Jesus. Just because most people imagine hm in an inaccurate way doesn't change who he was, or what he did.
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Yep, whenever I tell some really religious friends of mine jesus wouldn't be white they argue with me3-| and when people say "we don't know what jesus looks like" we do his face is sort of 'imprinted' on a cloth called The Shroud Of Turin. People can't duplicate it, scientists can't explain. Look it up
The Turin Shroud though is difficult to use as evidence as so little is definitively known about it - and some evidence suggests it's from Medieval times anyway, not Jesus'-time.
Two things: People didn't migrate through the entire Roman Empire from Germany to the Middle East, and people in the Middle East have always looked the way the do today.
My biggest gripe in religious movies is a cast of Anglo Saxons.