How many Christ existed..in many part of the N.hemisphere he's white..in many african churches he's black in..

Question

in the middle east he's jewish/arabian?

Answer 1

ONE although He is abit of a chameleon. My theory(only theory)is that Jesus appearance changed to suit where he appeared. and that many people seen and acepted Him, any way He showed up. Example in American Indian folk lore is a visitor who I believe to be Jesus.  

Answer 2

he uses his jesus powers to change colour

Answer 3

There was only one. But since nobody has an actual photo, people depict him as looking like themselves.

He was actually a middle-east Jew, so that's probably the most accurate look.

Answer 4

As we created God to our image, his son is likely to be of the same kind.

Answer 5

There was only one Son of God, However, since the Bible doesn't describe what he looked like, there was no known portrait of Him, and the camera wasn't invented yet, people have varied ideas about what he looked like.

I do know that when we meet Him we will recognize Him somehow, since "every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord".

Answer 6

There was only one, wasn't there? But, as he was born in Judea, he would  have had the same skin tone as every other Jew of the time wouldn't he? I have always presumed that his depiction in art through the centuries has been to reflect the culture and ethnic background of the artist.

Interesting question

Answer 7

i think only one christ existed. The portrayal of his ethnic background just depends on what part of the world you are in. ie/ If you are from the east he is more likely to be portrayed as being olive skinned etc.

Answer 8

Well there was only one Christ. He was not White, he was not Black, and he certainly was not an Arab.

Jesus Christ was born a Jew, his native language was Aramaic, which is a Semitic language STILL spoken by Assyrian Christians and Mandeans in Iraq.

As a Middle Eastern semite, he would have looked like Middle Eastern Semites(ie mid eastern Jews, Assyrians, Syriacs, Maronites) do today.....that is he would have dark, probably black hair, brown or olive eyes, a hooked Semitic nose, Olive skin, and would probably have been hairier than the average white or black man.

The middle east at the time of christ was not populated by black or white peoples or Arabs(who were a small immigrant minority from the Arabian desert in those days), and Aramaic was and still is, only spoken by semitic peoples.

When Christianity spread to Europe, Africa, the Far East etc, the peoples there pictured Christ as looking like them, this enabled them to relate to him more easily.

In the case of Europeans, The Roman Catholic Church has always WRONGLY portrayed Christianity as a Western Religion, and picturing Christ as White was part of the attempt to seperate Christianity from its Semitic, Middle Eastern Origins.

Google pictures of Middle Eastern Jews or Assyrian, Syriac or Maronite Christians, that will give you an idea of what Christ, and the people of the Biblical East would have looked like then........the peoples i mentioned are of the ancient blood of the east.

Shlama

Answer 9

I think theres abit of plagarism going on..

Answer 10

Think of a black Christian...Would he want to pray, to a white Jesus?  Would a white Christian pray to an Oriental one?

People make pictures of Jesus in their own image - White people draw white Christs, black people draw black Christs, etc.

No one ever sat down and drew a picture of Christ, so it's impossible to get it wrong.