why is jesus always white in pictures? he was hebrew.?
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Look around a little more, you will find him as black, with greek features, arab features, asian, italian etc. I've even seen Him depicted wearing an Irish kilt. He is most often portrayed in the image of the artist.
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This is true. :) Matthew (Levi) did [seem to] want to prove to the Jewish that Jesus was actually the Messiah, thus all the Old Testament stuff.\nI would guess an original Hebrew copy cannot be found because of the persecution. The Greek copies were probably made prior to the Hebrew version being destroyed. The copies were likely sent out to others, while the copier, I would imagine kept the original for himself to use. Only specualtion, of course.\n\n***\nOh, and borrowing heavily from Mark? Probably because the gospel was written a time after the events occured. He may have wanted to keep his facts straight. Or it could have been a coincidence, seeing as there were writing about the same thing.
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Flavius Josephus ?\n\n*he was a jew that lived around the time of Jesus ,they have an original manuscript that claims Jesus is the messiah.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nthis could be totally wrong*
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Well the lil piggy is wrong because jesus is not black he is white. And god would be white also.
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Jews were expecting a King, a man of great wealth to come.  When Jesus came, born as a poor human carpenter son, they didn't except him as the messiah.  Jews today are still waiting for the Messiah to come.  Thats whats taught to them. It was hard for them in the old testament to believe in something they couldn't see or touch.  That is why God sent his son down.  Jesus is God in human form.  There is only on God, just in three seperate forms.  God, Jesus and the Holy spirit.
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Jesus was made Jewish by his family and was the Jewish eqivalent of Luther. Hence he was a Protestant !\nBesides why do christians think they own the right to brand others Pagan. I'm sure all others see christians in the same light, as non believers.  Now would ultimateprogrammergod please give it a rest. We are sick to death of hearing Jewish people declare every utterance against them as anti-smite  or Neo-Nazi. How dare you ! Get a life. You won,t win friends around the world that way.
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"Jews" for Jesus are not Jews, and there is no difference between them and fundamentalist Christianity, who are the ones paying for such ministries as the "Jews" for Jesus who missionize Jews.\n\nMany people, Christians and some Jews as well, erroneously believe that just as one can be Black and Christian, just as one can be Oriental and Christian, one can also be Jewish and Christian. It is not true. The Jews are not a race. There is no genetic code passed from either mother or father to the child that makes that child a Jew. Even if all, or some, of the genetic code in a child could be proved to be of Jewish Origin, that would not make the child a Jew. Jewish law determines who is a Jew, and Jewish law is quite clear. If a person's mother is a Jew, and that person has not converted to another faith, then that person will be considered fully Jewish, so long as that person wishes to identify solely as a Jew. Although one cannot convert to become a member of a race, one who converts to Judaism does, indeed, become fully a Jew. Similarly, if one converts from Judaism to another faith, one is no longer a Jew.\n\nMessianic "Judaism" is a product of the successful missionizing campaign of such ministries as the "Jews" for Jesus, who try to make it look as though one can be a Jew and a Christian at the same time. By definition, one who believes in Jesus as their savior is a Christian. One who accepts Jesus as anything other than a man who once lived, but died without doing anything the Real Messiah will do when he gets here (hence the reason for a Second Coming!), is a Christian and no longer a Jew.\n\nThe Orthodox Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, writing for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, the Orthodox Youth Group, in his book The Real Messiah, on page 21 wrote:\n\n""This brings us back to our original question: \nWhat can a Jew lose by embracing Christianity? \n\nThe answer is: Everything. \n\nChristianity negates the fundamentals of Jewish \nfaith, and one who accepts it rejects the very \nessence of Judaism. Even if he continues to keep \nall of the rituals, it is the same as if he \nabandoned Judaism completely. \n\nA Jew who accepts Christianity might call himself \na "Messianic 'Jew,'" but he is no longer a Jew. \nHe can no longer even be counted as part of a \nJewish Congregation.""\n\nWe Jews define for ourselves who is and who is not a Jew, and not the Jewish wannabees, and the targets of this newest technique in missionizing Jews. \n\nThe majority of the membership of Messianic ""Jewish"" congregations, as a matter of fact, were not ever Jewish up until recently, and this is also true about their Messianic ""rabbis."" Many of these "rabbis" change their names to something that sounds stereotypically Jewish, in order to better target those they want to convert to Christianity.\n\nAs the success of this newest technique in missionizing the less knowledgeable Jews increased, the percentage of membership of ex-Jews as members of their messianic congregations has also increased, now running about 50-50.\n\nIt is also interesting to note that a large number of people converting TO Judaism have come to real Judaism from having been exposed to Messianic ""Judaism."" \n\nAt a messianic congregation, all references to Christian theology has been changed to make it sound more Jewish, and therefore more pallatable to their targets. They will only refer to Jesus as 'Yeshua' (which would not have been his name), they will say 'moshiach' instead of 'christ,' they will say 'synagogue' instead of 'church,' and on and on, in keeping with the techniques described in the book Understanding Church Growth by Donald MacGavran, who helped the idea of Indiginous Cultural Evangelism get started. \n\nTh
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God isn't black OR white, silly! He's hispanic. Thats why he named his son Jesus (hay-soos)
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I cant stand it when people think Jesus was a blue eyed blonde. That's what organized religion wants u to believe especially the Baptist. I believe he was dark skinned and had black hair. I am a white person with blonde hair and blue eyes and people get mad at me when I tell them this is what I think Jesus looked like.
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Unlike some people here on Y!A, i will only speak for the group of which i am a part, namely, for Jews. \n\nJesus is to the Jews what the Buddha is to Christians, Jesus is Irrelevant. He was another false messiah in a whole succession of false messiahs, some of whom were mentioned in the Christians' new testament as well.
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Huh? Who is Jesus? Do you mean that jewish rabbi Jeshu that the greek christians renamed Jesus and claimed him as their God in the flesh? Didn't he already come back once? How many lives does that guy get any way? The last event would probably be "WORLD-WIDE PANIC"
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For all - let's get our facts straight. Christianity evoloved out of Jewism. Jesus was a Jew and the Isrealites were Jews. Christianity evolved from this. We are NOT all decendants of Adam and Eve - the Isrealites were. Were the other white people come from  is a mystery. There were some angles outside the garden and  what other people there were - we don't have an idea. I don't beleive in evolution but are also having a hard time believing creation. So who were outside the garden..maybe the animals and who created them...no idea
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Yeshua, in Aramaic, the original language of the New Testament-this in reference to the name "Jesus".\nHowever, Jesus has MANY names-among them: I AM, Emmanuel, the Word, the everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, the King of Kings, Alpha and Omega, and the Lamb of God. The reason Jesus has so many names is that He IS so many things and has many titles. But I would say Yeshua and I AM are the simplest answer to your question. \nTake care. Buttercup
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Because of some dumbf**k painter from Europe thought it would be cool to paint the so called jesus the way he wanted...now a whole bunch of lame idiots think this jesus dude is real and looks like a white guy....freaking lame I tell ya!!!!!!!!!
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Okay... let me start off by stating that "Jews" and "Hebrews" are one and the same. They are an ancient people, and "being Hebrew" is both a religion and an ethnic group. Those who have Jewish descent but are not "religious" are called "secular jews". A person can also be of the Jewish religion without being born a Hebrew.\n\nAs to whether or not they "believe" in Jesus, it is a complicated matter. Almost all people of the Jewish faith believe that there once was a rabbi named Jesus. The true issue is whether or not he was the Son of God.\n\nThe Old Testament does not make mention of Jesus by name, because by the very nature of the Bible, the Old Testament is mainly about the times before Jesus; it is about the history of the Jewish religion. There are many passages in the prophetic books of the old Testament that makes mention of a "Messiah" or "Savior" of the Jewish people. The coming of the Messiah was to mark the victory of the Jewish people, bring them back to the former glorious days of King Solomon. This Messiah was said to be a King of Kings, and would lead the Hebrew people out of the bondage of their enemies.\n\nEnter Jesus. His time was during the Roman Empire, when Rome had overtaken the Middle East, and has captured Jerusalem. The Hebrew people were under the rule of a pagan king, and there was a small but determined group called "Zealots", that prayed for the coming of the Messiah to lead them out of their captivity. When Jesus comes on the scene, He preforms miracles, and tries to teach the people how to live better lives. He tells people to love their neighbors and to treat others as they'd like to be treated. Jesus proved His divinty time and time again, yet still even His disciples were unable to fully believe.\nThe Jewish leaders of the time could accept that a poor rabbi from a nondescript part of their nation was the foretold Messiah. Why, he was not a great king... how could He ever lead them to victory over the Romans? And so, they begin to plot to have Him killed... He is disrupting their people... causing a revolt, some say. It is not He that is bringing the glory and attention to Himself, it is the people, witnessing to others about the miracles He had done for them. Blind men could see, dead were raised to live again, and food was made from near nothingness. It was all too much. He had to go.\n\nFor those who do not understand the Jewish religion, it is difficult to fully appreciate the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross. It might all seem like a gory, twisted sotry. But in the Hebrew faith, there was no atonement for sin except through the spilling of blood. If you stole something, you must sacrifice something for forgiveness. Typically, it was the purest, whitest lamb or animal one possessed. By this shedding of blood, one was forgiven their transgression. However, the sins of the people had become too great for lambs to pardon, and a larger sacrifice was needed. That sacrifical lamb, that pure innocent life, was the Son of God, Jesus Christ.\n\nTo this day, most Hebrew people are still waiting for the coming of their Messiah. It is in this point that Christianity branches off from Judism. Christians believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Messiah. Jewish people do not accept His divinity. That is the critical difference.
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Well, first, Jesus was Jewish...he was NOT Christian.\nSecondly, there is little information available about the historical Jesus - most of what we know is from the writings of others about what Jesus said and taught (again, all within the context of Jewish learning).\n\nregarding "mussulman", I assume you mean Muslim?\nLeast we forget, Abraham and Sarah had two children - Issac and Ishmael (actually, Ishmael was born to Hagar, the handmaid of Sarah).\nBecause of the problems between the two women, Abraham sent Hagar and Ishmael away, but God blessed them as well as the people of Israel.\nIshmael became the family linage to the Islamic faith.\nNow, back to Jesus and whether you will enter heaven if you are/are not Christian: remember, Jesus was Jewish and Jewish faith teachs that all will be blessed in the next world as long as we do acts of loving kindness in the here and now, regardless of what our faith is.\nNow, in my book, THAT is the real grace of God.\nAnd now, you know the rest of the story.
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You are correct that early Christians used Greek translations, which is why they made rather rediculous errors like misinterpreting Nazarite to mean 'someone from Nazareth'.  Is any other proof even really needed that Jesus was not a Jewish Rabbi?