Why is Jesus always portrayed as a white, fair haired guy when he was from the middle east ?
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Simple Answer:\n\nActually a study was done on this and as it turns out the first portrait of Jesus was considered to have come from the shroud of Turin (The famout burial shroud of Christ supposedly bearing His image). Immediately all portraits and paintings mimicked the likeness on the shroud. Later on European Catholics dominated in power and portraits began resembling them because they believed that they were the "true" Christians so surely Jesus looked more like them than anyone else.\n\nJesus most likely looked like an Israeli Jew, but because most Christians are not Jewish Jesus' image began to descend farther and farther away from the Jewish likeness and more towards the predominant denomination, European Christians.\n\nHope thish helps.
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No, jesus was just one of many supposed "sons of god" that came out of the middle east area during this the same period.  Mithras in Persia, Ra in Egypt, and Bacchus in Greece also were worshiped at the same time with similar stories (virgin birth, wise men led by star, miracles)  The Bible simply out-competed the other books.  Its funny how many religions have stories where women are impregnated by God at times when their husbands were out of town.
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Jesus was a perfect man in mind and body.  All the portrayals I have seen of Jesus are hard to look at, scraggely hair, skinny,sunken in cheeks. That is not perfect. We know he had to have been well built to endure the beating he took before his death. It's hard to imagine what he looks like but I believe that since he was a perfect man he was beautiful beyond words.
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That's a hard question because the Bible specifically states that God and Jesus are two different people. But to answer the question I'd say it because in most all images of Jesus He is depicted as being lilly white when in reality He would have had darker skin, like the Jewish people do today.
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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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Where do you see that description in the Bible?\nThis is the closest thing to a physical description of Jesus in the Bible.\n\nRevelations 1:13   And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.\n\nRevelations 1:14   His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire; \n\nRevelations 1:15   And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
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Jesus is the repeated story of, Osirus and Horus which 30.000 before ,already was a symbolic story of the movements of celestrial bodies ,that were given characters and gender  in order to pass on the story more easily to the people.\n\nthe names are changed for different cultures and indifferent times but the formula of the story ;of one plus twelve ,and one into three.has always remained the same.\nJESUS represents the sun (halo)the twelve disciples or iluminati represent the stars(light,halo)\n\nAnd all One God religions are ofshoots of sun worship ,as it being the Father of all life.\n\nChristians and Muslims rather die than admit that in effect they are a ofshoot pagan cultures .\n\nOver the milliniums their symbolic stories with their  characters have become real people or godlike people \n\nTo dispute that or take that away would shatter their faith and leave them even more confused than they already are.\n\nIn desperation they cling to biblical quotations and stories of suposedly other ,real ,objective writers in the past as writing additional true accounts of these peoples existance.\n\nin fact apart from the bible there is practically no evidence that most of the biblical figures were no more than fiction.\n\nsome people mentioned did exist,the best way to tell a lie is by lacing it with truths.\n\nThe church in its quest for power has done everything to  protect and enhance the Myth ,making it real and adding details .Because all of their money , political power and control ,stems from this.\n\nmost of this was done many years after the alledged birth of Christ and if you check out which people confirm the Myth you will see that they were people belonging to the same power structure that benefitted by the control,including people like --Plato ,Socratus,Leonardi da vinci.Aristolle ,Pythagarus to name but a few
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No, but if you get an answer let me know. LOL\n\nThe vision of Jesus glorified shows Him with 'hair like wool'. Daniel 7:9, Revelation 1:14 (They saw the same Jesus, divided by 1000 years!)\n\nSampson had dreds. Judges 16:13, Judges 16:19
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Ya mean exactly what he looks like? Basically it just says stuff like we were created in his image... in fact, half the Bible's just a metaphor, so we dunno if we can trust it. Yeah, but we were created in his image and stuff. Soooo... he looks like a regular human being, except not so regular.
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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?
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jesus was most likely gay with his disciples.\n\nsnow white was straight, but she wasn't into dwarf sex.
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A couple of reasons:\n\nFirst, Jesus is the Savior of all mankind, so people tend to depict Jesus as one of their own, whatever race. It makes Him easier to relate to, perhaps.\n\nSecond, because the Bible says that Jesus was a descendant of King David who, as a boy was described this way:\n\n"He was ruddy , with a fine appearance and handsome features" (1 Samuel 16:12).\n\n"Ruddy" indicates a rosy appearance. How many races of people have that? As well, in Genesis 25:25 it is recorded that when the twins, Jacob (ie, Israel) and Esau, were born, Esau was covered with red hair. Same question. \n\nNow Jesus was way down the family line, and his lineage mentions people from other groups marrying into the tree, so Jesus could have been very white to rather brown. At the time though, he didn't have any appearance that set him apart from the appearance of his fellow Jews of the time.
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Are you kidding?  Look at the long hair, the beard, the message of peace and forgiveness...Jesus was a hippie and he got high all the time, I am sure of it.
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There were quite a few Jewish sects in that part of the world around that time. Many of them were messianic sects, such as the Essenes - some of which had turned from traditional Judaism. In this period in history it was not uncommon to hear tales that this person or that person was the promised Messiah. Christianity was a sect that became firmly established by going cosmopolitan - after Paul promoted it in Italy and Greece and blended it with their mythology of virgin birth, the hierarchy of deities, and a fiery Hades place of punishment, etc., none of which had any connection to Jesus's religion (Judaism).
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No one living knows exactly what he looks like.  Even though for years there have been depictions of Jesus Christ there is only desciptions of him in the Bible that are vague and no one can say for certain that he looks anything like we think that he does.  Muhammad is described in the same type of way, however as it is written that there should be no images of him, the Muslim people have kept it that way and feel that people who do are being disrespectful not only of the prophet, but of Islam as well when this is not followed.
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Sure, Jesus was a prophet and we don't know what he looked like but there are lots 'pictures' of him around and people have played Jesus in movies. I don't think God gets upset about that if you have respect in your heart. I wouldn't want to adhere to a religion where you would be punished or executed for drawing a "likeness" of a prophet.
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Seems right. However, no one really knows the truth as to Jesus' real appearance. Isaiah gives a brief description but nothing was ever recorded when He walked the earth in human flesh.