Why is Jesus a white man?

If Jesus is the son, entity or is god. Why did he choose to be a white man, some depict him as blonde blue eyes other brown hair Middle Eastern but why not a black man or Asian. If he combined all these criteria in him wouldn鈥檛 that make him more of a god and less of a human? For if he is truly god, son or an entity he would rather look like a combination of all of his children rather than to one race in favor of the other鈥?br>Why is Jesus a white man?

Isa(PBUH*) is a prophet of ALLAH and just a man who served ALLAH in Islam. And Isa(PBUH*) is an Arab.

Why is Jesus a white man?

did you meet him to know what color he is

Why is Jesus a white man?

they say Jesus was and is a black man they explained his features in the bible...his hair was black and wool like...white people dont have that kind of hair or dark skin

Why is Jesus a white man?

jesus wasnt white... i mean where was he from? what color skin do people have there?

walking around all day in the sun.....

Why is Jesus a white man?

Nobody knows what color he is. You never seen him in person. His every color that they have. His body is mixed of colors.

Why is Jesus a white man?

Because he was Jewish but any nationality has him portrayed as their particular nationality.

Why is Jesus a white man?

no one actually nos if he's white or not, his hair color, eye color, etc. who cares wut he looked like!!! it doesnt matter!!!

Why is Jesus a white man?

I don't think he would have been white. Considering the region he came from, I think he would probably be middle eastern. It's just that western culture has depicted him as white, so it seems to be the preferred race for a lot of people.

Why is Jesus a white man?

Palestinian

Why is Jesus a white man?

He probably wasn't as European looking as some of the pictures that he was depicted in. But he was a Jewish man, so it would be a safe bet to guess that he did not look african or asian.

Why is Jesus a white man?

European illustrators depicted Jesus with blue eyes and sand-colored hair in many Western illustrations was to make him more "familiar" with the people who worshipped him. Christian missionaries brought the same image of their Lord to other cultures, who adopted the same image in turn. It it more likely that Jesus was actually of Middle Eastern descent, the region where he was born and raised. He probably had dark eyes, hair, and complexion like many people from that area.

Why is Jesus a white man?

for the same reason santa is a black man...

Why is Jesus a white man?

No one chooses to be who or what colour they are, I doubt even Jesus himself had a choice. The artistic depictions are just the artists imagination of what he/she thinks Christ should or might have looked like. The important thing here is the teachings, which I think encompass all cultures, excellent standards to live by. If we all followed the 10 commandments there would be a great deal less trouble in this world we live in. And Jesus told his deciples before his death to spread the word throughout the world, encompassing all races and cultures, which, it is reported, what they tried to do.

Why is Jesus a white man?

Who cares? What you believe is what you believe. the most important if you are a believer, is that you do. Should it matter, as long as the faith is there???

Why is Jesus a white man?

I don't think Jesus "chose" to be a white man. Now on that note, I think the reason why Jesus is depicted as a white man is that people do tend to want to view figures such as these in their own image. Therefore, white people tend to see him as white. However growing up in a black community, many people there view him as being black. People make such a big fuss over this do they? I have known some white people who will get so angry when someone points out the fact that Jesus was not white. LOL! While I don't really think that Jesus could have been black, given his geographic region, I don't think he was white either. Although, I do think that would be funny if it turn out that all this time white people were worshiping a black man. LOL! Anyway, I digress. In the end, for people who do follow the Christian religion, I think it hardly matters what race he was or is.

Why is Jesus a white man?

Of the more than 400 images of the Black Madonna or Black Virgin known worldwide, the image of Our Lady in Czestochowa, Poland, has received the most recent recognition because of the personal devotion displayed toward this religious icon by Pope John Paul II (1920鈥?2005). The pope, a native of Poland , prayed before the Madonna of Czestochowa in 1979, several months after his election to the Chair of Peter, and he is known to have made subsequent visits in 1983 and in 1991. The reports of miracles and healings attributed to Our Lady of Czestochowa (also known as Our Lady of Jasna Gora) through the centuries are numerous. They include Our Lady greatly enhancing the ability of a small group of Polish defenders to protect her sanctuary from an army of Swedish invaders in 1655 and her holy apparition appearing to disperse an invading army of Russians in 1920. Records of such spectacular acts of intervention and dramatic cures are kept in the archives of the Pauline Fathers at Jasna Gora, the monastery site in which the portrait was housed for six centuries.

The Black Madonna of Czestochowa is of such antiquity that its origins are unknown. Tradition has it that St. Luke, the "beloved physician," painted the portrait of Jesus's mother on the cedar wood table at which she took her meals. Two centuries later, during her visit to the Holy Land, St. Helena (c. 248鈥揷. 328), the Queen-Mother of Emperor Constantine (d. 337), is said to have discovered the portrait and brought it to Constantinople in the fourth century. Five centuries later, determined to save the image of the Madonna from the repeated invasions of the Tartars, St. Ladislaus (1040鈥?095) took the portrait to Opala , Poland , the city of his birth, for safekeeping. Regretfully, not long after its move, a disrespectful Tartar arrow managed to find its way to the Madonna's throat, inflicting a scar that still remains visible. In 1430, Hussite thieves stole the portrait and broke it into three pieces.

Contemporary scholar Leonard Moss has argued against a vast antiquity for the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, claiming that the figure of the woman in the portrait was painted in a distinctly thirteenth- or fourteenth-century Byzantine style. Janusz Pasierb, another scholar who examined the portrait, counters such an assertion, stating that the image was "painted virtually new" in 1434 because of the extensive damage that the portrait had suffered at the hands of vandals.

Another aspect of the mystery of Our Lady of Czestochowa and all the other Black Madonnas that has puzzled many individuals is why they are portrayed with such dark skin tones. Some scholars answer this by stating that it wasn't until the onset of the Renaissance in the fourteenth century that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph began being portrayed with pale skin, blue eyes, and blond or reddish-blond hair. Prior to that period, the Holy Family

Pope John Paul II praying at the Black Madonna Shrine in Czestochowa, Poland, in 1999. (AP/WIDE WORLD PHOTOS) and the apostles were most often depicted as semitic people whose dark skin tones reflected the hot arid climate in which they lived. If the Black Madonna of Czestochowa was truly a portrait of Mary that had been painted from life by the apostle Luke, he would surely have captured a woman with olive or dark brown skin and black or brown hair.

Other researchers into the mystique of the Black Madonna state that the reasons that the Roman Catholic Church in general has not warmly embraced such depictions of the Holy Mother or Virgin Mary are because they fear that such representations are actually paying tribute to the ancient goddesses and Earth mothers and that these images perpetuate strains of pagan worship of the female principle. For example, church scholars point out that St. Germain de Pres, the oldest church in Paris (Par-isis, the Grove of Isis), was built in 542 on the site of a former temple dedicated to Isis. Isis had been the patron goddess of Paris until Christianity replaced her with St. Genevieve. Within the church of St. Germain de Pres, however, parishioners worshipped a black statue of Isis until it was destroyed in 1514.

Christianity warred against goddess worship from the days of the apostles when St. Paul (d. 62鈥?8 C.E.) found to his great frustration that his message was being shouted down by the crowds at Ephesus who pledged their obeisance to Diana. Until they had been romanized and westernized, Diana/Artemis, together with the other two preeminent goddesses of the East, Isis and Cybele, were first represented as black madonnas. And before the people of the East bent their knees to Diana, Isis, and Cybele, they had worshipped the Great Mother as Inanna in Sumeria, as Ishtar in Babylonia, and as Astarte among the Hebrews. Most scholars agree that among the first images of the Black Madonna and her son were representations of Isis and Horus.

The Black Madonna may also refer to Mary Magdalene, who, in the traditions of many Christian sects, such as the Gnostics, was the wife of Jesus (c. 6 B.C.E.鈥揷. 30 C.E.) In this interpretation of the events that occurred after Jesus' death at the hands of the Romans, Mary brought the cup used at the Last Supper鈥攖he Holy Grail鈥攆rom Palestine to southern France, where it would eventually be guarded by the Knights Templar.

There is also a belief that Mary arrived in France carrying within her womb a child fathered by Jesus of Nazareth, who then became the progenitor for the royal family of France. For those who hold such beliefs, the Holy Grail is but a metaphor for Mary Magdalene's womb, which carried the true blood of Jesus in the person of his unborn son. Therefore, many of the depictions of the Black Madonna and child throughout the regions of southern France and Spain may be regarded as images of Mary Magdalene carrying the infant son of Jesus rather than the Virgin Mary carrying the infant Jesus.

The Black Madonna in the monastery at Montserrat . Ignatius held vigil throughout the night in front of the Madonna and offered her his sword as a sign of his conversion.

Why is Jesus a white man?

I think because the KKK always has to have there way or they are going to burn something

Why is Jesus a white man?

I beg to differ on that topic, but Jesus was an Afro-Asiatic Jew (meaning he was born in Bethlehem on christmas day in modern-day Isreal, which is a part of middle-east Asia), and he was was a black man!!!

How do I know??? I don't know where you'd find it, but it even says in the bible that Jesus "had hair like sheeps wool and his feet the color of brass". Look up into it and I'm not saying this because I'm black, but that what it says in the Bible.

Why is Jesus a white man?

Jesus was NOT white everybody knows that. White people didn't exist in that area of the world at that time.