jesus was middle eastern...so why is he portrayed fair-skinned?

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Considering the number of virgin birth, death, resurrection myths that have bounced around for the last 4000 years, I doubt seriously if there is any chance this particular man existed at this particular time. Its far more likely that moderns christains adopted Pagan or Egyptian myths as their own because they were already popular stories, and perverted them to their own evil purposes.

jebus is about 98% myth, just like Thor, Horus, or Vishnu

Or in laymans terms, god is Santa Claus for adults.

Jesus was White. "His head and hair were white like wool" -- Revelation 1:14

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He's portraying Noah not Jesus...

You're a troll.

Thousand years of European influence

If it's gods intent to kill or harm me I will stick a .45 in his face to

Jesus was most likely Caucasian but he was most likely NOT fair skinned. Caucasian is a surprisingly diverse racial classification that includes significantly more groups then your stereotypical fair skinned European. Contrary to popular belief Middle Eastern is not a race nor are Jewish people. Their is no Middle Eastern race. They are Semitic which is a subtype of the Caucasian race.

As for why is Jesus portrayed as fair-skinned because although Christianity was born in the Middle East it came to maturity in Europe. Not that other places don't have significant Christian populations or didn't have a significant impact on the religion, Christianity as we know it what happened when the Roman Empire transformed into the Holy Roman Empire. Most of the images of Jesus we have today were created in Europe. Europeans imagined him to look like them. Is it outdated yes but people have the annoying trait of not liking change.





Its something you'll get used to a mental mind *beep* can be nice!

Jesus the Christ was and is not any 'eastern'. He is a DIVINE BEING, and was already third-level entity when he agreed to help this wretched planet by incarnation.

Remember that Mary was a virgin - she gave BIRTH, but she was never inseminated, never copulated, there was no coitus. How do you think this was achieved? By some 'middle-eastern' thug? No.

Mary was artificially inseminated by seed that can HANDLE the higher vibrations and stronger energies of a Messiah-level entity that would simply DESTROY regular body or at least kill it. A high-level entity entering the physical realm requires a MUCH more robust and stronger body than a mere regular dude from the time can provide with his seed.

This is the REASON why Mary was a virgin, because the seed had to be gathered from a much HIGHER-level entity, which means his body was definitely not 'middle-eastern' in origin no matter HOW you slice it, and the mother's genes were not incorporated as much. Was Mary 'middle-eastern' as well? Were 'races' the same back then?

In any case, as the seed for his body came from a higher being, not mere regular dude, that being's skin color is probably what would dictate Christ's skin color.

To add, why would the skin color always matter so much these days? WHO CARES about the skin color, isn't the MESSAGE more important? Also, this is not really a movie that has any accuracy about almost anything ANYWAY, the Ark doesn't mean 'boat', God is not supposed to tamper with free will but FORCES Baxter to be Noah, and so on and so forth. Why would you even make this kind of post?

To add, even IF the Christ's body's (not his, but his TEMPORARY BODY's!!) skin color was something 'unfair', wouldn't it APPEAR to be 'fair' anyway due to Messiah's high level radiance that's depicted in old paintings by a round shine around his head? I mean, no matter what your skin color is, if your soul radiates PURE LIGHT, wouldn't that make the skin appear 'bright and glowy' in any case?!

You LOST!