MORE THAN SKIN COLOR: WHAT COLOR WAS JESUS?
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“It really has to do with ideology more than actual skin color,” says Charlotte Allen. “It is an effort to remove Jesus from Christianity as we know it and to create a different kind of Jesus who basically is a Marxist, anarchist revolutionary who wanted to overthrow the existing order.”
Ever since controversial Black Lives Matter activist/commentator Shaun King called for all white European images of Jesus to be torn down because they promote white supremacy, a simple but provocative question has presented itself: Was Jesus white?
The Bible doesn’t reveal Jesus’ skin color, but what we do know is that he came to earth as a Jew born in the Middle East. . . .
There aren’t any portraits of Jesus or even any extant color images of first century Jews. However, clues have emerged, including the excavation of the third-century Dura-Europos Synagogue in modern Syria, which unearthed biblically-themed murals showing what the congregation’s Jewish ancestors must have looked like. . . .
It is true that people within certain cultures typically represent Jesus the way they see Him. Jesus is depicted as black, Hispanic and Asian around the world, the images varying with the disparate cultural settings from which they emerge.
But it’s those overtly white images of Jesus that today’s identity left rejects. They believe it’s not an accurate depiction of what Jesus looked like. More significantly, they see a link between the whiteness of Jesus and a society dominated by white power. . . .
“Every generation, maybe even multiple times a generation, has to have these moments where something bubbles up about race in America and with it, issues of Jesus,” says Blum.
The identity left in America sees this battle over white Jesus as a way of pushing back against what it perceives as enduring, systemic social, economic and cultural privileges afforded to whites. In light of that guiding philosophy, Blum questions the need to depict Jesus as white.
“Does white Jesus help anyone move forward in these dynamics, or is this white Jesus an impediment to it?” he asks. “If you are unwilling to give up a clearly untrue image of this God — man — Jesus, how am I ever supposed to convince you that this person here on the ground getting choked, that their life truly deeply matters?”
That message is resonating with some in the church body.
(Excerpt from Just the News. Written by David Brody.)
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The entire #Bible is in #Africa .. In fact, #Africa gave rise to three major #religions : #Christianity #Judaism & #Muslim
Why is it so hard for people who R Non-African to grasp this?
After all, when Moses floated in a basket down the Nile River & parted the Red Sea as an Adult .. He could be nowhere else but on the largest & oldest continent #humanity has ever known : #Africa .. We have yet 2 have an acurrate map of it. We need accurate maps of #Africa !! BTW, the #Caucasian Mtns. in #Algeria is where the word “Caucasian” comes from. It’s in #Africa ! Historical & Fascinating. 🌈💕
When Jesus died upon that cross for ALL of man kind, he did not say, I’m dying for a specific race only. Satan has come to divide and deceive us into thinking other wise. Why would the exact color of Jesus be left out of the bible and to those who walked with him, not even mentioning it, because it did not matter to THEM! And it should not matter to the true believer. God is color blind, he see’s no color and if it was that way, would we be calling God a racist? I think not, for it would totally contradict the character and the integrity of the Lord our God. Exam and search your own hearts, do it really matter what color he is or do it matter what color the world dictates him to be, what matters is, do you know the Lord, do you have a real relationship with him and are you in the will of God, if not I beseech you to get in right standing with God, repent and know him as your Lord and Savior today. Race, skin color, social status, rich or poor, male of female, this did not matter to Jesus at the cross, he died for you, yes even you, he died for us All.
There is a similar issue with gender if you think about it. We are the bride of Christ. How do men relate to that? More than likely Jesus looked like other Jews of his day. Does it really matter though ultimately? It seems to me that this is just one more flaming arrow thrown at believers from the enemy. By the way, what color is the Satan? As usual Jesus is way ahead of us. I recall his words and Isaiah 40:18. “With whom then will you compare God? To what image will you liken him?” Depictions of Jesus are simply a reflection of the one creating it. That’s all. Therein is the issue, I believe. The issue that others have with a white JESUS is really an issue with the one who created the image. So let them create their own depiction. They are Certainly free to do so.
I’m trying to make a comment but each time I print the name of our our Savior it changes to the initials of an insignificant college. Is that a coincidence?
I Love Jesus, he delivered me from attempted suicide. I am a mixed individual. I share this opinion in love.I am not a supporter of BLM as it is associated with Antifa, a group that is seeking to use African American People to push their socialist, communist agenda. Just wanted to get that out. I have been apart of both predominantly Caucasian and African American churches. My kids have been apart of both congregations in their history. I remember teaching in an African American
church & all of their characters were African American, then We joined a Caucasian church & all of their characters were Caucasian. I thought to myself & even shared with the pastor at the time. “With all of the educated theologians in the world, can someone get it right?”😒 It’s not like we don’t know what Jewish people look like.. One day my son (he was 11), saw a Christmas card and it had a black angel, he said,”there’s no such thing as a black angel.” I was shocked, because little did I know, I was fostering that ideal, even though I never had an America depiction of Jesus in my house. I didn’t want to foster a lie to my kids. I believe the theologians need to come up with a truthful version of characters for children’s Sunday School material. It saddens me that we can’t get this more accurate. My kids also attended a Christian school and their reading books were all white Caucasian people, yet there are more ethnicities than Caucasians. I’ve noticed recent books in this particular school have more ethnic depictions ..that is progress. The reading books taught good moral principles, but kids of other ethnicities, need to know that their heritage is in the biblical historical account. I use to wonder, where did I come from, because everyone in the Sunday School curriculum was Caucasian. This does not help other ethnicities feel valued,important or significant if they can not identify with the history of their beginnings; But I don’t think destroying statues is the answer..I do believe that parents should educate their kids so that they do not believe a lie, no matter what color you are, and theologians & those who product kids Sunday School materials should give an accurate and truthful
account, for the glory of God.
This issue is really not about color. I think part of the issue is that if you are not of African American descent it Is very difficult to understand the pain that we feel. My own son, who is a celebrity chef, was a victim of police brutality for something he did not do. A train ticket he got when he was 17 (12 years ago) and cleared but the courts didn’t update. The first thing the police officer asked him when he pulled him over was, “where are the guns and drugs.” They tried to put him in maximum security prison. If it had not been the hand of God on his life it would have been another innocent young man lost in the system. The issue for me is really about the atrocity and brutality of slavery that has been and is still being perpetrated on black people through the prison system. To see the pain that my Parents and grandparents went through affects me now more than ever. I know it is something that most want to sweep under the rug but I believe that it is something that God wants to deal with. Jesus said, “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me” (Matthew 15:8). I think this is a heart check moment for all of us,” including me. I wrote a blog a few weeks ago which I believe is the heart of the Father.
https://www.yvonnecamper.org/post/revenge-or-revival-contending-for-the-faith
As an Artist I have painted Jesus for clients, i paint Jesus in the Clients own Image. If the client is black i give jesus some black features. If the client is oriental I give jesus some oriental features.
If I believe that God made us in his image then we should look like his son Jesus.. https://www.livespeedpainter.net
Reading the posts below, I am reminded of Wanda Alger’s article on Leviathan, who twists truth and causes misunderstanding and division. This was a simple article, but some of the responses took it much farther than I believe was intended!
The best explanation I ever saw was in the comic strip, Jump Start.
The little boy asked his mother, “Mom, what color was Jesus?”
She answered, “The color of love.”
My big concern with Shaun King is his vitriol and rage. He has endorsed the tearing down of ALL monuments, not just Confederates. So I doubt if he would be happy even if all white Jesus’s were replaced with Black Jesus’s. I have Caucasian children, adopted Black children and grandchildren, and Chinese grandchildren. They are all beautiful!
One of my favorite Christmas songs is “Some Children See Him”—
Some children see Him lily white,
The baby Jesus born this night.
Some children see Him lily white,
With tresses soft and fair.
Some children see Him bronzed and brown,
The Lord of heav’n to earth come down.
Some children see Him bronzed and brown,
With dark and heavy hair.
Some children see Him almond-eyed,
This Savior whom we kneel beside.
Some children see Him almond-eyed,
With skin of yellow hue.
Some children see Him dark as they,
Sweet Mary’s Son to whom we pray.
Some children see him dark as they,
And, ah! they love Him, too!
The children in each different place
Will see the baby Jesus’ face
Like theirs, but bright with heavenly grace,
And filled with holy light.
O lay aside each earthly thing
And with thy heart as offering,
Come worship now the infant King.
‘Tis love that’s born tonight!
This is not true, what you said about Shaun King. He is not asking that ALL monuments come down, only the one’s that are white supremacy related. Which is most of them. You’re right the color of Jesus may not matter to some, but why place a picture around the world of a blue eyed white man, that we all know is not the color of Jesus. The color of Jesus doesn’t matter to me or my family because we know who lives within us. But to portray him as someone that he is not, puzzles me. I’m sorry you feel this way, but yet are raising children of other races, yet makes a racist comment on a public board for millions to see. Makes me wonder if you truly needs to be raising children of another race, because truly you’re not telling them the truth, only what you want them to know. And sometimes people adopt children solely for the money and benefits! Sometimes we need to look in the mirror at ourselves and correct our own hair before we try and correct someone’s else! In other words you can’t live in a glass house, and then throw shade on others.
Wow! I’m wondering how you came to the conclusions you did from what I wrote, which I just re-read. I don’t mind getting rid of the blue-eyed Jesus’s and always had more ethnically correct images around our home. That’s why I printed out the lyrics to the song to illustrate how many children see Jesus as they are. The tearing down of monuments other than just Confederate figures illustrates that it’s not just white Jesus the BLM movement wants to bring down. I would not have brought up Shaun King if he hadn’t been named in the article. I’m so sorry I offended you. I’m trying not to be offended that you made assumptions from these brief words about my parenting and motives for adopting, and called my post racist.
Jesus was not white. He wasn’t black either. He was of the middle East color
Jesus is GOD’s only begotton Son; that is what is important.
GOD made us in HIS image; all of us, every color, every size, He made us male and female.
It is obvious when we look around at the world HE created–when we see all the different animals, birds, fish, trees, flowers and grasses, that our wonderful Creator GOD loves color!
I love that JESUS was neither white nor varying shade of brown or black, but likely olive skinned.
HE is wonderfully kind and merciful.
Character is what matters to Him and it is what should matter to us, not the color of our skin, nor the color of anybody else’s skin.
How often do we today see the depiction of Jesus featured in your article? Arent you setting up something of a “Fake news” discussion? While that “style” is still found, so too are many others, including the rugged “Charlton Heston” look. “Coffee table” books have been printed, National Geographics printed, and documentary films produced on the various depictions of Jesus over the ages and around the world. None of those suggest that all but the “approved” be demolished. Da Vinci’s Last Supper in Milan is among the most famous, and the most copied. Should it be taken down? how about the baptistry mosaic in Florence, or Michelangelo ‘s Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel in Rome? How about Rembrandt’s famous series, possibly painted from a Jewish model…certainly not a Dutch one? how is it that people of different cultures and eras, including non-Christians, are moved by these art works? Make a movie about Jesus and “the look” is one of the first things viewers check on. Johnny Cash’s little movie about Jesus chooses a surprisingly blond actor. My son thinks Mel Gibson got it right in The Passion. “The Chosen” feels appropriately middle eastern. The purpose of The Chosen is very different than Piero della Francesco ‘s 15th century fresco of the resurrection. Even if the viewer thinks “the look” is right, is the depiction too sober, too down to earth, too “spiritual”, too tall, too short, too contemporary? Most of the changes over the centuries “built on” or “grew from” the earlier art. Behind the current discussion is a call to destroy, to tear down. When that has happened to art and monuments in the past has it come from a desire to be more historically accurate, or from a desire to impose one’s will and power on someone else.
You forgot the long hair! I understand the purpose was to distinguish Him from the disciples, but His would have been the same as theirs.
https://metro.co.uk/2015/12/15/experts-reconstruct-face-of-jesus-and-heres-what-he-looked-like-5566053/
I always thought the long hair was indicative that Jesus was a Nazarene, who I guess had long hair? Also that he had a beard because of the reference to the soldiers pulling out his beard? I think all this is the reason many churches do not even have a representation of Jesus on display – it’s all guessworkd!
Perhaps some people are confusing the Nararite vows with the fact that Jesus grew up in Nazareth and was referred to as a Nazarene. Jesus was not a Nazarite. Quoted from Wikipedia:
“In the Hebrew Bible, a nazirite or nazarite is one who voluntarily took a vow described in Numbers 6:1–21. “Nazarite” comes from the Hebrew word נזיר nazir meaning “consecrated” or “separated”.[1] This vow required the person during this time to:
Abstain from all wine and anything else made from grapes. (Traditional rabbinic authorities state that all other types of alcohol were permitted.)
Refrain from cutting the hair on one’s head; but to allow the locks of the head’s hair to grow.[2]
Not to become ritually impure by contact with corpses or graves, even those of family members.”[3]
Only you could answer your own question to get the right answer!
he looks like all of us! He gave Himself for every color! I am in my 70’s. One of the first songs I learned at church when I was 3 years old goes as follows;
Jesus loves the little children; all the children of the world! Red and yellow, black and white; They are precious in His sight! Jesus loves the little children of the world!
No country has ever been persecuted more than the Jewish nation. Jesus was Jewish, possibly dark skinned and dark hair and eyes. Yet He never mentioned that as a problem. His message has always been “love your neighbor as yourself” and “follow Me.”
There is one historical Roman record: “Lentulus, the Governor of the Jerusalemites to the Roman Senate and People, greetings. There has appeared in our times, and there still lives, a man of great power (virtue), called Jesus Christ. The people call him prophet of truth; his disciples, son of God. He raises the dead, and heals infirmities. He is a man of medium size (statura procerus, mediocris et spectabilis); he has a venerable aspect, and his beholders can both fear and love him. His hair is of the colour of the ripe hazel-nut, straight down to the ears, but below the ears wavy and curled, with a bluish and bright reflection, flowing over his shoulders. It is parted in two on the top of the head, after the pattern of the Nazarenes. His brow is smooth and very cheerful with a face without wrinkle or spot, embellished by a slightly reddish complexion. His nose and mouth are faultless. His beard is abundant, of the colour of his hair, not long, but divided at the chin. His aspect is simple and mature, his eyes are changeable and bright. He is terrible in his reprimands, sweet and amiable in his admonitions, cheerful without loss of gravity. He was never known to laugh, but often to weep. His stature is straight, his hands and arms beautiful to behold. His conversation is grave, infrequent, and modest. He is the most beautiful among the children of men.”
The following paragraph is copied from Wikipedia (I ask everyone, please don’t contribute to the spread of false information, thank you.):
The Letter of Lentulus is an epistle of mysterious origin that was first widely published in Italy in the fifteenth century. It purports to be written by a Roman official, contemporary of Jesus, and gives a physical and personal description of Jesus. The letter may have influenced how Jesus was later physically depicted in art. There is no physical evidence of a document existing before the fifteenth century and it is widely assumed that the document is a forgery.
It is not the issue of his ethnicity as it is an accurate depiction of who He was. It is a fact that people of color were Europeanized over time. The current depiction of Jesus is about white supremacy and the purity of the Arian race. I have seen too many “Black” people, including my own sons, struggle with Christianity because they can’t see themselves in the Bible. I think the current depiction of Jesus in American is about deception. Jesus came to save which is the important.
Amen
Jesus was born a Jewish man .
Maybe if we took a step back and looked at how we developed? The Bible was all things to all people who recognized the power and life giving qualities to the reader and believer. From our perspective the first bible was the Gutenberg Bible published in Germany. Too me many of the white statues are of European stature. I have Bibles with no pictures, white european, and an NIV bible with Middle Eastern complexions. In many new churches they have opted for no statues but for meanigly representations
The truth of God’s nature and His word dispels racism.
For Yeshua is are not blank or black: we are all created in HIS image,
When I think of what Jesus looks like now (see Revelation 1:13-16), it appears that His glory would eclipse whatever hue his skin might be! It is His heart, not His skin, that represents Him to us as Jesus the Christ throughout the gospels. We all, regardless of race or origin, must see Him as colorless and yet like us, humankind. To the white believer, He is white, because He represented me on the cross. To the Asian, He is Asian, because the Asian is represented in Jesus on the cross. To the black man, the red man, the brown man, He is whatever they are, represented as their sin upon the cross. The sin now is to want to claim Him as one color or one race or one nationality: He is us. We, all of us, were created in God’s image, and our sins were swallowed up in His death. It is the new man, the redeemed, that claim Him as He is now. If we don’t bow before that Jesus, we have a false one.
To me JESUS YESHUA is like in song of Solomon chapter 5:9-16:but also see him as revelation 1:12-18 also revelation 5:5-14 then I see him as revelation 19:6-10 :11-16 another picture revelation 21:6-8 The flesh He encapsulated HIMSELF doesn’t matter:it’s the blood shed is what matters: it is HIS sacrifice on the tree and that HE is RISEN. Each nation and her peoples artists depict HIM as their own : for HE is the desire of all nations Haggai 2:7
Scripture says that we have all been created to the image of God Himself, God is spirit and can not be seen so in spirit we are all the same, this we should accept and not question as it is God’s word that never be questioned.
The image of white Jesus has been touted by as this is how he looks, white is right anything else is not. The word in revelation 1:15 describes his feet like burnished bronze-not white, hair as wool- not straight.. The word was used to portray to blacks we weren’t in the Bible, they don’t count or matter then there have been those who say your descendants of Ham who was cursed so you are a cursed group of people- WRONG.. I say that to say in American culture the message is being Black is wrong because you’re…. What’s sad about the whole movement is hearing White pastors(only a few I have heard even acknowledge)say they didn’t realize how bad the treatment of Blacks, Latinos have been. How could you as a pastor not know? Especially if you have congregants that are Black and Latino. I am not expecting you to know every blow by blow but to be totally unaware reiterates how many live in a bubble. The church should not be in a bubble. To have a better understanding of what it’s like to be in the minority in this country. Watch John Travolta in 1995 ‘s White man’s burden. Starring John Travolta, Harry Belafonte, Margaret Avery.
Perfectly said! Thank you!
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I use to think the white like wool was talking of texture,being black and all, but after careful examination I realized the emphasis is on “white hair,” not texture..Rev. 1:14, you may want to read that again..
I enjoy the crèches I have collected from different countries. They are each designed in a way which is unique and represents the way people in that part of the world look and the materials they have to work with.
Just as people are happy to receive Bibles in their own heart language so they understand and can identify better with the message, I think it is appropriate for every people group to be free to see Jesus as someone they identify with.
Artists and sculptors are free to create images as they imagine them. The paintings and sculptures are of artistic value but they aren’t creating a living being.
It seems we could all benefit by enjoying art that has been created in the past and continuing to be creative in new ways while living Jesus’ commandment to love one another.
This railing against a “white” Jesus strikes me as rooted in antiSemitism. We DO know that Jesus was a Jew, in the line of David. The Jews in the First Century were not African. Posing Jesus as a radical who was killed because he tried to overthrow the “system” shows a basic misunderstanding of the Bible. He gave his life as an atonement for our sin, not in a failed attempt to overthrow a corrupt government.
Totally agree! We also know that He was not blond and blue-eyed as well, which is the image America has adopted. I think it’s difficult for people who are not of color to really understand what this all means. It’s about an accurate depiction of Him. I have been to Israel and have seen Jews of all hues.
Jesus was a revolutionary, but not a political one. He wanted a spiritual revolution. The Jews rejected Him for showing what a true relationship with God should look like. Now the radical left wants to subvert our government by mischaracterizing Jesus’s purpose in coming to earth, dying for us, and rising again. I pray that by bringing up the topic of Jesus, they will receive testimonies that move them toward the way, the truth, and the life.
Since we are descended of Adam and Eve, the idea of ‘races’ is a myth. It was perpetrated by those pushing evolutionary ideology so they could claim some ‘races’ were less evolved. Scripture speaks of tongues, tribes and nations,and of Jew and Greek and male and female. All are of the Adamic bloodline and therefore brothers. All sinners. All covered by the blood of one man – Christ Jesus.
Yes, I often point out that racism started with Darwin and his theory of evolution. I’m hoping they will tear destroy his work!!
It doesn’t really matter what he looked like, but what he did for all of us. That being said, the portrait identified as closest by Colton Burpo, the kid from Heaven is for Real, who is now an adult, was the one painted by this young girl prodigy Akiane Kramarik https://art-soulworks.com/pages/heaven-is-for-real-painting, if those stories are correct. When I look at the link provided to Dura-Europos Synagogue, the image does seem very close to what was depicted in the paiting. Common sense would tell you when Jesus walked on earth he would have looked Jewish. I don’t know if updating the image would really help though.
2For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
I think the true question will be “what will the next request be”. First of all, I already have some issues with making images of Jesus and statues of human beings who are “sainted”. The reality is, the Bible states we are not really suppose to be doing this, however, I think it solidifies our beliefs and helps us understand our intercessor to God (Leviticus). With that being said and in the same vain then there should be no pictures of Jesus at all! Not black, white, Asian or Hispanic. This would be my big question to the movement! What I ultimately think they want to do is just eliminate Christianity all together because they see it as a tool for the “White Man”. I have had some heated discusses around this with people who are passionate about BLM and this is what they have ultimately said. I have told them God exists, whether you believe in him or not, and what has come forth from your mouth you will have to answer to God for. I can only pray. I feel if we don’t put our foot down regarding this they will demand more and more. This has already happened in Germany. A Muslim council woman in the German government asked the Crucifixes to be removed in schools and they did it because it offended her and in her defense, the Germans didn’t even really know why they had them in the school. They just did! It is a small victory for Satan, however, because it is the slow removal of and extinguishing of Christianity. It was a part of our country even before its birth and is our heritage. If people really believed in Christianity and understood its values it is never about subjugation. It is about freedom, starting with spiritual freedom which convicts you to want justice and equality in the physical world. Unfortunately, many have used religion, twisted it and have justified their actions. It is ultimately blasphemy! This, most definitely, has a supernatural origin because the church is being attacked at many levels, whether it be the inability to assemble, to being ostracized with a sign around it’s neck stating it’s oppressive! We just need to keep praying against this spirit of deceit and oppression of Christianity’s true meaning of peace, unity, equality and love! Satan love Chaos and unrest! He is the author of it! Again, I think this whole call to change Jesus to the true color is only a stepping stone to ultimately eliminate it!
I am not an advocate of BLM because it is not a Christian centered organization. The issue is not about color as much as it is about worth. People who call themselves Christians should be sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit and be honest about what has happened in history at the hands of white men. Even seeing the great revivals of the past where they were roped off and black people had to sit in the back. It is not a matter of ethnicity, because we are all one race, it is a matter of equality. Black people, in many respects, still live under the stigma that we are animals and not human. It’s a difficult pill to swallow but it is the truth. Until the church repents for this atrocity we will continue to have issues.
Lord God, we pray that the message of Jesus Christ will be made known and that many will come to call Him Lord and Savior, Redeemer and Friend before He returns for His bride. Lord, find us ready and doing The Father’s will! Ready yourselves, for our redemption draws near! In His Name I pray! Amen
Jesus was descended from a nation that suffered in slavery for 400 years in Egypt. He can certainly identify with today’s descendants of slaves in America, despite His not being of exactly the same skin tone.
God freed the Jews from Egyptian slavery and escorted them out of bondage in His time. Mankind has sought to enslave one another throughout time and will continue until all recognize that each of us is a slave to sin until We turn to Jesus and are set free. Bondage of the soul is the human condition without Christ, regardless of race or nation.
I know of no one who believes that George Floyd’s life didn’t matter, or that what happened to him wasn’t a crime. A crime which is being subject to the rule of law. Arguments over the color of Jesus’ skin are a diversion and an excuse to attack and minimize the church. Don’t fall for it.
Maybe we should not have any pictures of Jesus at all, or statues, I know some people who use them as an Idol, and we are not supposed to have any “graven” images. I also know some people who think pictures are graven images. But the most important thing is will you recognize Him when he returns with His multitude of Angels.
I am praying Mr. Blom will come to know Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Then he will understand skin color is from Creator God and it’s all about God’s love for mankind and redeeming Creation unto Himself. God won’t cancel Mr. Blom because of his ignorance and neither will His children. We’re
praying, interceding and rejoice in knowing Jesus took what each one of us deserve on the cross. No matter the color of His skin He bore it being ripped and shredded for ALL. It’s all about the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ. May God grant him mercy and grace to know the one true God this day.