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Jesus was of Jewish descent. Jews are predominantly white however, there are many Jews brought into covenant who were dark skinned. It is concievable that the Royal Davidian Line and the sect of the nazareenes to which Jesus belonged was darker skinned than thier white jewish cousines. To our eye's in northern countries even they may have appeared darker skinned than us but, pale skinned to eastern or Southern cultures. David and Solomon had herems of wives from different cultures and naturally different colors of skin as well. The whole Royal line of Isreal was considered to be bronzed by cultural diversity. They were a motley race and they still are.
Do you think that the greeks or Italians were always white skinned? In fact many of them still are not. There is much evidence that skin coloring and pigmentation has to do with extreme exposure to heat and sunlight or a lack of it. It is logical to assume that the first man and woman ever were one specific color. Hunting and cave dwelling were means of survival but, not always practiced in every culture. One culture was more prone to hunting so they would have biologicaly developed skin adaptations to thier environment hence, the many different colors. Cave dwelling peoples however, would have lacked coloring of the skin because of a lack of sun exposure and prone to pinkish white.
I don't think it is fair to the human race to assume a specific color for Jesus. If Jesus has been depicted as a white man it only shows one thing and that is that, the white man is identifying with him in an act of worship and faith. It's more likely that Jesus was darker skinned because he was constantly in the sun travelling about and so was his descendants but, still fairer skinned than the African black tribes.
I travelled to Latin America and lived there for a year. I didn't even realize when I came back that I looked like a Native American to all my white Christian friends and family. They were amazed and so was I.
Apparently the reason the Mexicans call us white folk Gringo's is because in the cowboy past every white person they encountered had green eye's. This was not the case though. Most white people have a diversity of different colored eye's from brown to black to blue to green to hazel. The problem was in the mexicans ability to see. Extreme exposure to the sun can color blind anyone temporarily or even permanently and most mexicans encountered a problem like this until housing projects and industrial revolution made an escape from the sun a reality. In thier case though it illuminated the color of light colored races from the north and everyones blue, hazel and brown eye's appeared green.
When ever they wanted a white american or brit to leave thier land they would gather in groups raise thier guns and shout "Green Go" and point north with thier guns. Every white man new they were talking about them. However, the mexicans pronounce e as an i in thier language and no matter how hard you try to teach a mexican to pronounce an e the way we do it still comes out as an i and it sounded more like this - "Grin Go - hence the word Gringo! Does every Gringo on this planet have green eye's? Is cultural diversity acceptable to God? - YES, religious sociology 101!
At first site when southern equator tribal cultures saw a white man they bowed and did obescience in some cultures because they thought they were looking at the gods. This was due to thier inability to see detail from extreme sun exposure. more southerly tribes who had been cave dweling from cold winter temperatures in certain mountain regions were not as easily fooled be the British, French or Spanish. These western Sea Faring nations took advantage of this fact for centuries and often didn't have to go to war with the tribes they intended to conquer because of this. It was nice to be revered as Gods while it lasted I'm sure. It's not modern white mans fault the sun does a good job of messing up our eye's.
That's why white people are considered to be smarter than the rest. If Jesus was white and from the north and the Romans were black and from the south they would surely have bowed down to him. That was not the case and he ended up on the cross because the Romans couldn't be fooled. "That's not God anymore than our Emporer is" meanwhile after his martydom his disciple Philip went south converted an Ethiopian King and all the ethiopians were falling down at the sight of the fair skined phillip from the north - a GODLY looking man.
How are we going to have peace on this planet. What, by declaring Jesus is black or white or whatever? I don't think so! I think he was bronzed by cultural diversity don't you?
"Otto (as in Autobot - Otto-bot) is an unhuman creation of man and therefor, the opitimen of idiosynctratic & disonnant logical fallacy"
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