Why isnt Jesus, an Arab?

If you're seeking a reason for a white Christ don't forget Cecil B. Demille and all his Biblical epics........We were led to believe Jews looked like Charlton Heston, it was much easier to sell a "white" Jesus to a white audience. While it might be a great marketing strategy it really created a detrimental effect on people who got their religion from the Silver Screen. As i remember my Bible it seems that Jews and Arabs both claim descent from Abraham, this makes them family regardless of their disputes and separations. The real issue is of bloodlines.....which is dominant, which one does the Father like best. 16 Doubtless thou art our afather, though Abraham bbe ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from ceverlasting.
17 ¶ O Lord, why hast thou amade us to err from thy ways, and bhardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The apeople of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have btrodden down thy sanctuary.
19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy aname. Isaiah 64 As far as the appearance of the Christ is concerned, Isaiah described him thusly......... 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender aplant, and as a broot out of a cdry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no dbeauty that we should desire him.
3 He is adespised and rejected of men; a man of bsorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we cesteemed him not.
4 ¶ Surely he hath aborne our bgriefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was awounded for our btransgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his cstripes we are dhealed. Seems to me color or race is the least of considerations.

originally posted by: Agit8dChop
Exactly,

So obviously, IF it is true, then religion and the message we are meant to focus on, doesnt mean anything to the origins of the very religion we speak.

They cared more for the appearence of the 'christ' we are following, than the purpose 'christ' put forward.

As mentioned on the first page, there are original works in the catacombs of rome that resemble a dark skinned/featured jesus.

Could that be why Mary was always said to of had immaculate conception?
Is there a chance, his father was a common day palestinian? thus he resembled such?

[edit on 4-2-2007 by Agit8dChop]

The "Immaculate Conception" tradition isn't something that Christianity invented. It's been around for a long time in pagan mystery religions around the Mediterranean. Perseus, for instance, was born of the Virgin Danae. It's hypothesized that Christianity took on the traditions of these pagan religions in order to convert them more easily.

I doubt that your idea was the reason why the early Christians claimed Mary was a virgin. What use would hiding that Jesus' father was Palestinian, when Mary herself was certainly of the same ethnic group?

a reply to: Agit8dChop

You wrote: QUOTE "Im sure there's a good explanation 'someone' can give me, But from what I understand, Palestine is an ARAB land. Jesus was born in Palestine, so wouldnt he be a dark skinned arab? whats with all the whiteskinnned portraits? " UNQUOTE

If you are referring to R. Yehoshua bar Yosef the Galilean Nazir (Gk: ho Iesous), he was of Daviddic stock which involved Judaean and Moabite blood haplotypes (his ancestor David's grandmother was Ruth, a Moabitess) which would be the area around the modern country of Jordan. These people's skin colour ranges from light/white to the dark brown and every shade in between to judge from what modern Jordanians look like.

In terms of skin types - being from the Galilee (with a lot of miscegenation of Assyro-Babylonian blood, the term Galilee means "ha gilgal ha goyim, 'circle of gentiles') he might have been a little lighter skinned than the average Judaean in the 1st century - many Galileans had green eyes for example but whose skin tans well when exposed to the sun, in other words we a probably dealing with someone who had what we describe as 'southern Mediterranean' looks/appearance with a prominent nose and thick hair.

In the 4th canonical council-approved Greek Gospel ('according to John' whoever he was) we see the strange identification of R. Yehoshua with the Samaritim, who are of Assyrian descent since c. 722 BCE :

"Then the Judaeans answered him saying, Do we not speak well in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a daemon?" - John 8:48

But the time has come for people to learn that we should not be seeing any more blonde blue eyed Jesuses in the 21st century....but people tend to make their god-men look just like them, so go figure...

Jesus was a Semite.


Arabs are Semites so are or were the original Jews