Would you worship black Jesus?

Considering we've had about 2000 years to play around with a composite image of the mythical Jesus, it's fairly safe to assume looking at history that the depictions of Jesus have been traditionally white. The mere fact that you can go to just about any middle eastern country would surely have educated even the most devout Christian that there was no way any Biblical character could even be Caucasian, of course that trivial revelation seems to have never stood in the way of the doctrine, or the myriad of denominations that split from it, most of whom also idealize a Caucasian Jesus.

So I ask again, what do you think you are revealing here since none of this is new?

 

Answer my questions and I'll answer yours

 

I do not believe in either a historical Jesus or the mythical one. That should have been obvious at this point.

 

Quite.

Which means you don't worship Jesus.

Which is an option in the poll...

But anyway, Why are you choosing to be here if the poll doesn't have any options for you?

 

I do not "worship" anyone or anything.

I am here trying to figure out why you would post this question and what that information would tell you. That is why I am here. If you don't want to answer, that is fine, just ignore my posts.

 

I don't currently worship a white Jesus, but I suppose if I don't worship a black Jesus then I would be a racist.

 

Christians worship the Triune God -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The physical characteristics of the incarnated Jesus Christ are not known to us, but if the general appearance of many typical Jews in and around Nazareth are thought to be reflective of what Jesus 'looked like', then surely he probably didn't look like some 21st-century guy from DENMARK, or something....

Moreover, what he looked like is not the important thing at all -- who he WAS and IS is the important thing to Christians. Our bodies are wonderful 'space suits' well-adapted for an individual human life on this planet, but once that physical life is ended, the appearance of our marvelous 'space suits' doesn't matter... at all.

 

Jesus wasn't black, and blacks didn't discover America.

 

No because it wouldn't go with my "white supremacist sandwich maker look"

 

Would you worship black Jesus?

No but I worship a green one.

 

If the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world is without blemish or spot, and the blood is red and pure, the exterior skin color isn't of any soteriological, Christological, or theological consequence. Christianity is summarized and completed in the pure blood shed on the cross -- without the shedding of the pure blood of Christ on the cross the healings and the teachings of Christ would be of no importance or consequence whatever and likely would have been forgotten, never recorded in writing and brought into human history.

That's what'd I say.

 

Carbon dating shows the shroud to be well younger than the time of Jesus.

 

Jesus probably looked like modern day Palestinians. The question becomes would you worship that?
For me though I can’t help but ask why a deity would demand to be worshipped. It seems like classic narcissism or low self esteem.