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aventura: So what colour was Jesus?
By Giles Wilson
BBC News Online Magazine

Jesus, ancient and modern

A traditional Jesus, left, and the BBC's image of what he might have looked like
Jesus has been named the top black icon by the New Nation newspaper. Their assertion that Jesus was black has raised eyebrows in some quarters - so what colour was he?

Just as no one will ever produce proof for the existence of God, the question of Jesus's colour may always be a matter for personal belief.

Was he white, white-ish, olive-skinned, swarthy, dark-skinned or black? There are people who believe he was any one of those shades, but there seem to be only two things about the debate that can be said with any degree of certainty.

First - if the past 2,000 years of Western art were the judge, Jesus would be white, handsome, probably with long hair and an ethereal glow.

Second - it can almost certainly be said that Jesus would not have been white. His hair was also probably cut short.

I think the safest thing is to talk about Jesus as 'a man of colour'

Yet the notion that Jesus was black - highlighted this week in a survey of black icons by the New Nation newspaper which ranked him at number one - is genuinely held by some. One school of thought has it that Jesus was part of a tribe which had migrated from Nigeria.

And Jesus probably did have some African links - after all the conventional theory is that he lived as a child in Egypt where, presumably, his appearance did not make him stand out.

Blue-eyed and brown-eyed Jesus

Blue-eyed Robert Powell, left, and brown-eyed Jim Caviezel
The New Nation takes it further: "Ethiopian Christianity, which pre-dates European Christianity, always depicts Christ as an African and it generally agreed that people of the region where Jesus came from looked nothing like Boris Johnson," the paper says. As light-hearted evidence that Jesus was black, it adds that he "called everybody 'brother', liked Gospel, and couldn't get a fair trial".

But the truth, says New Testament scholar Dr Mark Goodacre, of the University of Birmingham, is probably somewhere in between.

"There is absolutely no evidence as to what Jesus looked like," he says. "The artistic depictions down the ages have total and complete variation, which indicates that nobody did a portrait of Jesus or wrote down a description, it's all been forgotten."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3958241.stm

lanightdavido: I just look around and nod my head 4 u pple.....most claims to b believers but are not even deep in the spirit....anytin spiritual like dis,u dnt judge or make fun out it....the bible says the ways of the lord @times might b foolish in man sight....so anytin u sees,jst keep it to ursef,althought it might looks foni.,control ursef u r in d lords presence no mata wot

lomprico: Madness!!!

Efemena_xy: As wives, we owe it to ourselves to understand our husbands - the man we marry and plan to spend the rest of our lives with. She married him and with three kids let's assume they've been married for over 5 years. More than enough time to know when enough is enough.
If u know me credit me
I repeat, things wouldn't have gone that far if she'd kept schtum. How feasible is it to sustain an argument with a spouse when the other one keeps solidly quiet? Na craze? She brought that beating of her life upon herself.

Just because my man is calm doesn't mean I'll go all out to push all his buttons - to the point of endangering our lives and that of our kids. Credit me with some common sense please.

Fourcade: The lady took a huge risk! I won't pity her if she lost you in the process.If you have been through with her after all these years,what further tests did she need?

Errm,,,
brodamus.You still need to carry out your own test o! Wear your shining armour go kaduna verify this tori.