White man playing Jesus?, not historically acurrate

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The description you have is of Christ at his second coming. It's not literal either - as most of Revelation is not literal but symbolic.

Jesus was a Jew. He was Semitic. In other words, he would have had a darker complexion as middle easterners do - or countries that surround the Mediterranean Sea. He probably had dark eyes. He was not as black as central and southern Africans, but he was not as white as a Scandinavians either.

That being said, there are Jews who are blonde and blue-eyed. There are also red-headed Jews and those with green eyes. So, who knows what is historically accurate when portraying Jesus. No one really knows.

I think that one reason the Bible does not give a true description of Jesus is so that everyone can relate to him. I'm sure if you're from Asia you might imagine Jesus as someone with Asian features.

What's important is not how Jesus looked, just like it's not important how any of us look. It's the inner man that's important and the message that Jesus came to earth as a man, died for our sins, was resurrected to defeat death, and now sits at the right hand of God, waiting to come again.

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nah dude, Jesus was niether black nor white. He was the ethnicity of those around him; ethnic arabs who were jews. Think about how similar jews and arabs must have been ethnically before they were dispersed across europe by the Romans, they probably were ethnically the same. Thus Jesus appearing as an arab man, yet from a jewish community. The "hair like wool and feet the color of brass" simply prove this. there is no way he was white, how many white people are native to the middle east, same true for black people. Africa is not the middle east, Europe is not the middle east!!! In conclusion Jesus looked like a modern arab! Just think about it.

while i agree, he wasn't likely to appear the modern white europeans have artistically embraced the past few centuries... i dont agree with your theory to say he was black. i have a pale freckly white friend whose hair is ginger and wooly/curly much like an afro, he can make it look like a big basketball its hilarious. 'If you take bress you're not going to get white, you're going to get BLACK' = friend, brass isn't black. Nor is it white, its closer to yellow than anything.

Anyway, as an old friend of my dads used to say: "God was Latino, why else would he name his son Jesus?" (as in the spanish pronounciation hey-soos) - just a joke obviously.

In Shakespears original plays and in traditional Kabuki and no doubt other forms of acting - all parts were acted by men - male and female parts alone. Its just an actor portraying a part, its a great movie, chillax and forget what race he was, Jesus is the God for ALL races.

Anyway, he was Jewish... so is Adam Sandler... he could have done the role then right?

Jesus was not a Black man, he wasn't White either. Jesus was Middle-Eastern man, a Jew from Bethlehem.

You cannot use that quote from Revelations as some accurate depiction of Jesus. As someone else has pointed out, the verse also says he has a sword coming out of his mouth. Actually it says that his feet was as "burnished bronze, when it has been caused to glow in a furnace" which would make it a bright orange/yellow color, or perhaps even a brilliant white/yellow color. It also says, "His face was like the sun shining in its strength", that doesn't indicate "black", it more indicates brilliant white (or maybe a brilliant yellow), but it isn't an accurate depiction of Jesus as he appeared as a human on earth.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem of a mother of Israeli heritage. He wasn't Black, He wasn't White, he was an Jewish man of Israeli heritage.

I do find using White actors for Jesus stupid, and frankly after all this time and the producers knowing that it is offensive I have to say I agree with people on that point. I don't know any Christian who thinks of Jesus as a White man, it's just silly. Jeremy Sisto does have "hair like wool", very coarse and curly, but he is a White man and there are many good actors that have a more "Middle-Eastern" appearance (for lack of a better term) that could easily have done a good job in the role (though I can't see how anyone could have done a good job with this dog of a script). Any depiction of Jesus as a White man in this day and age is just ridiculous and it instantly damages your production.

I often ask my children to picture God as being of different races. Because they are human, it's only natural for them to form some kind of "humanized" image of God. So, I will say to them from time-to-time, today I want you to picture God as a Black man with an afro, or a Chinese man, or a Native American, images like that so that they don't develop some image of God as an old White man - Santa Claus with a longer beard. I want them to be be able to picture Him as any race and still feel the very same respect and honor for Him. I also tell them that — for whatever reason — God has chosen to identify as male in the Scriptures, but that He fully encompasses both male and female characteristics. This must be true for the scriptures tell us that He created both man and woman in His image. People tend to visualize God as whatever race they are, it's only natural, but it's good to consider an image of Him that isn't of your own race (IMHO). I think it's just another way to help your kids avoid developing any racial prejudices.


"...nothing is left of me, each time I see her..." - Catullus

Hahahhaa.

I'll agree NO ONE in the middle east had blond hair and blue eyes, but that was because Jesus was a Jew... living in the effing Middle East! That means suntan, baby... and a bit of blood (like all Semites) from the ancient Moors... Blacks from North Africa.

My 'problem' with the film is that terrible TV actor Jeremy Sisto.

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