The white Jesus

As others have pointed out, what race Jesus was isn't as important as what He did for us.




Again Jesus was a Jew, not a white man. And apparently he's never heard of the Civil War, many white men died to free black men.




With out that Jewish Jesus on the cross nothing else matters. The dying are lost without His death.




No, it's an actual death. Just because Africa is rife with leaders that abuse it's people has no bearing on Jesus and the Gospel.




Wow, and this is a bishop?! No concept about the Bible whatsoever.





Ahh so he's racist, got it.




Well he can start talking about Jesus, there are free black men and women all over the world.




He's persuasive if you don't know the gospel. That's why it's important for us to tell the world about Jesus.

Jesus is depicted as a white man and that poses a challenge when trying to present the Jewish Jesus.

Jesus wasn't "white". While it's unfortunate that Europeans have portrayed Jesus as European, the truth is that His outward appearance is irrelevant. Sadly the person who preached the message you quoted (Desmond Tutu, I suspect) didn't seem to understand that, and sought to elevate the suffering of Africans above that of other peoples. Why? Does he believe that the blood of Jesus is truly insufficient? If so, then he has no business being a "bishop" and should shuck his robes... and his megaphone.

How do you reach someone who holds a misconception about the ethnicity of Jesus? The same way you reach someone who holds any other misconception that keeps them away from Him: by prayer and the preaching of the Gospel.

There is only one race, the human race. Ethnicity is something else.

It was God who scattered the peoples and gave them different languages.

I am a black woman who believes that Jesus died on the cross to save humanity from it's sinful state. but how can I convince a black person holding on to the image of Jesus being depicted as a white man?

Let us kindly engage in a manner that will bring glory to God.

As I said, during the Civil War many white people died for black people to have their freedom. But Jesus was a Jew, so I don't see why there should be an issue.

Jesus was a Jew and that is a fact. Getting angry will not change the fact that he was a Jew.

I can get angry at a white woman just because she is white but that will not change the fact that she is white.

With the Gospel of Christ. It is the power of God unto salvation, Romans 1:16.

While you're digging up something else to use, let us all know what this new gospel is when you find it.



Nor should we minimize the fact that Blacks enslaved more whites than blacks have ever been enslaved.

Worldwide.

Black still enslave blacks.

Native Americans enslaved blacks.

Blacks sold blacks to whites.

Let's stop the cherry picking, it is to have an unjust balance as Scripture says. Proverbs 11:1.

God's revealed written Word says there is neither Jew nor Greek in Him. Does it serve the body of Christ to say He is still"looks" Jewish? Was His appearance not so greatly changed post-resurrection that even those who knew Him well did not readily recognize Him?

Jesus is depicted as a white man and that poses a challenge when trying to present the Jewish Jesus.
So how does one present a case against someone who has been disturbed by the misrepresentation of Jesus?

What kind of problem does the fact that many Jewish people look white present?

The Cherokee being one of the largest


Most of the tribes in the trail of tears had African slaves. Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole — also participated in the institution of slavery. Cherokee being one of the largest in numbers had about 2000 go with them on the trail of tears.

But the evil democrat white men forced them to relocate. True the trail of tears was terrible but the Indians equally have had their scars. Before Europeans even arrived, they was busy killing and enslaving each other while sacrificing slaves to their gods.

I hope I can catch your heartbeat - I can tell you have been set free and love your Jesus - but it is difficult to know how to reach others of your race.

It is unfortunate and very, very sad that a lot of what this Bishop says is true: white Europeans and Americans have exploited, killed, and enslaved the blacks of Africa. I nor anyone else should deny or minimize that in any way.

But I think the key is to make a difference between white culture and Christianity: they are two very different things. Sadly over the years (and even up to today) sometimes some of American and European Christendom has followed and amplified the ways and bigotry of white, privileged culture.

But it is not so with true Christianity. There are whites who have sacrificed and given their lives to get the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ to Africa. The church in Africa now is alive and real: probably more so than the church in America!

If this bishop waits till "the crimes of the white man" are rectified, this will not happen. The gospel and the crimes of the white culture are two separate things. The crimes of the white culture are the result of sin coming into the world. The gospel of Jesus was given to rectify the sin problem.

The church in American must be real, must love, must share the message of the cross with all around them. And so must each individual who is part of God's kingdom. Only a life of love lived for God's glory is going to reach the heart of a man like this "bishop".

Marching and protesting and burning and looting to try to rectify the sin problem will only make it worse. The answer is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I do not think the major issue is Jesus being portrayed as a white man: the issue is if the church is not loving and being real for God's kingdom. Let this bishop find a Christian who really loves and loves from the heart and the color that Jesus is portrayed as will become irrelevant.

Then Jesus should not have an image. Are you condoning the pictures of Jesus that are circulating in the world? or should we rather just do away with them?. I think we can experiment or destroy the pictures of Jesus since there is no Jew nor Greek in Him. For me, it doesn't serve me at all but I believe it might serve the unsaved.