The hullabaloo about this latest revelation, Elon Musk Reveals First Ever Real Image Of Jesus Christ faintly suggests that in historical time, Musk is the first person to ever do so whilst the fact is that the Russians - Vladimir Putin in particular beat him to it more than nine months ago and here are the screaming headlines ( at the time I thought that it was all so heavily political ,with Russia making so much headway in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger - basically Muslim territory, it was now time for the charm offensive to influence the African Christians with the idea that unlike "the impies"( missionary imperialists) Russians are not racists 👍
Putin's official speech on BLACK Jesus and Ethiopia
And moreover , what about the shroud of Turin ?
Jesus was White - maybe Aryan , pray the White Aryan Supremacists who must love quoting John "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us", well pleased with the idea that God became a White Man in the person of Lord and Saviour Jesus and that we must worship him.
"Hollywood Has Always Known That Jesus Was Black"
Black Power is also delighted with the idea that Jesus was Black !
"Jesus was a BLACK MAN born of a BLACK WOMAN"
Why all this fuss about what colour was or is Jesus?
In The Last Temptation of Christ we have Willem Dafoe( a White Man) starring as Jesus
Jesus Christ Superstar has Carl Anderson ( a Black man) starring as Judas Iscariot
How do Nigerian Pentecostal Pastors feel about Jesus as more properly speaking, Soul Brother Number One?
BTW, I imagine that if the much anticipated Jewish Moshiach were to turn out to be the darkest looking dude that ever appeared on this planet since Hashem the Almighty first made Adam - then I suspect (only a suspicion) that some of the pale-looking Ashkenazi in particular could be reluctant to accept him, perhaps on the reasonable or unreasonable, racist or anti-Semitic grounds that the Moshiach should at least come from the same genetic pool, by which they would be meaning - with intentionality , that the Moshiach should at least look like e.g. the late Shimon Peres or Ariel Sharon of recent, blessed memory…
But back to business:
If God is indeed the Father of Jesus then Jesus could have been any colour.
And if Mother Mary is or was indeed the Black Madonna - and God is / was indeed the Heavenly Father of Jesus, again it's possible that when it comes to skin colour, Jesus could have been of a dark complexion, just like his mother.
When it comes to context Jonas Gardell's book about Jesus provides a lot of interesting evidence and plausible conjecture.
https://www.google.de/search?q=Jonas+Gardell+%3A+Jesus&
If the book is ever translated into English it would be an overnight bestseller.
https://signum.se/artikelarkiv/drom-och-verklighet-i-jonas-gardells-jesusbild/
Author :
About JesusSwedish
2009-03-18
Published by: Norstedts
Most skeletons found from the time Jesus lived show a lack of iron and protein. Skulls of forty-year-old people often have few or no teeth left. Life was hard and people died young. Only a minority lived to see their twenty-fifth birthday.
We like to imagine Jesus' gentle, loving smile.
Now add that the smile was probably toothless and we probably get a slightly fairer picture.
Can we imagine Jesus toothless? Can we imagine him uneducated? Very little of our ideas about Jesus Christ match the historical Jesus of Nazareth.
A Jesus Christ rises before us as a king to judge the living and the dead. At the same time, another figure flees into the shadows. A short, dark-skinned man who has aged prematurely from poverty and wandering. A simple craftsman from the Galilean countryside who the authorities had executed as a preventive measure. A man who spread the message of the kingdom of God.
Exciting? This is just the beginning! Join Jonas Gardell on a harrowing search for Jesus.
All royalties from this book go directly to the Jonas Gardell Foundation and Mark Levengood Children's Fund.
Read more
E-book (2009)
Seriously and practically speaking, there AIN'T no necessary 1:1 relationship between SIGNIFIERS and SIGNFIEDS. In other words, "meaning" (of course) "exists" but it never exists "contextlessly": no context-free claim; every context has its own context(s). There AIN'T no a priori relationship between (for example) being "black" or "brown" or "white" AND having a "black" or "brown" or "white" voice (or identity). In short, "semantics" AIN'T inherent in "physics".OohayOn Thursday, January 16, 2025, 6:55 PM, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
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