Black Spirituality Religion : The Biggest Myths About Jesus Christ

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The Biggest Myths About Jesus Christ

Was he really a pacifist? And what did he think about marriage? Oh, and there’s that whole thing about the color of his skin…


1. Jesus wasn’t tall and white.

We’ve said it before but it bears repeating: Jesus was not the light-haired blue-eyed icon of European art. The problem isn’t limited to European painters: Willem Dafoe, Robert Powell, and Diogo Morgado have all brought good looks and pale skin tones to modern portraits of the role. Historically speaking, it is likely that the average first-century male from Judea would have had dark hair, brown eyes, and dark skin tone ...


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/09/25/the-biggest-myths-about-jesus-christ.html

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