How Jesus Became Widely Accepted as Being White | Unpack That

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December 13, 2018

‘Tis the season… but is white Jesus the reason?

How did Jesus’ “skin of bronze” turn into the widely revised blue-eyed, blonde hair version that we’ve grown accustomed to seeing? Find out on #UnpackThat
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@FOURTYFIVERS45

July 4, 2024 at 9:28 am

😂 He was always white😂

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@rileymorgan9084

July 4, 2024 at 10:23 am

I never thought Jesus Christ was white.

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@papabird4425

July 6, 2024 at 7:32 pm

If you care what color Jesus' skin was, you've missed the point completely. You pretty much have to start over from the beginning with an understanding that moves beyond earthly and physical things, otherwise you will fail continually in living up to His message.

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@williampence4528

July 7, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Well what was marry his mother look like did it say? BTW stop calling Jesus god he is God's son.

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@mida2202

July 8, 2024 at 6:18 am

Thank you for your work.

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@NeroForte_

July 8, 2024 at 9:45 am

Exodus 20:4-5 thats where the problem comes from

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@coreygarnett5826

July 8, 2024 at 8:42 pm

It’s so sad that we are even asking this question.. SMH

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@bernardmincey8949

July 10, 2024 at 12:53 am

No sir.

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@ing-mariekoppel1637

July 10, 2024 at 5:57 pm

The Jews in Palestine 2000 years ago
were a mix : some dark haired brown
eyes, some middle brown hair, some
looked European with ashen hair, light
skin and blue eyes. So not at all improbable Jesus looked white.
But he might have been olive-skinned
with brown hair. Not sub-saharan
black though.

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@Lamb-du1um

July 11, 2024 at 3:16 am

Sapien —AS,/B second Adam

Blacks are from Sirius system

Space inbaders

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:12 am

Jesus and zues are the same thing the suns of god its a race thing its true

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:14 am

Why is the sun behind his head and his heart is big look at the disney movie hercules and you will see that hercules is on a white horse and has a sword

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:15 am

Alex cassens is a sun of god

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:16 am

You cant hate me because im white and im a god alex cassens its agianst the united states constitution

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:17 am

All you hate me because its the truth

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:17 am

Every one hates jusus because hes white and powerful

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:18 am

All the angels are white to

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:19 am

Maybe every race has thier own jesus

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:20 am

I think you all just dont like white people alex cassens

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@user-dl5jd9wc2h

July 12, 2024 at 3:21 am

All we had to do was just leave africa alone but no the british just had to have slave and free labor now all the black people hate all the white people

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@LeroyHines-z2c

July 12, 2024 at 7:38 pm

Look up Russian black icon Jesus Christ new evidence

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@Kyohan137

July 13, 2024 at 3:16 am

The late Rev. Billy Graham himself said this in the 60s “Jesus was not a white man.”

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@toniliddle4464

July 13, 2024 at 6:36 am

His name is NOT Jesus. His name is YAHUSHA. His children are the ISREALITES Who are the True People of isreal And these peopl were BLACK. PLEASE YOU WILL GET ALL YOUR ANSWERS FROM TRUTHEDITED. WHEN YOU READ THIS TRUE BIBLE MAKESURE YOU START FROM THE BEGINNING OF THESE ISREALITES HISTORY. IT HAS ALL OF WHAT HAPPENS RIGHT TO THIS DAY. THE ISREALITES WERE SCATTERED ALL OVER THE WORLD. THESE ISREALITES ARE THE NEGRO'S PEOPLE THAT YOU WILL FINDOUT ABOUT.

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@toniliddle4464

July 13, 2024 at 6:38 am

AND YAHUSHA DOSENOT SEE COLOUR. BUT YOU HAVE A LOOK. TRUTHUNEDITED. SPREAD IT AS FAR AS YOU CAN.

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@toniliddle4464

July 13, 2024 at 6:46 am

THE NEGRO'S WERE SLAVED BY BLACKS IN AFRICA AND THE WHITES WHO HELPED THEM TO PUT THEM INTO SLAVERY. THE NEGROES ARE YOU SEE ARE THE ISREALITES. DIFFERENT TO OTHER AFRICAN PEOPLE.

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@christinelarocco2330

July 13, 2024 at 11:57 am

61 now. Never was taught or seen any pics of a white Jesus in any of my fam's homes. All of dark or bronze coloring. What a true pile of bullshit this is. Who states Jesus was ever white? No one I have EVER met who is white said that, ever. Anyone with a brain knows Jesus of Nazareth was brown. Don't care, he loves me and I love him. Pile of sad souls with no life just being ignorant or just have no life. Wake up and smell the dark brown coffee. Who CARES? He loves us all.

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@AWICKEDVIXEN1999

July 13, 2024 at 3:56 pm

Adam, Noah, Jesus, Sumerians=all white people…we did not come from Africa. No melanated people existed till Cain=Sargon invaded us. All melanated people claim the gods came down had sex w women thats where your religion & race came from

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@martiglesias60

July 14, 2024 at 6:36 am

He was also not black. He hated BLM. Hahah1

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@user-vl6ye9cm5e

July 14, 2024 at 8:21 pm

You should speak to bishop nathanielle

The Lord just was blaci and his people are people of couleur

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@BIFF105

July 15, 2024 at 3:30 pm

This is full of black people with who just hate whites. “His head and the hairs were white as snow” the hairs and his head… he had blonde hair, white blonde hair. His head was white…so his face was white lol. Jesus was a nazerine. Lamentations 4:7 describes nazerines as white as milk, with a sapphire polish (blue eyes). Adam in Hebrew means red, ruddy, white people turn red. King David was described as white with red hair. We are the real Israelites.

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@YahwehisGodandYeshuaisKingiamr

July 16, 2024 at 5:33 pm

I personally think he was darker skinned like the guys in the middle East but I could be wrong…

But, why is everyone hung up on what color the Israelites were or what Jesus Christ looked like on earth? IT DOESN'T MATTER.

Ppl need to stop making ethnicity their God…ethnicity shouldn't ever be more important than what God has said and done and ppl talk and idolize ethnicity so much that it's more important than God's character and word.

When was the last time that these ethnicity tirbalists actually preached the gospel (which is colorblind) or talked to someone why SIN (which is also colorblind) prevents us from coming to God???

Black this…or white that….IDC. It's not about that and it never should be! Why are ppl so STUPIDLY obsessed with it???

God put melanin in every single human being….we're all created under his image…skin tone got nothing to do with Salvation or how we carry ourselves.

We all have our own minds, hearts, voices and choices in this world…

Ethnicity doesn't determine jack squat!

If Jesus Christ didn't have to be the ethnicity that you hoped….would you still love him?

If all the value you see in him is him looking like you or a certain ethnicity, than it's not him that you love…its your pride wanting to use the Lord to exhalt a certain ethnicity above the rest and God has already said that he Is No Respecter of Persons…which means that he Doesn't play favoritism.

Quit focusing on skin and focus more on what the Holy Spirit is telling you to do, focus on the word of God and focus on helping ppl around you…

Always talking about ethnicity on God, Jesus and Israel honestly isn't too helpful at all…all it's doing is causing more division.

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@thedawg2023

July 17, 2024 at 1:10 pm

Only israelites/blk people can have hair thats white and wooly. Middle eastern people do not have hair like that, look it up and youll find nobody of middle eastern descent that has wooly like hair.

Jesus is a BLACK man. And this is coming from a white polish man

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@richardarmstead2503

July 17, 2024 at 4:45 pm

All Lies Feet like Bronze. Hair like wool..Catholic Church changes everything..

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11 Reasons Tp Prove That Africans Were in America 2000 years Before Colombus.
Let me take you on a journey through some of these fascinating pieces of evidence of African presence in America 2000 years before Columbus. Take them with a grain of salt if you have to, but I think they are worth some consideration.
1. Olmec Heads: The colossal stone heads created by the Olmec civilization in present-day Mexico, which date back to 1500 BCE to 400 BCE, feature distinctly African facial features. These heads feature facial features such as broad noses, full lips, and round faces that clearly resemble those of Africans more than the indigenous populations of the Americas. Tell me this is not a black man right there. The detailed and realistic nature of the Olmec heads suggests they were based on real individuals. It is no wonder not surprising that some researchers contend that these features indicate an African presence in pre-Columbian America.

2. African Artifacts in the Americas: Artifacts such as cotton from Africa and tobacco pipes found in pre-Columbian sites in South America have led some to speculate about transatlantic contact. In addition, metal artefacts with similar metallurgical techniques to those used in West Africa have been found in pre-Columbian American sites.

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3. Botanical Evidence: Certain plants like the bottle gourd and the sweet potato are thought to have originated in Africa and Asia but were present in pre-Columbian America, suggesting possible ancient transoceanic contact.

4. Linguistic Evidence: Some linguists claim to have found similarities between certain Native American languages and African languages. Some proponents argue that there are similarities between ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and symbols found in Mesoamerican writing systems, such as those of the Maya. The Mandinka word “makala,” meaning “rice,” is compared to the similar-sounding words in some Native American languages.

Dr. Clyde Winters points to shared vocabulary and phonetic similarities, such as the word “yu” in Mandinka meaning “to give” and a similar-sounding word in the Olmec language with the same meaning.
Leo Wiener, in his early 20th-century work “Africa and the Discovery of America,” cited examples such as the Wolof word “tem” (to cut) and its similarity to the Algonquian word “temagun” (an axe).

5. THOR HEYERDAHL’S RAFT EXPERIMENTS: The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated with his expeditions (Kon-Tiki and Ra) that it was possible to travel across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans using ancient boat-building techniques, suggesting that such voyages could have occurred in ancient times.

6. Ancient Maps: Some historical maps, such as the Piri Reis map, allegedly show parts of the American continent with a level of detail suggesting pre-Columbian exploration, potentially by African or other non-European civilizations.

7. Skull Analysis: Studies of certain skeletal remains, such as the Luzia Woman found in Brazil, have shown features that some anthropologists argue resemble those of African or Australoid populations rather than Native American populations.

8. Accounts from Early European Explorers: Some early European explorers, such as Vasco Núñez de Balboa, reported encountering dark-skinned peoples in the Americas upon their arrival.

9. Cultural Similarities: Some researchers point to cultural parallels between African and American civilizations, such as pyramid building, similar religious practices, and iconography, as potential evidence of contact.

10. Presence of Black peoples in Asia, Australia and the Pacific. If Black people can be found in as far as the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia many Islands in the Pacific, why can’t they be found in the Americas? I mean it makes no sense for the Americas to be the exception right?

11. Genetic Studies: While controversial and not universally accepted, some genetic studies have indicated the presence of haplogroups in Native American populations that are also found in African populations, suggesting ancient intermingling.

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