"Jesus was a white man too"

dignin

Real face of Jesus?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science ... cs/1282186

even flow - question mark

What??? You people think that Kardashian, Idian models, African wannabes are the only people who learned how to bleach their skin and use contacts to want to be. Yeah!

Idris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GoInTnBgDU

"I can see this has become a struggle between GOOD and EVIL, Satan has a question..."

AdamTheBaddun

"Jesus greets me; looks just like me."

Bentleyspop

Once again Steven Colbert gets to the meat of the matter....

http://tv.msn.com/video/tv/?g=c942f31c-5229-4c50-a488-d9ad611c4a10&from=en-us_msnhp&gt1=42008

retropony

Bentleyspop wrote:

Once again Steven Colbert gets to the meat of the matter....

http://tv.msn.com/video/tv/?g=c942f31c-5229-4c50-a488-d9ad611c4a10&from=en-us_msnhp&gt1=42008

John Stewart was pretty good on the same subject as well

brianlux

Bentleyspop wrote:

Once again Steven Colbert gets to the meat of the matter....

http://tv.msn.com/video/tv/?g=c942f31c-5229-4c50-a488-d9ad611c4a10&from=en-us_msnhp&gt1=42008

Excellent!

Cosmo

Revising history:

...
Questioning Jesus, not only as a White Man... but, as a huMan, in general.

Bentleyspop

Santa comes forward to clear up all the confusion....

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/weekend-update-santa-claus/n44354/

hedonist

I keep reading the thread title to the tune of "Baby You're a Rich Man".

shadowcast

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

i have always wanted to know how jesus, wondering around the middle east, found men named, andrew, james, john, peter, etc... those names do not sound like what i would imagine.

I never thought of this point. You are so right..

Hugh Freaking Dillon

shadowcast wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

i have always wanted to know how jesus, wondering around the middle east, found men named, andrew, james, john, peter, etc... those names do not sound like what i would imagine.

I never thought of this point. You are so right..

I saw this exact point a while back on facebook as a meme with patrick stewart from star trek. never thought about it until then either.

Idris

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

shadowcast wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

i have always wanted to know how jesus, wondering around the middle east, found men named, andrew, james, john, peter, etc... those names do not sound like what i would imagine.

I never thought of this point. You are so right..

I saw this exact point a while back on facebook as a meme with patrick stewart from star trek. never thought about it until then either.

Those names are transliterations/adaptations of their latin/greek/hebrew names,

So John would be, 'Yochanan' and Peter coming from 'Petra' etc.-

know1

I always thought of him as Jewish. Not sure if that is black or white or whatever.

Everyone these days is of mixed race anyway, so why does it matter?

Hugh Freaking Dillon

know1 wrote:

I always thought of him as Jewish. Not sure if that is black or white or whatever.

Everyone these days is of mixed race anyway, so why does it matter?

it's just typical of some of the conservative right to believe jesus is "theirs". it really isn't a big deal until some idiot winger makes it one.

Hugh Freaking Dillon

Idris wrote:

Those names are transliterations/adaptations of their latin/greek/hebrew names,

So John would be, 'Yochanan' and Peter coming from 'Petra' etc.-

so wouldn't the bible have been written with their birth names, not the transliterations?

Idris

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

Idris wrote:

Those names are transliterations/adaptations of their latin/greek/hebrew names,

So John would be, 'Yochanan' and Peter coming from 'Petra' etc.-

so wouldn't the bible have been written with their birth names, not the transliterations?

Yes, sure. As the bible was (obviously) not originally written in English to start off with.

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shadowcast

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

Idris wrote:

Those names are transliterations/adaptations of their latin/greek/hebrew names,

So John would be, 'Yochanan' and Peter coming from 'Petra' etc.-

so wouldn't the bible have been written with their birth names, not the transliterations?

But yet they kept Moses, Jesus, Abel, Solomon & Judah

know1

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

Idris wrote:

Those names are transliterations/adaptations of their latin/greek/hebrew names,

So John would be, 'Yochanan' and Peter coming from 'Petra' etc.-

so wouldn't the bible have been written with their birth names, not the transliterations?

Also, in the chapter where the bible outlines the lineage of Jesus, they didn't "Europeanize" those names either.

Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
13 Zerubbabel the father of Abihud,
Abihud the father of Eliakim,
Eliakim the father of Azor,
14 Azor the father of Zadok,
Zadok the father of Akim,
Akim the father of Elihud,
15 Elihud the father of Eleazar,
Eleazar the father of Matthan,
Matthan the father of Jacob,
16 and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah.

Idris

shadowcast wrote:

Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:

Idris wrote:

Those names are transliterations/adaptations of their latin/greek/hebrew names,

So John would be, 'Yochanan' and Peter coming from 'Petra' etc.-

so wouldn't the bible have been written with their birth names, not the transliterations?

But yet they kept Moses, Jesus, Abel, Solomon & Judah

Maybe this...But yet they kept what they liked, picking and choosing what to change and what remains the same. Distorting the religion for political as well as social reasons.

Having said that, some of those above names have been adapted(?) too.
Jesus (for example) derives from late Latin, Greek? 'Jesus' would be the transliteration.