Oddbean

My favorite question is to ask people what Jesus looked like. Skin color, ethnicity etc. But yes it was originally written in Aramaic & as with even the best translations, context and nuance can be lost. The debate on whether it was shall not kill or shall not murder is an easy example. Modern Hebrew wasn’t even around back then. An alphabet that lacks vowels can be tricky to decipher. At the end of the day we are all trying to get to the same place. We’re taking the same road. We just drive different model cars.

That is absolutely irrelevant. He was born in Bethlehem and He was made into flesh to live and make things new and to offer Himself as the ultimate bloody sacrifice in a way that no other bloodynsacrifice would be necessary. Your question bears no significance to God's plan.

Yes. Jesus was not the blond who was rendered for our Western palettes to consume more easily. Still, this is the Jesus with whom I was “saved” at age 8, and this remains my Jesus. I do not doubt that He was in fact as dark as Africa, yet lit from within, and so both white and black, God made flesh. https://image.nostr.build/1b811e1db82f19c62f0e5c707c9076bcf7658b81c46f2339453b1c634939d53a.jpg

Ooo I haven’t heard that before “light from within” Well done. Most “debates” I’ve been in stem from my statement that “Following the teachings of Jesus does not always mean following the teachings of the church.

What he actually looked like is irrelevant really. We are all made in God’s image so it’s understandable that different groups of people imagine Jesus looking like they do. Given the way he was conceived he could very well have looked like anyone.