Icons and Black Jesus

Mark Olson examines the "What Color is Jesus?" debate from the perspective of Eastern Orthodoxy.

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KY writes:

Im a young african american growing up in philadelphia, and i would like to say that as i look around i see a lot of hate. I hear many white people speak on black problems but they cant relate to being harassed by the law for their skin color because being a black man is cause for suspicion or the constant feeling that people assume your a criminal or up to no good whether their white, black, or yellow, and with that said i think its important that the truth about jesus being black is important. A little over hundred years ago we were coming out of slavery and werent properly educated after 400 years of either miseducation or no education, but the holy spirit fixed that and black people came out with great subtance in the beginnig and great men saw to it that we would have rights and access to somthing better, realer, and truier. when talikng with most older black adults maybe 55 and up or younger somtimes interestingly enough they remember a love and unity between people in the black community that doesnt exist today maybe becuase they were climbing up a ladder and knew they could only make it together.So black jesus isnt a diss to any other ethnicites any more than white george washington, but more or less for how we view ourselves. I think of all my brothers that are being fooled into islam simply because they believe christianity is a white mans religion when it is theirs. All the prophets leading up to jesus were black, Its the religion of abraham and jesus the fullfillment of the prophecies.CLOSING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY WE ARE ALL BROTHERS NO MATTER WHAT COLOR WE ARE, JESUS CAME TO DO AWAY WITH RACIST AND RACISM. JESUS WAS BLACK AND CAME FOR ALL MEN BUT FIRST HE CAME TO THE BLACKS AND WAS ACCEPTED BY SOME BLACKS AND REJECTED BY SOME BLACKS AND GIVEN TO BE KILLED TO WHITE MEN(ROMANS)WHO DIDNT CARE WHETHER HE LIVED OR DIED BUT CRUCIFIED HIM BECAUSE IT WAS GOOD POLITICS and with that said no man killed jesus the sins of this world did so that we could be saved from death and sin. BLACK AND WHITE IS SEEN BY THE EYE BUT GOOD AND EVIL COMES IN EVERY COLOR. LOVE GOD. LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

KY writes:

Im a young african american growing up in philadelphia, and i would like to say that as i look around i see a lot of hate. I hear many white people speak on black problems but they cant relate to being harassed by the law for their skin color because being a black man is cause for suspicion or the constant feeling that people assume your a criminal or up to no good whether their white, black, or yellow, and with that said i think its important that the truth about jesus being black is important. A little over hundred years ago we were coming out of slavery and werent properly educated after 400 years of either miseducation or no education, but the holy spirit fixed that and black people came out with great subtance in the beginnig and great men saw to it that we would have rights and access to somthing better, realer, and truier. when talikng with most older black adults maybe 55 and up or younger somtimes interestingly enough they remember a love and unity between people in the black community that doesnt exist today maybe becuase they were climbing up a ladder and knew they could only make it together.So black jesus isnt a diss to any other ethnicites any more than white george washington, but more or less for how we view ourselves. I think of all my brothers that are being fooled into islam simply because they believe christianity is a white mans religion when it is theirs. All the prophets leading up to jesus were black, Its the religion of abraham and jesus the fullfillment of the prophecies.CLOSING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY WE ARE ALL BROTHERS NO MATTER WHAT COLOR WE ARE, JESUS CAME TO DO AWAY WITH RACIST AND RACISM. JESUS WAS BLACK AND CAME FOR ALL MEN BUT FIRST HE CAME TO THE BLACKS AND WAS ACCEPTED BY SOME BLACKS AND REJECTED BY SOME BLACKS AND GIVEN TO BE KILLED TO WHITE MEN(ROMANS)WHO DIDNT CARE WHETHER HE LIVED OR DIED BUT CRUCIFIED HIM BECAUSE IT WAS GOOD POLITICS and with that said no man killed jesus the sins of this world did so that we could be saved from death and sin. BLACK AND WHITE IS SEEN BY THE EYE BUT GOOD AND EVIL COMES IN EVERY COLOR. LOVE GOD. LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

KY writes:

Im a young african american growing up in philadelphia, and i would like to say that as i look around i see a lot of hate. I hear many white people speak on black problems but they cant relate to being harassed by the law for their skin color because being a black man is cause for suspicion or the constant feeling that people assume your a criminal or up to no good whether their white, black, or yellow, and with that said i think its important that the truth about jesus being black is important. A little over hundred years ago we were coming out of slavery and werent properly educated after 400 years of either miseducation or no education, but the holy spirit fixed that and black people came out with great subtance in the beginnig and great men saw to it that we would have rights and access to somthing better, realer, and truier. when talikng with most older black adults maybe 55 and up or younger somtimes interestingly enough they remember a love and unity between people in the black community that doesnt exist today maybe becuase they were climbing up a ladder and knew they could only make it together.So black jesus isnt a diss to any other ethnicites any more than white george washington, but more or less for how we view ourselves. I think of all my brothers that are being fooled into islam simply because they believe christianity is a white mans religion when it is theirs. All the prophets leading up to jesus were black, Its the religion of abraham and jesus the fullfillment of the prophecies.CLOSING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY WE ARE ALL BROTHERS NO MATTER WHAT COLOR WE ARE, JESUS CAME TO DO AWAY WITH RACIST AND RACISM. JESUS WAS BLACK AND CAME FOR ALL MEN BUT FIRST HE CAME TO THE BLACKS AND WAS ACCEPTED BY SOME BLACKS AND REJECTED BY SOME BLACKS AND GIVEN TO BE KILLED TO WHITE MEN(ROMANS)WHO DIDNT CARE WHETHER HE LIVED OR DIED BUT CRUCIFIED HIM BECAUSE IT WAS GOOD POLITICS and with that said no man killed jesus the sins of this world did so that we could be saved from death and sin. BLACK AND WHITE IS SEEN BY THE EYE BUT GOOD AND EVIL COMES IN EVERY COLOR. LOVE GOD. LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

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