beanpie

http://www.ibiblio.org/nge/blacked/bl1.html

now, I ask, does the pic of Jesus, on the Roman coin, look like the Romans? I think not.

Amlodhi

Courtesy of our friends at Landover Baptist Church.

http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0302/blackjesus.html

Amlodhi

Doctor X

The coin appears rather Greek.

--J.D.

Doctor X

Here are some coins:

Basil I, 867-886 A.D.

Most of the earliest depictions seem to be from the Byzantine Era ~500 CE. Coins depicting Junior would, of course, be made far too late for anything definitive. You only have the imagination of the artist and the viewer.

--J.D.

beanpie

Like the pic, I found this info to be very racist.

"Mill: Nothing in the Bible says the Father was a white man or that His image would be as you described. Jesus is a descendant of Abraham, who came from the Samarian city of Ur of Chaldes, which was a black civilization, ,]TRUE like many, if not most, of the societies described in the Bible.

Deacon Fred: So now you’re telling us Abraham and the other prophets were colored? I suppose you also think Noah was one of them and only found out about that ark because he was trying to steal its radio and lured all the animals onto the ark with a block of fatback. And I guess the apostles were the world’s first rap group. Don’t you think that whale would have spit out Jonah a lot sooner than three days? "

beanpie

Yes, but, is that pic to represent someone "Greek"?

Mr. Neutron

Um, do you even know who Deacon Fred is?

beanpie

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the art of every single Christian group through history, so far as I am aware, has depicted Jesus as being of their own racial group.
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must be a helluva lot more Blacks in Europe, than I ever imagined!

http://saxakali.com/suzar/madonna.htm

beanpie

No, should I?

chapka

Just like those other well-known African-Americans, Gabe Kaplan and Groucho Marx.

Showing this coin in isolation doesn't mean anything. Show it to me together with images of men with different hairstyles from the same time period and you'll have the beginnings of an argument.