Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!psuvax1!psuvm!PRIMATE!BIN From: bin@PRIMATE.WISC.EDU (Brain in Neutral) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia Subject: Re: The appearance of Jesus -- QB Message-ID: <1559@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> Date: 6 Feb 90 17:29:28 GMT References: Sender: Practical Christian Life Reply-To: bin@primate.wisc.edu Lines: 18 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Comments: To: bit-listserv-christia@cs.psu.edu From article , by BWA6067@TAMAGEN: > I must concur with Lauren that Jesus' appearance/skin color > don't really matter, but for curiosity's sake, it is probably > wiser to assume that He looked similar to today's Middle > Easterners. After all, 2000 years isn't a long enough time > for significant evolution to have taken place. *grin* Malcolm X said that Jesus wasn't white, He was black, and the teaching that He was white was just to get black men to submit to the white man. Remarkably perceptive for someone that lived 2000 years later, to be able to tell that someone's skin color was black, particularly someone that was born of Jewish parents. :-) Paul DuBois Internet: dubois@primate.wisc.edu UUCP: rhesus!dubois FAX: 608/263-4031