Which Jesus is real?

[Kitan Etos]

For as many cultures there are as many Jesus'.

There's a black Jesus for the African American community.
There's a Spanish Jesus for the Mexican community.
There's a Caucasian Jesus for the white community.
Etc, etc, etc.

Would the real Jesus please stand up?

With so many different cultures viewing Jesus as the non-white, supposed "superior white" Jesus, how is one to know which is the correct Jesus?

With a god who is supposed to be so powerful, one would think he could straighten out who Jesus is.

If Jesus cannot be considered the white version through ministry, what is the purpose of ministry?

The problem with ministry is that it thinks it changes the culture, yet perhaps it doesn't.

The Asian Jesus agrees.

Ministry certainly destroys cultures, but replaces it with the culture's own version of Jesus.

How is that in accordance with Christianity?

It is not.

It must certainly piss of the white Christians.

In the end, no Jesus is real. Jesus is a fictional character perpetuated by a religion that thinks it has the world's best interest in mind when in fact it merely wants control of the world through religious belief.

[Minimalist]

It's not just a modern thing.  In Bart Ehrman's "Lost Christianities" he discusses how there were scores of different xtian groups in a very small area each with their own godboy, either on earth or up in the sky, with different books and traditions.

One of the best books you can read on the subject is J. P. Jenkins'  The Lost History of Christianity.  Details the early spread of jesus shit through Asia.

[vorlon13]

[Nay_Sayer]

Other: Cheesus Christo

[Minimalist]

[Jackie]

There has to have been a man or more likely a group of people tired of the old ways otherwise Christianity would not exist at all. What never happened was a baby being born with super powers or a human being being tortured to death and magically surviving as the bible would have the reader believe.

Christianity got started for the same reason every new religion gets created. Humans get upset with the old ways, incorporate the parts they like, write stories about that, vilify the old parts they don't like. Market it with a new hero and sell it.

Buddhism started the same way. Whomever started it was simply tired of the old Hindu ways and tried to make it more earthy and purpose driven. Buddhism started in close proximity to India, just like Jews were in close proximity to their prior Canaanites where the Yahweh name they stole the character from. Christianity splintered from the Jews and Muslims splintered from both.

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But yea, if you look at the depictions of what Jesus looked like by Italy in one period vs what Mexicans think what he looks like now vs what white Americans think it seems to reflect the attributes of the believer of that location and time.

But even Buddha looks different depending on the geography of Asia's history and location.

[ignoramus]

[chimp3]

There is the Jesus of the 20th century Spiritualists which has been adopted into the New Age movement. The book "The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ" was translated from the Akashic Record by a psychic. Jesus travels around cleansing peoples bodies of filth with enemas.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Assuming, for the sake of the topic, that a troublemaking preacher corresponding to the Jesus of the Gospels actually existed, he was probably under 5'5" tall, brown eyed, black haired, olive skinned, rather skinny (but muscular by current standards), and with a full, bushy beard.

It's a fair bet he didn't look like Cesare Borgia.



Boru

[chimp3]

Assuming, for the sake of the topic, that a troublemaking preacher corresponding to the Jesus of the Gospels actually existed, he was probably under 5'5" tall, brown eyed, black haired, olive skinned, rather skinny (but muscular by current standards), and with a full, bushy beard.

It's a fair bet he didn't look like Cesare Borgia.



Boru

Full beard and short hair as was the custom for Jewish men.