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faethor said:Jesus black? Looking at the historic region Jesus was much blacker than the blue eyed, blonde haired aryan which he's frequently illustrated ase in our society. And likely much blacker then the current people which reside in the region.metalman said:A ?Christian? who believes Jesus is a black Marxist rebel!
Judas had to point Jesus out to those arresting him. This implies that Jesus' physical appearance did not differ from his disciples.
a forensic reconstruction of a typical Galilean Semite
faethor said:Christians as Marxists? Again looking at history early Christian societies tended to be communal. They were clearly more Marxist in nature then capitalistic.
Martin Luther: Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants said:The Gospel does not make goods common, except in the case of those who do of their own free will what the apostles and disciples did in Acts IV. They did not demand, as do our insane peasants in their raging, that the goods of others - of a Pilate and a Herod - should be common, but only their own goods. Our peasants, however, would have other men's goods common, and keep their own goods for themselves. Fine Christians these! I think there is not a devil left in hell; they have all gone into the peasants."
The goals of Black Liberation Theology are to turn religion into sociology and Christianity into a political agenda. BLT is only interested in politics, not preaching the gospel of the Bible and personal salvation. BLT images Jesus as Che Guevara.
The understanding of the Bible that orthodox Christian's have is that Jesus did indeed associate with the downtrodden and the oppressed, but He was interested in their souls, not in their politics. The zealots of Jesus' day were looking for a militant Messiah, and Jesus did not fit the bill, nor did He ally Himself with them or their cause.