Are you a Christian 'White" Nationalist?

https://www.history.com/news/what-d...olars, Revelation 1,refined as in a furnace.”


What Does the Bible Say?

The Bible offers few clues about Christ’s physical appearance. Most of what we know about Jesus comes from the first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. According to the Gospels, Jesus was a Jewish man born in Bethlehem and raised in the town of Nazareth, in Galilee (formerly Palestine, now northern Israel) during the first century.

We know Jesus was about 30 years old when he began his ministry (Luke 3:23), but the Bible tells us virtually nothing about what he looked like―except that he didn’t stand out in any particular way. When Jesus was arrested in the garden of Gethsemane before the Crucifixion (Matthew 26:47-56) Judas Iscariot had to point Jesus out to his soldiers among the disciples―presumably because they all appeared similar to one another.
 
For many scholars, Revelation 1:14-15 offers a clue that Jesus's skin was a darker hue and that his hair was woolly in texture. The hairs of his head, it says, "were white as white wool, white as snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace.”

“We don't know what [Jesus] looked like, but if all of the things that we do know about him are true, he was a Palestinian Jewish man living in Galilee in the first century,” says Robert Cargill, assistant professor of classics and religious studies at the University of Iowa and editor of Biblical Archaeology Review. “So he would have looked like a Palestinian Jewish man of the first century. He would have looked like a Jewish Galilean.”
 
evince said:
There is this
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It was a revelation of Jesus I believe


The white hair may have come after death


It’s said he had no distinct characteristics that made him stand out while alive


As per the Having to be pointed out in a crowd to the guards
 
If he had long, blonde, straight hair and blue eyes with light skin he would have stood WAY OUT
 
Jarod said:
Is it your belief that the White European's who founded America created a 'Christian' nation.
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I’ll bite. “No” is my answer. They created a nation where Christianity could flourish though. It wasn’t that way everywhere else in the world.

They founded a European version of Christianity?
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“No” again. Many of them were trying to break free from that and because of the liberties available in the newly founded US they chose to come here to do it. Obviously they had some baggage from their former religious lives but …

Or the Middle Eastern foundation that was Christianity?
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“No” again. But continuing my thought from above … many of them truly tried to get back to that (what you called “the Middle Eastern foundation that was Christianity) and tried to do so to the best of their ability.

From the time that Martin Luther began to question the Catholic Church and with the invention of mass print, putting the Bible in the hands of the common man, there have been people trying to get back to that (parenthetical statement above) and this country was the best place to do it at that time.

But no, our founders did not build a “Christian nation” rather they built a nation where Christianity could flourish, hence the influence it has had on society over time.
 
leaningright said:
I’ll bite. “No” is my answer. They created a nation where Christianity could flourish though. It wasn’t that way everywhere else in the world.



“No” again. Many of them were trying to break free from that and because of the liberties available in the newly founded US they chose to come here to do it. Obviously they had some baggage from their former religious lives but …



“No” again. But continuing my thought from above … many of them truly tried to get back to that (what you called “the Middle Eastern foundation that was Christianity) and tried to do so to the best of their ability.

From the time that Martin Luther began to question the Catholic Church and with the invention of mass print, putting the Bible in the hands of the common man, there have been people trying to get back to that (parenthetical statement above) and this country was the best place to do it at that time.

But no, our founders did not build a “Christian nation” rather they built a nation where Christianity could flourish, hence the influence it has had on society over time.
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Well said .



What do you think about:

1 Timothy 3:16–17, "All Scripture is God-breathed and. is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training. in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be. thoroughly equipped for every good work."
 
Jesus had a fro and brown skin. He was of average height and weight


Very likely had brownish eyes


Average height was about 5’5” at that time


Most men wore their hair short at the time
 
evince said:
Revelation 1:14-15 NRSV

His head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; his eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters.
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Burnished bronze
 
Jarod said:
Is it your belief that the White European's who founded America created a 'Christian' nation.

They founded a European version of Christianity? Or the Middle Eastern foundation that was Christianity?
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Bored again? You really are a twit.
 
Jarod said:
Is it your belief that the White European's who founded America created a 'Christian' nation.

They founded a European version of Christianity? Or the Middle Eastern foundation that was Christianity?
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I would say it was founded, in part, on Christian values. Not on Muslim, or Shinto, or Zoroasterist values. That doesn't make the US a "Christian" nation however. It certainly helped the US to have those values compared to all of Central and South America that inherited much of their value system from the Catholic Church and practiced a state religion.
 
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