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DavidMcC wrote:

proudfootz wrote:

aban57 wrote:

DavidMcC wrote:
Sorry, but it only seemed like a sensible question to ask about historical Jesus. The Jesus of the bible didn't even exist, so how could he have had a skin-colour?

Don't be sorry, the fault is mine here. Wrong topic. I was following a discussion somewhere else about how Jesus is depicted. The usual "Jesus was not white, he lived in the middle east". I was wondering what was the most plausible skin color, that's all. Never thought about the "god's color" side of the story before.

I don't see any problem with discussing that sort of thing here.

hence my reply upthread.

I suspect that historical Jesus was a relatively pale-skinned individual, perhaps due to being a half-cast, and this might have made him "stand out from the crowd" a bit.