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LilyM
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Well the Gospel did say ‘this Jesus will return just as you (the Apostles) saw Him go’. Whether that means he’ll physically be the same, who knows 
Hopefully we’ll recognise Him no matter what ethnicity He assumes.
Hopefully we’ll recognise Him no matter what ethnicity He assumes.
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Christy_Beth
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Oh, we’ll recognise Him alright. “Every eye shall see Him an every knee shall bow.”
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Lev23
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Acts 1:10-11It may be possible that Jesus may appear as a black man to some people when He comes (after all, He became a Jew during His first coming). All in good time…
They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
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FCEGM
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Precisely, Lev. He rose in a definite, albeit now-glorified, body, the same body with which He will return.
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SedesDomi
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Define “Black”.
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Patrick60
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I love Jesus. He created me. He gave His life for me. It doesn’t matter what He looks like, as far as I’m concerned. I’m more concerned about what I look like to Him.
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jimmy
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No, Christ is the incarnation of God. It is the perfect union of the divine and human. That said, He became a man, and a Jewish man to be more specific. He did not simply take on the appearance of a man. He actually became a man and He happened to take on the Jewish genes. He will appear as He was when He ascended because what He was when He ascended is who He truely is. What He took on in the incarnation was His and it was concrete.
That said, his race is irrelevant. He came to save men of all colors and races. Both Jew and gentile. He became consubstantial with all of us but at the same time He was a specific man of a specific geneology.
This actually sounds like some form of nestorianism or some other similar heresy in which the humanity of Christ is seperated from His divinity. As if He did not become an actual man.
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seekerz
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“It’s return to Earth” refers to whom exactly?
I will assume that the OP is French, but still respectfully request that the post title be edited.
As to Christ’s physical appearance: that (like the timing of His return) is a matter of Divine will and not for us to bother our heads about. All that matters is that He comes to rule the earth.
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jimmy
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I think this is a rather serious question because it deals with the union of natures in Christ. It seems that this idea that Christ could appear as a black man destroys the concreteness of Christ’s human nature. It is something that Christ only took on the appearance of. Christ had a specific human nature.
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seekerz
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What do you mean, “destroys the concreteness of Christ’s human nature”? Do we really know what Christ looked like when He walked this earth? For that matter, did the people of that region look like they do today? I will echo a former poster’s comments: define black. To my knowledge, black people span a wide spectrum of appearances and skin tones, so black isn’t even an objective standard.
Bottom line, I AM WHO I AM will look like He chooses to look.
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Padraig_77
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Personally I think it is ridiculous that people today are trying to claim Jesus was black.
This myth came about during the 60’s when the ‘Afrocentrist’ movement started. Afrocentrists like to claim all sorts of people were black, such examples are: the Egyptians, the Israelites, the ‘original Chinese’, the ‘original Vikings’, even Beethoven and Mozart! These people who make these sort of claims are just racists themselves who want to twist history to fit their agendas.Christ lived in the land of Palestine, and at that time people were predominately Mediterranean Caucasians with strains of Armenoid and Dinaric racial traits. To sum it up: He looked like a person Mediterranean area.
He is a reconstruction of what Christ looked like based on the Shroud of Turin:
http://conservation.catholic.org/jesus-turin-web4.jpg
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seekerz
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I believe that the original question was ‘could He return as a black person’, not whether He was black. My point was, the term *black *as commonly used today, covers a whole range of appearances and skin pigments and Christ can choose whatever appearance He desires, regardless of our approval or lack of it.Personally I think it is ridiculous that people today are trying to claim Jesus was black.
Christ lived in the land of Palestine, and at that time people were predominately Mediterranean Caucasians with strains of Armenoid and Dinaric racial traits. To sum it up: He looked like a person Mediterranean area.
He is a reconstruction of what Christ looked like based on the Shroud of Turin:
http://conservation.catholic.org/jesus-turin-web4.jpg
Why should it matter anyway?
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jimmy
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It doesn’t matter exactly what the Jews looked like. He will return in the same way He left. He chose to become a specific man and that is who He is. He is not just some general idea of a man that could appear as a white man or a black man or what ever. This question by the op basically says that Christ only took on the appearance of a man. According to it He doesn’t actually have the flesh and blood of Mary.
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LilyM
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His glorification certainly changed His body in lots of ways though - He still had His wounds but they were neither lethal nor painful, He walked through walls and disappeared at Emmaus. He ascended in that body to Heaven. He could hide His identity from people seemingly at will, eg from the disciples of the Road to Emmaus and Mary Magdalene.
That certainly is different to what the flesh and blood son of Mary did before the Passion - before His resurrection He never walked through walls, nor was He impervious to pain or death, nor could He make Himself unrecognisable. Nor did He ever levitate, let alone ascend to Heaven.
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Tracy10
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Some people may recoil in horror as I suggest Jesus was an alien. To many it seems more sensible that he would be just someone magical who floats around on clouds. I believe he was indeed alien, far more advanced than people on earth. As we learn more about the universe it seems almost insane to think that so many planets would be created and God would put people on only one.
The bible also refers many times to the heaven of the heavens. I’m not sure what that means but I would think that this indicates there could be many worlds like ours. Therefore, who knows what he is capable of? It could well be beyond our wildest imagination.
At any rate, colour isn’t important. When you focus on spirit instead, you’ll KNOW you’re part of God and he of you.
The bible also refers many times to the heaven of the heavens. I’m not sure what that means but I would think that this indicates there could be many worlds like ours. Therefore, who knows what he is capable of? It could well be beyond our wildest imagination.
At any rate, colour isn’t important. When you focus on spirit instead, you’ll KNOW you’re part of God and he of you.
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