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conservative christians think god is white ?

Medusa

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you may guess why l am asking it to them.lets discuss..
 
I'm an evangelical Christian and I don't believe God has a race. Jesus, as the son of God, was born into the Jewish people as prophesied but God is not human and thus doesn't have a "race." He created all races.
 
God isn't one race or another.
 
digsbe said:
I'm an evangelical Christian and I don't believe God has a race. Jesus, as the son of God, was born into the Jewish people as prophesied but God is not human and thus doesn't have a "race." He created all races.
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.) hi digsbe.the question is for some others
 
The basic idea of God as "white" comes from Revelations 1:14

14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
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It's one man's vision that has taken on a life of its own.
 
Lutherf said:
The basic idea of God as "white" comes from Revelations 1:14



It's one man's vision that has taken on a life of its own.
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God has a color to His/Her "skin"? WTF? That sounds utterly stupid.
 
Uh...I'm from the south, the bible belt, and I have never once met a single person who presumed to ascribe one racial feature or another to God.


Jesus, sure. But not God.
 
Medusa said:
you may guess why l am asking it to them.lets discuss..
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I suspect that almost all people who believe in God, tend to imagine it as whatever they themselves look like (if they believe the "made in his image" is a literal concept. Doesn't really matter either way. My concept isn't even human, and doesn't have a physical form, so it's really just a personalized symbol or concept anyway.
 
God is not white but he is definitely British.

That's why we don't have Earthquakes in Britain, because you don't crap on your own doorstep.
 
Lutherf said:
The basic idea of God as "white" comes from Revelations 1:14



It's one man's vision that has taken on a life of its own.
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Based on that it doesn't follow God is white, just his hair. And old people from any race can have white hair.
 
BrewerBob said:
Based on that it doesn't follow God is white, just his hair. And old people from any race can have white hair.
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Depends on how you read it. "Head and hairs" could very easily be read to indicate white skin and white hair.
 
Lutherf said:
The basic idea of God as "white" comes from Revelations 1:14



It's one man's vision that has taken on a life of its own.
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he was snowwhite ?:mrgreen:
 
Medusa, you idiot! He's only half white. God is obviously Scotch-Korean.

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Lutherf said:
Depends on how you read it. "Head and hairs" could very easily be read to indicate white skin and white hair.
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And this is why trying to make any kind of decision or learn anything from scripture is bull. Absolute truths should only be able to be "easily read" one way. But they're not because they have nothing to do with anything divine. They're the creations of selfish men who wanted to protect their own power.

To the OP, ultimately, people envision their deities to look like them. African gods looked like Africans. Asian gods look Asian. Indian gods (both American and Hindu), looked like them. White people's gods look like white people. That's why we have centuries of paintings that depict a Middle Eastern Jew as if he were an Italian.
 
Paschendale said:
And this is why trying to make any kind of decision or learn anything from scripture is bull. Absolute truths should only be able to be "easily read" one way. But they're not because they have nothing to do with anything divine. They're the creations of selfish men who wanted to protect their own power.

To the OP, ultimately, people envision their deities to look like them. African gods looked like Africans. Asian gods look Asian. Indian gods (both American and Hindu), looked like them. White people's gods look like white people. That's why we have centuries of paintings that depict a Middle Eastern Jew as if he were an Italian.
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If you look in the cabinet for something to eat and find it empty did the cabinet fail you? Scripture works the same way. You can only take from it what you are willing to put into it.
 
Jetboogieman said:
God is not white but he is definitely British.

That's why we don't have Earthquakes in Britain, because you don't crap on your own doorstep.
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I could certainly get behind the idea of God with a European accent and great hair...
 
Lutherf said:
You can only take from it what you are willing to put into it.
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Just as I always thought... people are looking for answers and being told they are in the Bible so the people start reading into things. You could do the same with any book.
 
Lutherf said:
Depends on how you read it. "Head and hairs" could very easily be read to indicate white skin and white hair.
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Oh brother... God wouldn't hide and make things so difficult if he really existed... if he wanted peace, love and a following he would simply declare himself to everybody in a clear cut, non-interpretive manner and be done with it.
 
digsbe said:
I'm an evangelical Christian and I don't believe God has a race. Jesus, as the son of God, was born into the Jewish people as prophesied but God is not human and thus doesn't have a "race." He created all races.
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Genesis, page 1: "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27). Inasmuch as my limited human mind can strive to imagine, I have never thought of the Creator as having a race. If God created all of us in His image (and I use this pronoun because it's conventional), that includes, well, everybody.
 
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