COSMO@TRIUMFER (02/08/90)
Greetings, Since Jesus was a Jew, and the Jews evidently got the female side of their blood from Egypt (the sons of Jacob went to Egypt to get away from the famine, and there's no record of them taking women, thus they would have picked them up there), and they stayed there for 600 years before Moses led them out, probably intermarrying with the population all along the way, and since the Egyptians did intermarry with the Nubians just like American whites have with American blacks (I learned in my humand genetics course that it's nearly impossible to find an American black with more than 60% african blood these days, and that's after only about 200 years) then it wouldn't be unreasonable to speculate that He had african blood in him, therefore He probably would have looked something like the Safardic Jews of today. It hardly matters though. In fact, it doesn't matter one infinitesimal bit what His race/color was, as long as the genetically inert holanderic gene (the only chromasome guaranteed to be passed from father to son) came from David, and if it were to turn out He was black, I couldn't POSSIBLY care less! Although, the Bible does hint that He was kind of ordinary looking. When the Pharisees decided to round Jesus up, they asked Judas to kiss Him on the cheek so they could identify Him, which means they couldn't get any distinguishing descriptions from people who'd seen Him. Peace David
COLELA@SNYPLAVA (l. anne cole) (02/09/90)
>bit what His race/color was, as long as the genetically inert holanderic >gene (the only chromasome guaranteed to be passed from father to son) came Let's not forget He got his genes from Mary, and not Joseph. :-)
D2MG@SDSUMUS (Kurt Evans) (02/09/90)
David (COSMO@TRIUMFER) writes of Jesus' genetic makeup: >. . . as long as the genetically inert holanderic >gene (the only chromasome guaranteed to be passed from father to son) >came from David . . . Matthew 1 says: 18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows. When His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child of the Holy Spirit. 19 And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her, desired to put her away secretly. 20 But when he had considered this, behold, and angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife; for that which has been conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. For Jesus' glory, Kurt