What Color
Is God?
God
is a Spirit and has transcended color. He is neither black nor white. However, he
created humanity with a variety of different colors, like different flowers in
a bouquet. This is because God, the ultimate artist, likes diversity in the way
he expresses himself; just like we do.
There is no superiority and inferiority in races for no aspect of the creation
at the very onset was inferior. In Genesis Chapter 1, God saw that everything
was good. He wanted all men made in his image (Genesis 1: 26). Since we are his
image, we have his potential in embryonic form. He has given us eternity to
bring this out. The Bible says there is no Greek
or Jew in Christ. So Jews and Gentiles are one in Yeshua!
However, I believe different races have different gifts, aptitudes,
temperaments etc., because they are unique aspects of his image. There is a
reason for this, according to God's purpose and calling.
However, the historical Jesus had a physical appearance. According, to the
Greek and Roman historians - his skin color was olive or some say swarthy. His
hair was long to shoulders-length and wavy; and in color, it was reddish brown.
His features were more or less Middle Eastern.
This is so because the ascendant cultures in those times were the Mediterranean
and Middle Eastern ones and the darker peoples of
The Caucasian peoples: the Goths, Vikings and Saxons came into the ascendancy
with the Gospel later on! Notice these days that the Bible belt countries rule.
Likewise,
Having said all of this, we should not strive to know Christ according to race
or ethnicity. All of this is interesting to us mortals.
