Question for those who call themselves true Christians? Why on/in all the Jehovah Witness literature are the??

Why on and inside the literature are all the Biblical characters always White? Even Job and the Ethiopian Unich, and Adam %26amp; Eve, they are all portrayed as being White. If Jehovah's Witnesses are to preach in truth why is it that they cannot depict the Bible characters as the way they truly are? Why must everything be White and esp. in America?





For instance, Job was the greatest Oriental the Bible says in the land at his time, yet when you see pictures of him in the Watchtower and Awake, etc., his skin is so pale white and his eyes are blue, nothing truly depicting an Oriental at all.





Again, Adam %26amp; Eve were of dark skin as that was just those two who walked the earth at the time of their existence until Eve bore children. Over the years the skintone of Adam and Eve has gotten so blinding white and even the society paints them with blue eyes now.





Some of the publications show mostly white, but pictures of other ethnicities ';in the new system'; but it's quite obvious mostly white.Question for those who call themselves true Christians? Why on/in all the Jehovah Witness literature are the??
They are not the only ones to depict most characters of the bible white.Question for those who call themselves true Christians? Why on/in all the Jehovah Witness literature are the??
So...you could not provide a specific example. That is unfortunate.

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Saying someone is not a true christian because YOU don't agree with an artist conception is just ridiculous! How someone looked is not what's important, it was how they lived their lives.

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You seem to be the one with the problem with skin color.

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People from Jerusalem were consider from the orient. That does not mean that they looked Asian. They would pretty much look as those from Jerusalem look today. I honestly never think of any of the characters as looking ';white';, but always think of them as Jewish or Israelite. Usually dark hair and brown eyes, and a nice tan. Some such as Moses or Abraham are older and have gray hair, that may make them seem more ';white'; since gray hair is lighter than black or dark brown. Perhaps Job looked pale because he was sick with boils. I don't remember him looking ';white';.





You really don't know what Adam and Eve looked like, but blue and green eyes came from somewhere. I'm sure there are blue and green eyed Jews.





David had red hair. So there were fairer Israelites.





I think you are making a issue about something that is not important. It is an artist conception. It is more important to get your life in order so that you can survive Armageddon and actually meet Job, Abraham, Moses, Able and see for yourself.
I am more concerned about them following the true Bible and Jesus Christ than I am in the pictures they produce in their literature which is not the Bible.
I don't think you or I have a clue what color anyone undocumented was. It would be presumptuous of you to become the arbiter of PC in christian iconography. Here is a thought. Why don't you, instead of biotching about it, get out your pallette and brush and paint your ownseries of biblical righteousness for the rest of us to criticise.
You are asking Christians why a group that not only is considered a cult by all other groups but considers all other denominations heretics believe something ? You are asking the wrong people.
Jehovah's Witness publications were almost entirely devoid of color until the late 1980's. Since then, the drawings in the pages of Jehovah's Witnesses have actually depicted an enormous range of likenesses for Adam, Eve, Job, and Jesus (including many that are quite dark).





Jehovah's Witnesses are interested in both accuracy and in reaching hearts of every ethnicity. What possible purpose would be served in depicting every bible character as though he or she had been Scandinavian?





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I don't believe they were white..And I am not sure if they were black... I personaly think he was an olive/dark tanish skin tone.. But every one thinks differently... Nowhere does it say, Adam and Eve were white...So you have to do a study to see what area they were in 'Middle East' then you look at their skin color and it's olive/dark tanish.





Hope this helps... haha I am still not 100% sure myself, but I like this answer the best...








You 15 yrs answerer,


Megan
Perhaps you should take a look @ some more recent Watchtower publications... as far back as I can remember, the Ethiopian eunuch has been portrayed as a black man. Jesus is shown as a Semitic, and Adam and Eve are light-skinned, but not necessarily blue-eyed.


BTW, on exactly what authority do you assert that Adam and Eve were dark skinned? (I'm not saying they were white; I'd imagine they were olive-skinned).
Because the story of the Bible in the OT was about the Jewish people.Look @ Jews today,some are fair-skin,some blue eyes,some dark and hairy.





Stop being so sentimental..
We tend to paint pictures of others in our own image. If we are white, then we think God is white, and Jesus was white. If we are black, we think of God as black, and Jesus as black. It is just human nature to want others to look like us. I wouldn't take it personally. You are quite right that the Bible characters were oriental/ and dark skinned. I have no doubt that Jesus looked very Jewish, and most of the Bible characters were dark as well.
Your accusation is races besides European such as Asian or African are displayed on watchtower literature as being white?





If that is what you are claiming then I am sure you can proved an example...
You must be blind because they aren't all white in the Jehovah Witnesses literature.
A lot of that has to do with the fact that most of these conceptions have been passed along from the time of Medeival Europe. I don't think it's necessarily racism or bigotry, I think it's just people being stupid.