The "color" of Messiah is irrelevant.

Submitted by kman (United States), Nov 17, 2008 at 19:16

Yes, your "Prophet" would have prophesied a "black man". Why doesn't it surprise me that a Muslim would see the narrow view of a god that represents the narrower god?

Jesus Christ was from that part of the Middle East that gave birth to all races and, to follow, all nations. What does that say to the universality of God that he woudl bring his prophesied Messiah from the very fount of every nation and language on earth?

What does that say to the birth place and narrow vision of Islam? That God would select from one of the offshoots of the beginning to provide a narrowly represented Messiah, again, speaks to the narrowness of Islam.

Again, I will not present just "my" Messiah but, the one Messiah that came from the roots of mankind. He wasn't black, white, yellow, or brown. The "color" of man in that time and in that region, produced all the others from Noah.

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