From “The Question We Must All Answer”

 

Since Jesus came, countless people have cast Him in their own image. Artists have projected their ethnicity and culture upon Him. Throughout this text you will see a variety of those portrayals. The Byzantines cast Him with Mediterranean features. The Europeans gave Him Caucasian features. The twentieth century artist Joe Cauchi, however, painted “Black Jesus Blesses The Children.”

     

Devout followers do the same to Him theologically and religiously. We have over-painted Jesus with myth and legend, expectations and desires. We cast Him into an image that fits our perceptions rather than observing the Masterpiece portrayed in Scripture. Driven by devotion, we desire the Jesus of faith to the one of revelation. Trying to make Him more, we make Him less. 

    

The twenty-first century does not resemble the first century. An ever-widening chasm separates our world and the world of New Testament, Roman-ruled Palestine. Consequently, the real Jesus has been lost in the mists of time.

 

 

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