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Mike reflects on how different cultures depict Jesus visually in their own ethnic likeness, arguing this is natural and not racist, since pre-modern people rarely saw people from other cultures.

Live Q&A With Mike Winger 00:06:42 – 00:09:14

Continuation of discussion on the race/appearance of Jesus

Mike observes that Korean, Hispanic, European, and Middle Eastern Christian art each portrays Jesus as looking like the local population. He argues this is a natural result of limited cultural exposure before modern media, not racism. He says his only concern is that Jesus was Jewish, not what he looked like.

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