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Back in the seventies Up With People would always come to several High Schools and would have a concert downtown. My sister sighed us up to be a host family for next year when they came back. The next year a member of Up With People stayed in our house for the few days that they were in town. She was really excited that Up With People was going perform at the Super Bowl halftime that year, but it was a different cast than the one she was in. Up With People always then and still does have 3 or 4 different casts that go all over the world. When we went to the concert the girl that stayed with sang a solo, but in true Up With People fashion she never mentioned to us that she was going to sing a solo that night. She sung Granddad’s Wooden Chain so today you get not one but two Up With People songs.
In the Up With People song What Color is God’s Skin their answer is that God’s skin is all colors and everyone’s the same in the Good Lord’s sight. Of coarse you could say that’s what Up With People would say after all their just a bunch of good-doer liberals! Really what is the color of God’s skin. How do you know? Well I have an idea on that.
Before we answer the question What Color is God’s skin let’s talk about God’s son Jesus and what color his skin was. Now there are a couple of things we know about Jesus for instance we know that he is from what the Bible calls, The House of David so we know he was a Jew. Isaiah said in Isaiah 53:2 2He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. New International Version. Yes we for sure know these two about how Jesus looked but have you ever seen a painting or a picture or a movie where Jesus was not a 6’2 good looking white man? Besides does anyone really knows what a Jew suppose to look like? Well yes there is there once was a group who we call the Nazis. The Nazis taught the German kids in school reading, writing, arithmetic, and how to spot a Jew. They had many textbooks on facial characteristics of Jews these book would have a picture of a true German and on the opposite page have a picture of a Jew. The Nazis taught their kids, OK remember this is the Nazis talking not me, that Jews have big noses and no chins whatsoever. 
The movie that totally makes my point is the Mel Gibson movie The Passion of the Christ. People say that this movie gets it right and is the most realistic movie ever made about Jesus. Well I haven’t seen this movie, but for the purpose of today’s story we’ll say their right. What I want us to take a look who plays Jesus that’s Jim Caviezel. Now I really like Jim Caviezel and from what I can tell he’s a good Christian man. I saw an interview that he did and he said that he was meant to play Jesus after all his initials were JC. Well OK but remember Charles Manson used to say he was Jesus because his name was Manson you know The Son of Man. Person of Interest was one of our favorite shows and we watched it every week. In Person of Interest Jim Caviezel played John Reese the man in the suit who used to be in the Special Forces and you didn’t want to mess with him. And by the way if you ever want to remake any Clint Eastwood movie Jim Caviezel is your man. If you watched the show you would know that Mr. Reese worked with Harold Finch now Mr. Finch looks were quite different from that of Mr. Reese. Now suppose you could take a picture of both of these men to Isaiah and ask him which of these two looked more like Jesus. My guess would be that he would pick Michael Emerson who played Mr. Finch over the good looking Jim .
What Michael Emerson has a big nose and no chin whatsoever! One thing we know for sure is that Jesus had a chin! Jesus face had to be symmetrical after all he was the son of God and God wouldn’t have a son whose face wasn’t symmetrical. What does a symmetrical face suppose to look like? What you do is when you look at someone from the side, their profile, draw an imaginary line from the tip of their nose to their chin. I would suggest that you not take a ruler and do this for real, remember that might be a good suggestion. If it’s a straight 90 degrees then their face is symmetrical. Now if it makes an angle then their face is not symmetrical. If they have a big nose and no chin and it makes a huge angle then those people are what the technical word is ugly. Hey I don’t make these rules, that’s just what people say. Then here’s another point I would like to make. If Jesus looked like a white European man wouldn’t anyone in the Bible notice that? You may say that in the Bible they didn’t know what a white European man looked liked. Yes in the Bible they had 6 foot 2 white men that looked exactly like Jim Caviezel except they all wore an uniform of a Roman soldier. Oh did we forget about the Romans? If Jesus looked like most of us think then there would be a lot of differences in the Bible. For instance when Jesus met the woman at the well for a drink, she would say to him How is it that you, a Roman asks me a Smartian for a drink? and Jesus said Oh I’m not a Roman I’m a Jew and the woman said You don’t look like any Jew I’ve ever seen you look like a Roman to me and Jesus said I’m a Jew believe me! I know you might said that we shouldn’t get all worked up on what Jesus looked like after all isn’t Jesus just like Santa Claus and we can have him look anyway we want? If you say that Jesus was a 6-2 good looking white man and there’s nothing wrong that. Well there is something wrong with that because you are calling the Prophet Isaiah a lair. Then you just as they say opened a big can of worms because if Isaiah prophecy about how Jesus looked is wrong then what other prophecies Isaiah made are not true? Isaiah made a lot of prophecies about the Second Coming of Christ, if you can’t believe all of Isaiah’s prophecies then how can you believe any of them? You may ask why are we talking about what Jesus looked like while the today’s song asks the question What Color is God’s Skin? Oh I almost forgot what about Adam and Eve? If you see any paintings of Adam and Eve you may notice they are the whitest people you ever saw. And remember they were naked all the time and never even got a tan! You may say this easy to explain the Bible says they were created “in the image of God” . Wait that explains it Jesus was a 6’2 white man because he looked just like his Father! Now all the Trump worshippers can said ” Jeff you finally gotten something right! I’m glad you got it right and aren’t like those liberal Up With People who thinks God is something other than white!