I often wonder why our missionaries do well in Africa, with a snow-white Christ. Perhaps because white is a sacred color, in albino, or any other form, to the African tribes. Given time, mightn’t Christ darken there too? The form does not matter. Content is everything.
I think is is true to some extent; but that the same time Christ did and does have a real, physical body with specific features. Those who lived near him saw him as we has bodily. So there should be an acknowledgment of this fact, although it’s true that Christ suffered with US, and thus also suffered with the fire balloons and in some way took on the body of a fire balloon. Even we cannot really know exactly what Christ looked like, so of course even we merely imagine him as a particular form which is similar to our own and demonstrates his incarnation as a body like ours.
