Saturday, April 21, 2018

An Overview Of African Presence In The Bible

By Helen Long


Truly, the founding beliefs in Christianity realm have been misguided by the current biblical citations which have biased illusions. This has solely being triggered by the ideology of masking the African presence in this holy book and absolutely dominating it with European characters. This is contrary to the multiculturalism nature of the bible which supports a variety of churches and Christ-hood ways. The history and archaeological activities have aided prove the African presence in the bible.

Various theological elites have ventured their efforts to look deeper into the holy book to unmask the hidden truth in it. This has been championed by the presence of the younger generation which is hungry for a Christ-hood faith grounded in truth. Additionally, it has been purposed to help efface the confusion in rhetoric questions experienced by Christians about the sole color used to paints biblical characters.

Historical activities have helped shown black existence in such a holy book by discovering the most ancient human relics in Africa. This has directly illustrated that most biblical events took place on the continent. Similarly, the mention of African terms of tribes and nations like Egypt and Ethiopia have also shown that several activities mentioned in the Bible took place in it.

The Hebrew cultural heritage has also proven their existence in this holy book by defining the first man as a swarthy with a dark skin which is the all-time shade for Africans. Moreover, they also describe him as being a product of a dark clay soil which is always very black. On the other hand, the Romans catacombs show their paintings being done in black color. This clearly manifests the presence of black people in biblical events.

Similarly, the sons of Noah were termed as the ordaining pro-genies of current races. Ham who was one of them was perceived to be the father of the colored nations due to its name which meant a black color. Therefore, this clearly illustrated that the black nations had taken a critical part in scriptural events in both the old and the new testaments of this Holy Book.

In addition, many ancient and famed Hebrew patriarchs had married to adorable women from African tribes. Abraham; who was the father of faith, had children with Hagar from the Hamitic tribe in Africa. Moses was married to an Ethiopian whilst Jacob begot children with two handmaidens from African tribes. Thus, Africans played a paramount task in patriarch scriptures.

Moreover, the earliest church in Antioch was believed to be have founded by the first Christians who were converted in the mission of the seventy-two. The first one being the Ethiopian eunuch, thus he is perceived to have taken a critical part in it. This brought about the diversified composition of the early church was a foresight of God for a reconciled unity of Christians.

Therefore, the black study text has enabled Christians to embrace a new unity together with a redeemed humanity of identity regardless of race. This has obliged them to celebrate diversity portrayed in biblical events heeding the exemplary of enormous nature of God which can be contained by a variety of races, ethnicity, and nations.




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