An Overview Of African Presence In The Bible

By Helen Long


The ordaining Christ-hood hope among the Christians has been altered to back one side of the current human races. This phenomenon has been achieved through deliberately excluding the African presence in the bible and flooding it entirely with the white race characters. Thus, this has neutered the diversified nature of the Holy Book which was originally purposed to suit a variety of religious deeds. However, various activities have given a hand in illustrating African presence in this book.

Several biblical miniseries have made tireless endeavors to precisely looking the holy book to bring about the actual facts in it. This has been advocated by the current generation which is ever thirsty of a faith rooted in truth. Similarly, it has also been initiated to eradicate the state of being mixed up by a monotony of the tint used to shade the images of the characters used in the biblical scriptures.

It is clearly evidenced in biblical texts that Africa is the cradle of humankind and is mentioned more times in this book than any other landmass in the world. This out rightly shows its presence in this holy book and thus most events outlined in it took place in such a continent. This hypothesis is depicted by the mention of terms like Ethiopians, Egyptians, Cushitic or other tribal words rooted in this continent.

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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