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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.

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.

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.

In Hebrew culture, Adam is defined as dusky, dark-skinned like a shadow which clearly indicates the original tint of Africans. Similarly, it also portrays that the first man was made from the alpha soil which is clay dust and is always dark brown in color. Additionally, the early pictures of the black saints and other biblical characters were destroyed and replaced with white icons of saints and Bible characters implying concrete facts about the black dominance in this holy book.

Similarly, according to the table of nations in the book of Genesis, it declares that the three sons of Noah were the progenitor of the present generation. Ham is termed as the African people progenitor basing on the meaning of his name which means burnt and Cush black. Therefore, this lays the foundation for the existence of Africans in both the BC and AD era thus they have taken part in biblical events.

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.

Nevertheless, the first church in Antioch is perceived to be founded by a black individual. This is backed by the first convert in the mission of the seventy-two Christians; who was the Ethiopian eunuch. Therefore, the blend of both the colors in such a Bible text is a surest-fire prove of the plan of God on the vision for the humane kind which is diversified.

Thus, the presence of black people in this bible has helped streamline the humanity redemption through a diversified mode. This diversity of scriptural formulation has out rightly manifested the nature of Supernatural Being which is well accommodated by a blend of a variety of colors, nations, and ethnicity.




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