Saturday 28 April 2018

A Synopsis 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.

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, 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, the earliest and most famed patriarchs bore children with women from the colored tribes, and the case studies may include Abraham and Hagar, and Moses and the Ethiopian women. Thus, this has manifested that some biblical events were dominated by black characters. Therefore, their presence in this Bible was a vital element in script writing.

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.

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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