A Synopsis Of African Presence In The Bible

By Helen Long


Candid enough, the Christianity faith has been distorted by the recent theological publications and studies. This has been brought about by covering the black presence in the bible through whitewashing biblical history thus directly gearing to the saddening effects of racism. This is because the Holy Scripture is a multicultural book that is truly proven by archaeology and history which has outlined a vast number of incidences that manifests 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.

The first man was described to have a skin hue of black continent by the Hebrews. This has helped illustrate that in ancient times the black people took part in holy scriptural activities basing on such imprints. In addition, the first and second Romans persecuted Christians had their saint pictures painted in black an aspect that vividly showed that there existed African origin saints in the past.

In addition, as the world nations are tabulated based on their origin, colored nations are pro-genies of a dark-skinned son of Noah, namely; Ham. This is based on the definition of his name which implies a dark-skinned person. This has vividly shown the factual availability of Africans in both the before Christ died and after his death.

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 Africans were at the founding of the early church after the day of Pentecost. This is clearly illustrated by the first Gentile convert who was the Ethiopian eunuch. Thus, the presence of Africans in biblical texts has helped channel the vision of the Creator for humanity which advocates majorly on a reconciled relationship in a diversified approach.

Therefore, the existence of Africans in biblical scriptures has helped bring a theme of diversity which shows the mighty will of God. Thus, this diverse attribute clearly shows that God cannot be contained in just one race, ethnicity or nation due to His mightiness attribute.




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