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.

However, a size-able number of sojourner crews have invested most of their mental and other resources to comprehensively extract the original truth in this book by uncovering African presence in it. This has been brought into action by the attribute of modern generation which typically bases their faith on a well-founded truth. Similarly, it has helped explain the homogeneity of using a sole hue when painting biblical characters.

Through the archaeological activities related to the Holy Scriptures, the oldest human fossils were discovered in Africa. The continent is also severally mentioned in this holy book more than any other continent. Therefore, the two aspects have clearly manifested in your bible since most events in such a book are perceived to have taken place in it. This is concretely shown by the availability of African terms of nations, tribes or regions.

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.

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.

Similarly, the biblical patriarchs most were married or had their children with women from Africa. This aspect has shown the rise of African dominance in scriptures. Therefore, most excluded biblical texts took place in landmass of this black generation. Therefore, their presence in this holy book has a crucial role in the overall theological activities.

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.

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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