Tuesday, May 1, 2018

A Synopsis 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.

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.

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.

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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