Black Africans in the Bible: Is the Bible for White People Only? - Dan Rogers

Black Africans in the Bible: Is the Bible for White People Only?

By Dan Rogers

  • Release Date: 2012-10-04
  • Genre: Bible Studies
Score: 3.5
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Some scholars have assumed that all the people mentioned in the Bible are Caucasian. But the evidence from Scripture, corroborated by drawings in Egyptian tombs, shows that Black Africans are mentioned - often in a favorable way.

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  • Interesting Read

    5
    By moongk2
    Of course some white folks would take offense. Truth hurts.
  • Wow and they say the whites are racist

    1
    By Barbjean
    I never met more biggots than in a black community..of course the Bible had black people, in fact didn't they enslave the Jews in Exodus? You want cruelty go there..but then we have the Ethiopian and Philip. The Ethiopean needed an explanation of what he had been reading and Philip answered. And wasn't one of Solomon’s wives black? You all need to get over yourselves and be thankful for what you have, which is a better life than what you used to have..
  • Assumptions

    3
    By UnKnown Comic Hey
    Why would you think white people think see the Bible as white? Where do you get that premise? Every Southern Baptist Church I have ever been to has taught that the Bible is to be interpreted literally, historically, grammatically, allegorically and poetically in the correct order the writer meant it to be understood to the audience of the culture written to at the time. Example. Moses married an Ethiopian after his first wife died. I have not heard of many if any white or even tan Ethiopians. God temporarily strikes Mariem and Aaron with leprosy for complaining about the mix marriage between their brother Moses the Hebrew(Jew/Levite) and a Black Ethiopian. If people have any kind of conception of what someone may have looked like its from art which like mention is a historical record. The earliest paintings/oral traditional descriptions of Christ are by people who were part of the early Church who came in contact with the Apostles if not Jesus Himself during the first half of the first century. I am sure that some of the early Church paintings of Christ are close. They are not a "White Jesus" but of the Lord Jesus from the Land of Israel who looked like all the other common people there then and now. The first will be last and last first when he comes again. He may swap us up too lol the white will be black and black will be white lol.
  • Bitter

    1
    By Horatio Horn-blower
    Soft racism is still racism.
  • To the Aurthor

    3
    By Add pictures
    This was a good read. I do agree that we live in a society in where all bible charters are portrayed white. That's only because of the powers that be, they have allowed themselves to be drunk with ignorance. Sadly, many African Americans have left the Christian faith and are becoming Muslims. For the main reason you explained in your book. Many feel like Christianity is only for White People, and for the most part. When we see how today's society portray Christianity, it refers the the Caucasians. Prime example, republican are mostly Caucasians. So in Society terms, if your not a republican, your not a Christian. this is the kink of non-sense we see in our society today

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