"Black people are NOT cursed" Ethiopian Bible 800 yrs older than the King James version!

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The Ethiopian Bible is the oldest and most complete bible on Earth!


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Compare and Contrast. King James Version states:
The descendants of Ham, according to the Bible, included the Assyrians, Canaanites, Egyptians, and Ethiopians (Genesis 10:6–20). Those who adhere to the theory that black or dark-skinned people are cursed have pointed to the fact that Ham’s descendants include Africans; they also say Ham’s name, which means “hot” in Hebrew, is evidence that the dark-skinned people of the world, who mostly come from warmer climates, are all Ham’s children and therefore part of the curse of Ham. Early Christian theologians sometimes used this reasoning in an attempt to explain (not necessarily endorse) why some people were routinely enslaved.

Invoking the “curse of Ham” was a tactic developed during the rise of the Atlantic slave trade to justify forced, racial-based slavery. Talk of the “curse of Ham” was especially prevalent in the United States in the lead-up to the Civil War. Both before and after that era, however, Christian scholars noted that the practice of race-based slavery was explicitly unbiblical. Racism (Galatians 3:28; Revelation 7:9), man-stealing (Exodus 21:16), and abusive servitude (Exodus 21:20) are all forbidden in the Bible.


The Bibles created in Europe are copies and copies. A compilation of excerpts taken from Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt (Kemet) texts.

Let’s talk about a few of the most obvious ones.

The Flood Mythology:


Of the flood traditions that have survived to the present time, about 95% describe a global cataclysmic deluge, 88% tell of a favored family of humans saved from drowning to re-establish the human race after the deluge, 66% say the family was forewarned of the coming cataclysm, 66% blame the wickedness of man for the deluge, and 70% record a boat as being how the chosen family (and animals) survived the flood. More than one-third of these traditions mention birds being sent out from the boat.

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Did the Bible copy the Flood account from other myths and legends? | GotQuestions.org

The Fall of Man Mythology;

Let us compare the mythology of Adam, Eve and the Apple in the Garden of Eden with Pandora’s Box. Both stories tell how the very first woman unleashed sin, sickness, and suffering upon the world which had been, up to that point, an Edenic paradise. Both stories end with the emergence of hope, hope in a promised Redeemer in the case of Genesis, and “hope” as a thing having been released from the box at the very end of the Pandora legend.

The story of Adam and Eve is also borrowed from the Epic of Gilgamesh.


Link: Where did Adam and Eve originate from?

Eventually, five different editions of the King James Version were produced in 1611,1629, 1638, 1762, and 1769. It is the 1769 edition which is most commonly cited as the King James Version (KJV) (King James Bible - New World Encyclopedia.)

Contrary to popular belief, Christianity originated in East Africa. The Ethiopian Bible was written in Ge'ez an ancient dead language of Ethiopia. It's nearly 800 years older than the King James version and contains over 100 books compared to 66 of the Protestant Bible


 

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"My bullshyt fantasy story is older than your bullshyt fantasy story."
 

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There is no such thing as a complete Bible. There were thousands of biblical stories that were written. The role of the church councils were to sift through and decide which stories were actually what they considered to be divinely inspired and which were fictitious stories about biblical figures.

The fictitious stories, although rejected as of having divine origin, were still considered to contain wisdom that Christians could learn from but they were not to be included as holy or canon. The extra canonical stories are considered supplements, if you want to delve into them, but that the canonical books contain all knowledge sufficient to know God.

The Ethiopian Bible may contain more books that the protestant and catholic churches rejected as being divinely inspired, but the Ethiopian church still rejected the thousands of other biblical stories that were in circulation. So if complete means having more stories, that's not really an indicator as there are many other stories that are not included. Some of the books included in the Ethiopian Bible are stories that are germane to Ethiopian history, philosophy, and it's martyrs. So they would naturally not be included in Western Bibles. Ethiopia is Eastern Orthodox, while the West is Catholic/Protestant.

The creation story in Genesis comes from the Egyptians. The flood story comes from Sumer (the homeland of Abraham). Moses (the supposed author of the Torah) basically retold the stories but essentially set the record straight, that these stories were true, but it was the Supreme God that was the hand behind these things, not the Egyptian Ennead or the Sumerian Annunaki. He was in a sense positioning the God YHWH above all other gods of the surrounding nations and that this was revealed divine truth.

King James Bible is essentially compiled scripture translated into English from the Roman Scriptures that were in Latin after the Church of England split from the Roman Catholic Church. He also rejected, in a similar vein as Martin Luther, the Apocrypha books that the Roman Catholic Church decided were canon. However, they still kept the Apocrypha books as supplemental, just not to be considered as divine.

These things are not a conspiracy and neither just black and white. There are thousands of biblical stories, different churches include some and not others. But if Christians want to read these stories and get wisdom from them, they are not prevented from doing so.
 
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And just to mention another point, the Quran contains biblical stories from books that ALL Christian churches have rejected as being authentic or divine. Stories about Christ speaking as a newborn baby or Christ molding birds from dirt then breathing into them making them alive. But since it's in the Quran, which is considered to be the actual speech of Allah, Muslims have to regard those stories as truth, while the Christians consider them fictitious fables. The stories in themselves corroborate the divine nature of Christ so Christians naturally should have accepted them. Thousands of these stories were in circulation in 7th century Arabia. However, there is an obvious standard and those stories, although flattering to the person of Christ, did not measure up to what is considered to be divinely inspired.
 
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