Religion/Spirituality Lets talk about the role of Africa in early Christianity..

[TheProfessor]

and that proves what exactly? certainly not that Jesus was an African.



Please. Those "bin laden looking people" are pretty much what they looked like long ago as well...maybe a lil darker....doesn't make them black.

Yet these Israelites kept getting confused for being African. Yet these Israelites went to Africa to hide and for refuge. Yet these Israelites are described as being Black. But of course we have your opinion based on what you see today.

 

[Blackking]

and that proves what exactly? certainly not that Jesus was an African.



Please. Those "bin laden looking people" are pretty much what they looked like long ago as well...maybe a lil darker....doesn't make them black.

They were probably 'blacker' and less detached than me..... I'm not as African as Jesus

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Only the Israelites of that time didn't look like that.

I think people are forgetting the timing of these occurences. It's like me saying Brad Pitt is an all-American. Yeah but 300 years ago he looked like a foreigner. The Hebrews of that time did not look Arab, they looked African. Which is why Paul was confused for an Ethiopian. It's why Jesus hid in Egypt -- among other Africans.

How does one "look african," I thought Africa was sooooooo diverse and didn't have a "look"

This is what I'm talking about, y'all always switch shyt up to suit your arguments.

There are Ethiopians who resemble Arabs more than they do Eddie Murphy...so what if Jesus was mistakened for an Ethiopian.

 

[TheProfessor]

How does one "look african," I thought Africa was sooooooo diverse and didn't have a "look"

This is what I'm talking about, y'all always switch shyt up to suit your arguments.

There are Ethiopians who resemble Arabs more than they do Eddie Murphy...so what if Jesus was mistakened for an Ethiopian.

Leave this thread because you just don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, there are Ethiopians today who resemble Arabs...after hundreds and hundreds of years of racial mixing. They didn't resemble Arabs then! In fact, the word Ethiopia was the word Africa before Africa was the word Africa. Just go away, man.

 

[emoney]

When you say "only Egypt and Ethiopia", you also have to take into consideration that the geography in the 100 AD was far different that what it is today. Egypt and Ethiopia were significantly larger than they are today, and they encompassed numerous tribes and people due to various conquests and politics. You make it seem as if it was only a small, insignificant portion of Africa were influenced by Egypt and Ethiopia when in actuality their influence in the region was quite significant.

I was pretty clear in my post about where early Christianity in Africa was present

They left churches in Ethiopia and Egypt and nowhere else

THE END!

 

[TheProfessor]

I was pretty clear in my post about where early Christianity in Africa was present

They left churches in Ethiopia and Egypt and nowhere else

THE END!

In other words, wherever they found people in the land mass known as Africa today since "Ethiopia" included the following countries today: South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Central African Republic, Chad, etc.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Leave this thread because you just don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, there are Ethiopians today who resemble Arabs...after hundreds and hundreds of years of racial mixing. They didn't resemble Arabs then! In fact, the word Ethiopia was the word Africa before Africa was the word Africa. Just go away, man.

...except thats not a fact, just made up rhetoric

 

[TheProfessor]

...except thats not a fact, just made up rhetoric

No, it's fact.

 

[TheProfessor]

Ethiopia is the English transliteration of the Greek word "Αιθιοπα" (or Aithiopia) which originates from the Greek word "Αιθιοψ" or "aithiops" which literally means "charred or burnt." "Aithiops" is in fact composed of "αιθιω" (meaning "I burn") and "ωψ" (meaning face or complexion).

Prior to Greek history, Ethiopia was known as "Kush" by the ancient "Egyptians." The Buhen stela (housed in the Florence Museum), which dates from the reign of Sety I (1294-1279 BC), refers to this region as "Kas" and "Kash." Kush is also mentioned as "KSH" in other texts dated between 1550 - 1069 BC.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

In other words, wherever they found people in the land mass known as Africa today since "Ethiopia" included the following countries today: South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Central African Republic, Chad, etc.

well you just finished saying Jesus looked "like an African"....last time I checked people in Uganda and Kenya look a lot different from people in Ethiopia and Somalia. Can you clear that up for me?

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Ethiopia is the English transliteration of the Greek word "Αιθιοπα" (or Aithiopia) which originates from the Greek word "Αιθιοψ" or "aithiops" which literally means "charred or burnt." "Aithiops" is in fact composed of "αιθιω" (meaning "I burn") and "ωψ" (meaning face or complexion).

Prior to Greek history, Ethiopia was known as "Kush" by the ancient "Egyptians." The Buhen stela (housed in the Florence Museum), which dates from the reign of Sety I (1294-1279 BC), refers to this region as "Kas" and "Kash." Kush is also mentioned as "KSH" in other texts dated between 1550 - 1069 BC.

You said all of Africa was called Ethiopia. That isn't what this says.

 

[TheProfessor]

well you just finished saying Jesus looked "like an African"....last time I checked people in Uganda and Kenya look a lot different from people in Ethiopia and Somalia. Can you clear that up for me?

They look a lot different today, you mean. Right?

 

[TheProfessor]

You said all of Africa was called Ethiopia. That isn't what this says.

I've already outlined above what Ethiopia included. Do you have any facts to offer or just outright denial?

 

[GetInTheTruck]

They look a lot different today, you mean. Right?

Well technicaly if you want to play that game then all humans looked alike at one point in time. I'm cool with that.

But we both know that isn't what you're trying to promote though.

So I want to be clear, you're saying that Ethiopians and Somalians are a less pure strain of black than central/southern Africans due to "race mixing?" Do I have that right?

 

[TheProfessor]

Well technicaly if you want to play that game then all humans looked alike at one point in time. I'm cool with that.

But we both know that isn't what you're trying to promote though.

So I want to be clear, you're saying that Ethiopians and Somalians are a less pure strain of black than central/southern Africans due to "race mixing?" Do I have that right?

Ethiopians and Somalians today, right?