@@CanadianAnglicanit didn’t start in Africa, you’re missing the point. Jesus was born and raised in Judaea he was not African. He was Hebrew, born in the Middle East. The religion traveled through the Middle East and into Africa before Europe.
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Africans can't convert to a religion they created. Christianity was started by African Hebrews in the part of the world which was African at the time the religion was created. The bible talks of mizraim (kemet, Egypt), Abyssinia (Ethiopia), kush, punt, Canaan (Palestine), all of which are in Africa. Judaism was started by the Egyptian high priest Moses, a black Hebrew. We can't convert to our own religion. For your information, the 10 lost tribes of Israel are in Africa ( the bible says when Jesus comes back, the lost tribes will come from beyond the rivers if Ethiopia). Get your facts right
@@bang8534 I’ve heard of your cult, you know as well as anyone how far off from mainstream history that nonsense is. Racist nonsense, when we get into the depths of the cult teachings, by the way. Hush with that.
@@inlonging "mainstream history " like mainstream media is nothing but lies. There is nothing "occult" in what I am saying. Christianity is not a European religion as you have been made to believe that we Africans have to convert to. Rather, it's our very own. Do your research and you will prove me right. I am not here to convince you but at the same time, I can't see you propagating lies and remain silent....
As an Ethiopian, I aim to present evidence that Orthodox Christianity existed in Africa long before Europe. The Ethiopian Bible, the world's oldest and most comprehensive, was written on goat skin in the early Ge'ez language, making it the first illustrated Christian Bible globally. Approximately 800 years older than the King James Version, it contains 81-88 books compared to the KJV's 66, incorporating texts omitted by the KJV, such as Enoch, Esdras, Buruch, and three Books of Maccabee. Another piece of evidence is King Ezana, who ruled the kingdom of Aksum from AD 330 to 356. He commemorated victories on stone tablets, with many standing obelisks in Aksum serving as enduring witnesses to Ethiopia's early embrace of Orthodox Christianity. A third piece of evidence lies in Ethiopia's mention 40 times throughout the Bible, as well as references in the Quran and Homer's Odyssey. Aksum claims to be the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, holding the 10 commandments God gave to Moses. Numerous other pieces of evidence exist for those seeking the truth. Gratitude is extended to the insightful Nigerian brother and all truth-seekers worldwide. God bless all.
@@AmedAfash from my understanding your are supposed to read the Bible precept upon precept line upon line here a little there a little. So the precepts don't match or lineup
islam, judeism and christianity all have the same roots, africa and middle east. Europe (babylon) was the Roman Empire and they stole everyone’s religion and made different sects within the Roman empire, zionism stole judeism, capitalists stole christianity and pharesees stole islam. all of these organizations have enslaved their own people with lies, fear and ignorance of the other side for their own gain and safety.
That's bcuz of the Bible they read from. Always found it funny that a western Bible is the leading reference to Christianity and most of the events that happened happened in Africa.
Ethopia become the first and oldest Nation to become a Christian state accepting Christianity as an official religion, while it took Romans a few century to make Christianity an official Religion
Christianity was present in Africa, long before colonization; gospel of Thomas & gospel of Mary and many other gospels were found nearby nag Hammadi, Egypt, possibly written in 70 to 90 AD to the latest 140 AD; and African nation was a strong nation back in time during Rome including Egypt, was not the subject for colonization by Western countries; also, Jesus is a first messiah, delivering a teaching of having one God for all, from slave to King, women to men, the poor and ill to the rich and well, all equally can go to Heaven, Kingdom of God if you believe in Jesus and God, He never taught a teaching of racism, but I do agree that certain individual, including a Pastor and Priest who used Christanity for wrong reasons and for oppression and abuse of power to commit sins but that is not the teachings of what Jesus taught us and these men are a product of evil sprits; in the Bible, blasphemy is an unforgettable sin, and no matter if he is a King, or a Priest, if he used the name of God for wrong reasons, his sins will not get forgiven according to Bible; also, the early Christanity is all about showing forgiveness, mercy, and love for one another, just like how Jesus lived his life to save others and he died in the cross for saving all of us, and how he spent all of his power and life to show love and mercy to the most vulnerable people; today's Bible is not really purely representing the early Christanity since religions have been used for abuse of power and authority; but Christanity itself is the one; regardless our color of skin, our background, God and Jesus chose us to be the one; you are powerful, you are beautiful, and you are brave and stronger than anyone because God is within us, that is the true teaching of Jesus, and he does not see any difference between a white man and a black man. You are all children of God.
What I've always questioned is Europe's version of "Christianity" (in quotation marks because that's probably not what it was called). Colonialism sure did push their version of "Christianity" on the continents. One black man stating this religion was already on the continent, CANNOT distract me from the FACT that COLONIALISM, and the CREATURES that run it, took what already existed and turned it into something UGLY. This is what they do with EVERYTHING!
Yes Christianity was present in Ethiopia and North Africa long before the missionaries from Portugal. However the Portuguese also played a large part in spreading Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa
This is true. At the same time, Christianity in Africa was predominantly concentrated to Egypt, Libya, Carthage, and Ethiopia during the first through 5th Centuries.... It didn't spread from those areas to other parts of Africa. It stayed in those regions and the other regions in Africa definitely were introduced to Christianity through colonialism
Before the arrival of Christianity, Ethiopia was essentially a polytheist land where people worshipped different forms of paganism. The gods Astar, Meder and Mahrem represented the sky, earth and war, respectively. These three gods were central to traditional and spiritual rituals.
@@christianndlovu-lh7vu West Africa, south was not Christian either, it was native, Christianity couldn't have spread there due to the sahara, and the arab empires controlling the north
@@Schoolrumblefan look I'm from Southern Africa myself and I can tell you for a fact our people did believe in God maybe not the eurocentric way but still we did believe in a higher power indigenous people of Canada for example believed in the Creator and believed he was the one who was responsible for making all the land as it or the many Chinese depictions of the Bible. You cannot simply believe that the God was presented to the world came through the means of colonization, slavery , and opression, like you are buying into the white man's lie in history if you were to believe that it's true
So let me just say that I do agree that Christianity was already established in Africa way before European colonialism, but unfortunately, somewhere down the line, something went wrong because a lot of Ethiopians are Orthodox and they don't practice what's biblical, they practice a lot of tradition.
I don't know if that history is exact, Judaism was in Africa first for sure, but Christianity at best was definitely in Anatolia first, which is either Asia or Europe depending on how you think, and where it was established first compared to any other location is not of any importance other than to serve ego, which is not of God and I'm sure frowned upon by Christ.
Armenia was the first country to adopt it as it official religion but the bible literally takes place in modern day Egypt, Palestine, Israel and even mentions EthiopianSudan and Cush(Africa) by name
LISTEN: To say Christianity originated in Africa is Debatable . Before the Ethiopian bible or any books or emerald tablets. brings this QUESTION. WHAT was here before Christianity in AFRICA? or Any Country? Before Religion? Does anyone know! clue? This was Before Religion or Any written scriptures or books! Its more important than any written scriptures , because it was here before Religion. And it Did not Originate in Any Country! Does anyone know?? if you know this? this will lead you to The Creator God, And not religion. Again it was Here before religion.
Yep, history goes deep in Africa. Europe had the tech revolution which is the path we’re still kind of on, but culturally Africa was ahead for a while… Also, Jesus wasn’t white.
Pointless conversation! The core of christanity is that is Jesus still the head of the church? Saviour? Or just put Him aside and preach about other idols?
You mean the first Christian government? Because Ethiopia is 2,000 miles from holy land -ie. Syria is right next door the word Christian comes from Syria first used there
I know he said no fact checking but: The Spanish word dios comes from the Latin word deus, which is derived from the Old Latin word deivos, and then from the Proto-Italic word deiwos, and finally from the Proto-Indo-European word deywós, which comes from the word dyew- meaning "sky, heaven". Deus is a singular word, but its plural is deii. In latin words that end in us for singular have a plural that ends in I. Thats why the plural for octopus is octopi.
@@pevlez Ethiopia is on the continent of Africa the people are proudly African history states Ethiopia fought for African liberty. The man speaking acknowledges Ethiopia. You sound salty bud you need a chill pill. Am Ethiopian and I can assure you Africa is more united then you can ever imagine. One Africa ✊🏾🔝
In order to have a canon of scripture u need the universal acceptance by the church most of books you r naming were in the Mediterranean world where the judeans live - please
Not really, we didn't have Christianity, Europeans took something from us changed it to fit their narrative and colonial intentions, then called it Christianity. The Bible and the Ethiopia book dont hold the same history, they hold similar history and the Bible has gaps of time to erase events that they can't fit to colonial intentions.
@@kaleab3377Why rely on the KJV? Why not a Latin Bible? or 2nd and 3rd century biblical manuscripts. The Ethiopian Bible dates back to the 4th century. Don't think narrowly about biblical history. I'm from Indonesia Those who received the new teachings in 1861 by German missionaries did not have this view of the Bible. We still refer to the manuscripts that were canonized by the Church fathers.
KJV Bible is heretical. Protestants left the Church, not the other way around. And I'm related to the ol'boy so I feel justified saying he was a bit nutters. Pious but out of his mind. There is only one true church, in two expressions, Holy Catholicism or Orthodoxy. We love our protestant brethren, and wish you to come back.
Well his argument was that the slaves weren’t introduced to Christianity by europeans when they were. So I’d say that’s pretty relevant. Idk the history of the Bible being pushed down slaves throats other than a lot of the whites justifications for slavery and their behavior was supported by the bible and their take on Christianity. Maybe they did believe they could save if not the lives, the souls of these poor heathen less than human in their eyes. Maybe their intentions were noble, but I doubt it. It was probably about control and protecting their bottom dollar. Or maybe they were backward zealots and thought that it was the right thing to do and that they were obligated to spread the word. It’s complicated. But the slaves brought to America weren’t Christian’s before Europeans came down the west coast of Africa.
Christianity was already in Africa but it was in certain parts of Africa, the North &East but it reached the other parts of Africa (West, Central, South) through the Europeans
no. i live in ethiopia here and we directly took christianity from apostels we were here before europeans and we are still here! no european can do that.
Incorrect. Ethiopian bible is the oldest book around. Ethiopians use to be jewish then they converted to chrsitianity. As a matter of fact there are ethiopian jews in ethiopia and isreal.
Christianity started in Armenia, you are wrong!!! Ethiopia was the second country to adopt Christianity in 325 A.D. But it was Emperor Constantine who made a decree at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. and also making Christianity legal in 313 A.D. with the Edict of Milan. Constantine was converted to Christianity in 312 A.D. long before Ethiopia adopted Christianity. Also, the kingdom of Aksum was at war with the kingdom of Kush during this time, and Kush was also at war with the Persian empire which was expanding in the east
Armenia is ahead of Ethiopia as a Christian nation not in individuals believer, if u go to the bible u will get the first non Israelite person Ethiopia enuch (act 8) baptism.
If it was in Africa before... then why did some people convert to it? Of course Christianity was in Africa before Europeans had it... Some were Muslim or even Jewish.
Christianity in Ethiopia was introduced by the Byzantine Empire merchants which are Turkish Europeans. And, it is ancient Roman culture that transformed into something else
This kind of feels disingenuous. Sure you can say Christianity was in Africa. However, that was only part of Africa. For most sub Saharan countries Christianity was introduced by Europeans. Africa is not one country. And when most people talk about Africans, they mean sub-Saharan Africans, to whom Christianity was introduced by Europeans missionaries Saying the Ethiopian bible is older than the King James version is also misleading in the given context. Sure the Ethiopian bible is pretty old. But it's predated by some other manuscripts. Moreover most Christians (including African Christians) don't use the Ethiopian bible. That would be akin to calling the bible the Torah simply because it had similar passages of scripture. Or even calling the Koran a Bible because it contains similar passages of scripture. I hate the victim mentality that blames everything on the "others". However don't start confusing your history. Do not pretend it's something it wasn't.
The Ethiopian church held its own distinct religious customs and a unique canon of the Bible. Therefore, the Ethiopian church community is globally unique in that it wasn't Christianised through European missionaries, but was highly independent and itself spread missionaries throughout the rest of Africa prior to European Christians contact with the continent. But yeah, some part of Africa was Christianized by Europeans and thats not a bad thing. Just like the Church having Filipino missionaries in Africa at present.
@@Slit-dl6gl I can agree with that. It's just that it feels like he's doing the very thing he's implying the Europeans did. Conveniently skipping over the parts that don't support his argument. And that's problematic.
I agree with him that Christianity is not a white European religion. Its just so happen that Europeans were also Christianized and they, being advanced race, made it easier to Christianize the entire world. For that, kudos to the white race.
@@Slit-dl6gl I'm going to assume you meant advanced civilization. That said Christianity as we know it today is predominantly a White European religion. All the major denominations are domiciled in Europe or other predominantly white counties. Sure other people and races participate but all decisions and doctrines are dictated in Europe. The Ethiopian Christian church makes up less than 2.5% of all Christian denominations. But more importantly the speaker seems to imply that the Christian religion was already being practiced all over Africa by the time European missionaries got to sub Saharan Africa. Which isn't true.
This is false. Not here to argue with anyone but for everybody’s knowledge for our religion. Christianity was adopted by Armenia and the Armenian people in 301 AD. It was the Armenian people that spread Christianity to the world, including Ethiopia in 400 AD. Armenia was Christian 100 years before. Again love to all on the planet not here to upset anyone. Just giving you facts.
Just because you adopt it as your state religion at a specific time, doesn't mean large amounts of people weren't already accepting Christianity before the government got on board officially. Nice try though.
