Should Black People Trust The Bible? | Dr. Esau McCaulley 

"If my reading of scripture makes me less like Christ than I know that I've read them incorrectly" Esau McCaulley

Really enjoyed this conversation, learned much.

Enjoyed the conversation and your book Reading while black.

From the beginning to the end, at some point in time he gave us his word. His word is him, it does not matter what we feel. He's telling us what happened from the beginning through the end and whats about to happen.

"Until some body can do life better than Jesus, then I am going to keep doing what he's doing. "

The question should be, should black people trust the New Testament Bible? Who wrote it where did it really come from and why does it read like the slave Bible?

That's why Jesus was the perfect example for man

YES!!!

Even Peter denied Jesus. Jesus knew what these two men would do, yet He chose them

God and his word are inseparable. So when we trust the Bible, which his word we trust him.

Absolutely Black people should trust in the Bible with all this racism still going on they better trust in the Bible 🙏🏽

The condones slavery it doesn’t matter what race . Apologists the text is text. The Old Testament forbid consumption Shellfish,but not slavery.

The problem with Blacks, is that we accept and believe everything our enemies put before us and not researching it to see if it's true, the slaves didn't bring the bible here with them on the slave Ships, it was already on the plantations when they arrived, Christianity was taught to our ancestors by the slave owners and passed down to them after they were freed, the slaves accepted this bible , never asking where it came from or who wrote it, black preachers and church people today are still preaching and teaching from this same bible that was passed down to our ancestors.

EVERYONE SHOULD TRUST THE BIBLE. GOD MADE ALL OF US IN HIS OWN IMAGE AND GOD GAVE ALL OF US HIS WORD. I LOVE YOU JESUS✝️ I LOVE YOUR HOLY BEAUTIFUL WORDS OF LIFE. "THY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET, AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH." PSALMS 119:105 (KJV) REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND. Lord Jesus✝️have mercy on you🙏

God called Israel to "be a light unto the nations" Isaiah 42:1-6. But here's something else, He never desired for sin to blight our understanding and a veil to be over our hearts. We, the human race was created emulate His Holiness and power in relation to Him! We were to communicate with Him "in Spirit and Truth" before sin infected us, i.e. the human race. We were to be glorious. This is something we need to remind all. The original intent for Creation before the fall.

A Prophet is without honor in his own country Mr. Esau...you know that

A poor pastor doesn’t equal a good pastor. A mega church pastor doesn’t equal a bad pastor. Having money doesn’t equal bad or good pastor. It’s the persons character. This conversation was okay.

Did Egyptians Babylonians have any superiority over Isrealites on the Old Testament? Those are descriptive passges not prescriptive.

Wasn't the Bible used against tge Hugoneuts, Puritans and Irish too? The catholic and Anglican civic magesteriun put to death Chritians 500 and 600 years ago as well.

Dr Esau? LOL The Hebrew Brothas would love this

Did Somebody else die for them and rise again?

This commenter truly admires Dr. McCaulley and the host of this video for their effort to make sense of Christianity and the Bible by placing the particular belief system under the apologetic microscope. Even so, this commenter would like to challenge the view that the Bible could be trusted. An interesting observation relating to the Bible is that so-called Jews who are supposed to be the writers and keepers of the Old Testament do not identify with the New Testament. Instead, the Jews refer to their scriptural texts simply as the “Words of the Prophets.” Such a title is highly appropriate because the Old Testament comprises the story of some 39 - 46 mystics in their search for the meaning of human existence and their relationship to the supernatural or God. In telling their story, the Jews place their community as the pinnacle of all that transpires on earth. In accordance with their Judaic theology, they see themselves as being empowered by God to have dominion over everything that is not Jewish with the consequence that the Old Testament acquires the characteristic of the glorification of warfare after warfare (Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers, et al). Accordingly, unless the case could be truly made that the Hebrew children spoken about in the Old Testament were, in fact, BLACK People, then logic and common sense should leave us with absolutely no doubt that the story in the Old Testament is not about BLACK People. The New Testament, on the other hand, comprises the accounts of a number of Jews who were collaborators of a reputed young Jewish rabbi called Jesus along with some other writers who had never been in the company of Jesus. What is most noteworthy about the New Testament is that it sets out to realize a clear agenda of putting a new (and improved) spin on the story told in the Old Testament. In the latter case, the key actor becomes Jesus who takes on the persona of an embodied “god” (the god/man) as opposed to the purely spiritual nature of the God of the Old Testament. The key architect in the formulation of such a renegade theology was a Jew called Saul of Tarsus (aka The Apostle Paul). According to the New Testament, after the reputed Jesus was executed by the Roman authorities on a charge of sedition, Saul became an operative for the state with the main task of infiltrating the Jewish community. Paul emerged as one of the most murderous persecutors of so-called enemies of the Roman Empire. But, being the megalomaniac that he was, Paul eventually lost favor with the Roman rulers in a manner similar to that in which Yevgeny Prigozhin (the former head of the Wagner Group) lost favor with President Putin and the Russian authorities. Faced with the predicament of no longer being able to identify with his Jewish colleagues, and finding himself ostracized by the powers-that-be, Paul decided to save his skin by carving out a sort of middle ground between the Roman authorities and the Jewish community (Acts 9: 3 -9). It was in such a vein that Paul founded his movement which he called Christianity. Although Paul had never been in the company of Jesus, and despite the absence of any independent corroboration of his so-called epiphany on the road to Damascus, he anointed himself as the only legitimate surviving successor of Jesus’s mission, and he began to portray Jesus as a Christ or saviour of non-Jews (Gentiles) rather than as the promised messiah or deliverer of the Jewish people (Romans 11: 13; Acts 13: 44 to 14: 7). The intriguing thing about the entire development of Christianity and about the books of the New Testament is that Paul’s writings were written and published decades before the gospels. Anyone reading the New Testament would be impressed by the manner in which the different events relating to Jesus’ personhood and Paul’s ministry are in sync with each other. The reality, however, is that the four gospels and the other books of the New Testament were carefully engineered and sequenced in the compilation of the Bible to embellish Paul’s portrayal of Jesus as the “Son of God" and the Bible as "GOD'S WORD". Other episodes of biblical fine-tuning were later carried out by the Roman Emperor Constantine I who formulated the Christological Doctrine and who intentionally designed the Roman Catholic Church to facilitate his imperialistic ambitions (Edict of Milan 313 AD). The English King James I (of Guy Fawkes infamy) also played a significant part in determining the character of the Bible by writing his own version (KJV) with the help of his best friend William Shakespeare (the playwright extraordinaire). To say the very least, there is far more in the mortar than the pestle. But suffice it to say that there is no way in which anyone who would claim to be highly educated would feel comfortable allowing blind faith to trump knowledge or verifiable facts and recommend that Black People should trust the Bible. It goes without saying that, the inherent contradictions in the Bible and the widespread use of allegory, along with the portrayal of a "god" who seems incapable of making up his mind about his real nature, and who sacrifices his own son after he found such an act grossly abhorrent in the case of Abraham and Isaac, makes the entire book the laughing stock of all literary genres. Apologetics might indeed be meant for the purpose of defending Christianity by any means necessary but the particular exercise would be able to go only so far in its use of hermeneutics and exegesis before the snake ends up putting its own tail in its mouth. The time is long overdue for BLACK People to wake up spiritually and intellectually to the urgency of taking up the mantle and telling their own story about their relationship with GOD (The COSMIC ONE) rather than squandering our energy parroting the theology of other people. Thus, it might be worthwhile for BLACK People to take a second look at the fledgling Philosophy of RASTAFARI which purports to be an emerging vehicle for the articulation of the COLLECTIVE experiences, aspirations, and hopes of BLACK People by BLACK people in the context of the wider world.

You don’t need the Bible if you a naturally good person. You need it if you issues to deal with!

Most of yall will always be stuck with the bible. You dont want to really think what was before the bible and who where the people in there and what and how did they know GOD. Easier for you to believe the bible to be real than to really trust yourselves. So always follow what you trust and sometimes you will find you trusted in the wrong thing you always followed. God is real but the bible isnt. thats the simple truth. God is beyond a book and our thoughts it simply IS.

May these demons get back all that they have done to our people. May their families & finances be destroyed . Strip them!

Esau???? I admit that I have no knowledge of this channel or what it represents, but I am now checking ya'll out. I am not a fan of the traditional Black church

Yes

Esua? Who did that to him? Tells me to keep stepping.

Really Easu go read about about racial preferences and he chose his people and as it is wriiten where the children of Jacob go among nations that nation is blessed even when hus people are under a curse for their transgression....

"In our own image" also applies to gender

Liberation from slavery into freedom is only amd always about freedom from our own sin, not freedom from those who sin against us. That is only for the after life with Christ. It is not in Heaven.

Why sould

wait .... but your name Esau

Not King James

The Bible does not say that the African is the Original Man. Embrace the truth not bronze fables.

No DO NOT TRUST ……I’m so confused , yall talking about the white man forcing a religion on black and we should trust the book , will yall plz use your common since and WAKE UP!!!!!!! , Only scriptures I believe is when Jesus said , YE are GODS are he things I can do so can you ……. I AM GOD

Then black people where is your help going to come from ? Al Sharpton Donald Trump ?

*Promo SM* 🙌

This guy is talking from a philosophical view point. I wonder if he endorses the redacted King James bible? ? ? Anyone.?

"when God created a people" (no) Adam/Eve generations.. rather its about the Black church was curcified/raised from the dead.. "why Black people should trust the Bible" etc -----> NO WONDER many disinfranchised from Chirsitanity ur racist bigotry etc ughhhhh

Judas wasn’t actually following Yeshua(Jesus), he was only present to take advantage of every opportunity to satisfy his personal desires. Anyways, this is just my 2cents…✌🏾

This guy is dangerous, he's not anointing he speaking his opinion which doesn't line with scripture, tell him open the book

I am a black atheist and just stumbled upon your conversation. I more convinced that I am correct. Sorry but Jesus is dead.