Dear Friends a few hours ago a friend of mine on FB put on his profile status “Jesus was black” as you can imagine this caused some acrimony amongst those who read it and responded. However it got me thinking and i decided to summon the most plausible argument with the little knowledge i have to prove that Jesus at least descended from one black parent (Virginal conception not withstanding) as i have come to believe from past, in between the lines reading of the JERUSALEM bible.

It is my hope the historians amongt us can settle in part this matter, because if this is true it could turn he’s-story upside down. Let us leave no stone unturned.

MY RESPONSE

Actually there is some truth to this. The question has never really been answered plus conquering invaders always rewrote history to suit themselves. Remember the Bible particularly the New Testament we read today was edited by Emperor Constantine’s Government to adopt Roman culture and pagan traditions to avert a political and religous crisis(Similar to the enactment of a new constitution… imagine BOMAS here).

For instance if you look at the Catholic rituals they are uncannily similar to the pagan rituals that were initially borrowed and assimilated from the Great Greek Empire (Remember Hercules and Diana and the other Gods). This as you would imagine had great influence in the formation of Roman traditions and consequently Catholic traditions and to this day a lot of catholic theology and logic is based on Socrates, Plato and Aristotle who were all Greeks.Hence the term the Roman Catholic church. In later centuries the protestant reformation would result in among other things King James’s english court rewriting the bible again into its current english form and it is what the protestants inherited, used and use to this day.

So for these reasons doubts about Christianity certainly linger, which as you are aware has led to a myriad of conspiracy theories the most infamous being Dan Brown’s DAVINCI CODE. Fundamentally these conspiracy theories are flawed because they address the aesthetic aspects of Roman Catholicism in particular with the aim of proving the non existence of God. This is not the aim of my thesis. I am simply saying we should examine the situational context of Jesus in light of the Political and Demographic Environment that existed then.

Having understood the historical context of Christianity and the Political machinations that took place it is now possible to place Jesus in a political, economic and social environment just like the ones we all live in today. Because the world has never really changed.

When Mary and Joseph left Nazareth(The Ghetto town of Israel so to speak at that time. Remember the Jews saying “What good can come from Nazareth?”) they escaped to Egypt which was a Black Nation at that time(Will smith is doing a movie on this) to hide. So they were hiding amongst people of their own or similar skin colour.

This passage is most crucial because it debunks the notion that Jesus was of Arabic or Mediterranean stock. Remember the current Egyptians in Egypt were not in Egypt 2000 years ago. They came 1400 years later. The current Egyptians are decendants of the Arabs from around Mecca (Saudi Arabia & Yemen) which became overpopulated around 600AD and the moved into and colonized egypt which had been previously been weakend by the Greeks and Romans. Also remember here that the bible was first translated into Greek because Greek was prevalent at that time in Jesus’s world in the same way we mostly speak French or English.

So once the Arab Egyptians took over they began to erase evidence of black egyptian history and infact Napoleon the French conqueror had the Noses and lips of all the sphinxes banged up to cover the negroid features. However luckily they could not destroy all evidence because it was hidden in tombs and secret places which were only discovered in the 19th century and are still being discovered to date.

I have been lucky enough to lay my eyes on these murals and mummy coffins which clearly depict Black and Brown people in Ancient Egypt. In fact Egyptians preferred for 1000 years to Install Nubians as their pharaohs and if you have seen them in Nairobi, black doesn’t get blacker than that.

Lastly Jesus never did speak Hebrew he spoke Aramaic a language that to date is only spoken in Ethiopia and Eriteria which has led Israel to begin repatriating Ethiopians back to Israel as the Black Jews or the lost tribe of Judah and perhaps that is why to this day many consider Bob Marley a modern day Prophet.

DISCLAIMER

It is not the intention of this note to cast doubts on the faith of either Catholics or Protestants because clearly the message of Christ has inspired many people to do good deeds and indeed leave the world a better place than we found it.

However in conclusion i would like to add that it is important we make our best attempt to search for the truth in the hope we will learn more about ourselves when we embark on that long and odious journey.

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