Where do black people come from in the bible?
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This question is bound to get arguments started, but...\n\nAfter Cain killed Abel, God banished him.  Cain complained that he would be an outcast, and would be killed by whoever found him, so God marked Cain in such a manner that anyone who saw him would recognize that he was under the protection of God.  Some people believe that the mark remains, and use it to accuse black people of being marked as less.  But it really means that God's protection is marked on them.   \n\nHere is the text from Genesis 4.  See what you think:  \n\n"10 The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground. 11 Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand. 12 When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth." \n\n 13 Cain said to the LORD, "My punishment is more than I can bear. 14 Today you are driving me from the land, and I will be hidden from your presence; I will be a restless wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me." \n\n 15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. \n\nSome people doubt this theory, and say that God created more couples than just Adam and Eve, and some of those must have been different races of man.  It doesn't really matter, because all of them except Noah's family would have been wiped out in the flood.  \n_____________________________\n\nThis is the account of Noah. \n      Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. \n\n7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood. \n\n23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; men and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds of the air were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark. \n\n18 The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) 19 These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth. \n 20 Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded [a] to plant a vineyard. 21 When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness. \n\n 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, \n       "Cursed be Canaan! \n       The lowest of slaves \n       will he be to his brothers." \n\n 26 He also said, \n       "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! \n       May Canaan be the slave of Shem. [b] \n\n 27 May God extend the territory of Japheth [c] ; \n       may Japheth live in the tents of Shem, \n       and may Canaan be his [d] slave." \n____________________________\n\nThe most important part of that text from Genesis 9-12 about Noah's family is this (the answer to your question), Genesis 9:19 "These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth." I included the rest to point out that, while many believe the marked brother was the cursed one, there is nothing scripturally to make one believe that.  The marked one was protected, not cursed!
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No, they decend from a different genetic line from Africans or Europeans.  They are genetically isolated to Asia, just as "whites" are genetically isolated to Europe, and "Blacks" are genetically isolated to "Africa" (and wherever they were sold as slaves).
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If I am Black? Well I am half black. I came from my mom and dad. they came from American soil. My grandparents were born in America. my great-grandparents on both sides were born in America. I'm as American as anyone. There is no way to know where my mother's ancestor's came from; slaves were taken from all over west Africa. but based on my and my mom's  bone and facial structure (AND who my grandparents look like) I'd say my ancestors came from Egypt and South Africa.
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Well, according to American Standards, one drop of "black blood" makes a person black. Jesus was decended from David through Soloman. Solomans mother, Sheba, was Black, and from the royal family of Sheba, a nation of very dark (and in her case FIONE) people.  Therefore, by American standards, Jesus was indeed black. In Revelation, Jesus brother describes him as having "Skin of copper and hair of wool" sounds like a black man to me!!!\n\n(and I'm white BTW)
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200 years ago some people quoted bits of the Bible out of context, devoid of the origional meaning, to justify slavery and racism. Today some people do the same mean trick to try to justify their bigotry.\n\nAn example - some say that Leviticus calls being Gay an abomination, they quote one sentence. If peope would read 3 chapters on either side of that one sentence they would see that eating pork and wearing clothing made of 2 or more materials are also called abominations. If they would read further, they would see that stoning children and killing animals on the alter is called for. If they would read the whole book, they would find why it is called Leviticus - God wanted ther Levites among the Isrealites to be quite different from all other people, the laws in Leviticus are intended only for those born into Levite families. Leviticus means "for the Levites". For any non-Levite to follow those laws is the opposite of what the Bible really says to do!\n\nAnother example - the word "homosexuality" is only about 100 years old. If you have an edition that uses that word in the writings of Paul, it is a deliberate incorrect translation, get another version.\n\nBest to read just the gospels anyway - what did Jesus say? \nLove your neighbor\nDon't judge others\n\nIn making you Gay, God gave you the gift of Love. What God has made, let no man put asunder!
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All racism comes from the devil in his attempts to preach hate and not love. Anyone seen as different is auotmatically rated less than, be it different color, different religion, being too short, too tall, too skinny, too fat, tooo whatever. just different from an average so called NORM.      Yes racism has a root.  Its from the devil and not of God.   The devil will do anything to cause hatred and division and chaos.   The purpose is to keep us from God and Heaven. But, its our choice who we listen to.   Indians are hated frequently by whites,   spanish ppl... list is endless. but, do look, racism goes both ways. I have met many that hate all white ppl.  Its a two edged fence.   Not everyone has it, but everyone that does got it from listening to the devil, whether they knew it or not.   you asked if there were no black slaves, would there be racism.   Yes, hatred of blacks is the reason they took them for slaves.  if they had not hated them, they would not take them as their slave.     You are correct racism comes from personal distaste, but where does it come from?? the devil himself, who hates love and unity, and wants to ruin us all.    The civil rights movement has done a lot to help, but true racists battle that and hate that too, and wont hear any of it. It only makes sense to those of us not racists.  and no I am not black. I am white.     God says He created us all equal, so any person that is racism, is not hearing from God.   Period.  so many wear the Christian label,but dont follow God at all. just assuming grace covers everything. No, grace dosnt cover deliberate sin, and grace wont cover racisim and hate. I am passionate on anything that is not of God.  God says by their fruits (actions) we will know them.  Just look and we will see. Racism is of the devil, never of God.   so is all prejudice.    PPl that hate fat ppl or think pppl or ppl of other countries and religions,   ppl that hate are not of God.   We even love our enemies, but we hate their sin  That is not me, that is God.     Love questions that make us think, and this is good??????Wonder how many have ever even given this a thought???? Ask on.
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Every society has both history and culture. However, black Americans have their original roots in various parts of Africa and their distinctive culture in America is relatively young and has developed according to the area or part of America where they ended up during and after the abolition of slavery.  African Americans who's roots are found in Haiti or the Carribean for example would be vastly different to African Americans whose roots are found in Africa or the different countries in Africa. As a collective group though, the overiding image of black America is the image portrayed by Hollywood.
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"""Calling themselves the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, their origins are rooted in their charismatic leader, Ben Ammi Ben Israel. Ben Ammi, who was a foundry worker named Ben Carter in Chicago, had a vision in 1966 that his African ancestors were descended from one of the 10 lost tribes of Israel."""\n---\n"""The strange group is led by Ben Carter a former Chicago resident who now calls himself “Ben Ammi Ben Israel”\n\nCarter claims that the ”Archangel Gabriel told him that many African Americans were descendants of the lost Israeli tribe of Judah.” He led some followers to settle in Israel during 1969, but they didn’t receive permanent residence status until 2003.\n\nThe “Black Hebrews” have been linked to crime and the death of a child."""\n---\n"""One of Carter’s henchmen was found guilty of “operating an international crime ring” in 1986 and just last year a couple was charged with manslaughter. And the death of their baby was allegedly tied to the group’s strange diet."""
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There were other humans that the bible doesn't speak on much.
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Interesting question. Since they were the ONLY two people in the world, where did everyone else come from?\nMythology is stupid isn't it? Now watch the christians make up stories and excuses for this lame book of bronze age jewish mythology...
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bible said nothing \nbut from what I understand Moses married a black gal and it upset others in his tribes\n\nbut they do have warning for marry with unbelivers
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The Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-39 was most likely black.  I believe all of the disciples in the gospels were Jews.  Jesus did perform miracles for Gentiles (Matthew 15:21-28) and teach them (John 4:5-42).  The Samaritans believed, but they were not disciples in the sense that they followed Him.  The Pharisees would have had a raving fit if they had.\n\nThe 12, who became the Apostles, were all Jews.\n\nThe story of Rachel starts in Genesis 29:6 and her death is last mentioned in Genesis 48:7.\n\nMatthew 2:18 is a quote of Jeremiah 31:15 -\n\nThus says the LORD:\n“A voice was heard in Ramah,\nLamentation and bitter weeping,\nRachel weeping for her children,\nRefusing to be comforted for her children,\nBecause they are no more.”\n\nThat's the only mention of Rachel, in the New Testament - but it's the same Rachel as in Genesis.\n\nI don't know if we know any of the names of the Apostles' wives.  Peter's mother-in-law is mentioned in Matthew 8:14, Mark 1:30, and Luke 4:38.
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Correct me if i'm wrong,but I do see similarities.Moses rescued the Egyptions and presented them with the Jewish religion when they arrived to Israel.Now today,Israelis are still followers of the Jewish religion.The Europeans inslaved Africans and presented them with the christian religion,Now today black people are still following the religion that was forced on their ancestors.
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I am the original "black Hebrew" of the tribe Yahudah.\n\n\nBlack People in Africa are Africans of what ever tribe they belong to. A black Hebrew is different then a black African. They are call the original Hebrews, because they are from one of the tribes of Yisrael. Which means they are the seed of Israel. You can be black, and NOT be what we call "Africans."\n\nNot to be confuse with "black Jews" or the people we know today as Jews. If you ask any Jew why he is a Jew, they will say because there religion is Judaism or someone in the ancestry converted to Judaism. If you notice none of them will stay they are descendants of the tribe of Judah, which is what the word Jew means. Just because you practice the religion or your parents did, doesn't make you a seed of Jacob. The black Hebrews are in fact the direct descendants of the Israelites, but not all black nations are Israelites. It just happen that many of the Israelites happen to be black.\n\nDon't think that because they are black, that it automatically means they can't be Israelites.
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Some African Ethiopians and others Negroes practice Judaism, so U can't generalize about one religion in one continent!
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Jews come from all ethnic backgrounds, white, mixed, black (there is a tribe of black jews in one of the african countries)
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people didn't "come" from monkeys, and the bible doesn't make sense anyway.