Many of the biblicle figures were african.

beem0r I understaand and respect your point of view. I was not at all implying that all biblical peoples were African, only a large number of them. In fact I, myself am not completely sure that Abraham himself was of African ethnicity, for it is commenly accepted that he bore red hair and I doubt that there are many Africans with hair as such, but who are you or I to say that the early hebrews did not extend their bloodline to Africa, or say for instance Ethiopia? Its is located at the foot of the Arabian Peninsula so its not unlikely. If you don't believe me then look it up in the Bible yourself "Are ye not as children of the Ethiopias unto me, O children of Israel? saith the lord. "Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Cahptor, and the Syrians from Kir?" Page 343 Amos 9 Verse 7 I find this to be pretty self explanatory but just in case you are unaware; in this verse God is comparing the Israelites to ethiopians. In a sense he is saying that they ARE ethiopians. "Are ye not as children of the Ethiopias unto me," is a way of saying, "are you, yourself not decended from ethiopia?" Now some might argue that; as far as evolution goes, we are all decendands of Africa and somewhere along the line, Ethiopia as well." To those who think this, I'd have to ask you, don't you think that God already knows this? In one way or another we are all from Africa weather we accept that or not, so why would God, who already knew this point out such an obvious fact, unless it held some greater signifigance? That greater signifigance being that they were more closely decended from the ethiopians then any average person. Correct me if I'm wrong but werent most biblical figures Iraelites, which in turn would mean that they too are Ethiopian. Now back onto the Jesus subject. beem0r are you familiar with the Queen of Sheba? Few americans, both cacausian and afro-american are. For some reason the largest christian groups in America seem to avoid such topisc, for instance I never hear any Catholic's or baptists speaking of her, despite the fact that her story in in the old testament plain as day. [I wonder why?] Well the story goes that The Queen of Sheba herd tales of Soloman's great wisdom, and sought to test it. She arrived at his palace with numerous gifts and began her test. As the story goes, he passed it, and soon she became quite fond of him, and bore him a son. She took the boy back to Ethiopia and when he came of age, returned him to his father to seek his blessing. It is commonly accepted in Ethiopia that the royal dynasty of rulers decended from this noble blood line called the solomic dynasty. As I'm sure you were aware, Jesus was a part of this bloodline, which in turn would mean that he too was Ethiopian. Now I know what your thinking. "Who's to say that this is true? This tale is native to Ethiopia, how do we know that it wasn't just something made up to make the Ethiopian people and their emporers feel more important?" This would make sense, but then again who's to say anything in the bible or Quran in credible? The bible is over 2000years old, and has been edited and rewritten many times over. There is even one case in which the bible had many of its original books stripped from its pages and rewritten. Make no mistake, I am a firm believer, I'm just giving you the facts.