Africans Were Christians Before Europeans Or Americans

Kimberly

The Bible is always right. “My people perish for lack of knowledge”, it says in Hosea 4:6.

One of those wallowing in ignorance and lack of knowledge is Democratic Florida State Representative, Kimberly Daniels who in moment of religious fervor reportedly said that she was happy that her ancestors was sold as slaves to the United States of America, because if  they had not been sold as slaves she would have been somewhere in Africa WORSHIPPING TREES (emphasis mine).

Apparently unaware of the history of the Christianity which she professes, she did not know that Africans were Christians thousands of years before Europeans know about the religion through the Romans, not to talk of her beloved America which received the religion much later from European migrants. As a matter of fact most European Christians that migrated to America were running away from religious persecution and they were determined that the so-called new country they ‘found’ will be a “land of the free” where there would be no religious persecutions.

At this juncture, let me use the Bible, which I know that the Representative believes its content to prove to her and others that think like her that Africans were Christians before the Europeans or Americans;

The Conversion Of The Ethiopian

Acts 8: 26-39 (New Living Translation)

“26 As for Philip, an angel of the Lord said to him, ‘Go south down the desert road that runs from Jerusalem to Gaza.’

27 So he did, and he met the treasurer of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under the queen of Ethiopia. The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship,

28 and he was now returning. Seated in his carriage, he was reading aloud from the book of the prophet Isaiah.

29 The Holy Spirit said to Philip, "Go over and walk along beside the carriage."

30 Philip ran over and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah; so he asked, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

31 The man replied, "How can I, when there is no one to instruct me?" And he begged Philip to come up into the carriage and sit with him.

32 The passage of Scripture he had been reading was this: "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. And as a lamb is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.

33 He was humiliated and received no justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth."

34 The eunuch asked Philip, "Was Isaiah talking about himself or someone else?"

35 So Philip began with this same Scripture and then used many others to tell him the Good News about Jesus.

36 As they rode along, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, ‘Look! There's some water! Why can't I be baptized?’

38 He ordered the carriage to stop, and they went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away. The eunuch never saw him again but went on his way rejoicing.”

The Bible did not tell us the exploits of this Ethiopian after his pilgrimage to Jerusalem and return to his country. However the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and Jewish Synagogues in that African country are thousands of years older than the Churches and Synagogues in Europe and America! They are shinning monuments to Africa’s rich Christian history and testimony of the continent’s intercourse with Israel thousands of years ago.

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