Let us look at the names of some black people in the Bible:

[Alex]

Hagar: an Egyptian who married Abraham.
Keturah who married Abraham.
Asenath who was Joseph’s wife.
Ziporrah who was Moses’ wife.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law. He sat Moses down and taught him how to do most of what he did as a man of God. Obab who acted as the eye of the Israelites in the wilderness. They were going to the Promised Land and did not quite know the way and this black man was their eye. Rahab who saved the Israeli spies at Jericho. In the New Testament, there is Simon of Cyrene. When Jesus was on His way to Calvary and the cross became too heavy for Him, this man carried the cross to the place of Jesus’ crucifixion. In the book of Jeremiah, we read about a man called Ebedmelech, an Ethiopian. There was a time that Jeremiah was thrown into the dungeon. It was this black man that brought him out. In Acts of the Apostles, we read about the Ethiopian Eunuch whom Philip preached to. When Paul was going on his missionary journey, two of the three men who laid hands on him in prayer were Lucius called Niger and Simeon of Cyrene. They were both black men.

Did you know that the gospel got to Africa before Europe?

 

[Alex]

Please, pray like this: “I refuse to enter the dustbin of life, in the name of Jesus.”

[keith]

Good info.

However, every single son of Noah was so called "black". I prefer to say all of these families of people who descended from Noah were brown skinned in some shade or fashion.

Therefore, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob Joseph and all the other descendants were brown skinned people. Over time environmental factors played a role in some of us losing our pigmentation as well as genetic factors such as albinism.

My point: a majority of persons in the bible especially Shemites and Hamites were "black". So when I see or hear a statement as you have above I generally say but most if not all of the people in the bible were "black".

Look up pictures of ancient hebrews from 200 to 400 CE they look very "black":beit alpha synagogue and roman catacombs.

Yes You are correct: ethiopia was the first "christian nation" in the world that fully accepted the Messiah (the Byzantines and Armenians were christians by their king but were still very pagan).
As a matter of fact if it were not for the destructioin of African civilization by rampaging muslims likely all the continent of africa would have been "christian".

Look up alwa, makuria and nobatia, as well as ghana and numidia and others

[Alex]

i agree