Part 3 of “Who Are You”
Biblical Evidence of the Color of His People
When looking at the Biblical Evidence one will have to use simple logic and be able to understand the facts. After all is does say in John 1:1 In the beginning was the logos. Which also means logic.
I will start from the very beginning in Genesis. Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Genesis 2:21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. 22 Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man. 23 And Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man” Using logic what color is dirt, brown of course, therefore the very first man and woman on earth was brown.
I am going to skip over Noah and Shem, because it was already established that Shem in the progenitor of the Negro. I will go to Joseph the son of Israel. Joseph was sold into slavery and went through a lot of trials and tribulations. Eventually, Joseph becomes second in command of all of Egypt. His brothers who sold him had to come face to face with him, but did not recognize him. Genesis 42:29 Then they went to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying: 30 “The man who is lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. If Joseph was white and his brother were white no matter what clothes Joseph would have had on, they would have recognized him simply from the color of his skin, but they did not recognize him because Joseph was as dark as the Egyptians.
Now Moses comes into play. Moses lived with Pharaoh for 40 years passing as Pharaoh’s grandson. Imagine that a black woman brought a white baby to her father’s house stating that it is her baby. Would he believe her? Absolutely not. So, Moses had to be black or at least as brown as the Egyptians. Moses then kills an Egyptian and flees the country. He stopped at a well where he encounters some bullies so to speak. Moses fought off the men and watered the women animals. When the women got home their father questions them as to why they were back so soon. Exodus 2:19 And they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.” Moses mistaken for an Egyptian, we already know what color the Egyptians were. Exodus 4:6 “Now put your hand in your bosom.” And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, like snow. 7 And He said, “Put your hand in your bosom again.” So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was restored like his other flesh. Moses’s hand could not have been white and turned white, that is not logical.
A quick look at Moses’s sister Mariam. Para phrasing, Mariam says some unsavory things about Moses and God cursed her. Numbers 12:10 And when the cloud departed from above the tabernacle, suddenly Miriam became leprous, as white as snow. Once again how can someone be white and turn white just does not make any sense.
Moving from the Old Testament to the New Testament on to Paul. It is obvious that Sol who name is changed to Paul is a Jew. Not just a Jew, but a Jew among Jews. Paul is also of the tribe of Benjamin. Acts 21:37 Then as Paul was about to be led into the barracks, he said to the commander, “May I speak to you?” He replied, “Can you speak Greek? 38 Are you not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a rebellion and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?” 39 But Paul said, “I am a Jew from Tarsus, in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city; and I implore you, permit me to speak to the people.” Paul is being mistaken for a black man here. One should easily ascertain that Paul must be black.
Another instance in Acts is in Chapter 13. Acts 13:1 Now in the church that was at Antioch there were certain prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger. Simeon is called Niger. In the English language, the word nigger is an ethnic slur typically directed at black people. The word originated in the 18th century as an adaptation of the Spanish negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective Niger, which means black. Here is just one more major player in the bible being called black.
The most important man in the Bible is Jesus. There are two vague descriptions of Jesus in the Bible. One in the Old Testament and the other in the New Testament. In the Old Testament in Daniel 6:6 His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze in color, and the sound of his words like the voice of a multitude. In the New Testament Revelation 1:14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; 15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters. Although both descriptions are vague in no way can someone say that either description is describing a white man. From these two accounts we know that Jesus too, is a man of color.