Black people in Christianity.

[UnknownError]

So someone brought this up in RE and my teacher didnt have an answer. So Im asking here since it was interesting.

Adam and Eve are 99.9999% of the time portrade as white. Does the bible say anything about black people and/or other skin tones?

[Sage]

Adam and Eve (in fact, pretty much every biblical figure) is typically portrayed as white because Christianity flourished under the Roman Empire after the conversion of Emperor Constantine. As there was a great deal of 'national' pride in Roman culture, paintings and artworks originating from there usually depicted biblical figures to look like Romans. This carried on as Christianity grew in power throughout Europe, wherein people are generally white. That would answer the why aspect here.

As for racial passages in the Bible, I'd suggest you hit up a good website like the Skeptic's Annotated Bible (http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/), which also covers the Quran and Book of Mormon, which I'm certain have passages on race.

[Maxxie]

So someone brought this up in RE and my teacher didnt have an answer. So Im asking here since it was interesting.

Adam and Eve are 99.9999% of the time portrade as white. Does the bible say anything about black people and/or other skin tones?

If you're going SIMPLY off history, this was simply due to the fact that the majority of the Bible took place in a geography where Caucasians (Aryan influence), Levantines, and Arabs dominated the landscape - there were simply no blacks there.

[Belton21]

The Bible does not specifically identify any person as being black-skinned. The Bible also does not specifically identify any person as being white-skinned. The vast majority of the Bible took place in the Middle East, in and around Israel. Neither "black" nor "white" people are common in these regions. The vast majority of the people in the Bible were "Semitic," light to dark brown in skin tone.

Some scholars guess that Moses’ wife Zipporah might have been black since she was a Cushite (Numbers 12:1). Cush is an ancient name for an area of Africa. Some propose that Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11:3) was black. Some believe that the Queen of Sheba who visited Solomon (1 Kings 10:1) was black. The Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:37 may have been a black man. Ethiopians are mentioned around 40 times in the Bible, and the Prophet Jeremiah asked, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin ..." (Jeremiah 13:23). The "Simeon called Niger" in Acts 13:1 may have been black.

The Bible, though, does not specifically say that any of these people were black. Most Bible teachers believe that black people are descendants of Noah’s son Ham (Genesis 10:6-20), but we cannot be sure since the Bible does not specifically say. Why aren't there more black people in the Bible? The vast majority of events in the Bible took place in the land of Israel. Although black people were common in many regions nearby Israel, Israel has never been an area where many black people have settled.


Thats off gotquestions.org

[UnknownError]

Thanks guis. :3

[Tristin.]

as the other have said, christianity flourished in predominately white cultures, therefore, these cultures portrayed those in the bible as white. It was not about race per say, just made it fore relatable to the masses.