Why are there no black people in the Bible? Why don’t the people have black names?<\/p>\n\t
There are people mentioned in the Bible whose skin color would have been dark.<\/p>\n
African countries mentioned: Egypt, Ethiopia, Put (Libya, Cyrene), and Cush (Sudan).<\/p>\n
There is no such thing as a “black name.” Some names are favored in different cultures and areas of the world but aren’t exclusive.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: Why are there no black people in the Bible? Why don’t the people have black names? Answer: There are people mentioned in the Bible whose skin color would have been dark. Moses’ wife, who was from Cush (Numbers 12:1) An unnamed Cushite runner (II Samuel 18:21) Tirhakah king of Cush (II Kings 19:9) Zerah,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[216,214],"class_list":["post-82183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-race","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31507,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/did-moses-have-one-wife-or-two\/","url_meta":{"origin":82183,"position":0},"title":"Did Moses have one wife or two?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I am taking a Bible Study class on the \"Bad Girls of the Bible\" and have a question.\u00a0 There is speculation that Moses may have had a second wife.\u00a0 When referring to his Cushite wife, isn't that Zipporah?\u00a0 I have been unable to find any evidence of another wife\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7283,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-think-cush-is-the-same-land-mentioned-in-genesis-213\/","url_meta":{"origin":82183,"position":1},"title":"I think Cush is the same land mentioned in Genesis 2:13","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello, After finding your site, I read an article about Cush, Ethiopia and the rivers that ran through Eden.\u00a0To be clear, I am not writing to dispute your perspective or opinion, but I am writing to question some of what you said more for the sake of biblical study\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1706,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/where-are-cush-and-havilah-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":82183,"position":2},"title":"Where are Cush and Havilah today?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 11, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Where are the land of Cush and the land of Havilah today, and what are their names today? Answer: The first mention of Cush is in Genesis 2:13\u00a0where the Gihon, one of the four mighty rivers flowing from the land of Eden, encompassed this particular region. Because the great\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35053,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-it-wrong-to-marry-a-person-of-a-different-nationality\/","url_meta":{"origin":82183,"position":3},"title":"Is it wrong to marry a person of a different nationality?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"October 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: My family believes that it is a sin to marry a person who is not of the same nationality as you.\u00a0 As an example, they believe that is wrong to marry someone who is Mexican, Italian, Indian, etc.\u00a0 Being white, they also believe that it is a sin to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28340,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/when-was-the-gospel-preached-in-africa\/","url_meta":{"origin":82183,"position":4},"title":"When was the gospel preached in Africa?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"August 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: My question is: What of Africa? Was the gospel preached there? Because I can still trace back to the times when the Gospel first came to these lands, and it wasn't in those times. Answer: Among the visiting Jews who heard the first gospel sermon were people from Egypt,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13194,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/which-book-is-the-oldest-in-the-bible\/","url_meta":{"origin":82183,"position":5},"title":"Which book is the oldest in the Bible?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"November 3, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Which book is believed to be\u00a0the oldest book in the Bible? I found the following points: Many scholars agree that Job is the oldest book in the Bible, written by an unknown Israelite about 1500 B.C. Others hold that the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible) are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}