If we all came from Adam and Eve, and we know humans originated in Africa?

Question

then shouldn't African theology be supremely important? Do you even know if there is a common religion, if it is monotheistic or poly, and what are their creation stories. If Adam and Eve were true, shouldn't that story exist in African religion?

Answer 1

Your logic is good, but your facts are not. The Bible says that Adam and Eve lived near the rivers in modern IraQ. You must also remember that there was a flood after them, which wiped out most of that wolrd's population. The generations after the flood would therefore logically have a flood (hi)story with them. If you check out the archeology of Iraq you will find the epic of Gilgemesh in Babylon. It tells of a flood, and of a man who made a box shaped ship and survived the flood. To answer your question about African theology, you should examine Egyptian records, because they have the oldest records on the continent. I believe it was Sir Flinders Petrie who said that Egypt was originally MONOTHEISTIC, which means they originally worshipped one God.The many gods and pagan religion came later in its history,. You can see the decline and later developement of a pagan polytheistic religion sponsored by the state when you look through their records through the centuries. Also, I believe you will find that ALL ancient cultures had a monotheistic religion including India and China . You can figure out for yourself why they do not have such a religion today, but the Jewish type religion of one God is the oldest on the globe.

Answer 2

Good question. However, the Bible puts most of the events around the Middle East, not Africa (Egypt is about as far into Africa as you get). The creation story puts the Garden of Eden somewhere in Iraq (assuming that the rivers that existed after the flood by the same name are in roughly the same location).

You also have the issue of the flood. This means that the "epicenter" of theology should be where ever the ark landed. However, you still have yet another issue...

Judaism was not an actual "religion" until the time of Moses. By this time there were MANY pagan religions. The decendants of Abraham, who God had a covenant with, were a huge nation before there was any real religion amongst them, and they were living as slaves in a polytheistic country. Before that, God spoke to only a few men. Other beliefs would easily arise in such circumstances.

Answer 3

I so desperately was hoping for an intelligent answer when I clicked on this.

It seems this question is more adademic,

I would say yes Africa has the oldest religions,

but there is a reason why Judeo Christianity spread, the reason is why did europeans spread, the reason is that the start of judism is the middle east at about the same time farming took off about 3000 bc, where they had wheat and then the wheat and the cows traveled east west it was easier cause the genetics didnt have to change due to sunlight like it is north south in africa,

the france is the same longitude as japan, etc.

so the judism and christianity spread amougnst white people where this farming was and then the white people in 1500 went all over earth and took over through disease and guns the native americans africans and australians

this is why today in america we see white christians voting republican to make gay sex illegal, gay marriage illegal, why there is a disparity between whites and blacks with home ownership,

we see the white christian getting a home loan at a better interest rate than the non white christian,

hence anything non white christian is ignored by the white christian,
ethnocentrism due to a history of violence

Answer 4

So what? merely a bigot would even care suitable to the complexion of Adam and Eve. Hominids have been everywhere in the Earth while God chosen the only to offer a soul (for loss of yet another be conscious). The Bible does not deny that hominids have been right here in the previous and after God created Adam and cloned Eve with precis reasoning and a soul. Now, back to Africa: advantageous African hominids' DNA is nearer to ours than the Neanderthal guy (from Germany), yet that doesn't coach that we did no longer get mutated from yet another Hominid (Y chromosome hominids) and then the mutation replaced right into a dominant gene and would desire to truly be transferred to the Hominids that got here from Africa, by technique of 2d hand with the purpose to declare. by cain's offspring, or in spite of. what's considerable is that merely religious empires have concluded Adam and Eve have been the only "human beings alive" on the time of their creation (mutation and cloning). interior the Bible those different hominids and combine of hominids have been observed as individuals. Who have been the strangers who lived interior the promised land. They weren't jews and that they weren't from the Adam and Eve lineage. How suitable to the Egyptians they weren't from the Adam and Eve line. Now, think of approximately all those chinese language.

Answer 5

You take all the nostalgia, romance, and indigestible BS out of a theory/ myth when you interject logic and facts. Can't you let "Them" dream? Does it make you feel superior that you have the capacity for abstract thought! Dr. Leaky didn't discover Zinjanthropus he discovered Adam and Steve..............Yea, That works better than Cain having all those children. I read it in one of the edited books in the bible the church hid it all these years! It will be in my new book.............The Robert Mapplethorpe Code!!! Your question is Great!!!!Hope you didn't mind some insane levity!

Answer 6

who says Adam and Steve were African?

Answer 7

It should, it probably does in some african tribal religon.

Answer 8

as temperature got colder, so did religion