So about 500 years ago, Europeans and Americans didn't know about the bible, until after slavery?

Question

for sure after the slavery, the europeans introduced christianity to west africa and other areas, so were we thinking 'blacks' africans were no humans or part of the adam and eve generations before slavery?

Answer 1

The Bible existed in Latin for a thousand years before it was written in English. The Geneva Bible was written in 1599 and the King James in 1611, but those were the early English bibles and people did not own a Bible that they could read in their own language. The Church of England discouraged private reading of the scriptures. They did everything they could to stop the Geneva Bible from getting into England.

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Answer 2

Hello Weedman. Please put down the joint before you ask a question. You have incomplete run-on sentences that leave me wondering what you are trying to say. You said "so were we thinking 'blacks' africans were no humans or part of the adam and eve generations before slavery?" What does this mean?

What makes you think that Europeans didn't know about the Bible more than 500 years ago? What do you think has been going on in the world for the last 2000 years? Christianity was introduced to Africa in the first century A.D. It apparently did not reach mid to southern Africa until after the 1400's.

The Muslims killed most of the Christians in North Africa shortly after Muhammed came through. Then they enslaved southern Africans using northern Africans as a buffer.

Africans weren't taught to be non-human by any Christians until evolution became popular.

Answer 3

Well Adam and Eve didn't know about the Bible either so were they Christians or non human. Also what color was Adam ans Eve,there were Christians for hundreds of years before the Bible was ever published. Study history of Bible before asking stupid questions. Then read the Bible it will do you alot of good .

Answer 4

Europeans have known about the Bible for about 2000 years, since it was written. America, however, has only existed for a little over 200 years. 500 years ago there was no contact between the people on the American continent and the rest of the world. So the Bible was unknown to them.

On the issue of slavery: there has been debate over slavery within the church since it begins. Within the Bible, slavery is mentioned several times. The Old Testament allowed the Jews to have "slaves" for a seven year period. The "slave" had to choose to sell himself into the position. The master would pay off all his debts in exchange for seven years of service. Plus he received wages at the end of the time to begin a new life. Very different from the way "slavery" was practiced in pre-Civil War America.

In the New Testament, slavery was a common way of life under the Roman Empire. In fact, roughly 90% of Europeans were slaves at that time. "Employment", as we know it today, did not exist. A person worked as a slave and received room, board, clothing, etc. in exchange. The New Testament has no commandment that says you should own slaves. But it does have rules about how to behave if you are in the position of a slave. After all, 90% of Christians were in that state, so it only made sense to tell them how to survive in that condition.

When "black" slavery was introduced, those who supported it used the Christian faith to try to justify their actions. They claimed that by bringing these people to America as slaves, they were bringing them to the gospel and getting them saved. So they were better off as slaves then as savages.

They also pointed to the story of Noah. After the Great Flood, there was an incident in which one of Noah's sons, Ham, shamed him. So Noah cursed Ham's son Canaan saying that he would be a slave to his brothers. If you look at Genesis 11, you will see that some of Ham's sons (incidently Canaan was NOT one of them) migrated into Africa. So it was taught that the "blacks" were descendants from those sons, and so suppose to be slaves to everyone else.

However, not all Christians agreed with those teachings. An equal number of Christians churches taught against slavery and the kidnapping of blacks. The anti-slavery movement traces its roots back to the Christian church. Christians have preached against slavery in many churches as far back as the time of the Roman Empire.

Those who oppose slavery point to the New Testament book of Philemon, which tells of a run away slave, who had stolen from his owner, that Paul meet and converted. Paul also converted his former owner Philemon. He then sends the slave back to repay Philemon what he had stolen. Under the law, Philemon could have executed the slave for running away. Instead Paul says to receive him, not as a slave, but a brother. So those who opposed slavery said it was wrong because we all are brothers - equals in Christ.

In the end, the "anti-slavery" part of the church won out, and today the Christian church is very much opposed to slavery anywhere in the world. The majority of the Christian church is also opposed to any type of racism. In fact, one of the groups in which the Christian faith is currently growing the most is among the black population fo southern Africa.

Answer 5

It was first translated into english in 1587. At that time there were very few slaves in the North America, and most of them were white slaves. And you really didn't even ask a question.

Answer 6

That is total BS.
Some whites defined blacks as animals. Not all whites thought that.
The Catholic hierarchy tried to make the Bible uncommon, but it was too widespread to keep out of the hands of the layman.

Answer 7

500 years ago there weren't any Americans!

Answer 8

stay off the weed, it kills brain cells. the reason why people came to the new land in the first place was because of the bible.

Answer 9

Please proofread your question as stated it makes no sense..

Answer 10

Please rephrase this question so that it is intelligible.