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There no white people in the bible.

There no white people in the bible.

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The OT was written by and for Jews, who consider themselves an ethnic race (whatever the genetic merits of that claim may be). The NT was written by and for gentiles (principally Greeks and Romans, although Armenians were very early converts).

Anglo-Saxon Protestants they were not.

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@moonbus said
The OT was written by and for Jews, who consider themselves an ethnic race (whatever the genetic merits of that claim may be). The NT was written by and for gentiles (principally Greeks and Romans, although Armenians were very early converts).

Anglo-Saxon Protestants they were not.
I thought the 12 Apostles were all from Israel.

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@jj-adams said
I thought the 12 Apostles were all from Israel.
No; Paul was from Tarsus, which is now in Turkey but back then was part of Greater Greece

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@athousandyoung said
No; Paul was from Tarsus, which is now in Turkey but back then was part of Greater Greece
Paul wasn't an Apostle.

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@no1marauder said
Paul wasn't an Apostle.
Apparently not one of the original 12 anyway but…

Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God


JJ did mention “12 apostles” so I guess I was wrong anyway

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@jj-adams said
I thought the 12 Apostles were all from Israel.
Judas was from Judea.

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@no1marauder said
Judas was from Judea.
Interesting point; I doubt JJ distinguishes between Judea and Israel but technically they are and were different.

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@athousandyoung said
Interesting point; I doubt JJ distinguishes between Judea and Israel but technically they are and were different.
Well at least I knew that Paul of Tarsus wasn't an apostle.

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@jj-adams said
Well at least I knew that Paul of Tarsus wasn't an apostle.
He was an apostle but not an Apostle (Romans 1:1)

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I accidentally removed my post oh well

Here is “Metatron”, a Sicilian linguist talking about “race” in Jesus time; he notes that Greeks of the time considered Nordics to be of the “yellow race” not white

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@athousandyoung said
He was an apostle but not an Apostle (Romans 1:1)
He wasn't one of the 12 Apostles, schmuck.
He was a rabid anti-Christian that hunted them down as heretics until he had his mystic revelation and became one.

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It would seem that if one believes the creation story from Genesis, Adam and Eve could have been any race, including white, and from the Garden of Eden, wherever that may have been.

Edit: and since Adam and Eve were created in God's image, what race is God?

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@chaney3 said
It would seem that if one believes the creation story from Genesis, Adam and Eve could have been any race, including white, and from the Garden of Eden, wherever that may have been.

Edit: and since Adam and Eve were created in God's image, what race is God?
Isn’t that the Old Testament / Torah, so given that man actually made god in his own image I’m guessing THAT god is Jewish or Abrahamic or something along those lines.

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@chaney3 said
It would seem that if one believes the creation story from Genesis, Adam and Eve could have been any race, including white, and from the Garden of Eden, wherever that may have been.

Edit: and since Adam and Eve were created in God's image, what race is God?
Due to mistranslations and misunderstanding the traditional Adam and Eve story is incorrect. Adam was the first permanent Western settlement/civilization. It existed in the region called Eden which was submerged during the Flandrian Transgression and became what is now generally called the Persian Gulf. The people there were similar to ancient Iraqis (the people of Gilgamesh); probably Semitic looking or similar but they were not BIOLOGICAL ancestors but rather the cultural ancestors of Western Civilization (the Chinese and Peruvians invented civilization independently of Adam).

http://www.ldolphin.org/eden/

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Actually, the Greeks and Romans could well be considered white.

Especially the Romans in the later chapters of the New Testament. Because they came from all over the bloody place.

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