In the biblical narrative, people of African descent are mentioned as part of God's diverse creation. The book of Numbers recounts how Miriam was punished for speaking against Moses' Cushite wife, highlighting God's displeasure with prejudice. The New Testament notes the presence of Africans in the early Christian community, such as Simeon called Niger in Acts, and the Ethiopian eunuch in Luke. Meanwhile, passages like Jeremiah and Romans emphasize that God shows no partiality, treating all people equally regardless of their background. This theme of equality is a recurring one throughout Scripture.
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Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.
As the soldiers led Him away, they seized Simon of Cyrene on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him to carry behind Jesus.
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good— you who are accustomed to doing evil.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
Amos 9:7
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“Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?
Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and His voice was like the roar of many waters.
The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”