THE BIBLE IS BLACK HISTORY- AN ANTI-SEMITIC RACE MONGERING BOOK
The Underlying reason why this author Dr. Theron D. Williams wrote this book and why it fits the bill of antisemitism and race mongering through the lens of AFROCENTRIC BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY
"He
notes, “I have been the Pastor of my church for more than 30 years.
From day one I have been on a mission to remove the image of White Jesus
from my church once and for all. Not because it is white but because it
is a lie. The image… is a calculated plan designed to persuade people
of color to submit to their assigned subordinate roles in the White Male
Supremacy System by ascribing deity to a White man, thus bowing down in
worship of him. When I first arrived as Pastor, the first thing I did
was to go to the church late one night… and take down every picture of
Jesus I saw. Next, I went to the church library and trashed every piece
of literature I could find that bore that image… Despite my gallant
crusade to keep him out, White Jesus keeps showing up at my church. Our
church has built three worship centers … and White Jesus has visited all
three of them.” (Pg. 64-65)
"He acknowledges, “Like the majority
of my colleagues in the delegation [of ‘African-American Christian
leaders’], most people in the Western world believe, without
equivocation, that the modern Israelis are the descendants of the
biblical Israelites. Nevertheless, I refuse to buy into the propaganda… I
no longer refer to the land of the Bible as Israel. Before the biblical
Jews occupied this land, it was called Canaan… Now that the true
descendants of Israel are no longer the owners and occupants for me, at
least, it can no longer be considered Israel. I would rather refer to is
as Palestine.” (Pg. 91)
He
quotes the noncanonical Book of Enoch about the birth of Noah, and
observes, “Enoch’s description of baby Noah typifies the characteristics
of albinism… Only albinism can explain how Noah’s Black parents can
give birth to a child whose ‘flesh was white as snow and hair was white
as wool.’” (Pg. 45)
The Book of Enoch is any of several pseudepigraphal (falsely attributed
works, texts whose claimed authorship is unfounded) works that attribute
themselves to Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah; that is, Enoch son
of Jared (Genesis 5:18)
The pseudepigrapha are the books that attempt to imitate Scripture but that were written under false names. The term pseudepigrapha comes from the Greek pseudo, meaning “false,” and epigraphein,
meaning “to inscribe,” thus, “to write falsely.” The pseudepigraphical
books were written anywhere from 200 BC to AD 300. They are spurious
works written by unknown authors who attempted to gain a readership by
tacking on the name of a famous biblical character. Obviously, a book
called the “Testament of Abraham” has a better chance of being read than
the “Counterfeit Testament of an Unknown Author.”
While the pseudepigrapha may be of interest to students of history and
ancient religious thought, they are not inspired by God and therefore
not part of the canon of Scripture.
Reasons to reject the pseudepigrapha are 1) they were written under
false names. Any pretense or falsehood in a book naturally negates its
claim of truthfulness. 2) They contain anachronisms and historical
errors. For example, in the Apocalypse of Baruch, the fall of Jerusalem
occurs “in the 25th year of Jeconiah, king of Judah.” The problem is
that Jeconiah was 18 years old when he began to reign, and he only
reigned 3 months (2 Kings 24:8).
There is no way to reconcile the “25th year” statement with the
biblical account. 3) They contain outright heresy. In the
pseudepigraphal Acts of John,
for example, Jesus is presented as a spirit or phantasm who left no
footprints when He walked, who could not be touched, and who did not
really die on the cross.
The apostle Paul had to deal with pseudepigrapha written in his own day.
Addressing the Thessalonian church, Paul says not to be alarmed by a
“letter supposed to have come from us” (2 Thessalonians 2:2).
Obviously, someone had tried to mislead the believers with a forged
letter imitating Paul’s style. Paul was forced to take precautions: “I,
Paul, write this greeting in my own hand, which is the distinguishing
mark in all my letters. This is how I write” (2 Thessalonians 3:17; see also 1 Corinthians 16:21; Galatians 6:11; and Colossians 4:18).
There are many books that fall under the category of pseudepigrapha,
including the Testament of Hezekiah, the Vision of Isaiah, the Books of Enoch, the Secrets of Enoch, the Book of Noah, the Apocalypse of Baruch (Baruch was Jeremiah’s scribe according to Jeremiah 36:4), the Rest of the Words of Baruch, the Psalter of Solomon, the Odes of Solomon, the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Testament of Adam, the Testament of Abraham,
the Testament of Job, the Apocalypse of Ezra, the Prayer of Joseph,
Elijah the Prophet, Zechariah the Prophet, Zechariah: Father of John,
the Itinerary of Paul, the Acts of Paul, the Apocalypse of Paul, the Itinerary of Peter, the Itinerary of Thomas, the Gospel According to Thomas, the History of James, the Apocalypse of Peter, and the Epistles of Barnabas.
I found myself wondering if Dr. Williams liberal black theology had any correlation with CRITICAL RACE THEORY. And I was right. He encouraged black ministers to defect from the Southern Baptist Convention if the council refused to teach critical race theory in their churches. See the video below:
Christian mother from NY State confronts
board of education for poisoning her child with
critical race theory in school see video below:
Less inflammatory uses of critical race theory echo older claims that biblical faith is often presented as a “white man’s religion,” or that Christianity ought to follow a progressive theology, especially with respect to gender and sexuality.
No, Christianity is not a white man’s religion. Christianity is not a
black, brown, red, or yellow religion, either. The truth of the
Christian faith is universally applicable to all people. “How true it is
that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one
who fears him and does what is right” (Acts 10:34–35).
These claims made by Dr. T. Williams in his book is nothing new. It all started back in 1969 by Professor James Cone and his radical book Black theology & Black Power. This
book by Mr. Cone is a horrible misrepresentation of Biblical Christianity which encourages hate
and racism in the church. Theologically it does not even come remotely
close to what the original biblical authors wanted to say to their readers. This gave rise to the movement Black Liberation Theology a Christian Black cult
The following video below was taken from the You Tube channel belonging to a Mr. Marvin Fant. Mr. Fant has promoted Fred Price's sermons on Race, Religion, and Racism extensively. Mr. Price's theological views were heavily influenced by Black Liberation Theology. Mr. Price's sermon below is such an elaborate fabrication that it's ludicrous. I have tried to engage Mr. Fant on numerous occasions to a debate. But he keeps being evasive. So I decided to expose Mr. Fant's heretical Black Liberation Theology views using my blog as a platform.
This book by Dr. Theron D. Williams
is not a good book. I bought it hoping to learn more about this topic,
but I found this book mostly filled with non-biblical references
narrowly selected to bolster the author’s claims. The Bible passages
referenced are poorly interpreted and most deciphered with an
inconsistent hermeneutic, flip flopping between theologically liberal
and conservative grids. Many passages seem to be fueled simply by hatred
(see author’s quotes below). On every page I made notes such as
“What?”, “That makes no sense”, “There is no supporting evidence for
this”, and others. In summary the author states that only blacks today
are the true descendants of Abraham and that any white first century
Jews, or Ancient European Jews, modern white European Jews and white
Jews living in Israel today are merely impostors – none being true
ethnic or ancestral Jews descended from Abraham. This leads the author
to make the shocking claim that only blacks are truly made in the image
of God (pg. 35). This is a sad, erroneous book I do not recommend.
A
few examples of the author’s flawed Biblical and non-Biblical “evidence”
are discussed below along with several author quotations revealing his
true core passion for writing this book. • On Page 27 the author
writes “The dominant complexion of the biblical characters was obvious
to the writers and their audiences, so it was unnecessary to make skin
color a significant part of the narrative.” In other words, the author
admits the Bible does not state anywhere that the Hebrews/Israelites
were dark skinned people. The truth is that though 40 writers over 1500
years wrote and compiled the Bible, no writer stated or even implied the
Hebrews/Israelites were a dark-skinned race. It is unconvincing to his
overall claims when the key supporting element of his argument is found
nowhere in the text being evaluated.
• The author states on page 15
that Ham is universally considered black. This claim is based on the
erroneous understanding that Ham’s name means “warm or hot”, which is
then changed and interpreted as “black”. However, the name Ham is
different from that adjective with different usages and vowel pointing.
Such views for interpretation were found in a few places after the time
of Christ but most prominently
it was used by white Atlantic slave traders beginning in the 17th
century who falsely claimed the black race carried the curse of Ham’s
descendent Canaan - but not supported by any Biblical evidence. The fact
that some of Ham’s descendants migrated to northern Africa also is no
evidence Ham was black since neither Ham’s nor Canaan’s skin color are
ever mentioned in the Bible.
• Throughout the book the author
presents ancient painted images from the catacombs in Rome, Israel, and
other places as evidence for a dark-skinned Jesus and dark-skinned Jews.
While the images the author presents are inconclusive at best, many
other images show light skinned Jews and Jesus with a lighter skin tone.
Also, a simple Google search of ancient catacomb images show light
skinned Jews, light skinned early Christians and lighter skinned Jesus
images. None of these are conclusive and they prove nothing substantial.
You will find images of Jesus as an oriental in Asia and images of a
black Jesus in Africa. Since there were no photographs of Jesus and the
gospel was spready by writings and word of mouth (with nothing ever
mentioned of his skin color) people generally painted images of Jesus
associated with their own culture’s features. There is no consistent
early representation of Jesus or the early Hebrews/Israelites as black.
•
The author mentions Exodus 14, Numbers 12 and 2 Kings 5 as descriptions
of leprosy as “white as snow” and concludes that this is proof the
victims of the disease were black since that is the only type of skin to
show the white color change and demonstrate leprosy. The exact nature
of the Biblical identification for leprosy is debated today but it was
probably like Hansen’s’ disease or similar. Pictures of this disease and
the whitening of the skin in light and dark-skinned people is clearly
visible. There is no reason to think it would only be visible on dark or
black skin.
• The author lists Lamentations 4:7-9 as one of the rare
places where skin color is mentioned in the Bible. This passage gives a
before and after picture of Jerusalem’s inhabitants before the
Babylonia destruction of Jerusalem and then after. The Bible contrasts
the inhabitant’s appearance before the attack as “purer than snow”
(possibly related to their devotion to God, or delicateness) and who
were “whiter than milk” (possibly indicating very light skin color,
probably from being indoors so much) and whose bodies were “ruddy” as
corals and “polished like lapis lazuli” - meaning a red (ruddy) skin
appearance that was hard and tough like a polished gem, in good shape
and strong. The Bible then describes how they appeared after the
destruction saying they had become “blacker than soot.” This book’s
author interprets the skin color change mentioned here as turning from
black to darker black because he states that only the skin of black
people turns darker with starvation. However, whether true or not, such
an interpretation does not deal with the previous contrasting skin
appearance as “whiter than milk” and “ruddy” and the message of
appearance change of the people before and after the Babylonian
destruction. A far more accurate and reasonable interpretation of this
Lamentations passage is that the skin color change would likely have
come from the dirt, grime, and ashes (“dark as soot”) that were in the
air following the burning of the city and lack of water for cleaning.
The once healthy, ruddy skin of the Jews turned dark after weeks in the
dirty, burning city with no water - a truly pathetic and sad sight.
This passage implies the 7th century BC Hebrews/Israelites/Jews were
lighter skinned, or at least red and ruddy in complexion, but certainly
not black.
• The author claims that Josephus wrote that Jesus was a
short black man. This mythology comes from the “Slavonic Josephus,” a
15th century document, first surfacing in the early 20th century, and
translated by Robert Eisler in 1931 which contains numerous
sensationalist claims that do not appear in any other of Josephus’
manuscripts of the particular books and are not considered credible by
scholars. The Eisler translation of this passage was mostly a
compilation of ideas and insertions by Eisler as to what the Josephus
text might have said in areas where the text was missing. Such a
description of Jesus is attested nowhere else in Josephus’ manuscripts
and the book’s author can only surmise a white-man conspiracy that
redacted this entry from all the other authentic Josephus manuscripts.
•
On page 44 the author mentions Abraham arriving in the Promised Land
and starting a family and commingling with the Canaanites (who the
author believes were black). But he ignores that Abraham’s wife came
with him from the north, the land of the Chaldees in the Tigris
Euphrates Valley. Though Abraham had other wives and concubines Sarah
bore Isaac, Isaac then took a wife from his father’s home in Ur, who
bore to Isaac Jacob, and Jacob also took wives and concubines from Ur.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all had wives from their homeland and not
Canaan. Later generations in Egypt probably took wives from the local
populations, but their shepherding trade (Gen 46:34) and slave state (Ex
1:8-10) would not have been attractive to the Egyptians. The fact that
the Israelites could be victims of racism in Egypt and so easily
identified and set apart gives evidence they were not black skinned and
therefore did not blend in easily among the Egyptians.
• On page 80 the author states that Matthew 28:19, the Great Commission of Christ
to His disciples before leaving earth, should be translated “the entire
nation” instead of the translation seen in every Bible translation
today of “all the nations”. The author uses this to argue that Jesus’
words in Matthew reflect a limited outreach only to the first century
Jews. But the Greek ta ethne “the nations” is plural. It is a plural
article with a plural noun. There are no Greek manuscripts or any
textual variations with a singular article or noun. It is a ridiculous
translation and exegesis of this passage by the author. His misuse of
the Biblical text shows a fundamental disrespect and lack of
understanding of the most basic Biblical messages.
• Throughout the
book the author tries to define the terms Hebrews, Israelites and Jews
in extremely limited ways not discussed, or even considered in the
Bible. He acknowledges that “Hebrew” means someone from the tribe of
Abraham (common ancestry), but states that “Israelite” only means a
common ethnicity (merely belonging to the same social group), and “Jew”
only means sharing the same religion. To support this view he cites
several Biblical examples when someone outside the lineage of Israel
joins the Israelite or Jewish community through marriage or conversion
and states that such intermarriages would have been so prevalent that
Israelites and Jews could no longer claim to be descended from Abraham,
since their ancestry would have been watered down in later years. This
is a crucial argument to the author’s overall thesis of “black
Hebrews/Israelites” by later claiming that only original (supposed)
black Hebrews and black Israelites were true descendants of
Abraham/Israel and any white Jews were not true ancestors because their
skin color showed they came along later. Not only does this claim ignore
the fact Hebrews and Israelites are never described as black, but this
claim never addresses and completely ignores the numerous Biblical
passages that give extremely detailed ancestral records of the
Israelites/Jews. These include tracking those who journeyed to Egypt
with Israel (Gen 46:8-27), left Egypt (Num 1:1-15), journeyed in the
desert (Num 26:1-65, “sons of Israel” listed by families), arrived in
the Promised Land and received tribal ancestry allotments (Joshua
15-19), Levitical temple workers, and the Jews who returned from
captivity (Neh 7:4-73). In Neh 9:2; 13:3; 13:23-31 the Israelites (Jews)
committed to separating themselves from all foreigners and had to be
reprimanded because they married wives who were not Jewish. Also, the
lineage (not social ethnicity) of the final King of Israel (Matt 1:1-17)
is listed. Every Biblical indication is that the majority of the Jews
who remained after Nehemiah and stayed in the land until the time of Christ
were ancestrally related to Israel and Abraham and were not merely
sharers of a common religion. It is completely false to state that
being an Israelite in the first century was merely a shared ethnicity or
religion. It was first and foremost direct ancestry. Also, the term
Hebrew is still found in the New Testament in several different passages
including where the apostle Paul, in the first century, calls himself a
Hebrew and an Israelite in the same verse, (Phil 3:5), even identifying
he could claim he was of the tribe of Benjamin showing he knew his
ancestry and it was based on his lineage. In Rom 9:3-4 Paul talks about
the Israelites in the first century as “my brothers, my kinsmen
according to the flesh” which denotes ancestry. Also, John the Baptist
made an issue of the Jews living in the first century who put their
trust in the fact that they were descended from Abraham (Luke 3:8) –
never denying it but telling the first century Jews not to make that
ancestral truth the basis for their justification before God. Biblical
evidence showed that the majority of the first century Jews in Israel
knew their lineage. The author has no evidence these ancestral Old
Testament or New Testament Jews were black and has no right to condemn
white Jews as impostors and those unrelated to Abraham. There is no
reason to think many of these first and second century Jews who fled
Israel would not have also migrated west to the Roman Empire in Europe,
enjoying a favorable status in many parts of the Roman empire.
• The author also mentions the image of Christ in Revelation 1:14-15 as clearly being a black man. But this text describes Christ’s
head (kephale auotou) and hair (trikes) both being white (leukos) as
wool and snow. It describes his feet as like bronze (copper) or like
bronze in a furnace which glows white when heated. The fact that he is
described as having a white head (the face is obviously included as part
of a person’s head) and white hair should preclude this as a
description of a black man. But the intent of this Revelation passage
is not to identify the skin color or race of the resurrected Lord but to
show His presence with a glowing white look - showing His power and
purity (unrelated to a physical race on earth). This white headed, white
haired glowing presence is not an image of a black man, white man, or
any other nationality. It is the powerful presence of the risen Lord.
•
The book’s author also makes the common claims on the blessings and
cursings passage in Deuteronomy 28-30 as applying to the modern black
struggle. But with such a theologically liberal hermeneutic this
passage could apply to any people group suffering any injustice or
consequences of their sins, over the past 3500, in any part of the
world. Properly interpreted however, these passages simply apply to the
Old Testament Israelites in their struggle to be faithful to God, and
not the 21st century application this author attempts to make.
Finally, the author’s core goals and passion for writing this book are best expressed in his own words in the later chapters: (pg.
108) “Painting the biblical Hebrews White from Black was necessary for
the founding and maintaining of the White Male Supremacy System.” (pg.
108) “Likewise, in the Euro Christian tradition, the Bible is the Holy
Book that is purposely twisted to accommodate the American caste system
that’s based on race.” (pg. 109) “Of the great world religions, the
Judeo-Christian tradition was the most practical to use as the
groundwork upon which to build the White Male Supremacy System.” (pg.
112) “The notion of white superiority influences every sphere of
American life. Whether it is science, religion, education, economics,
sports, politics, entertainment, labor, law, etc., it is twisted,
stretched, redacted, or altered to support this narrative, no matter how
ludicrous.” (pg. 112) “The White Male Supremacy System’s doctrine
also formed the hermeneutical framework that gave rise to a biblical
theology that undergirds its premise.” (pg. 117) “Many [people of
color] at least on a subconscious level, have accepted their subordinate
roles in the White Supremacy System as evidenced by their insistence on
worshipping a White male impostor posing as Jesus.”
In summary,
this book presents an unproven Afrocentric mythological false narrative of ancient Hebrews
and Israelites being a black race, a fact claimed to have been
completely covered up by white male supremacists but exposed and
uncovered now in the last hundred years. However, this historical
revisionism is fundamentally a hateful assault against white European
Jews, white Jews living now in Israel and a general condemnation against
white males everywhere. I do not recommend this book.
Titus 1:14
It is written:
"Do not give heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”
Israel is located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in Western Asia not the continent of Africa.
It is bounded to the north by Lebanon , the northeast by Syria , the
east by Jordan and the West Bank , and to the southwest by Egypt .
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