Way back during Jesus' earthwalk, the Israelites, like the Egyptians, were black. That's why Mary and Joseph, his parents, were directed to take him to Egypt when Herod the king was on a rampage to kill all the Hebrew boys, and they stayed in Egypt until Herod died.
Why is it when anyone posits Egyptians were black always post a picture or two of a time when Nubians were in charge of the country, but always fail to post the pictures of much lighter-skinned brown people (Middle Easterners) that take up all the rest of their history?
You cannot expect a White baby to be hidden where the people were black.
Greeks and Romans should've had a pretty decent presence in Egypt too, given the time period. Heck, Cleopatra had already happened and she was Macedonian, not even full-blooded Egyptian. Egypt may have had the Library of Alexandria but it weren't blacks who named it that.
They took baby Jesus there to hide him because the Israelites and Egyptians looked the same.
They took him there because Herod has already had experience with ticking off the Romans who had already slept with its queen on multiple occasions and nothing quite says "overkill" like what the Romans would do if you showed up on their turf. The Herods were knee-deep in all that Julius to Augustus crap.
There are many paintings and artifacts made before 3rd century AD, and you can see that the Egyptians are a black (dark African) people.
Again, you know nothing of Egyptian history outside of some stupid racist blog I've seen linked to on other forums. The black people come from a time when Nubians (Ethiopians) ran the country in between real Egyptian dynasties. Jesus ...
As I mentioned, Joseph and Moses were mistaken as Egyptians.
How do you even GET that? Joseph was clearly Canaanite and Moses' ENTIRE origin story is about him being adopted and how he ultimately felt different from everyone else, so he murdered some guy and then became a religious terrorist/insurrectionist.
It is thought that perhaps Joe and Moses harken to times when Semites (and then Nubians) conquered Egypt, but Egyptians have been and always shall be Middle Easterners.
Joseph looked so much like the Egyptians that even his own brothers could not distinguish him from them.
The last time they saw their brother was when they ditched him a well as a kid. He wasn't a beaten up boy but a powerful man. Some people can't even recognize their own family members if they just go get a haircut.
They were so angry at the beauty and royalty of Queen Nefertiti that they smashed her whole face....
huh?
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the land of the shepherds...
He was, up until he fled, nationally an Egyptian. That's like saying Americans can't be different colors.
f Moses was already white-skinned, what would have been the miracle in turning the skin of his hand white?
*sigh*
In the Book of Acts, the Apostle Paul was also mistaken as an Egyptian. When the Apostle Paul was being led by a Roman Captain, Paul (speaking in the Greek language) asked for permission to speak with him. The chief captain was surprised that Paul could speak Greek and in verse 38, he asked Paul, Acts 21:38 "Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?" (39) But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
Romans and Egyptians weren't getting along, IIRC. Paul was only too happy to claim Roman citizenship to avoid being summarily executed like other Jews, so does that mean he looked European? Or can we admit that empires have multiracial populations?
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord.
Aren't there
Jewish Ethiopians?
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
TO WHAT IS LAMENTATIONS REFERRING? BODIES BY THE TRUCK FULL ARE BEING BURNED BECAUSE THE CITY WAS SACKED!
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Go through a famine and you won't look so great either.
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Isn't this supposed to be the Queen of Sheba (who DOESN'T live in Israel) talking about the great sex she's getting with Solomon (who DOES live in Israel)?