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Originally Posted by Black Lion

There is the Ethiopian version, forget what its called (coptic?) but for the most part our churches seem to letting the side down when it comes to saving the youths/community from crime and violence on the streets let alone helping to safe guard against exploitation regarding the cause in general.

First it was the white blonde blue eyed jesus probably still a feature in many homes but the core issue has to be with the translation of the texts themselves, no avoiding the ''out of heathen africa'' story implied within I guess but as the English felt no way about translating the bible into something that suited them theres no reason why we on the continent and in the diaspora shouldn't have our own version, even the Americans have their own translation to suit their needs.

What would christians on board think or feel about an AFRICAN BIBLICAL TRANSLATION?

I am just bewildered at how a forum that is supposed to be pronouncedly African can discuss translating the Bible (of all books) into an African version, when the Bible itself is a distortion of original African texts in the first place. What seems the most logical (and self-respecting), would be to analyze how the Bible has been distorted from its original meanings amongst our African ancestors.

Analyze the book of Proverbs to the Instructions of Amenhotep (most strikingly), Instructions of Ptah, Instructions of Pianhke, as well as the "Instructions" of many different Pharaohs collected by the royal scribes of Nubia, Kush, and Egypt.

Analyze the creation story of Genesis with the creation story in the Nile Valley with the beginning was the Nun (formlessness), where the first perfect man was the Atum (which directly translates to "Adam" in Hebrew). Furthermore, the "Tree of Life" was central to African mythos where the tree with the serpent Nebkha (with legs) hands a red fruit to the woman under the tree. This image is painted in several Egyptian tombs and engraved on the sarcophogus of many Pharaohs including Pepi II, and many of the Ramesside kings (Ramses IV, V, etc.) which predate the writing of the Biblical Genesis story by over 1,000 years.

If you can read Hebrew, then analyze how everytime the Bible says "my LORD" in its English translation it is actually translating the Hebrew word Adonai. If you transliterated Adonai to the ancient Egyptian, it means the Aten, which was the principle aspect of God worshipped by Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) where his "Hym to the Aten" seems to find itself copied into Psalms 104.

If you further study the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten, you will find that his two high priests were Pinhas and Merari, where you will find these to be the high priests of Moses (Akhenaten) in the Bible, Phineas and Meryre. Looking at writings attributed to them also turn up being copied into the Bible, although again with a distorted meaning from hundreds of years of Indo-European/Semitic culturation.

You will find these things all the way upto and including Jesus Christ, where he resurrected a man by the name Lazarus, but in its Semitic language it is "El Azar" which means "the God Ausar". Jesus is said to be a king in the Bible, yet the resurrection of Ausar was a principle ceremony of Egyptian kings to validate their spiritual ascendency to the throne.

I could go on and on here, but I just have to ask one question in the midst of all this talk that is totally neglectful of our own heritage...where is the self-love, self-respect, and dignity? Perhaps we have none, but just humor ourselves now.