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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] ^That was the bad old days of fighting racists fire with fire- before moderation was restored to E- now under the capable hands of Tukler. And don;t forget it was others who started those threads- you yourself among such. Now let's get back to the topic. You say: [b]By AD 300 it is clear that Alexandria was one of the great Christian centres.[/b] True enough, and Egyptian Christians celebrate the fact that it was Africa that was foundational in protecting the genesis of CHristian faith. As Elizabeth Ischei notes in her History of Christianity in Africa- Coptics hold this, claiming that it was a hospitable Africa that protected the founder by divine providence- quote: "Modern African Christians cherish the same tradition: 'When Jesus was persecuted by the European Herod, God sent him into Africa' by this we know that Africans have naturally a true spirit of CHristianity." [IMG]http://www.randolphcofc.org/Resources/ethiopianeunuch.jpg[/IMG] But even before the Egyptians, almost the first non-Jewish convert to Christianity was not an Egyptian, but a high-ranking Kushite governmental administrator from the Sudan in the employ of his queen, Candace, who in Acts 8, was baptised by the Apostle Phillip, and returned to his land bearing the new faith. This conversion by the Apostle was within a few decades after the death of Jesus, not the centuries long wait before Egyptians showed up. Widespread dispersion of the faith in Africa, as elsewhere, would take centuries, but the black administrator was early on in place, and had already embraced the faith long before it went into Egypt and developed into the Coptic church. Egypt hogs most of the press, and the Coptic church would have strong influence later but Christianity in Africa, as far as converts, begins with Kush in the Sudan, not Egypt. Ischei notes that Jews early on taunted Christians that they had no access to the original Jewish scriptures, but in fact, they had reasonably accurate translations via the Greek Language-Septuagint. When the Apostle Philip met the black chariot rider on the road from Jerusalem to Gaza, as detailed in Acts 8, the black man was reading from the Septuagint, leading to what was to become, per Ischei "one of the most famous encounters of the ancient world." [IMG]http://s1.jcg.co/abwe/abwasNT31.jpg[/IMG] As far as the country we know as "Ethiopia" today, Christianity was declared the state religion in Auxum, in 330Ad under Ezana, one of the first kingdoms on earth to make it their state religion, earlier than Egypt, and arguably the first some maintain, though Armenians also claim to be first. In any event the record shows that while it was influential, Egypt is not necessarily the starting point as far as conversions re Christianity in Africa, or establishment of official religion by the state. Kush and Auxum are ahead of Egypt. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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