Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
ETHIOPIA: FIRST CHRISTIAN NATION
ETHIOPIA: FIRST CHRISTIAN NATION
Having definitely learned today, 2-16-2020, that Ethiopia was the first Christian nation, I must pay honored reverence to all our African ancestors who knew it, who intuited it, and who practiced it, without really “knowing” the definitive truth of it.
Mind you I had long suspected that such was indeed the case since my teen years. I searched doggedly for confirmation in books, in churches, in conferences, in travel to Ethiopia and to the Coptic Church in Egypt.
But only today, February 16, 2020, did the truth of Ethiopia’s primacy become crystal clear thanks to me, through the convergence of three sources cited below Biblical and archaeological research in 2020:
https://www.ibtimes.com/ethiopia-first-christian-nation-1110400
https://www.topbuzz.com/article/i6768914208680575494?app_id=1106&c=fb&gid=6768914208680575494&impr_id=6794075131804354822&language=en®ion=us&user_id=6774246406460572678
https://www.bible.com/bible/392/GEN.2.10-13.CEV
These three sources fiercely came upon me with a power of certainty. So, I thank God for Mama and for Daddy’s persistence , insistence, faith, hope, charity, love, devotion.