Is the Bible racists? Can you christians answer this..?

Like many others aforementioned the Bible new and old testement has mentioned different black groups and or individuals. The Cushites many of which were Ethiopians and other black people. Why Ebedmelech was a very faithful man towards God and he was an Ethiopian. He helped Jeremiah escape death and was rewarded by not dieing during the Babylonian siege and the destruction of Jerusalem 607 B.C. There were a lot of good and bad black people in the Bible. Gifts toward God would be given out of Cush.(Psalms 68:31)

If your expecting the Bible to subcategorise people into white, black, brown, etc than you've already missed the mark. That whole idea of races being lumped into subcategories came way after the completion of the Bible during the American colonial era. That was when the whole calling people white/black really started or at least took off. People didn't have that mentality back in Bible times. They weren't obsessed with skin color for the most part like people of the last few centuries. Besides all this, does it really matter what race the Bible characters were? Does that really change the message? Do we really need to argue over race when it comes to the Bible? After all, the Bible says God is not partial and that anyone out of all nations that is rightious is acceptable to Him.(Acts 10:34,35).

Their were many black people in the bible. They apparently

didn't feel it was important to point out their race. Beside the

queen of Sheba, the Ethiopian that Phillip baptized, Simon of

Cyrene, others from Cyrene mentioned in Acts 11:20, and

Acts 13:1which were prophets and teachers (Symeon, who

was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene.

Africa is the source of all mankind, dating to 40,000 year ago. They were black; you get white people found in Europe and Asia at a later date.

People from Africa are mentioned in the Bible. God love all his creation independent of skin color.

Black people descended from one of Noah's sons. The sons of Cush [another one of Ham’s sons] were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca.” (Gen. 10:6, 7) Later Biblical references to Cush are usually equivalent to Ethiopia. Seba is later used when referring to another people in the eastern part of Africa and evidently close to Ethiopia.—Isa. 43:3,

Some think that blacks are cursed.That idea is based on a misunderstanding of Genesis 9:25, where Noah is quoted as saying: “Cursed be Canaan. Let him become the lowest slave to his brothers.” Read it carefully; it says nothing about skin color. The curse was because Ham’s son Canaan had evidently performed some shocking act deserving of a curse. But who were Canaan’s descendants? Not blacks, but lighter-skinned peoples living to the east of the Mediterranean Sea. Because of their depraved practices, demonistic rites, idolatry, and child sacrifice, they came under divine judgment, and God gave to Israel the land occupied by the Canaanites. (Gen. 10:15-19) Not all the Canaanites were destroyed; some

were put at forced labor, in fulfillment of the curse.—Josh. 17:13.

"Love your neighbor as yourself" Nope, not racist.

The Bible DOES have blacks in it. The Ethiopian eunuch was black, as was Moses' wife (also Ethiopian), just 2 examples.

If you read the Bible, you'd know this.

Are Ethiopians not generally "black people"?

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2...

Maybe race is not mentioned so much because all people are seen as people and not as a race of person.

Some say Jesus was black. But i'm a black Christian, does that make it bad?

Of course, with so many references to Maoris, Inuits and Japanese it must have been the authors policy to keep negroes out.