12/12/2025
🚨Christianity Was Never a “White Western Religion” — The Bible Was Born in Africa and the Middle East, NOT Europe
For years, critics have pushed the lie that Christianity is a “Western” or “white man’s religion.” But history — real, documented history — destroys that narrative.
The Bible did NOT come from Europe.
Christianity did NOT originate in America.
And Jesus was NOT a blond, blue-eyed European.
The roots of our faith are unapologetically Middle Eastern, African, and Semitic.
📍 Let’s Start With Geography: The Bible Is an Eastern Book
Every major figure in Scripture walked the soil of Africa and the Middle East:
Abraham lived in modern-day Iraq.
Moses led Israel out of Egypt in Africa.
Joseph, Mary, and Jesus fled to Egypt as refugees.
Solomon traded with North African kingdoms.
Christianity first spread into Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya, and Egypt — long before Europe even heard the Gospel.
From Genesis to the Resurrection, the Bible’s storyline unfolds almost entirely in regions we now call Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Ethiopia — NOT London, Paris, or Washington.
🌍 Christianity Reached Black and Brown Nations Long Before It Reached Europe
This is where the misconception collapses completely:
The Ethiopian Church (1st century)
One of the oldest Christian communities on planet Earth. Acts 8 describes the Ethiopian eu**ch — a high African official — taking the Gospel home. That means Africa heard the Gospel before Rome did.
The Coptic Church of Egypt (1st century)
Founded by Mark,, the author of the second Gospel. Egypt became a powerhouse of Christian theology long before Europe even organized its first churches.
North African Fathers Shaped Christian Doctrine
Names like:
Tertullian (Carthage)
Athanasius (Alexandria)
Augustine(Algeria/Tunisia)
These men — Africans — shaped doctrines like the Trinity, the nature of Christ, and the foundation of the early church.
Europe didn’t build Christianity.
Christianity built Europe.
🤯 So Where Did the Western Narrative Come From?
When Christianity spread into Europe through Paul’s missionary journeys, Rome eventually adopted it. Centuries later, European art reimagined biblical characters as white — not because of Scripture, but because of culture, nationalism, and Renaissance aesthetics.
And critics today confuse that *artistic reinterpretation* with historical truth.
But the Bible was never European.
It was never white.
It was never Western.
🔥Here’s the uncomfortable truth today's culture avoids:
Christianity is the most multi-ethnic faith in history because it was born in the Middle East, rooted in Africa, and then spread to the ends of the earth.
The Gospel didn’t travel from the West to the world.
The world brought the Gospel to the West.
This is why Revelation describes every tribe, tongue, and nation worshiping Christ — because Christianity has always belonged to all people, everywhere.
The world didn’t invent Christianity.
God planted it in the soil of Africa and the Middle East — and the world has been transformed ever since.
