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The Effect of African/Egyptian Theology in the Revealed Religions and Christianity
By
Minister Ernest Polk
© 2007
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction Page 3
II. Importance of Thesis Page 3
III. Thesis Statement and Definition of Terms Page 3
IV. Monotheism Page 4
V. Trinity Page 6
VI. Spirituality - God Has Always Been My God Page 10
VII. Thesis Summary, Conclusion, and Reaffirmation Page 14
VIII. End Notes Page 14
IX. Bibliography Page 15
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The Effect of African/Egyptian Theology in the Reveal Religions and
Christianity
God Amen …I became the becoming of those who became after my becoming, for
numerous are the desires coming out of my mouth (spoken word to create), …After being
only one God, it is three that I became for myself and for Shu (air/spirit), certainly, and
Tefnut (water) came out of the Nun (dark empty void) where they were: they brought my
eye after them…Egyptian the Book of the Dead (+3000 BC) ref. Dr. Diop, Civilization or
Barbarism. God achieves creation by the word, and the spirit. Is African/Egyptian
theology the root of Christian theology (Gen. 1:2 God, the spirit of God, and Water)?
Egyptian/African thought is that man is of flesh/Body (Blood), with a soul (Ba) and a
spirit (Ka). The Ba is the corporal soul (the seat of emotion, feelings, desires, and the
double of the body throughout black Africa). The Ka is the divine spirit of God given to
all men/women, the immortal principal that rejoins the divinity in heaven after death if
judged worthy from their life on earth. Tri - man, Ba, and Ka is the most ancient
philosophy of God and his relation with man.
Importance of Thesis
This is not added for confusion but for clarity of a forgotten past and understanding that
African’s (Africans Americans, Negroid Homo Sapiens, the black man/woman)
acceptance and understanding of revealed religions was because monotheism (belief in
one God), spirituality (body, soul, and spirit), theology of the trinity (God, the word, and
the Holy Spirit), circumcision, immaculate conception, resurrected salvation, and final
judgment for paradise or hell are not foreign to African theology. If there are a people
that should be leading men to God it should be the first formed by him, received his
breath of life, and his word (Father, the word, and the Holy Ghost).
Thesis Statement and Definition of Terms
This thesis will examine the similarities and possible origins of all revealed religions
(Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam) with focused on Christianity’s core faith
beliefs of monotheism, spirituality, and theology of one God in three persons (trinity)
having its roots in African/Egyptian theology.
This thesis in founded in certain facts that have been proven or have not been disproved:
1. Ancient Egyptians were black. Herodotus (the father of history of the Greeks)
describes the Egyptians as “black with the heat”1. “My own conjectures were
founded, first, on the fact that they are black skinned and have woolly hair…”2
2. The first homo-sapiens/modern humans on earth were negro/black, in Africa and
populated the world.3
3. Egypt was the greatest of the African Empires (Nubian, Ethiopia, Zulu, Ghana,
etc.) and influenced the eastern and western worlds during its reign and today.
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4. Africans were the first to circumcise as religious ritual thousand of years before
Judaism and influenced this practice by the Jews.
5. Egyptian God was the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Of the aforementioned facts this thesis will only support itself examining the 5th fact. The
other facts are documented and self evident.
Monotheism
In the beginning God... What separated the Jews from the other nations in the Middle
East was there belief in One God. It will not be until conversion to Islam would the other
children of Abraham (Ishmael) would agree to believe in the God of Abraham. However
was monotheism a sole Jewish theology? No. If we look at revealed religions of
Christianity and Islam both have left monotheism to a mono head with polytheism body.
Catholics believes in one God but pray to saints and have statues of them as sacred (St.
Mary, Joseph, Augustine, etc.). Islam believes in one God but yet prayers are offered to
Mohammed and the mortars of Islam. Israel’s problems with strict monotheism are well
documented throughout the bible. Israel was chastised over and over again in the bible
because they would not put away idol gods.
Many historians and theologians agree that the first known monotheism theology
occurred in Egypt during the 18th dynasty and rule of the Pharaoh Akhenaton IV around
circa 1400 BC. Moses lived at this time and the Jews had been in Egypt +300 years
(according to the bible). Akhenaton/Amenhotep IV was trying to revive the early
monotheism which had by then been discredited by sacerdotal ostentation and the
corruptness of priests. Amenhotep/Akhenaton seems to have attempted to bolster
political centralism in his recently conquered immense empire through religious
centralism; the empire needed a universal religion4. This would latter be adopted as a
new form of centralism by the Roman Empire and Ottoman Empire (Christianity and
Islam respectively). But, Akhenaton unlike the empires after him would not implement
this by the point of the sword as Rome and the Ottomans. This was a reform back to the
basics of the African mode of production of civilization. He reformed back to a
centralized religion with one God, one intermediary between God and man, and one
objective; to obtain eternal life. The god was Amen/Aton. The intermediary was Amen
Ra (Son of the true god) or Pharaoh, perform/live a life worthy for final judgment for the
glorified body to live in eternal paradise. This was the fundamental mode for civilization
of Africa’s Egypt and the inspiration to a people to build the pyramids, sphinx, Abu
Simbel temple etc.
The hymn to Amen still survives today in the Holy Bible and Koran because it was
complete in its monotheism expression. The following is an excerpt that will compare it
to Psalms 104:
Akhenaton's Hymn
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When thou settest in the western
horizon of heaven
The world is in darkness like the dead...
Every lion cometh forth from his den,
The serpents they sting. Darkness reigns...
Bright is the earth when thou riseth in the
horizon...
The Two Lands are in daily festival,
Awake and standing upon their feet...
Then in all the world they do their work.
How manifold are they works!
They are hidden from before us.
O thou sole god, whose power no other
possesses.
Though didst create the earth according
to thy desire, being alone:
Man, all cattle, large and small;
All that are upon the earth.
Compare the above with Psalm 104:
Thought makest darkess and it is night,
Wherein all the beasts of the forest
do creep forth;
The young lions roar after their prey;
they seek their meat from God...
The sun ariseth, they get them away
And lay them down in their dens.
Man goeth forth unto his work
And to his labor until the
evening...
O Lord, how manifold are
thy works!
In wisdom hast thou made
them all;
The earth is full of thy
creatures.5
This hymn to Amen has always been attributed to a sun god. But, Akhenaton/Amenhotep
IV use the sun as a symbolism to reveal the Amen (the only living god in truth and life).
Truth is light. He stated the truth that “you are alone shinning in your form the living
Amen (the living truth).” Through his more monotheistic rule he was answering a
question raised to Jesus some 1500 years latter by Pilate, “what is truth?” The truth is
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one God, and one intermediary between God and man. This is ancient in African
theology (Osiris/Horus) preceding Akhenaton/Amenhotep IV by +5000 years and Jesus
by + 6500 years. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by me6. Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the
light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the
light of life7. Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on
him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am come a light into the
world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. And if any man
hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to
save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth
him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. For I have not
spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I
should say, and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life
everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak8.
Since the first Black Pharaoh of Egypt the decendents of Horus have said this of
themselves that “I am the son who emerged from his father, I am the father who
emerged from his son.”9 This is the unity of Amen and Ra, the truth and the light, the
god and the son. “Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in
him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.”10
Moses was raised as a prince of Egypt, educated in its history, religion, culture, but was
Hebrew born. Moses was probably influenced by this reform. From that time on, he
championed monotheism among the Jews. Monotheism, with all its abstractions, already
existed in Egypt, which borrowed it from the Meiotic Sudan, the Ethiopia of the
Ancients11. Unlike Judaism and Islam, Christianity theology is even closer to African
theology with its form of Henotheism.
The Trinity
Henotheism believes there is one god manifested/revealed to man in other beings/gods
but in all is only one god. “I became the becoming of those who became after my
becoming, for numerous are the desires coming out of my mouth (spoken word to create),
…After being only one God, it is three that I became for myself and for Shu (air/spirit),
certainly, and Tefnut (water) came out of the Nun (dark empty void) where they were:
they brought my eye after them.” This is individuality or one to give plurality in more
than one (specifically 3 in trinity). Elohim is God in plurality and individuality. This is
very evident in Genesis 1:1-3.
Though these are African/Egyptian theology, let us now look at the word of God
(Christian theology). We believe there is one God eternally existent in three
persons/beings: The father, the son, and the Holy Ghost/Spirit – I John 5:6-9 reads – 6.
This is he that came by water and blood, (Jesus is the giver of living water, from him
came forth blood and water St. John 4:9-14, 19:34-35) even Jesus Christ; not by water
only, but by water and blood (water to purify and blood to sanctify in order to obtain
God’s grace – see requirements for sacrifice). And it is the Spirit (Hebrew –
Ruah/Ruach; breath, spirit of God Gen. 2: 7, Acts 1:8, 2:4) that beareth witness (two or
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three witnesses), because the spirit is the truth (Amen; The true God, true/truth, …
“saith the Amen”, true witness to the beginning and creation by God Rev. 3:14 – the true
God of truth). 7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the
Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 8. And there are three that
bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree
in one (baby of blood, lives in water, is born when it takes its first breath of life and the
birth is water and blood but born in sin – the Jesus of blood the blood of humanity and
the blood of redemption, baptized in water, symbolic purified/he is purification, Jesus in
humanity as the son of man, with the holy Ghost descending like a dove Matt. 3:16-17
and God speaks The testimonial this is my beloved son). 9. If we receive the witness of
men (two or three Witnesses), the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of
God which he hath testified of his Son. KJV (note verse 7 from “in heaven” to “in
earth” inserted into this passage in some Latin versions).
The spirit is the Holy Spirit of God and is God. This is the spirit that is in Jesus Christ
who was divinely created of virgin birth, born of blood and water, and conceived by the
Holy Spirit. He sacrificed blood redemption for the sins of Adam to obtain the grace of
God for mankind. Now, we can be washed and baptized in water under the cover of the
blood redemption, which became the final sacrifice for the total forgiveness of sin under
grace. Through him there shall be a well of water springing up into everlasting life. This
Holy Spirit of God is witness to the water and the blood. There is only one God who has
manifested in three persons/dispensations eternally forever (as revealed in the bible).
These dispensations are God, through the water/blood of Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. God
is the Father; however through Jesus’ submission, obedience, sinless life in human form,
and willing sacrifice for mankind’s redemption, all glory, honor, praise, and exhalation to
him having the keys of Hell and death is his hand.
Therefore in Hebrews 1:2-4 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he
hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; 3Who being the
brightness of his glory, Jesus Christ he is the divine Illumination of God. And the
express image of his person, Jesus Christ he is the divine duplication of God. And
upholding all things by the word of his power, Jesus Christ he is the divine
authorization of God. When he had by himself purged our sins, Jesus Christ he is the
divine redemption of God. Sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: Jesus
Christ he is the divine Glorification of God. 4Being made so much better than the
angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. They are not
the same (God is revealed in the three). However, they act on one accord to save man
from sin and bring him back to the divine glory of his creation to glorify and rule God’s
creation.
This parallels with the same relationship of Pharaoh and Amen (god). Pharaoh was
depicted as the Amen Ra, the son of god, and the divine glory of god on earth. Horus is
depicted on our dollar bill as the enlighten eye of Horus. Horus was the child of
Immaculate Conception of Isis. Horus is conceived by the Ka of god (spirit of god). All
pharaohs are the image of god on earth. By birth right they have the authorization of god
to give his commandments and to judge the people. Pharaoh is the intermediary between
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god and man. Finally upon Pharaohs death he is call upon to defeat evil holding the keys
to hell and death in judgment before the tree of life (Osiris theology) and is the divine
glorification of God rising as the sun each morning to reveal victory over
darkness/Satan12. Therefore in African/Egyptian theology there are 3 in one accord
Amen, Son of Amen, and the Ka (spirit of Amen given to man to become a living soul).
There are 89 proofs of Divine Trinity – see Dake Annotated Reference Bible KJV for all
89. Here we will look at a few:
1. God – the word one is one in unity and one in number; three separate persons in
divine individuality and divine plurality.
2. God in Plurality – …Let us make man (Gen. 1:26) …man has become as one of
us (Gen. 3:22). The Hebrew word Elohim is a singular/plural noun meaning
God/gods.
3. Jesus is not the Father, God the Father is not the Son, but God is in the Son and
the Son is in the Father. The Holy Ghost is the spirit of God in action for God’s
purpose and is Holy. All three are separate but act as one. One in creation, one in
salvation and one in sanctification. All three act in one accord. God created man
in his image, Jesus saved/redeems man in his image, and the Holy Spirit sanctifies
man in his image. One God in three persons.
The individuality and Plurality of the Creation
1. Gen 1:1-3 – God in the beginning created the heaven and the earth – divine
individuality specific in the Heaven and the Earth. - Tri – God, the Heaven, and
the Earth. Tri – God, the Spirit of God (God is present and his Spirit is present in
the beginning), and the waters. God, spoke the word, let there be light and there
was Light. Tri – God, the Word and the Light. The earth was without form, a dark
abyss without light covered by waters. The word of God was the light of the
world. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the Word
was God…In him was life; and the life was the light of men (St. John 1:1-14,
Isaiah 60:1-3). The first three verses in the bible contain 3 trinities.
2. Gen. 1:26-28 – Gives use tri-numerology 26+27+28=81/3=27 now read verse 27
again 27 is divisible by 3 (27/3=9 or 3x3 is perfect square - 9 planets in solar
system - 3 in the trinity of God). Gen. 2:7 (number 7 for completion. Chap 2
verse 7 written numerical is 27). God in divine individuality spoke in divine
plurality to make man in the image of divine plurality. He gave possession in
plurality of dominion over the fish (water), fowl (Air), and cattle and every
creeping thing (earth). Dominion of Tri - water, air and earth. God in divine
individuality created man in His own image. He created he him; male and female
created he them in divine plurality. Tri - God, male, female. God in divine
individuality created plurality in two sexes yielding first fruit of mankind; Tri -
male, female, and child. God in divine individuality formed (Hebrew Yatsar – to
mold, squeeze into shape as a potter with clay) man out of dust (Hebrew – Aphar
– mud, soil, clay indicates the presence of water mixed with earth), and breathed
(ruah) into his nostrils and man became a living soul. Tri - God, formed of earth,
and breathed. Tri - Man is body, soul and spirit.
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Individuality and Plurality of the Divine Trinity – Matthew 3:16
1. Matt. 3:16-17 – And, Jesus (1), when he was baptized, went up straightway out of
the water: and, lo, the heavens opened unto him, and he saw the spirit of God (2)
descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: and lo a voice from heaven (3)
saying this is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. This is the most used
bible verse to show the existence of the divine trinity with Jesus, the Holy
Spirit/Ghost, and God the father. Each individually and each in plurality
connected. The Son of God has the Holy Spirit upon him and God the father is
well pleased. Jesus was baptized in water and sacrificed his blood and breathed
on his disciples saying receive the Holy Ghost and wait to receive power from on
high being baptized with the Holy Ghost (St. John 20:21-23, Luke 24:46-49, Acts
1:4-8).
2. Jesus is submissive to the father. Through that submission by the death on the
cross, he dies for the redemption of man and rose with all power with the keys to
both Hell and death (defeating sin and hell – the wages of sin is death, but the gift
of God is eternal life). The Old Testament is the dispensation of God (Gen. 1:1)
that prophesizes the coming dispensation of Jesus of the New Testament (Isaiah
53, 60:1-3, etc) who for tells our current dispensation of the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:8,
St. John 20:21-23). This is the plurality divinity in action and unity to create and
empower (God), to save and redeem (Jesus), to re-create and re-empower
spiritually (the Holy Ghost).
3. The Holy Ghost/Spirit – As mentioned in Gen. 1:2 the Spirit of God moved. And
it still moves. When God rose up and deliverers for God’s purpose, the Holy
Spirit would come upon man/woman to give power to accomplish God’s purpose
(see Moses, Gideon, David …Jesus/the Messiah). Jesus in addition to speaking of
the promise of the Holy Ghost in the New Testament spoke in his messiah form in
the Old Testament of the Holy Ghost and God (Isaiah 48:16). The prophesied
Messiah states of his eternal existence and his coming sent by God and the Spirit
of God (the Holy Spirit). Three acting on one accord for the benefit of salvation.
Spiritual restoration was delivered at the day of Pentecost and prophesied in the
book of Joel 2:28-32 that he (God) will pour out his spirit upon all flesh. The
Spirit of God is holy and will not dwell in an unclean temple. Therefore Jesus’
sinless blood redemption was needed to expedite the dispensation for the Holy
Spirit to be poured out to all flesh that accept him as their redeeming Saviour,
being baptized (water symbolically), and tarry to receive power from on high
through the baptism of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:1-4). Jesus said all sins and
blasphemy would be forgiven unto men except blasphemy against the Holy
Ghost. It further states words against him (Jesus) would be forgiven, but not
against the Holy Ghost (Matt. 12:31-32). Be careful of the use of the Holy Spirit
of God. For the Holy Ghost seals/keeps, preserves, provides power, and
acknowledges the presence of God. It is the Ka the divine incense of God
allowing man to become a living soul. It is the seal until the day of final
redemption.
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Even though the word trinity is not found in the bible it is evident by revelation of the
word, spirit and the blood. God through grace by the blood of Jesus Christ and the power
of the Holy Ghost has and is still in one accord to save man spiritually from sin and
eternal damnation (death in sin which is the goal of Satan/devil/evil spirit). Jesus prayed
in divine plurality of the trinity for us to have a comforter, of his leaving (for a while),
and to bring on another (St. John 14:15-21). This is evident with no doubt in the words
of Jesus Christ. The three act in one accord to save man from sin and bring him back to
the divine glory of his creation. This is to serve, praise, and glorify God’s creation on the
earth that he has given us dominion.
Therefore African theology is the father/mother that nurtured the revealed religion of the
people of the book…Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Monotheism was not foreign
theology to blacks from Africa. Black Africans before the bible was written already
wrote monotheism in Amen/god, henotheism in trinity in Amen/god, the living water, and
the spirit (the Ka) or Amen, the son of Amen/Amen Ra, and the spirit (Ka), and the
redemption/victory over darkness in the resurrected son of god (Pharaoh). The spirit of
the Pharaoh wins redemption and victory over darkness with every rising of the sun. This
is depicted by scene and hieroglyphics in the tomb of Tuthmoses III. This is depicted on
the walls of the temple by Amenhotep/Akenaton IV with the sun rays as wings reaching
down to heal and bless. “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in
the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts13.”
Written in the inauguration of the great Tuthmoses III; “…I have built his house as an
eternal work. My father caused that I should be divine, that I may extend the throne of
him who made me…the oracle of god himself is like the word of Ra (Amen) at the first
beginning14. Black Africans years before the Pentateuch of Moses, the birth of Jesus and
years before the gospel of St. John, wrote “In the beginning was the word and the word
was with God and the word was God”. This is Tri- God, the word, and the spirit.
Spirituality - God Has Always Been My God
In conclusion of this thesis we will show by preponderance of the evidence that black
Africans/Egyptians of the Bible knew the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because he
was their God before this revelation to the Hebrew. Therefore it was not a conversion but
a revival what had been originally given in black spiritualism, inherited in Judaism,
fulfilled in Christianity, and surrendered to Islam. Spirituality begins when man first
respect and acknowledge man’s relationship with God.
The first interaction/relationship of a black Egypt and God in the Holy Bible is the book
of Genesis; his name was Ham, son of Noah. Remember the story of creation is a
Semitic account of creation borrowed from the African account of creation as confirmed
by paleontology that negroid/black Homo sapiens are the first humans on earth. The
biblical story of Noah after the flood sees Ham begat Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan.
The first thing we must realize is that Ham is an Egyptian word; root is Kam. Egyptians
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called their country Kemit/Kemet, which means black in their language. Because Moses
is the author attributed to the Pentateuch and being raised as an Egyptian the word Kam
in Hebrew means heat, black, burned. The inhabitants of Egypt are symbolized by their
color, Kemit or Ham. The bible reads Cush who begat Nimrod. He began to be a mighty
one in the earth. It states his kingdom began at Babel or Babylon. Most look at this and
forget that Upper Egypt is actually south and lower Egypt is actually north. This is
symbolic in that Egyptians would pray 3 times a day facing Upper Egypt towards inland
Africa. Egypt was as heaven above the other lands and Egyptians lowered themselves
the further they went north interacting with races other than African (Semitic, Asian,
European). Egypt was the first civilization to rule under the old kingdom. So they would
note the beginning as the furthest extension of its empire. 1st Dynasty - Menes, whose
Horus name was Narmer, (Semitic Nimrod) was the king of Upper Egypt who
conquered Lower Egypt, united the two lands and built the city of Memphis, near the
border, as his capital. A palace bureaucracy developed, and artists and craftsmen were
employed by the royal court15. Therefore since Noah knew God, Ham knew God, Cush
knew God and Narmer (Nimrod) had to know God.
The racist curse on the black man by Noah (used by the church as it whitened from its
black roots, black Popes/Bishops of the early church, to enslave blacks physically and
mentally) was said to be on Ham. But if you read the scripture the curse is on Canaan
who would later be subdued and ruled by his brothers Cush, Mizarim, Put and Uncles
Shem, and Japheth. The prophecy of Noah was to a large extent fulfilled with the
Canaanites became “hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God”16.
There is no way anyone can say Egypt/Kemit/Ham/Cush was cursed as its civilization
has and is still influencing humanity to copy it and understand its mysteries. The curse
was just plain racism as the blackness was taken out of Egypt, the bible and history to
control and make a people subservient and live in darkness (slavery in the Americas).
Abram was not blessed financially with cattle, servants, oxen, sheep, silver and gold until
he went down to Egypt and told Pharaoh, the son of god, his wife (Sari) was his sister.
She became a wife of Pharaoh. Abram was entreated well by Pharaoh for her (wedding
dowry to the brother of the Wife of Pharaoh). A plague came on Pharaoh and his house.
Then things become in view. First, Pharaoh called Abram and asks what has he done to
him? Second, Pharaoh reveals he knows Sari is Abram’s wife and this is the cause of the
plague. Third, Pharaoh asked why he did not reveal the truth from the beginning. Fourth,
Pharaoh gives Abram back his wife and finally he commanded his men concerning
Abram to leave with his wife and what had been given to him. In any other culture
Abram and Sari would have been killed. Who revealed to Pharaoh that he and his house
was plague because of Abram’s deception? Pharaohs practiced polygamy having a
principal wife in the blood line of the matriarch to obtain the throne. Sari was one of
many lesser wives, so there could be no way of knowing why and who plagued his house
unless it was revealed. Since Pharaoh did not do wrong. Would God punish him for
Abram’s sake or reveal the truth for Abram’s sake? Just and right was Pharaohs actions
in the eyes of God. Pharaoh did not kill Abram and Sari for their deceit. Pharaoh
respected the wedding dowry paid to Abram for Sari and did not take it from them. He
knew this was just and right (in God eyes) but was not popular with certain of his people
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and commanded them concerning Abram and Sari (don’t kill them). Remember, I will
bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you. Where does Pharaoh and Egypt
fall with their course of action (letting Abram live and keep the dowry as a divorce
settlement) under the blessing or curse? So look at Egypt throughout the bible history. It
continues to be a dominant Empire of the Middle Eastern world (until the fall of
Jerusalem/Judah).
To continue to prove that Egypt’s god was Israel inheritance of God, we now move to the
next major interaction between Pharaoh/Egypt and God in the Bible. We will now find
Pharaoh and Egypt blessed by the dream interpretation of Joseph. Joseph is brought from
the dungeon of jail to Pharaoh to interpret his dream. Joseph interprets the dream and
Pharaoh makes the first proof that the Egypt’s god was Israel inheritance of God; “And
that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be
in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine. And the thing was good
in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh said unto his
servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?”17
Pharaoh knew God allowing Pharaoh to recognize someone with the Spirit of God.
During the whole dialogue of interpreting Pharaohs dream Joseph never spoke of God as
a spiritual being unknown to Pharaoh. Compare this to the dream interpretation of Daniel
with Nebuchadnezzar and in the loins den of King Darius, Daniel 3:47-48, Daniel 3:24-
29, and Daniel 6:4-11. The Babylonian and Persian Kings did not know God. Pharaoh
knew God and one who had the spirit of God. This means there was a relationship or a
revelation of God of one who has God’s Spirit by Pharaoh. My analysis goes further to
show that the priest of Egypt was spared by the advice of Joseph to Pharaoh “Only the
land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh,
and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their
lands… And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh
should have the fifth part, except the land of the priests only, which became not
Pharaoh's.”18 Why would God spare the priest of Egypt? There are so called keepers of
idolatry, and heathenism. The answer is God had established Egypt and its order; God,
Pharaoh and the Priesthood. This order was established going back to the invention of
the calendar by the Egyptians since 4241 B.C. This was a civilization founded under the
African mode of civilization using spirituality to a higher calling to bring nationalism and
centralism. Like the Biblical Jehovah (YHWH), the hidden aspect of Amen was
associated with his name. "The priests of Amen claimed that there was no other god like
Amen, who was the 'one one' and had 'no second.' This concept resembles that of the
Hebrews, who said, 'Yahweh our God is one Lord' (Deuteronomy 6:4)."19 However, the
priest as with the Sadducees and Pharisees of Judaism would lead Egypt away from the
God being caught up in themselves and their own interest destroying both countries from
the inside out.
Another interaction of God and Egypt in the bible for support of this thesis will be
prophesies of Isaiah and the writing of Hosea. Hosea 11:1 reads “When Israel was a
child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.” Hosea 13:4 reads "I am the
LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is
no saviour beside me." These verses have been the argument for both the sides of
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Christianity and proponents of African theology giving birth to all revealed religions of
the book. Christians have been told of the evilness and tyranny of Egypt upon Israel so
God called his son out of Egypt. They also state that “from the land of Egypt” means
from that time in Egypt. The opposite view is that the son of God has always been called
out of Egypt. Pharaoh is a title meaning ruler of the great house. He was called this by
others. His title to Egyptians was the son of God. As stated earlier in this thesis Moses
the attributed author of the Pentateuch was raised in Pharaoh’s house. He was exposed
and had to be influence by African/Egyptian theology. Therefore he was The God from
the land of Egypt literally and theoretically. Monotheism, henotheism, circumcision,
body/soul/spirit, priesthood establishment, commandment law, are all African origin.
Moses being Semitic and the new leader of a people would naturally use what was
learned in Egypt to lead his people. This opposite view also leads to the interpretation
that God was the true Amen as state in the book of Revelations. God was the God Israel
brought from Egypt.
Also, we must look at these verses in context with the prophecy in Isaiah 19:21-25 which
reads “And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD
in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the
LORD, and perform it. And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and
they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal
them. In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall
come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the
Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a
blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed
be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.”
Looking at Hosea in context with Isaiah it can be said with certainty that God did call his
son out of Egypt, he has been their God from the land of Egypt and Egypt shall return
even to the Lord because all of this has come true through Jesus the Christ. This all has
been in place to give man a Saviour, an anointed one. God called his son out of Egypt
after he fled to Egypt for safety. God called him out of the relationship only Pharaoh, the
royal family and the elite of Egypt had with God to usher in an open relationship
returning all men to God through the final act of the suffering Saviour. He was offered as
a final holy sacrifice (Horus), and in this act he would be raised from the dead having
final redemptive victory holding the keys to both hell and death to sit at the right hand of
God in final judgment of man (Osiris/Horus). God sent his only true Son, called out of
Egypt, to be the propitiation for our sins as our holy anointed Saviour (Jesus Christ) to
redeem man back to God. God has been the God of Israel from/since Egypt.
God was first revealed to Black Africans of Egypt who revealed him to the world
established in the order of God, his son, and Holy Spirit setting up dynasties that would
last 10,000 years. But man has always failed God. Egypt turned to its own glory instead
of the glory of God that made them. As with Israel, Egypt’s leaders and priest corrupted
itself and its people with polytheism for self interest departing from the monotheism that
centralized them under the African mode of civilization. Spirituality begins when man
first respect and acknowledge man’s relationship with God. This respect is the fear of the
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Lord and the beginning of wisdom. Wisdom used to create the calendar at the rising of
Sirius and the Sun every 1461 years. Wisdom used to create numerical computations
creating the pyramids, obelisk, etc. Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God. Because God
loved us so he gave his only begotten son. Israel would be the inheritance/possession to
bring man back to God saving the blood line of David and God would add on (Joseph
name means God adds/adds on) through Jesus’ virgin birth being conceive of the Holy
Spirit. He is the true Horus/Osiris who is not for the elite of royalty and priesthood. If
Egypt/the black man did not know God, how could it be prophesied that Egypt/black man
would “return even to the Lord.” You can not return if you did not start from the same
place. Through Jesus Christ, the Saviour anointed, God shall return his people to him.
There was a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, meaning literality during the reign of the
great Pharaohs (Tuthmoses I, Tuthmoses III, Menes, etc) who had conquered with there
stele found beyond Assyria making a highway with Israel a blessing in the midst.
Symbolically Egypt is/was God’s people for it was the people he revealed himself to first
as the hidden Amen and Israel as his inheritance/possession (the hidden Yahweh) to
continue his revelation of redemptive grace through Jesus Christ. Pharaoh is not God.
God is a Spirit. We must worship him in spirit and truth. The truth is that the son of God
came in flesh from glory conceived of a virgin by the Holy Spirit to be the propitiation
for man to be redeemed/return to God. This said the true Amen. Satan (Seth – Egyptian)
had only the tools of fear and death. Jesus Christ holds the keys of both hell and death in
victory over Satan and death that we can have access to what the Egyptians glorified in
the tombs of Pharaoh; life eternal. This is not by the intersession of the Pharaoh, for who
intercede for them, but by the true Horus. Jesus is the one mediator between God and
Man. He is King of kings and Lord of lords (as Horus king by whom all Pharaohs obtain
their kingship). He is so much better than priest and kings because he is our anointed
Saviour. What must we do to be saved? “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved.”20 Ethiopia built the first Christian Church and was the world’s first and
oldest Christian nation (a thousand years before Rome). Christianity was originally an
African religion, as was the Hebrew religion called Judaism. Therefore, if there are a
people that should be leading men to God, it should be the first formed by him, received
his breath of life, and his word (Father, the Holy Ghost, and the word).
Thesis Summary, Conclusion, and Reaffirmation
Based on the aforementioned this thesis stands that African/Egyptian theology core faith
beliefs of monotheism, spirituality, and theology of one God in three persons (trinity)
gave birth to all revealed religions/people of the book in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
That black people must re-examine their spirituality not in the history of others but in the
history of themselves. That we shall return even to the Lord. We shall be his people, and
Israel his inheritance. Salvation is free. Who the son has set free is free indeed. Pharaoh
is not the only son of God anymore. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath
bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth
us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him;
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1 The history of Herodotus, translated by Georg Rawlinson, 1928, p.88
2 Ibid, p. 115
3 Dr. Diop, Civilization and Barbarism, 1981, p. 11-23
4 Dr. Diop, African Origin of Civilization, 1967, p. 6
5 Lestor Brooks, Great Civilizations of Ancient Africa, New York, Four Winds Press,, 1971, p. 67
6 Men Inspired by God, The Holy Bible, St. John 14:6
7 Ibid, St. John 8:12
8 Ibid, St. John 12:44-50
9 Hornung, E, Ancient Egyptian Books of the After Life, 1999, pp.55-77
10 Men Inspired by God, The Holy Bible, I John 2:8
11 Dr. Diop, African Origin of Civilization, 1991, p. 6
12 Dr. Diop, Civilization and Barbarism, 1981, p. 328-336
13 Men Inspired by God, the Holy Bible, Malachi 4:1-3
14 Ancient Records of Egypt, collected and translated by James Brestead, VII, 1908, p. 59-64
15 Encyclopedia World History, Sixth Edition, 2001
16 Men Inspired by God, the Holy Bible, Joshua 9:23
17 Men Inspired by God, the Holy Bible, Genesis 41:37-38
18 Men Inspired by God, the Holy Bible, Genesis 47:25-27
19 Anthony Mercatante, Who’s who in Egyptian Mythology, p.6
20 Men Inspired by God, the Holy Bible, Romans 10:9
21 Men Inspired by God, the Holy Bible, I John 3:1-3
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