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Ochuk
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Posted 8/20/2003 9:43 AM (GMT -6)

Doc made a reference in God of the Possible from a book called The Color of God (or something like that) that made the point the African Americans tended to believe in the OV as opposed to traditional classical theism. I've looked for the book, but can't find it.

If anyone has any knowledge about the relationship between African Americans and OV and why there is one, I would be very interested.

What are your thoughts? Why would they believe it as opposed to Reformation theism?

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geebob
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Posted 8/20/2003 1:42 PM (GMT -6)

I did a little searching myself and didn't find anything by african theologians that might address the question. So I concluded that Doc made it up. Eyebrow

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What are your thoughts? Why would they believe it as opposed to Reformation theism?

most likely it would be less influence from helenism.

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Chris Grant
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Posted 8/21/2003 4:16 AM (GMT -6)

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Originally posted by geebob
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What are your thoughts? Why would they believe it as opposed to Reformation theism?

most likely it would be less influence from helenism.

Not according to Black Athena! Wink

"I believe that, in the present divided state of Christendom, those who are at the heart of each division are all closer to one another than those who are at the fringes. I would even carry this beyond the borders of Christianity: how much more one has in common with a real Jew or Muslim than with a wretched liberalising, occidentalised specimen of the same categories."
(C.S. Lewis to Mary Willis Shelburne, November 10, 1952.)

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Posted 8/21/2003 5:22 AM (GMT -6)

Has anyone here ever read the book called "Dominion" by Randy Alcorn? It's a Christian novel about racism. Within it, the author said that biologically/geneticallly speaking, it's not possible for two white-skinned people to produce darker-skinned offspring. But the reverse is possible. Therefore, Adam and Eve were probably black or dark-skinned. This revelation astonished me! As a white person it actually made me feel a bit shaken. I even wondered if God prefers black people over white people since He probably originally chose to make the first humans black. Then, I wondered if that's how many black and dark-skinned people have felt over the generations of white oppression. Finally, I came to realize that God doesn't love any one race more than another. He loves us all equally even if He did choose one particular color to be first. I guess it makes sense for Him to choose to make the first people black, because He probably wanted there to be humans with different colored skins for variety and diversity because there's beauty in that. So, I hope that makes all you black people out there feel good if you've been told the lie that only white skin is the best!

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Ochuk
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Posted 8/21/2003 5:29 AM (GMT -6)

I was wondering if it was because of the suffering they've gone through.

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Tigress
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Posted 8/21/2003 5:45 AM (GMT -6)

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Originally posted by Ochuk

I was wondering if it was because of the suffering they've gone through.

What do you mean?

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Ochuk
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Posted 8/21/2003 8:11 AM (GMT -6)

Well the book cites that African Americans believe in principles of open theism. Blacks, historically in America, have suffered immensely. The questions of God's providence may have been in there minds more so than white's. I'm thinking of john Sanders' opening story in Does God Have a Future where he recalls the death of his brother, and his blamming of God. This is a speculation, mind you.

I never thought of the lack of Hellenization of black theology being a factor, but that does make sense. If that is the case, OV scholars should research that more. That would be huge evidence that white, western Chrisitanity (clasical theism) was indeed corrupted by Greek thinking.

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