judah7;3427051 said:
Bible prophecy stated that only Hebrews would go into captivity by ship. The Africans (Hamites) and Arabs (Ishmaelites) sold Negros (Biblical Hebrew Israelites) to Europeans (Edomites)... The reason you dont know ur true heritage is cuz it was prophecy for us to forget that knowledge...
This is interesting. Are you referring to Deuteronomy 28:68? I don't see where it says Hebrews will be the "only" to be taken by ships into slavery, but it does indeed say that the Israelites shall be taken on ships back to Egypt and sold as slaves.
That's not too surprising of a statement though, since they supposedly had to cross the Red Sea to leave Egypt; and typically (miracles excluded), seas are traversed by ships. So that's pretty much the primary way one would expect slaves-to-be to be taken back into Egypt.
Also interesting is that the same Red Sea--along with the Indian Ocean and even the Atlantic Ocean--was one of the bodies of water the Arabs used to transport millions of Africans from North and East Africa to be enslaved centuries before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Certainly, if Europeans taking Africans across the Atlantic Ocean counts as satisfying Deuteronomy 28:68, then Arabs taking Africans across the Red Sea--a sea quite relevant to the biblical exodus story--centuries earlier satisfies Deuteronomy 28:68 even better.
Therefore, without a modifying adjective/adverb such as "only", a number of slave transports can satisfy Deuteronomy 28:68 by your standards. Of course, since Deuteronomy 28:68 explicitly states the Israelites will be taken to Egypt, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade does not actually satisfy the verse.
So if Deuteronomy 28:68 is the basis for your argument, it does nothing to support the claim that all Sub-Saharan Africans are descendants of Hebrews/Israelites.
Besides, it's not like Sub-Sahara, North, and East Africa were unpopulated prior to the supposed biblical exodus of the Israelites; so it's no stretch to think that Sub-Saharan, Northern, and Eastern Africans are likely just descendants of many generations of other Sub-Saharan, Northern, and Eastern Africans.