HISTORY OF CHRISTIANTY IN THE LAND OF CUSH ETHIOPIA AND NUBIA

TNDL: “THIS IS A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE LAND OF CUSH, ETHIOPIA AND NUBIA. WHO ARE THE NUBIAN COPTIC CHRISTIANS AND THE ETHIOPIANS WHEN CHRISTIANITY WAS INTRODUCED TO THESE BELIEVERS AND BY WHOM?”

"Ethiopian" for "Kushite". Ethiopian in Greek meant literally a black person.
Almost every modem reader assumes it is the ancient version of the
modem nation of Ethiopia. In the Bible, an Ethiopian is a black person-or
from Nubia.
The areas of the Bible were: the holy land; the fertile crescent; and
the Mediterranean world. Kush belongs to the outside arenas. The Old
Testament projected a break-out from the arenas of Israel and the ancient
world. The Ideal King envisioned by Psalm 72 "will rule ... to the ends of
the earth." "Distant Shores" as well as "Sheba and Seba" will be the King's
domain. Jesus took this up. He told his disciples that they were his
witnesses "in Jerusalem, all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the
earth." The ends of the earth were crucial: they proved the truth of the
Good News itself, that the Great King had truly come. The Kingdom was
for everyone, anyone who simply believes. So Acts 10 tells how Peter was
led to preach to a Roman centurion, and that story directs the church
throughout the remainder of the book of Acts. 65 Yet, as a matter of fact, the
first Gentile baptized appeared before Acts 10, in Acts 8:26-40, the story of
Philip unfolding the Good News to a black man and when he believed,
Philip baptized him. 66 He was the first believer from outside the Bible
world-and its arenas. He was an official for a queen-mother, from Meroe,
along the Nile in northern Sudan. Here Sudan moved out of the edges into
the center of the biblical story: the Gospel to "the ends of the earth", Act
One. The story of Cornelius the centurion was really Act Two of the same
biblical drama. And then it continued-even until now.