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How come all cultures accross Africa never knew adam and eve or any creation story related to it until the europeans sold the story to us how true is the adam and eve creation story.

The first question you should have asked is this : do Africans have written history? Certainly not . Because if they did , the white man would not be selling us his own version of our history

Because it's Western religion that was forced upon Africans.

Jashub:
The first question you should have asked is this : do Africans have written history? Certainly not . Because if they did , the white man would not be selling us his own version of our history

The blacks have their own way of preserving history.

Take a look at Ifa divination
It's consistent and accurate across every diviners

RealLordZeus:
The blacks have their own way of preserving history.

Take a look at Ifa divination
It's consistent and accurate across every diviners

This is a very lame answer . Why do you believe that George Bush existed ? The answer is simple: because IT WAS WRITTEN IN A BOOK AND DOCUMENTED! Unlike your those oral traditions like your Ifa and co that have too many different distorted variations that lack actual accountability or eyewitness

Jashub:
The first question you should have asked is this : do Africans have written history? Certainly not . Because if they did , the white man would not be selling us his own version of our history

That shouldn’t be a question to ask at all.
Every area/settlement had her own myth and history which were passed down from generation to generation through oral tradition before the art of writing.

Writing started in Egypt and the Mediterranean area, is Egypt in Europe?

The Adam and Eve story is not an European story it happened in African/middle east area and was written long before the Europeans adopted it. Adam and Every story is a myth to the people who have it, we also have a numerous mythical stories of creation which we all abandon cos of our inferiority complex

Amotolongbo:
That shouldn’t be a question to ask at all.

I hear you

Jashub:
I hear you

go back to the post, I’ve modified it

The story of Adam and Eve is ONLY TOLD BY RELIGION.

Apart from religion. Is there any book out there that talks about Adam and Eve not relating it to religion..

I am a Christian who believe in the Creation story .
That means that I have always known of the existence of Adam and Eve since I was child exposed to the teaching of Christianity .
I think OP's issue is with Africans accepting Christianity and its teachings , not the issue of Adam and Eve

Jashub:
This is a very lame answer . Why do you believe that George Bush existed ? The answer is simple: because IT WAS WRITTEN IN A BOOK AND DOCUMENTED! Unlike your those oral traditions like your Ifa and co that have too many different distorted variations that lack actual accountability or eyewitness

The highest selling book ever made is The Bible. Yet there are many contradictions of event in there..

Back to my comment, I specifically mentioned the ifa divination system, not folklore or tale by moonlight, if you don't have knowledge of how it works, you should have educate yourself with simple Google or AI before replying, and you may likely agree with me afterwards.

The Ifa divination is kind of unique such that it's interpretation and meaning is consistent but application differs based on the data submitted
If you show a thousand IFA priests a particular divined Odu, they will relate the same history and meaning behind it, but how they apply the meaning will differ based on the problem they are trying to solve.

Another good example is the tarrot card reading, A card will always have the same meaning by different readers

RealLordZeus:
The highest selling book ever made is The Bible. Yet there are many contradictions of event in there..

Back to my comment, I specifically mentioned the ifa divination system, not folklore or tale by moonlight, if you don't have knowledge of how it works, you should have educate yourself with simple Google or AI before replying, and you may likely agree with me afterwards.

The Ifa divination is kind of unique such that it's interpretation and meaning is consistent but application differs based on the data submitted
If you show a thousand IFA priests a particular divined Odu, they will relate the same history and meaning behind it, but how they apply the meaning will differ based on the problem they are trying to solve.

Another good example is the tarrot card reading, A card will always have the same meaning by different readers

We are talking about history ; not the idolatry you gladly kiss , so kindly stick to the topic .

And besides, Ifa divination , its mentods of consultation is not documented in any written yoruba text . Meaning: it is just oral traditions pass down through generations of idolatry and narrations.

Dr

Jashub:
This is a very lame answer . Why do you believe that George Bush existed ? The answer is simple: because IT WAS WRITTEN IN A BOOK AND DOCUMENTED! Unlike your those oral traditions like your Ifa and co that have too many different distorted variations that lack actual accountability or eyewitness

There is a documented book of ifa (odu Ifa) just like Christian Bible

Because Adam & Eve were nothing but a mere fairytale story. They never existed!

LillyandDaisy:
Dr
There is a documented book of ifa (odu Ifa) just like Christian Bible

The yoruba Odu Ifa has never had any ancient documents. In fact, It was only through modern yoruba authors that were learned (thanks to Christian missionaries) that were able to actually meet the ifa priests to divulge their oral traditions into written accounts. And even the narratives and so called oral traditions have many contradictions that are inconsistent with the origin of Ifa itself

Jashub:
We are talking about history ; not the idolatry you gladly kiss , so kindly stick to the topic .

And besides, Ifa divination , its mentods of consultation is not documented in any written yoruba text . Meaning: it is just oral traditions pass down through generations of idolatry and narrations.

You're wrong

There are many books on Ifa, even in English for non Yorubas like me

bigpriik:
How come all cultures accross Africa never knew adam and eve or any creation story related to it until the europeans sold the story to us how true is the adam and eve creation story.

They are all made up folklore and never real.

bigpriik:
How come all cultures accross Africa never knew adam and eve or any creation story related to it until the europeans sold the story to us how true is the adam and eve creation story.

Cos we had our own stories of similar occurrence.
What the Europeans tried to do was take certain stories and try to relate it with things out ancestors could relate with. For all we know Adam and Eve might just be that, just a story without real facts

leave that thing, most Bible stories na somebody just stay write them, our forefathers were convinced to swallow/believe them hook line & sinker. Just the way a creative writer will stay and write down a book for people to read. Pastors on the other hand dey use Bible stories do cashout (run their business). Our eyes don open ooo, all thankx to internet technology.