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Hello , i want to learn more about the rastafari belief , and i know rasta read the bible. Whats is the part of the bible that rasta read, i know isnt whole the bible.


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rootically wrote:Hello , i want to learn more about the rastafari belief , and i know rasta read the bible. Whats is the part of the bible that rasta read, i know isnt whole the bible.

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Not 100% sure on this - but I think that they read the whole Bible, albeit a different version/translation to the versions that people in the West will be familiar with.

i believe the King James version is favoured by many

king james version it the 'regular' english version.

as rastafari is more orientated to the old than the new testament, concentrate on the old, but the 'revelations' of the new testament is the most important chapter. so read all..a chapter a day

Hmmmm. I've definitely heard 'FIRE 'PON KING JAMES VERSION!' (and similar) in a few songs...

Rastas also read the Holy Piby also known as the Blackman's Bible.Written by Robert Athlyi Rogers in the 1920s, this book re-interpreted the Bible from an Afrocentric point of view, with Ethiopeans as the chosen people of God and Marcus Garvey as Black prophet.Banned in jamaica in late 1920s it is considered a primary reading source for many Rastas.

Rastafarianism is more an individual religion, and not a big community religion. I'll put it in more simple way: it depends so much from different individuals. Some believe in Jesus so they read the New Testament, while others don't so they don't read the New Testament.

greeting, i would advise from begining to end to really overstand the full conseption of I and I.

I think following words of H.I.M. Quedamawi Haile Selassie might give you guidance:

"**I have the highest respect for the Bible as a whole**. We also recognise the rightful name the Bible bears. We find that in all the periods of the Old Testament, in the time of Patriarchs, Kings, and Prophets, great miracles were done. On the other hand, the time in which Our Lord Himself gave the command to go to all the world and to preach is also of high value. Then, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John,- the four gospels in which the sayings of our Lord are recorded- are pillars for all men on the earth. **Therefore the Bible should not be cut into portions**."
(Haile Selassie I interviewed by Dr. Oswald Hoffmann on the Lutheran Hour)

"We in Ethiopia have one of the oldest versions of the Bible, **but however old the version may be, in whatever language it might be written, the Word remains one and the same**. It transcends all boundaries of empires and all conceptions of race. It is eternal."
(Am not sure where this quotes comes from. You can find it e.g. in Karl Phillpotts Naphtali. The Testimony of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I Defender of the Faith. p. 16)

what is the meaning of Quedamawi ?