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They believe Jesus was a black African, and that the white Jesus was a false god. [62] Many Rastas regard Christianity as the creation of the white man; [63] they treat it with suspicion out of the view that the oppressors (white Europeans) and the oppressed (black Africans) cannot share the same God. [64]
Rastas do not believe in a specific afterlife. [5] Their views on death itself also vary. [3] Traditionally, many Rastas believed in the possibility of eternal life, similar to Christians. [6] In the 1980s, scholar of religion Leonard E. Barrett observed Jamaican Rastas who believed practitioners who died had not been faithful to Jah. [7]
A primary comparison to make between Rastafari and Judaism is that both religions believe that there will be a coming of the Messiah, although they do not agree on who that Messiah is or will be. In the Jewish religion "The Messiah will indeed be a king from the house of David who will gather the scattered of Israel together, but the order of ...
The Rastafari movement or Rasta is a new religious movement that arose in the 1930s in Jamaica, which at the time was a country with a predominantly Christian culture where 98% of the people were the black descendants of slaves. [10]
The twelve tribes have been described as the Rastafari mansion closest in beliefs to Christianity or Messianic Judaism. Members follow the teaching of reading the Bible (the Scofield Reference Bible , King James Version ) a chapter a day from Genesis 1 - Revelation 22, a practice encouraged by Carrington.
Practitioners of Rastafari often identify with the ancient Israelites as God's chosen people in the Old Testament. Some Rastas believe that black people, or Rastas specifically, are the descendants or reincarnations (metaphorically or literally) of this ancient people, [21] though this view is less common in contemporary Rastafari. [22]
Adherents of Judaism do not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah or Prophet nor do they believe he was the Son of God.In the Jewish perspective, it is believed that the way Christians see Jesus goes against monotheism, a belief in the absolute unity and singularity of God, which is central to Judaism; [1] Judaism sees the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, which is forbidden. [2]
A primary goal in Rastafari meditation is maintaining awareness of I and I. A primary goal in a Rasta's life is to expand their livity. [1] In Rastafari philosophy, livity can be enhanced by intense prayer and meditation (often enhanced by sacramental cannabis use), adherence to an Ital diet, and perhaps most importantly, loving behavior toward ...