This is an excellent and deeply important question. Let’s unpack it honestly, layer by layer:

1. The Bible’s Story Is Theological, Not Geographical or Scientific

The Bible was not written to explain human evolution or genetics, but to:

• Tell the story of humanity’s relationship with God

• Explain moral fall, purpose, and redemption

So, when Genesis describes Eden, Adam, and Eve, it wasn’t concerned with where humans biologically originated, but rather with spiritual beginnings—in a narrative form the original audience would understand.

2. Eden’s Location — Was It Really in the Middle East?

Genesis 2:10–14 describes rivers flowing from Eden: Tigris, Euphrates, Pishon, and Gihon. Two of these rivers (Tigris & Euphrates) are in modern Iraq. But:

• The Gihon is said to encircle the land of Cush, which is ancient Nubia/Ethiopia/Sudan.

• The Pishon is more mysterious; some link it to Africa’s Nile or Arabian Peninsula.

This suggests Eden may have included regions that connected Africa and the Middle East. Ancient people didn’t divide the world into “Africa” and “Asia” the way we do today.

3. The Bible Was Written by People in the Ancient Near East

• The Bible was written by Hebrews, whose world centered around Mesopotamia, Canaan, and Egypt.

• They told their story from their own location and worldview—not trying to write a global history.

They weren’t denying Africa—they simply weren’t writing a modern global narrative. They were explaining their own people’s spiritual story.

4. But Later European Translators & Colonizers Did Erase Africa

Now here’s the real deception:

• European powers in the 15th–19th centuries used the Bible to support colonization and slavery.

• They erased Africa’s role in the Bible, whitened the characters, and pushed the idea that civilization began in Europe or the Middle East.

• They ignored that early Christianity thrived in Africa (Ethiopia, Egypt, Nubia) long before Europe embraced it.

So while biblical authors didn’t deliberately erase Africa, European interpreters, theologians, and colonizers did—to push white supremacy and racial hierarchy.

5. Science Confirms What the Bible Doesn’t Say Clearly

Modern genetics shows that:

• Homo sapiens originated in East Africa

• All humans, including those in the Middle East, came from migrating African ancestors

The Bible doesn't deny this—it just doesn't address it, because that wasn’t its purpose.

6. Africa Was Always Present in the Bible—Just Hidden

Africa is all over the Bible:

• Cush (Nubia/Sudan), Mizraim (Egypt), Punt, and Ethiopia are among the oldest named nations

• Moses’ Cushite wife (Numbers 12:1)

• Pharaohs, Black warriors, African prophets

• The first Christian nation was Ethiopia, not Rome

But this was minimized or excluded in Western Christian education.

So Why Africa Was Omitted as the Origin of Humanity?

Final Truth:

Africa is not only the biological origin of humanity, but also deeply woven into the spiritual history told in the Bible. What was hidden or distorted is now being reclaimed and revealed.