Challenges for Christianity Part 2 By

The claim that Moses got his concept of monotheism from Akhenaten or at least from Egypt, is a fairly common one among Afrocentrists. l Probing the available historical data on Akhenaten does not support the Afrocentric claim. Pharaoh Akhenaten who reigned from 1352-1336 BC2 and also known as Amenophisl Amunhotep IV was the second son of Amenophisl Amunhotep III (1390-1352 BC) and his royal wife, Tiye. He was born towards the end of the 15th century BC or early in the 14th during the glory days of the Egyptian empire which then encompassed all the land between Karoy in the Sudan and I See Yosef A.A.ben-Jochannan,African Origins of the Major "Western Religions", 1970, 156, where an undocumented claim is made that Africans had "spoken of a monotheistic God in the person of RA (the Sun God)". Diop also says, "Ra is the first God, the first demiurge of history who created through the word. All other gods in history came after him... ". See 311 of his Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology, 1991. Diop seems a bit contradictory in that he says at 310, "[t]his primordial matter, the nous or the 'primordial waters ', was elevated to the level of divinity (called Nun in Egyptian cosmogony). " Later at 311, he writes, "... eternal matter, uncreated... ends up by becoming self-aware. The first consciousness thus emerges from the primordial Nun; it is God, Ra, the demiurge (plato) who is going to complete creation.&quot