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The legitimacy of Ethiopia did not start with the bible. The bible is at best a reflection of a spiritual tradition that started in Ethiopia thousands of years before the bible even existed in the form it is in now.
KRST is an ancient Nile Valley idea - Jesus is merely a character reflecting this.
In Haile Selassie - I see more a case of the idea of Christianity coming full circle from its original origins - back in a Nile Valley civilization. Ethiopia does not need the legitimacy of Judaism(a congealed entity whose sole legitimacy as a CHOSEN PEOPLE is based on a literalized interpretation of a blueprint of spiritual ideas from the Nile Valley) to make it holy. The idea of ISRAEL(SPIRITUALLY) is AFRICAN! The same with CHRIST. The same with RASTA. The same as I and I. The same as 12 tribes. The same as monotheism. Rastafari need nothing from outside to legitimize what is inside.
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