What does the color black represent in Christianity?

Answer 1

In the Middle East, the color black represents sadness and unfairness.

People often wear it on an obsequy (death rites /ceremony). In accounting, black represents a positive income. In the occult black represents darkness, the absence of light, the adversity to all hypocrisy, the boldness of rescuing what's forgotten in the shadows, what's occult. The amalgam of all colors. The obliviousness of outer space, the void or vacum of a black hole that absorbs all mass, matter, even light, compresses it, processes it, keeps whats good, filters and renews whatever is not. As in nature, black represents the quintessence of undesirable matter or matters in all living species fathom, this quintessence keeps nature in balance, in harmony, without it, there would be overpopulation and tons of other problems. Black is the opposite to white, to light, to pureness. White is pure, unstained, uncolored, as a newborn infant that's born pure, then it gets polluted with ideas and experiences throughout its lifetime. Black and white are parameters, there is black and white (positive & negative) in everything that surrounds human eyes, all else in between are the other colors. White repels all light; Black absorbs it (knowledge.)

Answer 2

In the King James Version (KJV) Bible, the word black appears 26 times. In the New International Version (NIV) Bible, the word black appears 28 times. These are the two most popular bible translations.

Black appears in The Bible in reference to hair or skin color, the color of the sky and the heavens, and the color of animals such as horses and ravens:

KJV Song of Songs {5:11} His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven.

NIV Song of Songs {5:11} His head is purest gold; his hair is wavy and black as a raven.

As no specific bible translation is provided in the question, the corroborating passages will be borrowed from the KJV bible.

Leviticus

{13:31} And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it [be] not in sight deeper than the skin, and [that there is] no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up [him that hath] the plague of the scall seven days:

{13:37} But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and [that] there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he [is] clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

Kings

{18:45} And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

Esther

{1:6} [Where were] white, green, and blue, [hangings,] fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds [were of] gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

Job

{3:5} Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

{6:16} Which are blackish by reason of the ice, [and] wherein the snow is hid:

{30:29} I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. {30:30} My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Proverbs

{7:8} Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, {7:9} In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

{1:5} I [am] black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

{1:6} Look not upon me, because I [am] black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; [but] mine own vineyard have I not kept.

{5:11} His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven.

Isaiah

{50:3} I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Jeremiah

{4:27} For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. {4:28} For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken [it,] I have purposed [it,] and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.

{8:21} For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

{14:2} Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Lamentations

{4:8} Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

{5:10} Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Joel

{2:6} Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

Nahum

{2:10} She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

Zechariah

{6:2} In the first chariot [were] red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

{6:6} The black horses which [are] therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.

Matthew

{5:36} Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

Hebrews

{12:18} For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

Jude

{1:13} Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Revelation

{6:5} And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

{6:12} And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

Answer 3

If you have ever heard of the book with no words, black represents sin.

Answer 4

Usually sin or evil.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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