Editing Nuwaubian Nation (section)

===Theology===

The Nuwaubian worldview was described by Palmer as a form of "radical materialism".{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=40}} They reject the notion of a transcendental spiritual realm separate from the material one, believing the former a lie promoted by Christian churches to keep African-American people docile.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=40}} For the Nuwaubians, as with the Nation of Islam before them, gods are therefore viewed as physical beings.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=40}} York interpreted the Hebrew word [[Elohim]], but which he preferred to spell "Eloheem", as being not a singular entity but a race of "angelic beings" who visited the Earth.{{sfn|O'Connor|2000|p=126}}

Rather than seeing the terms "Allah" and "God" as synonyms, as is typical, York distinguished between them.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=17}} He interpreted the word "God" as an acronym encompassing three words in the Kufic language he developed—"Gomar Oz Dubar"—meaning "wisdom, strength, and beauty".{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=17}} He then presented these as traits possessed by the black man,{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=17}} meaning that, while black men are not Allah, they are God for they symbolise divinity within the world.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=40}} The scholar of religion [[Michael Muhammad Knight]] suggested that this theological view represented York's negotiation with the theology of the Nation of Islam, which does maintain that black people are gods.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=40}}
Nuwaubians therefore perceive themselves as having an inner divinity, a doctrine that is shared widely among black new religions of North America, including among the Rastafari, Nation of Islam, Five-Percenters, and Black Hebrews.{{sfn|Palmer|2010|p=32}}

York also taught the existence of [[Iblis]] (Shaytan), an oppositional figure in Islamic theology.{{sfn|Knight|2020|p=41}}