im confused?

Question

if adam and eve where the only people on earth (some people say they are white some say they are black ) why don't we all look the same and y aren't we all the same color?

Answer 1

Genesis 9:18-28
"The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) These were the three sons of Noah, and from them came the people who were scattered over the earth. Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard. When he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent. Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it across their shoulders; then they walked in backward and covered their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so that they would not see their father's nakedness. When Noah awoke from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him, he said,
"Cursed be Canaan!
The lowest of slaves
will he be to his brothers." He also said,
"Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem!
May Canaan be the slave of Shem. May God extend the territory of Japheth ;
may Japheth live in the tents of Shem,
and may Canaan be his slave." After the flood Noah lived 350 years."


Some nations were cursed, but the question is, "Who?"

Answer 2

Adam and Eve were only the parents of their children in Eden, the bible says Cain went to Nod, on the east of Eden, where he found a wife, so there were other people in the middle east, the bible doesn't tell the story of the Chinese, Aborigines, Africans, Polynesians, Greeks, Indians those cultures had their own stories, see the fathers of Christianity had a very persuasive marketing strategy, the crusades, inquisitions, witch hunts, people had to be christian or else were killed as heretics

Answer 3

Because at the begining Adam grew the family by having relations with his daughters. It was early enough in the human race not to hurt anything, but there were sons and daughters of adam who moved to different hotter regions and their skin darkened, over the generations, this mutation stuck and some sons of adam were white and some were black.

Answer 4

Well the reason we are different colors is due to cooking time. When god was making us he left some in the oven too long( Blacks) and some he left in the oven just a smidgen too long(Arabs,Indians,Latinos, and Eskimos) and then some he took out to early (redskins)and there were others he took out just a hair to early (Oriental) then there are the ones he left in the oven just the right amount of time ( whites) . Now that you know the truth about the different colors you are obligated as a good Christian to spread the word.

Answer 5

Here is some stuff I took from a Web site that has an interview with Spencer Wells who wrote "The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey."


Q: You say that there really was an Adam--a common male ancestor for all humans. How did you find that out?

A: We study a historical document carried in the blood of everyone alive today - DNA. Tiny spelling mistakes - changes in the DNA sequence - that occurred in the past can give us clues about genealogical relationships. If two people share a change, then they are likely to share an ancestor. If we look at the spelling mistakes carried by people all over the world, we find that ultimately all of us share a common ancestor. In the case of the male line, defined by a piece of DNA known as the Y-chromosome, this analysis allows us to trace back to a common male ancestor for everyone alive today. In other words, Adam.

Q: Where did Adam live and what did he look like?

A: The unequivocal answer is that he lived in Africa. Every piece of DNA in our bodies can be traced back to an African source. The Y-chromosome traces back to eastern or southern Africa, around 60,000 years ago. The present-day inhabitants of Ethiopia, Sudan and southern Africa carry the clearest signals of our earliest ancestry, signals that have been lost in the rest of us. So they give us a glimpse of our 60,000 year-old Adam. Adam would have been fully modern, both in terms of his appearance and his brain function. It is speculation, of course, but perhaps the San Bushmen of the Kalahari - who in many ways are a composite model of facial features from people all over the world - give us a portrait of Adam and his fellow early humans.

Q: If we all came from a black man, how did men and women of different colors come into being?

A: The accepted explanation for skin color differences is that we first evolved in a tropical region, in Africa. The tropical sun is quite strong, so the skin needed the protection provided by the natural sunscreen, melanin, which makes skin dark. When we started moving into the Northern Hemisphere 40,000 years ago, the sun was not as strong. Anyone who's been to London in February can tell you that! And because the sun helps us to synthesize Vitamin D, which we need to grow strong bones, we had to lose some of our pigmentation to allow enough sunlight through.

Q: So what do our genes tell us about the biological differences between, say, Europeans and Africans?

A: They are literally only skin deep. We are all African cousins separated by - at most - 2,000 generations.

Q: Has research on genes told us something about the first people to arrive in America?

A: Yes. Our data tells us that we could not have been in the Americas prior to 20,000 years ago, and the most likely date of entry was around 15,000 years ago. This is because the oldest Y-chromosome lineage in the Americas originated in Central Asia 15,000-20,000 years ago, and then migrated to the northeast, across the Bering Strait. If we were still in Central Asia 20,000 years ago, we couldn't have been in the Americas until after that date.

Answer 6

When God created people, they had much more variation than they do now. We had all the genes to be any color, and as time went on, people branched off depending on which color was the most beneficial to the (you could call this "survival of the fittest"). It is the same thing that happened with animals. All the species of dogs could have come from one dog with much more info in it's genes than they have now. This is supported by the fact that as time goes on, things get less ordered and genes lose information.

Answer 7

There are several theorys about this, none of which are really important. Seek ye first the kingdom is really the important thing.

Don't let this sort of thing disturb you, for God will have some from all nations in His eternity. Just trust God through Christ, and these things including understanding will be added to you.

God bless you, God knows no color, blood is the same color throughout the races, and He loves you in ways that no one else can.
Peace be with you.

Answer 8

Adam and Eve were not the only people on earth. They were "ruddy" complected, meaning "reddish", so the ones who said black and white, nope, it's right there in the Bible. Good question you asked.

Answer 9

Because there were more than just Adam and Eve. Also people adapt over generations to their surroundings. If everyong in the tropics was as white as I was they would constantly be sunburn and there just isn't enough aloe for that.

Answer 10

Keep reading Genesis, Noah's Ark, great flood, earth breaks into continents, Genesis 11:8 Tower of Babel, "So the Lord scatterd them from there over all the world..." belived to be when races were created.