Why I asked about Adam & Eve's race - And another Question?

Question

I asked because look at some of the answers - here is one from my question which I reported because it was rasist:

Why make them black of asian? What's wrong with white?
White people wrote the Bible - all the characters are white in there. Who are you to argue with that?

****THAT'S RACISM FOLKS****

Why would anyone Asian, Black, Or Arabic want to support a racist religion? I mean look at the pictures? How many black Jesus's do you see? How many figures inthe bible are black? The bible even talks about owning slaves. This is just another reason why I see a large majority of Christian's as hypocrites. If this book is so good why is there such racism and only the "white side"??

Answer 1

Thank you for saying "A large majority." This is appreciated, if you care.

Christianity seems so racist and wrong because of the people preaching it. The ones who preach it are the nuts, the normal ones stay home and pray. It's like homeschooling--it's the nuts who get on TV saying how their 17 year old kid cant read but can do art it homeschooled--the normal ones are at home learning. It's all about the people in the religion, group, mindset.

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Answer 2

Actually, the people that wrote the Bible were brown (Medditeranian and Near Eastern), so I do not know where the white people crack came from. Jesus was a Hebrew. He probably had very dark, olive skin. Especially since he was a carpenter.

I think a lot of the notion of Christianity being a white people's religion has to do with how Christianity developed in the early centuries. Shortly after the beginning of the church, it florished in the western and northern provinces of the Roman Empire. These areas remained mostly intact when the Romans fell and various groups claimed much of what was their lands. As a result of this, Christianity took on more of a European flavor, reflected oftentimes in its art. That is why there is so many paintings and such that show pale skinned angels, Jesus, etc.

There are dark skinned people in the Bible. The Queen of Sheba, Solomon's wife, the Ethipoian Eunich.

As for slavery in the Bible, remember that there are two types, chattel and indentured servitude. The type endorsed by Scripture and practiced by the Jews was indentured. Since there was no bankruptcy courts then, if you fell into debt you could sell yourself into slavery to pay it off. But under Hebrew law, every 7 years all the slaves were freed and all debts erased so it was a very short term thing. Chattel slavery was the barbaric practice of the other people groups.

There are a lot of people who hold a racist view of Christianity. But they do so in direct violation of what Scripture says. The Bible makes it pretty clear that there is no difference between people, that we are all made in the image of God, and that we are all sinners who fall short of the glory of God.

Answer 3

First, there was only 1 race to begin with. The Bible teaches this (the fall of the Tower of Babyl (sp?) is where the split in languages occurred). Look at all the dog breeds...they all had the same ancestor.

Second, you can't blame all Christians for the misguided words of some. Just like you can't say all Muslims are bomb-toting kamakazees. You're being just as judgmental by classifying all Christians as those whose remarks you are commenting on.

The pictures you always see were painted 1000 years after Christ. Christ wasn't black, and he wasn't white. He was Jewish, and he would have had the same complection as the people who live in the area now. Stores now sell black Santa's at Christmas just to be politically correct, even though St. Nicholas was European. We can't dilute icons just to make everyone happy.

The BIble doesn't condone slavery, it forbids it in Leviticus, but slavery was very active at the time. That doesn't mean it was right, but it doesn't mean it was Christians who owned the slaves either. The slavery we think of in America was racist because you were only allowed to own blacks. The slaves in the Bible were from all races, mostly from conquered lands or they were sold into slavery by family (Joseph and the mult-colored dreamcoat sound familiar?).

The Bible was written by Jews, with the exception of maybe a couple books (Ruth). White people in the Bible are called Gentiles.

The Bible talks about people form many, many, many different nations, thereby denoting what race they would be. It doesn't say "Bob was black." It says "Bob was from Ethopia." So anybody at that time would know, "Oh, Bob is from Ethiopia? That means he's black because black people live there."

It's obvious you haven't read much of the Bible, and your interpretation of it is subjective. If you are open to answers you may see some views that you didn't realize existed. I'm sorry if all you have been exposed to is negativity about Christianity, but if all you look for is the negative in something, you're sure to find it.

Answer 4

Yes, some of the people in the Bible owned slaves. Slaves doesn't, however, mean black. Slaves are any unpaid forced labor, regardless of race. The Bible never specifies the race of anyone in it, it can only be implied from where the figures lived. If you judge by that, very few figures in the Bible were white. Christianity became the dominant religion of Europe, an almost exclusively white continent (especially during the rise of Christianity). They had little, if no, understanding of people of other races and protrayed Biblical figures as they saw the people around them. If you look at Christians in Africa and in many Black churches, Biblical figures are portrayed as black.

Answer 5

You're an idiot. The Bible is the historical and social account of the Jews thoughout parts of the middle east. The characters are not white you moron. The Bible revolves around Israel and the Jewish people. So what if the Bible talks about owning slaves dummy? The Jews were slaves to the Babylonians, the Egyptians, and were slaves to other groups of people. I'm tired of stupid people like you with your retarded views on stuff you don't know one damn thing about. If you want to have an educated opinion then I suggest you study the Bible and find whatever it is you're looking for, other than that shut your trap. The more you speak, the more you show people how ignorant you are. The world is not just made up of blacks and whites. Not everything is a black vs white issue. Show me where it is racist retard. I'm not racist, but I do hate stupid people like you.

Answer 6

The writers of the Bible weren't white, but were Jewish, and were a lot closer, genetically to Adam, which means Red Man, than we are. At the time, even Europe was not as white as today. Being white, as well as black, is a genetic anomaly that crept into the genetic code, as the generations passed and we drifted further from the perfection of Adam and Eve. With some variants, the American Indian and the Hawaiians would be closer.

Answer 7

Please do not take the word of God spoken from the mouths od lazy christians who have not done their homework and who have been led astray by people who have other agendas than serving God or His purposes. There are many of us who know the original race was black (a child can be no darker than his darkest parent thus we had to start black) and Jesus was not white. My assumption is that God did not cover this stuff cuz it truth was obvious. Some or most, Christians have been led astray since the beginning. Paul rebukes followers for stating they were of Peter, or Apolos, and said we were to follow Christ and Him crucified, so from the beginning followers have been pretty stupid acting. That's why we were refered to a sheep. Sheep are really hard to teach and they never do their homework. Any way just becuz christians some christians have been led astray and do not hold their leader accountable even though there is direction to do so in the Bible, this does not mean we are all out there doing evil stuff that makes you mad, and even those sheep probably mean you no harm but are following people who very likely have selfish agendas of one kind or another. You want to make things better??? start getting on christians for not reading their Bibles and not holding their leaders accountable to teach the whole truth.

Answer 8

You are one of the most thick-headed people I've ever run into. Just because "white" people wrote the Bible, doesn't mean that Adam and Eve were white. OK? You have to go to a black country to see black Jesuses. Not all slaves are black, people in the ancient world made slaves of all races. Slavery is what happened when you were captured, sold to a slave trader, or your parents sold you into slavery in order to help the rest of the family survive. You say "Look at the pictures" They are not photographs, fer Pete's sake! Do you seriously believe that Jesus, all the prophets and Adam and Eve sat for their portraits???? These pictures were painted by people who painted what they imagined those people to have looked like! I said it before, and I'll say it again...they didn't know what Jesus, the prophets, etc., looked like any more than I know what you look like!

Answer 9

the quran talks much more about slaves and rape at the time they were written that was accpted as normal it is not now. I have no idea what colour adam or eve were . Jesus was obviusly not white but the quran says those that are whiote will go to heaven and those that are dark ( black ) hell is that bot more racist all have to be read with an ear to Gods meaning they wr#ere writen down by men with mens failings

Answer 10

Who said anybody was white or black?
Pictures prove what? They were Hebrew slaves taken into captivity. Origin-not color. Have you ever seen White dirt?
We come from the Earth and the Earth we will return (bodies)
I'm not saying white or black-we are really spiritual beings encased in flesh forms. So why would color ever matter?
Let the hyprocrites believe what they want as long as you know. Don't debate the word of God because he is not the author of confusion.