If all people originated from Africa and God created man in his image, does that mean that God is black?

Answer 1

I think that religion and logic do not go hand in hand. There are still many unanswered questions. (may be they are better left so) Its still not clear from where man originated from. I think they came up simultaneously all over the world. At that time the small land in which they roamed for food etc was the world to them. I do not believe in Adam-eve theory as it beats logic. Mr Darwin sounds more logical. As i said If you start going by logic then you will not be able to be a complete believer (though i too many times come under this category).

Answer 2

Based on all of the evidence we have to date, yes, mankind had its beginnings in Africa. This will probably surprise you but the oldest drawings and there was a broad spectrum of color in those, as well as the oldest village remains we have found depict early man with deeply red skin pigment, not black or white, or brown, yellow or anything else. Those are really old villages of Ubaid people who existed before any little cities were put together anywhere. It is therefore my guess, and because it is only an educated guess I may be wrong, but I suspect the first people were red skinned. I don't care if they were green, pink, purple or blue but I am curious where I and everyone else with me came from and what our first parents looked like. Now wouldn't it be cool if one of them were white and one was black and they had little yellow, red, brown, black, and white children who all married the siblings that looked like them and then ran off to different fields and they started all these countries of races? I don't know, I was not there, maybe that is what they did. So what does that do to your probable theory to give God a color?

The fact is that God is a spirit, not a body. When the little birthday wrapping that we run around in like we do in our cars, decays like they do, we will all be the same spirits who we are now but without the bodies. When Scripture points out that we are made in God's image it means that like Him who is a triune being: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, so are we triune. We have a body, soul and spirit. For anyone who does not believe that God is Triune then let it suffice that God is a spiritual creature and so are we because we are made in His image.

There is one more thing I would like to offer however, I think since God is all powerful and can take the form of a burning bush or a pillar cloud or whatever He likes, maybe on Judgement Day it would be cool when He called persons who hated white people if he would take on a white body and when He judged people who hated blacks He would put on the form of a black person and so on-I think that would just be too sweet! I hope I answered your question.

Answer 3

In the beginning (no pun intended) of the Bible it talks about the garden of Eden, etc. that has absolutely NO involvement on ethnic color. Infact, trying to guess Adam and Eve's closest ethnicity is impossible. Eventually in Genesis we get to the Flood. Something many, many people miss in the Bible is that Flood was very, very much a phenomeon.

Before the Flood the world had never experianced rain. There was a canopy, it protected the earth from alot of the solar radiation currently hurting us. Our world was perfect in every aspect (and I don't mean people, just the planet and it's living conditions.) People thought Noah was flat crazy because they had never heard of rain. But then it rained! God emptied the canopy, the literal hebrew word found in that passage means "deluge". God opened the heavens and released our only protection.

After we settled in our Ark man came face to face with solar radiation for the first time. The entire atmosphere was changed, our earth suddenly had weather, many plant life we had before could no longer grow, and many animals (dinosaurs, etc.!) died out because of the atmospheric effects alone. Infact, it's very possible there was an ice age for a period of time as the earth adjusted to this new way of life.

Humanity came from three young men (Noah's sons) and their wives spreading off about the face of the planet. Obviously, they were all likely of one skintone. Over the centuries, as humanity has been facing this harsh chemical affecting radiation, we have come to change our coloring. Like most creatures, we adapt to our inviroment (within reason.) There was only one set of rabbits on that Ark and look how many there is now! And how many varieties.

Biblically, it's likely we originated from Turkey but as I said color did not come to play for us until after several 100 years of exposure to this new, harsh enviroment. And when it says God made us in His image it REALLY means that we have a Spirit and a place above other creation on this planet. If we considered what God looks like, He had only the physical form of Christ. His appearence, or current heavenly appearence, is described here in Revelation 1:9-20: http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=revelation+1%3A9-20

A great source for Creation Answers is http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/qa.asp

God Bless!
Jennie

Answer 4

God is a triune (Trinity) being (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) and Man is a triune being (Mind, Body and Soul) I believe that may be the part where we are created in his image. I am not sure of this but that's what I believe.

God Bless

Answer 5

Since God is a spirit this would rule out physical likeness(John 4:24).Rather,man has quailites reflecting or mirroring those of his heavenly Maker,quailites that positively distinguish man from the animal creation.

Answer 6

*eyes rolling*

Do you really think God is literally just like a man? "In God's image" refers to the soul, not the body. God has no body - that would be a limitation and God is limitless.

Answer 7

I choose to believe God has no color and really don't care. If he was black -- would that make him less creditable. Follow someone for what they stand for --- not what they look like.

Answer 8

God is a spirit of no gender nor race.
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Answer 9

Go away, Pluto - you are no longer a planet, just a dog. ;-)

God is not black, white, yellow, green, or purple. If anything, She is dusty rose.

Answer 10

God has no race since He is spiritual....the garden was probably in Turkey He made us all and loves everyone..