The Bibles says the blacks are cursed with dark skin, will they be changed to light when they go to heaven?

Question

because of Cain his skin was cursed black then Moses wife held the lineage through the flood, Cain was I am assuming white before he murdered his brother and was cursed, or am I wrong?

Answer 1

No, the curse on Cain was a mark, not a color of skin.

The same is true of Ham.

Humans are not meant to invade heaven.

No one has gone to heaven except the Son of man (John 3:13).

Answer 2

OMG, you mean to say that black is NOT beautiful?

Hey, here's a bit of historical fact for you, Jesus (Yeshua) wasn't a caucasian. He was middle eastern and 100% Hebrew. How many 100% Jewish people do you know? What is their color? He didn't hide his skin from the sun either to keep from being white and therefore assumed to be a curse black person.

In all likelyhood, with a little help from the sun, he had a fairly dark appearance. I'm certain he would have taken offense to such an idea that black people resulted from a curse on Cain.

Actually, other than Abraham creating two lines of people through his two sons, the only other story that explains the many races in the world regards the building of a tower to reach toward the heavens. God disciplined them by making them talk different languages but he didn't discipline one more than the other, just make them different enough so they could no longer communicate effectively enough to finish their task.

Hope that helped. BTW, don't take the Bible too literally, it will mess with your very soul. It's a Spiritual document intended to give spiritual direction. Leave it at that because, historically speaking, it just doesn't pass the test.

Answer 3

The Bible does not say that at all (the black people have been cursed with dark skin.). Historically, Christians who insist on the segregation of the so-called different “races” or who believe in the superiority of one race over another (usually of the superiority of the “white” race over the “black” race) cite the following passages to support their racial bias:
(1) The Curse on Cain (Genesis 4:11 - 15): It has been speculated that the mark God put on Cain as punishment for murdering his brother Abel was a change of skin
color, particularly, a change from white to black. However, the Bible does not give any hint about what the "mark" of Cain was. At any rate, the Hebrew word oth, sometimes rendered as “mark” is better understood to mean “sign.” Hence, God gave Cain a guaranteeing sign to reassure him (surprisingly) of God’s gracious protection of his life. Secondly, even if one were to take the position that Cain suffered a change of skin color, it still does not explain how the different races came about, since all of Cain’s progeny perished in the Noahic Flood.
(2) The Curse on Canaan (Genesis 9:18-27): Some people have used the passage concerning the curse placed upon Canaan in Genesis 9: 18 - 27, one of Ham’s sons, as an explanation for the origin of the black race and as justification for their inferior status. It was prophesied that Canaan (and his descendants) would become servants to Shem and Japeth and their respective descendants. This passage however, cannot be used to support the idea that the black race originated from the curse on Canaan or that slavery is justified. First of all, there is no indication in this passage that becoming a “servant of servants” is anyway related to being black. In fact, there is no mention of skin color at all! Secondly, the descendants of Canaan settled in the Middle East (cf. Gen. 15 – 19), and it cannot be seen how these can be associated with the blacks of Africa as some have suggested. Others claim that the curse extended to all the children of Ham, who was after all, the one who sinned against Noah (Gen. 9: 22); and that Canaan was just a representative of all of Ham’s descendants. Even if this interpretation were valid, it is difficult to see how racial implications could be read into this Genesis passage. According to the genealogical table of Genesis 10, Ham's progeny includes the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Ethiopians, not all of whom are black or dark-skinned.

So, to your question, will dark-skinned people have lighter skins once in heaven? Well there will be some continuity and some discontinuity between our earthly bodies and our resurrected bodies.

Paul also discusses the continuity and discontinuity of the resurrection body in 1 Corinthians 15: 35 – 41. The apostle asks his readers to consider the relationship between the seed that is sown in the ground and the standing corn that will sprout from it: the ultimate product is so unlike the original seminal entity and yet, he says, there is the closest possible organic connection. In other words, the sprouted plant is the same organism as the seed, but in a different form or stage of development. Likewise, the resurrection body has the same continuity with our current bodies as the standing corn has with the seed. There is organic continuity in that it is the same body; and yet discontinuity also in that the two entities are not identical.
We might use another analogy to this principle of continuity and discontinuity in the nature of the resurrection: that of the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly. We know that after the repulsive caterpillar spins itself into a cocoon, it eventually emerges as a gorgeous butterfly. Yet, the beautiful butterfly is the same creature as the caterpillar only developed into a different form. Likewise the human body laid in the grave at death emerges at the resurrection with radical changes.
We might sum up the nature of the resurrection body as a transformed physical body with elements retained from the former body and yet with new properties or attributes.

Answer 4

Does the Bible teach that blacks are cursed?

That idea is based on a misunderstanding of Genesis 9:25, where Noah is quoted as saying: “Cursed be Canaan. Let him become the lowest slave to his brothers.” Read it carefully; it says nothing about skin color. The curse was because Ham’s son Canaan had evidently performed some shocking act deserving of a curse. But who were Canaan’s descendants? Not blacks, but lighter-skinned peoples living to the east of the Mediterranean Sea. Because of their depraved practices, demonistic rites, idolatry, and child sacrifice, they came under divine judgment, and God gave to Israel the land occupied by the Canaanites. (Gen. 10:15-19) Not all the Canaanites were destroyed; some were put at forced labor, in fulfillment of the curse. Josh. 17:13.

From which of Noah’s offspring did the blacks descend? “The sons of Cush [another one of Ham’s sons] were Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca.” (Gen. 10:6, 7) Later Biblical references to Cush are usually equivalent to Ethiopia. Seba is later used when referring to another people in the eastern part of Africa and evidently close to Ethiopia.

It may here be noted, however, that Cush is very evidently a principal progenitor (perhaps along with Put) of the dark-complexioned branch of the human family (Jer 13:23), as is indicated by the areas of settlement of certain of his descendants. This disproves the theory advanced by those who incorrectly endeavor to apply to the ***** peoples the curse pronounced on Canaan, for Canaan, the brother of Cush, did not produce any ***** descendants but, rather, was the forefather of the various Canaanite tribes of Palestine. (Ge 9:24, 25; 10:6) There is, therefore, no Scriptural connection whatsoever between the dark complexion of certain descendants of Cush and the curse pronounced on Canaan.

Some persons have incorrectly held that the black race and enslavement of members of that race resulted from the curse pronounced upon Canaan. On the contrary, the descendants of Canaan, the cursed one, were not of the black race. The black race descended from Cush and possibly from Put, other sons of Ham who were not involved in the incident or the curse.

Answer 5

The idea that black skin was the mark of Cain, placed on him by God, is among literally hundreds of false assumptions about what the Bible says.

Answer 6

Yes this is true the curse that God put on Cain was a mark of Black skin, Yes Cain was white before God cursed him. Yes when they die their skin will go white, as will all races including white, the white God is is a lively white that is beyond any whiteness we have seen.

Answer 7

... I find this to be a weird question.

1. I believe you misunderstood something.

2. I doubt God cares what color skin you have.

3. At one time the only race on earth were Black. Why we are not now I am not sure.

Answer 8

The Bible does NOT say blacks are cursed with dark skin.

Answer 9

Look again! That's not what it says. If we're all made God's image--why would being black be a curse--God is all of us in one. Every color and nationality.

Answer 10

The bible you are quoting is a KKK "bible". How did you get such a racist fabrication?

The races came from the dispersion from Babel. There is no curse on a race in the bible.