Christians: If you believe in Adam and Eve, what color do you believe they were?

Question

I only ask because a lot of people like to say "white" and I have to think that if I were a God, and if I were creating a race of people meant to live outside without clothes and sunblock, I'd make them dark or olive skinned so they wouldn't sunburn as easily.

Also, where do you think the different colors came from? Were the genes inside Adam and Eve waiting to come out when certain groups started inbreeding, or were the races endowed by God at a later point? I'm curious.

P.S. If you don't believe in Adam and Eve, I guess you can answer, but I don't see much of a point. But, hey, it brings you two points closer to your Lear Jet, right?

Skin color matters because I'm curious. So there.

Rose, I don't believe you're right about "all skin tones burning equally". All skin tones burn, yes. Equally, no. Talk to a red head sometime (I'm a redhead, but I mean talk to one in person).

Guys, I'm not trying to be Nazi or racist. I'm asking about skin colors because I'd like to know where all the dang colors came from if we only came from two flippin' people. It's a science thing. Quit being so darn sensitive and remove stick from bum.

Answer 1

As I told someone else, although I wasn't there... I think Adam was white with blond hair and blue eyes. I think Eve was black with the dark hair and brown eyes. I also think that from that combination we could get about every other combination we already have on earth. But if I'm wrong it won't change my belief in God at all.

Answer 2

I do believe in Adam and Eve, and because I am who I am, it has never mattered to me! Apparently, Eve, being perfect, had the capacity to produce children who were so totally different that they were of different skin colors, eye colors, builds, and temperaments. In that way, they could marry one another, and the gene pool wouldn't become a wading pool instead of a vast ocean of possibility. Can you imagine the thrill of not only wondering whether your child would be a boy or girl, but what color, or what hair type? I am white, married to a wonderful, hard-working, giving black man, and we have a beautiful, intelligent 15 year old daughter who is a perfect blend of the two of us... I know what a smile SHE brought to my face. Think of what Eve must've felt, no matter WHAT color she was! :)

Answer 3

I not sure how relevant their skin colour would be. there are others factors that would come into play. The ozone level at that time probably wasn't depleted due to all the polution from the world thinning it out. Also what conditon would there physical bodies be in considering other natural factors. When I was a kid I could stay out in the sun for hours without getting burnt now it happens in a relatively shorter period. So I think there could eb a measurable difference in their ozone layer.

Answer 4

When God created Adam and Eve they were both in a "kind of light" they didn't have clothes on and they didn't get burned because God Almighty didn't make the sun to burn;
Nowadays the sun is burning, things are different because of us.
For someone that believes, has faith, there are things without importance... important is the fact that GOD CREATED ADAM & EVE HE gives us LIFE and we transform everything in some circus...let's pray for peace on the planet Earth and for every human being that needs God's help!

Answer 5

There is no evidence to determine their race. I don't believe that they were the only 2 people on earth either. If you read the account in Genesis, before God created Eve, it says "male and female He created them." I believe he created mankind, not just a single man. Later when Cain left the area, he went to the land of Nod and found a wife, so there were other people in a neighboring land.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.

The color split may have come at the tower of Babel incident. God confused the languages, so adding races kind of makes sense there too.

Answer 6

Orthodox Christians and Orthodox Jews have confidence God made Adam and Eve. The Bible says Eve became the mum of 'all the residing' so it is the wonderful thank you to interpret the text cloth. some Christians allegorize this, yet i don't believe them.

Answer 7

A few points to ponder. There was a protective canopy of water above the earth that protected from the Sun's UV rays. So no need for sunblock. Eden was a lush garden, so possibly Adam and Eve looked Hawaiian. But all in all, it is not important.

Answer 8

I would say they would be like the Jewish race, or the races in that region. Not white, but I believe they are consider of the orient.

Noah's three sons are where the different races came from. Genesis 9:19 Of course, back then there would not be the strong differences. The more one marries into the same race, the stronger the features become.

Answer 9

Brown. The people who come from that area are east asian looking...and sorta brownish in color. BUT, I don't think it matters...ALTHOUGH I do remember going to Sunday School and all the characters from the bible were white and Jesus looked like a white dude. It seems really racist looking back, because I would bet those people weren't white at all.

Answer 10

I don't really believe that the Adam and Eve story is literal (but who knows, maybe someday I'll be forced to admit myself wrong). But if they were real people, they probably were darker skinned. After all, they were outside and naked, and the world was presumably tropical during their time.

Oh, just a side note: when I was a kid, we went to a fundamentalist Baptist church out in the country. We mentioned the likelihood that people like Adam, Eve, and even Jesus were darker-skinned, and many of the people there got offended!