Adam and Eve's Race?

Question

I have seen many people on here asking about Adam and Eve's race and I will answer their question.

They were White. Plain and simple. the Hebrew word that is translated as "Man" is "Adam" (or Awdawm) and means "to blush or turn rosy, or to have a ruddy complexion", so the Ancient Hebrew very clearly states that Adam was a White Man.

1 Samuel 16:12
"So he sent and had him brought in. He was ruddy, with a fine appearance and handsome features. Then the LORD said, "Rise and anoint him; he is the one."

1 Samuel 17:41-43
"Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and saw that he was only a boy, ruddy and handsome, and he despised him. He said to David, "Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?" And the Philistine cursed David by his gods."

Lamentations 4:7
"Their princes were brighter than snow
and whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
their appearance like sapphires."

Answer 1

Luvly dealt with the genetics so let me address your mishandling of scripture. You qoute from lamentations, but what does the next verse say?

Lam 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Visage means face. Do you suppose they were "whiter" than milk in their skin tone with faces blacker than coal? And don't you know that a redder than a ruby would be a dark burgundy and not white per se.

You don't necessarily have to be white to be ruddy. I'm ruddy and I am brown skin. My skin has a red shade to it although I'm considered "black." I am also ruddy. You are not viewing the word ruddy objectively, but with bias.

Continuing in Lamentations, what does the author say about their (Israelites) skin specifically?

Lam 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Famine does not turn a white person's skin black.

Now, Ham, Noah's son's name means "Black." Ham is the father of the Egyptians (Mizraim). Yet the Hebrews were often confused with the Egyptians. I'm not saying that because his name means black he was, but the Egyptians are a "black" race of people. It can be seen in their artifacts, genetics, historical sources (primary sources of course and not that white-washed history that has been handed to most), etc. Would you like quotations?

Now, why do you think the Hebrews were always being confused with the sons of Ham (Khwam = black)? Because they looked just like them. No one confuses white skin with brown skin.

Gerald Massey, English writer and author of the book, Egypt the Light of the World wrote, "The dignity is so ancient that the insignia of the Pharaoh evidently belonged to the time when Egyptians wore nothing but the girdle of the Negro." (p 251)

Roman Historian Cornelius Tacitus had this to say about the Israelites. He lived in the 1st century and in his book, "The Histories" we see:

"Many, again, say that they (Israelites) were a race of Ethiopian origin, who in the time of king Cepheus were driven by fear and hatred of their neighbors to seek a new dwelling-place."

Do you suppose they were white like the Ethiopians??? LOL...

Answer 2

easily the entire determination of the human genome might want to be contained in 2 man or woman. Secular scientist have shown that each and every one human beings have a uncomplicated historic past. possibilities are severe that Adam and Eve had olive coloured epidermis almost searching Mediteranean. in actual reality, different races do no longer instruct Macro-evolution that's the tremendous difficulty. no human being disagrees that animals change on a small scale (micro-evolution). yet on the precise of time a horse will nevertheless be a horse and a human a human. the first people had an identical DNA we do, be they Adam and Eve or some guy in the rift valley.

Answer 3

The Bible is not a scientific or history handbook. It is not written to explain HOW God created, but WHY God created. There is also significant "contradictions" in Genesis 1 and 2. Does that now suddenly make me a non-believer?? No!! Genesis 1 - 3 is not only a story of how God created the universe, but it also reveales to us His nature. All powerful and a loving God.

That is what you should focus on, not trivial issues like whether Adam and Eve were white or black. Why argue about something like this? You sound like you have an axe to grind for somebody.

I leave you to think of this very powerful scripture from 1 Corithians 13:12

"For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now we know in part, but then I shall know just as I am also known"

Praise the Lord!

Answer 4

Adam was made from the clay of the earth--the rich, fertile soil of the land. Right? The name Adam means "red" or "ruddy" as you described--think about the redness of clay for a good visual. Does that look like your white skin? Of course not, but it does look like the type of makeup foundation that would blend with my skin tone which is a little lighter than my avatar.

If you are honest with yourself, you cannot conclude that the soil of the earth was pale or pink, making a Caucasian man. Furthermore, biological science proves that two whites (recessive pigmentation gene carriers only) can't EVER make a black child. On the other hand, two blacks (both recessive and dominant pigmentation gene carriers) can, such as albino offspring.

I know this is a painful truth for many white people who want to hold on to the fantasy that they look like the original man but it's better to just cope with reality. Adam and Eve were at a MINIMUM brown-skinned people as it would not be physically possible for people of color to exist today had they been white.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve are also representation of an old couple to signify the antiquity.The origionators of some era/stages of human development have been named as such.

Answer 6

You make a point, but are there any verses in the bible that explain how all the various races came to be?
Just wondering if you came across any while looking for the verses above.

Answer 7

I'm not really sure what the relevance of this question is. Hopefully not to promote racial superiority of any pariticular group. That would be ounterproductive to the teachings of the new testament.

Answer 8

As many mentioned, the answer is irrelevant.

Hebrew is the original language of the bible and as a hebrew speaker, I would like to make a few comments.

There is a lot of play on words in the bible which cannot be translated. For the hebrew word for man - "adam", is from what man was made of - "adama", which is hebrew for earth. The same for the woman who is called "Isha" becasue she came from "Ish" which also means "man" (Genesis 2:23). BTW, the woman was made from man's "tzela" which in hebrew meens "side" or "rib". In hebrew literature, it is said man was made with two faces (two sides) back to back and the creation of the women was actually cutting down the middle as to be face-to-face. The women is actualy the other half of man. The hebrew word for "eve" is "chava" from the word "chai" which is "living", as mentioned in Genesis 3:25 "vayikra ha-adam shem ishto chava ki hi hayta em kol chai" ("And man called his wife Chava (eve) for she was the mother of all chai (living)".)

The hebrew term for becoming red, bluching etc. will be more like "odem". The thing with hebrew is, you write constants, not vowels. Putting in different vowels can change meaning.
Adam (man)- Adama. Odem - redness. Adom - red. Edom - the name given to Esau after eating the red beans Jacob made "fed me from this red red stuff, for that reason he was called edom" - "haliteni na min ha-adom ha-adom ha-ze al ken kara shmo edom."

Simply put, nothing to do with the color of skin but to make it clear from what man is made of. Be it mud, red clay, yellow or white sand, man is described in hebrew litrature to made of earth from dust from all corners of the earth so that wherever he is buried, the land will accept him. With the racisim today, it seems like this 2000 year-old idea has a special meaning for today...

About "Ham", son of Noah, "ham" means "hot". I do not know how it was translated to black.

About the description from lamentations and other poetic books of the bible - poetry. Understand the concept. The term "ruddy", in hebrew - "admoni" can mean he had red hair. Not to mention he just came from the field - anyone can bacome slightly red after some time in the sun...

About the color of the skin of the children of Israel, there is an interesting answer from the "mishna" - jewish text from about 150, when the jews were still mainly in Israel or Babylon, before being totally scattered. Talking about how to recognize the white marks of leporsy in extremly white or extremly black people (from europe or africa) there is a phrase "Sons of Israel - they are like Eshkeroah (type of tree) not white not black but midway." This is no poetry text - this is text to reflect fact. This means that the original color of the Israelities, before being scattered around the globe, was middle-eastern. Slightly brown. This is not suprising as they lived and originated in the middle east, and of semetic origin like the arabs etc.

But again, this is totally irrelevant.

Answer 9

What utter drivel some people come out with. I can't believe someone just asked that!
Shut up!

Answer 10

You are correct as to the color of their skin, but as to their race you must realize that the original blood line. dos not exist. We often confuse race with color, and really, who cares?