Doesn't this fact mean that we are all from one family and are related? Is Noah not ALL of mankinds Grandfather? I have just reached where God told Noah and his family to fo go forth and multiply.
2007-02-25 23:24:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, we are all one family and all related. The line goes back to Adam and Eve, but it was Noah's family that preserved the line during the flood.
2007-02-25 23:28:39 · answer #1 · answered by cmw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the Bible, all people today descended from the survivors of a great Flood - Noah's family, who in turn descended from Adam and Eve (Gen 1:11). There are many stories, from many parts of the world, of a great Flood that only several people survived to repopulate the earth.
But today we have many different groups, often called "races" with what seem to be greatly differing features. The most obvious of these is skin color. Some see this as a reason to doubt the Bible's record of history. They believe that the various groups could have arisen only by evolving separately over tens of thousands of years. However, this does not follow from the evidence.
The Bible tells us how the population that descended from Noah's family had one language and were living together and disobeying God's command to "fill the earth" (Gen 9:1, 11:4). God confused their language, causing a break-up of the population into smaller groups, which scattered over the earth (Gen. 11:8-9). Modern genetics shows how, following such a break-up of a population, variations in skin color, for example, can develop in only a few generations. And there is good evidence to show that the various groups of people we have today have NOT been separated for huge periods of time.
One could say there is really only one race - the human race. The Bible teaches us that God has "made from one blood all nations of men" (Acts 17:26. Scripture distinguishes people by tribal or national groupings, not by skin color or physical features. Clearly, though, there are groups of people, who have certain features (e.g. skin color) in common, which distinguish them from other groups. We prefer to call these "people groups" rather than "races," to avoid the evolutionary and racist connotations that have become associated with the word "race."
All peoples can intermarry and produce fertile offspring. This shows that the biological differences between the "races" are not great. In fact, the DNA differences are trivial. The DNA of any two people in the world would typically differ by just 0.2%. Of this, only 6% can be linked to racial categories; the rest is "within race" variation.
This genetic unity means, for instance, that white Americans, although ostensibly far removed from black Americans in phenotype, can sometimes be better tissue matches for them than other black Americans.
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"http://www.answersingenesis.org"
2007-02-26 01:51:43 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And to think... we got all the people we have now, in all the different ethnicities, on all the different continents... in about 5000 years, and starting from only 8 people of the same ethnicity. (since Noah was only like 6th or 7th generation from Adam, I'm guessing it's a safe bet that everyone looked about the same).
Once again. That's IF you believe in all that....
2007-02-25 23:35:43 · answer #3 · answered by Eldritch 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It also means Noahs and his family had to be at many places over the world at once to make the various civilizations, ofcourse when it comes to mythology logic doesn't play a role.
2007-02-25 23:35:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Don't you know mythology when you see it? One family couldn't repopulate the earth, we would all be inbred.
The same for one pair of animals. You would have to start with at least four pairs to achieve proper genetic diversity.
2007-02-25 23:42:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes that is correct, everyone today is a descendant of Noah.
2007-02-25 23:45:05 · answer #6 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you are correct. If you accept the Genesis account of Noah's Ark, this would have to be true.
2007-02-25 23:28:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we all belong to the Human race, not the black ,brown, yellow, or white race. there is no color race. God created us in His image.
2014-10-18 10:43:51 · answer #8 · answered by RENEE 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we are all of adam in whom noah is a descendant.
2007-02-25 23:29:01 · answer #9 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it would mean that anyway.
Noah was a descendent of Adam
2007-02-25 23:28:39 · answer #10 · answered by royalpainshane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋