If all of us came from Adam and Eve, wouldn't we all be related?

Question

wouldn't we all be related? where did different culture, race, and language come from? Anyone as confused as me? two people help gave birth to black, white, midget, tall, english speaking people, spanish speaking people, dutch speaking people etc. Could someone give me a logical answer?

Answer 1

Evolution is the logical answer.

Chrisitans will also tell you that it is the wrong answer.

Answer 2

Even if there were no Adam and Eve, we're all related. We are all the same species. The differences between us is very minute really. Wouldn't even be noticed by a man on a galloping horse. Way back when there were very few of us, relatively speaking. But as we moved apart from each other, probably because of the scarcity of food, each group would develope differently according to the different environments and over generations forgot that we are all related. Step back a little and see the bigger picture.

Of course, there's always that ridiculous explanation in the Bible. The one where God actually believed that we could get to heaven by building a really tall building and he felt so threatened by the idea of it that he struck us down and made us unable to communicate with each other. I guess that's where the term "Divide and conquer" first came into use. But that's the explanation a cave man came up with. Thankfully, we still have brains and eyes and can see what a silly story that is.

Answer 3

Answer: The Bible does not explicitly give us the origin of the different "races" or skin colors of humanity. In actuality, there is only one race - the human race. Within the human race is a great amount of diversity in skin color and other physical characteristics. Some speculate that when God confused the languages at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9), He also instituted racial diversity. It is possible that God made genetic changes to humanity to better enable people to survive in different ecologies, such as Africans being better "equipped" genetically to survive the excessive heat in Africa. According to this view, God confused the languages, causing humanity to segregate linguistically, and then created genetic racial differences based on where each racial group would eventually settle, geographically. While possible, there is no explicit Biblical basis for this view. The races / skin color of humanity are nowhere mentioned in connection with the Tower of Babel.



After the flood, when the different languages came into existence, groups that spoke one language moved away with others of the same language. In doing so, the gene pool for a specific group shrunk dramatically as they no longer had the entire human population to mix with. Closer inbreeding took place, and in time certain features were emphasized in these different groups (ALL of which were present as a possibility in the gene code). As further inbreeding occurred through the generations, the gene pool got smaller and smaller, to the point that people of one language family all had the same or similar features, and it would be a rarity when a different feature arose.



Another explanation is that Adam and Eve possessed the genes to produce black, brown, and white offspring (and everything else in between). This would be similar to how a mixed-race couple often has children that vary greatly in color from one another. Since God obviously desired humanity to be diverse in appearance, it makes sense that God would have given Adam and Eve the ability to produce children of different skin tones. Later, the only survivors of the Flood were Noah and his wife, Noah’s three sons and their wives, eight people in all (Genesis 7:13). Perhaps Shem’s, Ham’s, or Japheth’s wives were of different races. It is possible that Noah’s wife was of a different race than Noah. Maybe all 8 of them were of mixed race, which would mean that they possessed the genetics to produce children of different races. Whatever the explanation, the most important aspect of this question is that we are all the same race, all created by the same God, all created for the same purpose

Answer 4

You are right, two people gave birth to tall people, short people black, and white.

What we call races started with the sons of Noah.
Ham, Shem, and Japheth began the races.

As to the languages, read Genesis 11:1-9;

1 ¶ And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 ¶ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth

The whole story of the generations is a thirteen week sermon series.

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Answer 5

Not only are we related through Adam, but even more recently through Noah.

Others would have you believe that we related to pond scum or, as a Russian scientist believes, the bodily waste from an alien space ship as it passed by earth.

Choose your relatives wisely.

Answer 6

Sho Nuff, is that you still trolling around?

We're all related. God broke up society after the tower of Babel. I do believe in microevolution - mankind has evolved over the thousands of years since Babel, but we're all still human.

Answer 7

You get the same situation under evolution as well, just with a somewhat wider genetic base.

I don't see the purpose or point of your question, and I'm an atheist. That makes me seriously wonder what your point is.

Answer 8

yes we are all related the bible says in genisis that during the populating of the earth they had to sleep with sisters and brothers and aunts uncles moms and dads... that is where we get mental and physical deficiencies and defects today... as far as the difference in speach and race goto where the bible talks about the tower of babel that will descibe all your asking

Answer 9

Adam & Eve were the first humans, God created other humans, that is where the different races come from.

Answer 10

You will found the answer at the source below or you can read in the Holy Bible Genesis 11

Answer 11

Indeed; as a matter of fact, I think this has been applied in a limited way to King Edward I of England (Longshanks). About 100,000 (or more! I could be wrong on my numbers!) people can claim direct ancestry to him, me among them.