If you believe in Adam and Eve....?

Question

.....how is there black people? How is their asians, and natives, and latins, etc. The Bible shows a direct geneological link from Adam and Eve to a whole bunch of white people.

Answer 1

because the story of adam and eve were adapted by whites from the jews. Christianity was really promoted by whites.

Answer 2

Hmm...did it say Adam & Eve has blue eyes & blonde hair? Did it say they were white? For all we know, they could've been black or Asian. It doesn't say. To answer your question, the reason there are different races is because people spread out over time. Due to different climates, people adapted to the enviroment.

The bible doesn't show a direct link to Adam & Eve being white. For whatever reason, you're making that up. It doesn't matter what color their skin was anyway. Skin color is irrelevant unless you're racist and can't get over the fact that skin color has nothing to do with the type of human being you are and you have to feel superior to someone different than you.

Answer 3

i understand that science have found the Mitochondrial Eve (or the African Eve) or the most recent common matrilineal ancestor of all humans, yourself included.

This single "Eve" whom all humans came from was believed to have lived in Africa a long time ago.

The Bible does say that Adam & Eve was supposedly have placed by the Creator in the Garden of Eden, somewhere in the East African Continent if not a little eastward, maybe now present day Iraq.

And if you are to believe both of these Eve, should not have been black nor white (as you are led to believe) but somewhere in the middle, such as brown...

so in time, the people we now call white are nothing more than light brown (still possible from the original brown) and those we call black are nothing more than dark brown (also a possible outcome of brown lineage)

& so everyone in between those two extremes are also possible outcomes, due to the passage of time, heredity & environmental conditions.

Answer 4

Adam and Eve weren't necessarily white. The graphics depicted in the various versions of the bible were created ages after the events depicted actually happened. Even the oldest known biblical texts that currently exist, The Dead Sea Scrolls, don't contain images of Adam and Eve. The Bible only provides textual evidence of a genealogical link (i.e. Adam & Eve => Cane, Abel and Seth). The pictures were developed later by artists who used their imaginations, not facts.

The various skin shades are a result of evolution. The entire Earth used to be united in one land mass called Pangea. It broke apart into continents due to plate tectonics. People were isolated in there various locations because they did not have the technology to travel long distances that was later developed. People in hot zones (like Africa and the aborigines in Australia) developed greater amounts of melanin in their skin. People in locations with lesser amounts of sun exposure (like Nordic countries) have a lack of melanin. Etc, etc.

Answer 5

There is only one direct line shown in the Bible and that is to Jesus. I am sure that Adam and Eve had many children and God put in the the necessary genetic make up for all people of all nationalities. The same would have had to happen in Noah and his family in order to repopulate the earth after the flood.

Answer 6

God created mankind. He did it in whatever way and whatever timing he chose to do it in. We weren't given the details. We have the story of Adam and Eve and their decedents not to explain where we all come from, but to explain the kind of relationship God desires to have with us. The story of God dealing with his people is the story of the Old Testament. It's purpose is to teach us about our relationship to God, not to be a scientific study to explain every detail of this physical world. Soooo - It's quite possible he created other races at the same time that he created that part of mankind. I don't know ancient Hebrew that well, but have heard that the word used in Genesis for man, could also be translated as mankind.

Answer 7

I could be wrong, but I believe it was at the building of the Tower of Babel, when men were trying to build a tower to heaven, that God became angy and that is when he introduced all the various languages. It might have been at this time that the different colors of skin were introduced, as well.
There is really no racism in the Bible as far as skin color. In fact King Solomon wrote the Song of Songs to the queen of Sheba, and as far as we can tell, she was much darker than he. He was madly in love with her.

Answer 8

What happened is the descendants traveled from one place to another. To adapt their skin began to change color due to increased exposure to the sun. If white people go out in the sun, they tan. This happened over such a period of time that the genes eventually warped and mutated so that the skin would stay black as time went on.

Note that this is the argument that logical Christians will present, perhaps with a few changes and variations. Atheists and agnostics (go us) need to realize that the bible is not the only source of christian knowledge.

Answer 9

full genetic something. All races were in the DNA. They didn't get diluted by living in the same general area and having children with the same people in that general area. Also the tower of babel had a great deal to do with the people separating like they did. The DNA is just my personal theory.

Answer 10

You will find no where in the Bible where God said I stopped with Adam & Eve.Read the Bible.God put a mark on Cain so the other people wouldn't kill him.
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