2007-03-27 07:07:39 · 33 answers · asked by Really ? 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Note: I was in hopes someone would come close to the answer I was looking for. So far no one is close.
2007-03-27 07:20:02 · update #1
Note: I may have placeed this question in the wrong place, but it is also meant to be a joke. Take it easy and I will give you the answer in a few minutes.
2007-03-27 07:27:46 · update #2
Note: I going to give Happy 2 for the best answer because he said "But that really doesn't matter" and that is true.
Before giving the answer.. my black friend told me this so don't get upset... We know Adam was white.. Why? You ever try to take a rib away from a black man?
2007-03-27 07:45:30 · update #3
We dont... but if we're going to go off of today's geography in comparisson to the place where Adam was created... he can't be!
But that really doesn't matter!
2007-03-27 07:10:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
The Garden of Eden was planted, by God, eastward. Genesis 2:10-14 " And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it that which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
These are divided in Iraq and flow elsewhere.The term 'white' only has to do with pigmentation and the need/lack of need thereof. Satan was a murderer from the beginning;
John 8:44 " Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it".
Adam was created in hte middle east. Throuhout history man has been dooped and decieved by their own carnal desires that Adam contracted from satan wwhen he disobeyed God. We are born with the very nature of the devil in us. So when we reject God, Jesus, and the Word of God we are open to whatever means of division that the enemy chooses to employ. Under the skin we are all constructed the same; individual size, personal attributes, language, etc. notwithstanding. In God there is no color differencial.
John 4:24 "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth".
Cultural differences, generally, only come into play at all if one is ministering to ones' culture. If god leads/sends someone to a different culture, it is of no consequence, seeing that the Holy Spirit will be doing the work through a yielded vessel. The body of Christ is 'one' body of spiritual believers, not some rag doll made up of different patches.
2007-03-27 08:30:45 · answer #2 · answered by AVON I 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would be impossible for Adam, or even Jesus to be white. They were both in the Middle East. The garden of eden was in what today is Iraq. How many whiote people have come from Iraq? I mean, native to Iraqi soil? Jesus was the same way. Born in a middle eastern town by middle eastern parents in a middle eastern country. Do you think he was white?
And, to all those who say "God is white". How do you know? Have you ever seen him? Sound like religious biggotry to me.
2007-03-27 07:13:44 · answer #3 · answered by wilchy 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
He's not. If you read the Bible-the rivers and city's named are in Africa and in the middle east. Adam would have to be Brown or darker.
2007-03-27 07:20:13 · answer #4 · answered by Bianca K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until we find his grave, we'll never know.
And I don't know. I don't think we'll ever know. And, BTW, how can we claim that God created Adam in his image, that image being white? Perhaps God intended Adam to be purple, but the reflection off the ocean made him seem white and God thought that might be a good idea because it would be easier to spot him in a herd of Wildebeest!
2007-03-27 07:12:44 · answer #5 · answered by Zarathustra 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He wasn't!
Adam's DNA contained the original information for every feature in the existing gene pool, including skin colour.
White skin is actually caused by a loss of genetic information. i.e. 'devolution' the opposite of evolution.
2007-03-27 07:12:38 · answer #6 · answered by A.M.D.G 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
We suppose this because we have a line of genealogy from Adam to Abraham to the modern day Jews. All the Jews I know are white, and therefore we suppose Adam was white as well. Just like I can suppose my great-great-great-great-great-great grandpa was white.
2007-03-27 07:14:30 · answer #7 · answered by Presagio 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
We don't! The early artist just painted him that way.They were white and not well traveled. They read that God created man after his own image. They used real people to model for them.
2007-03-27 07:13:34 · answer #8 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you go by the lineages and history in the bible, Adam couldn't possibly have been a "white man."
If you go by facts and evidence...there was never any such person, and we are *all* descended from the humans that evolved in Africa and were almost certainly very dark-skinned.
Peace.
2007-03-27 07:13:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
We don't!
It is a myth, a tale, a story.
You should not take the Bible's stories at face value!
The first "human" being (as from scientific finding) was, in fact, a black woman (Lucy)!
Look: http://www.greatdreams.com/african-lucy.htm
2007-03-27 07:15:42 · answer #10 · answered by Jesus is my Savior 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I assume he's Middle Eastern since that's where he's from in the story.
2007-03-27 07:11:49 · answer #11 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋