Christians/Catholics do you know this?

Question

I was wondering this...
In the bible the first people that God created were Adam and Eve. And they were both white people. So from where did all the other races come from? Like...african-americans, asians, native American Indians, hindus, and all the other "non-white" people. Why did God create them to look different from the others? Does any one know the story behind this?
I hope I don't sound racist to anyone out there so please be nice, I was just wondering.

And another question...
God said that the only way to receive eternal life and go to Heaven is by believing in His son and so on. Since Jewish people don't believe in Jesus does that mean they will go to Hell?!
I know many Jewish people and I couldn't imagine such NICE GOOD CARING and GIVING people going to hell?

Do you think God was punishing the Jews for not believing in Christ during the Holocaust?

ok FINE everyone is saying the same exact thing "how do u know they were white" obviously only one person cared to answer my question. Anyways..............
CAN ANYONE PLEASE ANSWER THE SECOND QUESTION or at least give ur own opinion if u dont know the answer

Answer 1

some speculate that when God confused the languages at the tower of babel [see genesis 11:1-9], he also instituted racial diversity...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.

whatever the explanation, the most important aspect of this question is that we are all the same human race, all created by the same God, all created for the same purpose.

Answer 2

Truly one can only assume Adam & Eve were white and one can only assumed that Jewish people are descendants of aliens that colonized this planet, it obvious that such a small group of people have so many talented people. So no they will not go to hell for there ancestors are the creators the one God. No comment on the death camps.

Edit
About the Holocaust, read the link, but be open minded about

Answer 3

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.
For more information on this check out this link
"http://www.answersingenesis.org"

Answer 4

Dear girl, I admire your inquisitive nature. Asking questions is never a bad thing. These particular questions arise because you are thinking of the Bible as a work of science, which it is not. If taken too literally, stories from the Bible often do not hold up to scientific scrutiny. Fossil evidence indicates that the human species arose in Africa from a common ancestor to the chimp and gorilla. As certain humans migrated to northern climates with less exposure to sunlight, lighter skin evolved because it offered a selective adtantage. Light skin allows more of the sun's ultraviolet rays to penetrate the skin which is important for the production of vitamin D that is necessary for proper bone formation, immunity, and other body functions. So, if you consider "Adam and Eve" to metaphorically represent the first modern humans, they would not have had white skin.

The different "races" of man arose due to their physical isolation from one another and the different selective pressures that they faced in their particular environments. For groups that lived nearer the equator, it was an advantage to have darker skin with more pigment that protected them from overexposure to the sun.

God and evolution are not incompatible ideas, Cindy. Many religious people are comfortable with the idea that God used evolution as a tool to create humans and all of the other forms of life on our glorious planet.

The Books of the Old Testament were written thousands of years ago, and reflected the belief system of one particular nomadic tribe at that time. Our understanding of the world has changed tremendously since that time. I hope you try to be open to alternative points of view if you are not already. In particular, the world view offered by science could be like a "rebirth" of your mind -- it was to me.

To answer your second question, God did not punish the Jews for not believing in the teachings of Jesus. The Holocaust was caused by Adolf Hitler and his warped view of racial superiority. If God is just, he/she would not choose one religious or ethnic group over another.

Answer 5

You are assuming that Adam and Eve were white, but were you there did you see or take photos?The Bible does not say what colour they were, since the garden of Eden was in a middle eastern area, it is quite poissible that one may have had darker skin than the other, and through the mix of them both the different skin arives, as skin colour pigments are affected by sun and the foodstuffs we eat, as you may know even among white people there is diferences in colour in different areas, surely you may have seen people with olive complexions.And so it goes on.God likes variety and so do we, he could have made us all boringly the same and robot like, but he chose to make everything more interestingfor us.

Answer 6

It never says anywhere in the bible what color Adam and Eve were. And if it did, it would probably call them Semetic. The concept that Adam and Eve were White comes from the European tradition we were raised in. When Christianity spread through Europe, all the pictures were commissioned by white guys and painted by white guys. So all the pictures were of white guys.

In Ethiopian tradition, Jesus is portrayed as Black as is his mother and Mary. In fact, there is a special kind of religious art called "Black Madonna" with it's own mystic tradition.

Now days, Artists are more interested in creating biblical art more sensitive to the area they storeis are told in and you will see Swarthier Jesus' Adam's , Moses'.

Theoretically, the women that Cain and Seth married outside of Eden are where these people come from. From the land of Nod.

Answer 7

Actually, the Bible says nothing about them being white. That's just a conceit of SOME Christians (just as some Christians have the conceit that they were black, or hispanic, etc.).

I'm not a Christian, but there are a number of possibilities.
Remember that there were giants in those days, and that they bred with the daughters of men?
Then there's all those marks God marked men with. Was that a color (or lack of?).

Then there was the Tower of Babel, and how God scattered the people and made them different.

Just a few ideas.

Answer 8

Umm what are you talking about?

Nobody has identified a race for Adam and Eve. The point of the Bible is that they were the first people who knew God and talked to God directly until they fell by sinning. It is a church story not anything else.

Answer 9

Many questions asked! Yet it sounds racist...

Divercity is natures Gift - It creates different colours, races & creeds within one kind of creature.

Human being is the best living creature with added knowledge - God tought NAMES to Adam...

Knowledge without guidance is nothing but Evil. God sent many prophets to save the humanity on earth.

God do not like us on the basis of Colour, Race, Creed or Richness. He like Righteousness & Peace within / among societies.

Holocaust was a violant clash of two Racisms:
The Nazi - supper humanism vz supper Jewishism!

God destroyed both in his own way - both reduced and scattered in an ignorable minorities! The decendants of raceism should open their eyes and follow the Will of God to avoid total elemination on the earth!



The decendants must open their eyes to understand the Will of God.

Answer 10

The first humans would have probably shown up in the Mesopotamian region, and would NOT be caucasian. Even in The Bible, there is no reference to Adam or Eve's race.

God designed our skin to contain melanin. As humans started to migrate, different environments led to variations in appearance.