if the first humans were white than how were blacks formed?

Question

not intended to be racist . also if adam and eve were the first humans than arnt we all brothers and sisters and we're basically having incest with one another?

okay people i'm sorry i did not know the first humans were black and if i offened you than i'm sorry

Answer 1

WOW they really blasted you on this one! Now I would like to hear their answer to."If the first humans were black where did whites (and other races) come from?"

Answer 2

1) Adam & Eve were not the first humans
2) The 1st humans were African
3) Adam & Eve may have been the 1st humans with white or lighter skin, hence the belief that they were the 1st humans

Read Genesis in the Bible. Adam & Eve had sons named Cain & Abel. Cain killed Abel, but in Ch 17 it says Cain went to another land & Cain lay with his wife. QUESTION: where did his wife come from if there were no other people on earth?

Answer 3

God formed Adam out of the ground. Have you ever noticed that for every color of skin there is, there is the same color of soil, some where on the earth? I like to think of it as, it just depended upon which soil the Lord was standing on as He created each race. I live in the mountains of Colorado, and I've seen soil that was coal black. Just west of here, there is a place called Red Canyon, where there the soil is as a red as an indian's skin. Soil and sand comes in all of races colors, Red, Yellow, Black & White, and every color in between.

I heard a Black Preacher teach on this subject one time, the way he explained it, it made sense. What God can do in one location, He can do any where on the earth. He also explained that scientifically, you must start with the darkest color first and graduate down to white, not the other way around. I'm sure I'm not explaining it as well as he did, but just the idea of what he said, makes you think.

Answer 4

Daisy is right. The first humans were probably Black. Dark skin and dark eyes are an adaptation acquired by people who's ancestry originates near the equator. This adaptation better reduces harmful effects from the sun in those places where the sun is more direct. People further away from the direct sun in higher latitudes, as with northern Europe, had no need for this skin pigment, and over thousands of generations, was gradually lost. Hence, the lighter eyes and skin. Good question.

Answer 5

Adam and Eve are a metaphor for the male and female aspect of the soul which is split upon a living being becoming incarnated in the material world.

The reality is that our present DNA derives from many couples, not 1 couple. It is even possible that modern humans are the product of interbreding between 2 hominid species. We know however from studying maternal mitochondrial DNA that there is no one progenitor female. Also such studies confirm that humans are at least 200,000 years old, which proves that biblical measurement of days/years is different from our modern conception

Answer 6

What makes you think the first humans were white? The Bible does not specify what color the first human couple were. Frankly, it's not important.

When God created Adam and Eve, he enabled them to produce a variety of offspring. For example, look at all the different eye colors. There are various shades of blue, green, brown, gray, and so forth. Also, there are different hair colors, such as black, brown, red, yellow, and so forth. Obviously, Adam and Eve did not themselves have all these colors. But God created them with the genetic makeup to produce a variety of offspring, and that would inlcude skin color.

The Bible states:

"And he made out of one man every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth" -Acts 17:526

Therefore, all human races, not matter what color, are the offspring of Adam and Eve.

As far as you question concerning incest goes, it should be noted that circumstances were different in earlier times. Adam and Eve were created perfect, and the instruction for them ‘to multiply and fill the earth’ would necessarily require that their offspring marry one another and reproduce. (Gen. 1:28) But as perfect humans, their children would have been perfect as were their parents.

Even though Adam and Eve sinned and became imperfect, Cain and his brothers and sisters were still so near to physical perfection that the children they produced did not suffer the same adverse effects as do children born of such unions today. Even some 2,000 years afterward, God’s faithful servant Abraham married his half-sister Sarah, and God did not disapprove. (Gen. 20:12) It was yet another 450 years or so before God saw fit to provide his nation of Israel a body of laws that forbade incest on penalty of death. (Lev. 18:8-17) By that time imperfection had apparently developed to such an extent that no longer was it safe for close relatives to marry.

Answer 7

where did you hear that the first humans were white? I thought they were black... on of my teachers had a theory that white people came from black albinos but somehow i highly doubt that... lol... and if adam and eve really were the first humans then humans lived with the dinosaurs which is an even more wonderous question

Answer 8

The first humans were probably not white, considering apes lived mostly near the equator and the closer you get, the darker your skin gets.

In regards to how whites were formed, when we migrated north and south, the melatonin that makes a black person's skin dark wasn't needed any more, so it simply evolved out.

We'll probably be whiter in a few hundred thousand years, assuming the climate stays at it does now. If it gets hotter, we'll grow darker again.

Natural selection - it evolves in what we need and out what we don't.

Answer 9

What makes you think your Adam and Eve were white?

I hate to bring science into this because this is clearly not a scientific question, but it's been pretty well established that the first humans were black.

Answer 10

To tell you the truth, the bible dose not say what shade of skin Adam and Eve had. But using commonsense , we can say they were a medium brown, with darkish hair, like the percentage humans.

Yes we are all related, there is only one race. We are all descendants of Noah, who is a descendant of Adam.

Answer 11

I don't really think Adam and Eve would have been white. Considering the part of the world where the garden of Eden was, I'm thinking they would have been dark skinned, but that's just my opinion. The Bible doesn't say much about skin color.