The Bible says God created man in his image. Science says that the 1st humans were African.?

Question

Which one is right?

Marie S.-The 1st humans were in Africa not Africans??? you cannot be serious. Pls just think for a second. Think about genes, melanin, & region.

And pls no more "why does matter" comments b/c his race does not matter. Religion, esp modern Christians use religion to oppress those of other races every day.

Why does it matter...well lets just imagine that he was black (humor me)..slave masters were "Christians", politicians are "Christians", Law officers are "Christians" & have they not all contributed to the attempted genocide of the African race? So if Jesus was African...then what do we have?

I suspect it wouldn't matter. Many say he is Middle Eastern, & they are discriminated against as well.

for all those who say science does not say the 1st humans were Africans:

The most recent scientific evidence indicates that all humanity originated in Africa. It is most likely that the first people had relatively large numbers of eumelanin producing melanocytes and, accordingly, darker skin (as displayed by the indigenous people of Africa, today

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin

Google melanin & research for yourself.

Answer 1

Why wouldn't they both be right? Are you saying African's aren't created in the image of God? I certainly think they are.

Answer 2

Science didn't say the 1st humans were african.

Science only said the oldest fossil of human excavated was found in africa. It is not yet full proof of the first humans.

FYI
Image does not equate to race.
The Bible says God created man in his image. This does not mean man as only a physical form. Man (body, soul and spirit) is what the image in the bible means. The bible is not intended to be literally interpreted.

Science does not contradict God. It even prove God.
Human reasoning is only capable of a 3 dimensional world.
Which is for you existence is only according to the 3 dimensions. A table is 3 dimensional object which is for you it exists. But science can prove of multi-dimentional world which is beyond human understanding. God is beyond our world.

Answer 3

Intriguing, isn't it? Did God mean to tell us that He is black, or merely that our body resembles his- 1 head, 2 arms and legs, etc.? I'm sure that Jesus' complexion matched that of the mideast of the time--certainly not the blond hair,blue eyes of the older Hollywood movies. And yet, we're pretty sure that the Garden of Eden was in Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; so, when Cain had the mark put on his brow because he was afraid that other people would kill him, were those other people the people living in Africa? One of the reasons I want to go to Heaven is that all the answers to all the questions are there.

Answer 4

Yes, black people was created in the image of god, is all in the new part of the bible, that is coming out to the public the same day as the Harry Potter book, it also says there that then god created rap music and welfare to protect his kids from the evil white man created in the image of the devil.
Satan rules.

Answer 5

The first humans were in Africa, not African. No one can tell what the first humans looked like. Do you believe we were once apes also? Maybe Africans were just the ones left behind when everyone scattered. That was way too long ago for anyone to know for sure.

Wow I feel special you addressed my comment. I think you are trying too hard maybe. Jesus was not black. WTF are you talking about? He was Hebrew. That does not equal black. Slavery was wrong, yes, blacks are not the only ones in history who have been enslaved. All I know is the first humans fxcked up big time whoever they were and here we are today. ( Adam and Eve)

Answer 6

Why not both? Since when did God have to be white?

It's only Jesus who's supposed to look like a specific person (and since he was born in Israel, that'd be kinda Arab-looking). God the father is spirit and so doesn't have a specific physical form. But we are like him because we have personal identity, emotions and creativity.

Through history most cultures have made their pictures of Jesus look like themselves. There are some beautiful pictures of black Jesuses in old Ethiopian illuminated manuscripts. It's only with the rise of mass media that the whole world's started making Jesus look so Scandinavian. All that means is that a particular culture's view became dominant, not that Jesus actually looked like that.

Answer 7

The whole man in gods image is very misleading.

Because most Westerners believe that they are their physical bodies or personalities they presume gods has these base on scripture.

Many other religious and spiritual faiths believe that man is in the likeness of Divinity but as the parcel soul of the Supreme.

Science can not entirely explain anything. At best it approximates, and thus not able to go outside its dualistic limits to explain existance.

Answer 8

Both... If you look at the Bible the locations for the first humans were the southern middle east or north eastern Africa. Hmm... happens to match what science has come up with... it looks like science is getting closer to the truth :-)

Answer 9

Look in the Bible, and it says, "created in our image." At least, it does in my Bible. ... Hmm....

Yet it could be that man was created in the image of God, with reference to atoms or cells, or energy.

Both science and religion could be right. Although, I lean towards science as 100% correct and religion as something a lot less than perfect, because humans did write the Bible anyway. Whether divine inspiration was good enough to prevent errors is totally up to you.

Answer 10

Assuming that science is right that the first man is an African. Then, who created that African?

God is not a fiction, if you believe that there is air eventhough you can not see it, then, believe in God. You can feel them both.