I'm not being racist...just hear me out.?

Question

Okay, I've been researching Genesis & the history of the African empire. I've read alot of sources on this & here is what I came up with:

1. We know that there was human life on earth prior to the Bible with dates about 6,000 years.

2. We know that the 1st origins of man began in Africa

3. We know that at that time the earth was populated with people of color (what the US would call minorities)

4. We know that Jesus himself was most likely of color (most say Middle Eastern), b/c of the region he was in at that time

So if humans (minorities) were already on earth, God must have been creating NEW life. Any thoughts or INTELLIGENT opinions?

I know this might be offensive to some ppl & I fully expect to have some hateful comments, but I'm just too curious to leave well enough alone.

FYI..I know Gen is not all factual, I've learned that there is truth hidden in fiction. Sort of like how they hide facts in movies (ie the Davinci Code)

My apologies, I thought my question was clear. What are your thoughts and opinions on what I've stated???

it's prob not coming across right b/c I don't want to state everything I think b/c I KNOW it will not be received right.

And for those that feel I'm too sure in my beliefs..I DON'T know everything, & I never will. These are my own ideas based on countless hours of research. On avg I prob spend about 8 hours EVERYDAY reading/researching different topics.

Answer 1

Why would you assume that God must have creating 'NEW life'??

Why would you assume that Adam and Eve weren't black?

All of the archaeological and paleontological evidence shows that the origins of the hominid lineage, the human species, and even the very subspecies that we belong to (Homo sapiens sapiens) all occurred in Africa.

The greatest genetic variance amongst human populations actually occurs within Africa - again, marking that region as the likeliest center of human origins.

All of the other 'races', including the Asians, Australians and Caucasians are actually genetically closer to East Africans than East Africans are to West Africans, let alone groups like the !Kung or Mbutu.

So it seems likely to me that if indeed there was a 'Garden of Eden' (metaphorical or not), then it was probably in Africa, and the people God made 'in his image' (i.e. with sentience, free will and consciousness) were black.

Archaeological evidence seems to indicate this occurred about 100,000 years ago (not ~6000 years ago that some have claimed is based on biblical 'begats'), but other than that, the idea of mankind's 'knowledge' beginning in this place via God's hand seems quite plausible, theologically.

Answer 2

To begin with, you are trying to reconcile scientific fact with Jewish folklore. That the Bible says, in the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth. But it gives no time frame. We don't know that a day, in the beginning, was a day as we know it today. A day, in the eternity of God, could be as little as one rotation of the earth on its axis, or it could be a much as five hundred thousand rotations of the earth around the sun. You must also realize that even today, the Jewish calendar is based on different premises than the Roman calendar or even the Mayan or Aztec calendars. Nor should you get all huffed up because some people have been given a genetic skin coloring that protects them from the burning rays of the sun. You should feel sorry for us pink skinned caucasians who have to lather on tons of greasy gob before we even dare to go the the beach on a hot summer day.

Answer 3

If God created new life there would be a clear differentiation between the existing life and the new.

Humans are in fact a very homogenous species: we vary genetically much less than most other species.

Thus: God did not create new life. We must either accept:

1. All human life began 6,000 years ago or
2. All human life began well before 6,000 years ago.

ie:

1. Genesis is fully correct or
2. Genesis, taken literally, is incorrect.

Answer 4

I do not think you are being racist, I just think your research sources are questionable and maybe biased. The Bible is VERY explicit about ancestry. Have you read the hundreds of " begats" in the Old Testament?

All peoples on the Earth, not in the Ark, during the Global Flood were totally destroyed. Which means ALL races now inhabiting the Earth are direct descendants of Noah's three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The Black race are direct descendants of Ham.
The Jewish race are direct descendants of Shem.
The Gentile race which includes Chinese, Japanese, Hispanic, Native American, English, Swedish, Danish etc. are direct descendants of Japheth.

Jesus' was a Jew. There are no exacting descriptions of Jesus, other than dark woolly haired, which was a common description of Hebrew men. As with most Hebrews who can be blond and blue-eyed, they are more predominantly dark-haired and dark or blue-eyed race of people, whose skin pigmentation adapts to the changing seasons and their exposure to it. Hebrew men, then and now, who are outside more often tend to tan during the summer months and the tan fades during the winter months. But no full-bloodied Jewish man would in any way be mistaken for the black race.

Biblically speaking, The Garden Of Eden had two huge rivers The Tigris and Euphrates running through it. The Garden of Eden was within walking distance of the first & earliest civilization where Adam and Eve fled to became known as the Babylonian empire. The Babylonian empire was in Iraq, where the two mighty rivers The Euphrates and The Tygris still exist to this day, but more precisely The Garden of Eden was in the present day Baghdad area of Iraq.

Before man, the Earth was in existence and so were the prehistoric animals and vegetation and the seas and waters, which were in the charge of Lucifer, one of God's mighty warrior angels ordered to rule/protect all the Earth. Lucifer, thinking that if he and his troops of angels could rule all the Earth, that Heaven would be a snap, & he could rule it far better than God Almighty, so he and his angels decided to attack Heaven and take it over.

A mighty and very destructive war broke out between God's Faithful Warrior Angels in Heaven and Lucifer's Evil Warrior Angel troops on Earth and all animals, and vegetation were destroyed by the war in the process. After God defeated Lucifer, he lost his name, rank, and title, as did his loyal angels, God renamed Lucifer Satan & condemned Satan and his angels to roam the earth's voids and to live beneath the Earth, they were no longer allowed to reside in Heaven.

Then after a pause, a period of mourning the war's destruction of Earth God re-created the Earth, created The Garden of Eden for Adam and Eve would have dominion over all of it. Adam and Eve were the first human beings EVER to be on the face of the Earth.

God Almighty was VERY straight forward, as were the prophets of God Almighty in the Old & New Testament. He does not implant secret codes, He tells you up front the importance of certain numbers and there meanings. The DaVinci Code is a novel. A creative HUMAN mind creating a piece of fiction for entertainment value, there is no truth in it. It is a work of fiction. Whereas, The Holy Bible is an intense, unbiased historical record that is confirmed by numerable city, state, empires, and government historical records. Therein lies the difference.

Answer 5

I believe in a mixture of evolution, and the bible. I think climate has a lot to do with your skin color, and evolution. Can you imagine a white guy living in africa before sunblock? And a black guy in the middle of the snow trying to hide from a polar bear or something? The white guy would probally burn to death, and the black guy might get eatin or something. I think god was just smart enough to make people of different skin color. I also don't get why the majority thinks god is white, I guess media, or ignorance, pride, something. And the whole "White and Minority" thing is bull. America was built on imigrants, so why are they calling people of different color minorties?

Answer 6

there is not much truth in the bible, do the research, you'll find out. and not much religion too. at this time they think that the origin of homo-sapien came out of Africa it is still a theory as for color no one know what color they were . climates do change.. in the more contemporary times (3, 4,000 years ago) there were more people of colors in the world ,all over the world except for the little corner of Europe. but now sense they have taken over most of the world and spread there seed they have populated more and more of it and there are less and less colored people.Jesus was definitely a person of color, he was an Apairu ( Hebrew) person.originally out of north east Africa.

Answer 7

While I believe that Jesus was olive toned like many of the Jewish Faith, and having spent considerable time in the open he had probably developed a very dark tan which I myself usually have, I do not think Jesus was of color....He was Jewish NOT of Indian or other descent. LOL not that that would matter anyway.

LOL You keep saying "WE KNOW" as though that was "Truth" I myself was not alive back in those times...I only have the "word" of those whom say they have the "authority" to "know"....never knew them personally either....

What I DO "know" is what I have researched on my own and with the Lord's help was able to sift through it all as to what I believe to be "TRUTH".

If, we are to believe that "God is Truth", then, pray tell me, how is it so many claim that they "know" God and yet question His Truth?

May you find Truth :)

Answer 8

One very good theory that scientists are testing is that we all share a gene from an Africa woman. I have no problem with being part black, white or even purple for that matter. I'm also aware that the Bible is a collection of stories that were made up by men who were attempting to explain their environment and their place in the Universe.

Answer 9

Life began in Africa, climate determines color. Man began dark-skinned because of the effect the sun has on one's skin pigment. Africa lacks shade. As man moved north, he was exposed to less sun, therefore became lighter, but not too light. We'll say brown. As man moved further north and into Europe and Northern Asia, he was exposed to so little direct sunlight, that his skin almost lost its pigment completely (whites).

I've been asked why people in middle America are brown and not black. Middle America is mostly rain forest, which of course means more shade. Africa is mostly rolling plains and savanna, which obviously means, less shade.

I've also been asked why northern regions are exposed to less sunlight. It's obvious. Point a ball toward a lamp. The ball's equator is clearly closer to the light than the northern and southern hemispheres. Long story short, the tropical regions are always closer to the sun than either hemisphere.

Races were not created separately, they all began in Africa as primates.

Answer 10

What you say sounds interesting, but did you know that tall people have more in common genetically than people of the same race?

Racial features are superficial. We are all the same breed of the same species, all human.

The bible is primitive, like a first grader's understanding of the universe. If you plan to do valid research, use credible sources.