how does christianity explain different human races if adam and eve are suppossed to be the foirst two humans? where do the white, black, hispanic, asian, etc. ethnicities come from?
2007-08-19 15:33:23 · 45 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
there were definitely more people on the earth than just adam and eve at the time...good question, and also, when cain kills abel, it says he later goes and and finds his wife? Now where do u think his wife came from? thats right, it had to be from another creation
2007-08-19 15:38:34 · answer #1 · answered by stlouisramfan2003 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There is no way to prove this answer, but prevailing thought is that Adam and Eve had other children not mentioned in the Bible. After all, they lived to be 900+, and therefore could have had many children. But that's just a thought!
As to where the ethnicities come from, well, when Noah landed on Ararat, his children dispersed around the Mediterranean basin, and that is where the separation of races is believed to have started, with Ham, Shem, and Japheth.
2007-08-26 18:40:06 · answer #2 · answered by tanker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve was the first people here but remember God got mad and flooded the earth and Noah and his family became the the only people alive at that time than you have theTower of Babel. God confused their languages and they went their seperate ways. Plus it never stated if Adam and Eve skin color and we know that if your parents have children some are not going to be the same color as the next so if you keep having kids the color is going to change.
2007-08-27 06:12:41 · answer #3 · answered by msmiller m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the 1st 2 human beings have been the two male, it would make the bible much greater absurd. God did not write the bible, adult men wrote the bible, and it became all politically ultimate for the day. With Adam and Eve we are all a bunch or inbreds because it quite is, yet with Adam and Steve, umm yeah, except Steve had a womb, which negates the gay rights activists element.
2016-11-12 23:02:55 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not quite sure I believe the Adam and Eve story myself, it just doesn't make sense, who else would have been there to validate the story, God didn't write the bible so, how would anyone really know, and anyone who says it's so true, prove it beyond a doubt. Evolution is more likely than Adam and Eve, to me anyways.
2007-08-27 11:26:01 · answer #5 · answered by robink71668 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Adam and Eve were both middle brown in color they would have the genetic makeup to have children that were very dark and very light. We see it today when milanos marry each other, their children can have very dark or very light skin. Keep in mind that all humans are the same color-the color of melanin those who have more are a darker shade of the same color. If we evolved seperatly in different parts af the world what are the odds that we all evolved the exact same pigment? Not very good
2007-08-19 16:27:12 · answer #6 · answered by Imhotep 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam and Eve are the first two people that was created by God and they where brought to this Paradise where they can do anything BUT to eat the apple. One day there was a demon snake who was forcing Eve to eat the apple, instead Eve forced Adam to eat it. Then God became mad. If they didn't eat the apply they all of us could have live forever. =(
2007-08-27 15:14:52 · answer #7 · answered by Fantasmic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human DNA Holds the "keys" to every human race. and "certain keys and arrangements of said keys" have been brought into existence through Micro-evolution and the need for humans to develope in certain ways for certain environmental reasons. And yes this is a very Laymanistic and broad explaination but ya get the jist.
2007-08-27 13:11:36 · answer #8 · answered by djshyc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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"
2007-08-19 15:38:25 · answer #9 · answered by Freedom 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The "first two" does not mean the only two. We are told only what we need to know and Adam and Eve reveal the lineage of Jesus. If you were writing a book about your family, why would you talk about parents other than your own?
2007-08-27 10:45:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The story of Adam & Eve shows that the 1st humans choose to willfully disobey the Lord. When one looks at the races caucasian, black, asian it doesn't seem possible. I heard once that there is DNA evidence all humans are very much related.
Adam & Eve's story shows why humanity needs a redeemer.
2007-08-19 15:45:47 · answer #11 · answered by Will 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋