What does it imply about God if He created us in His image, and the first humans to be created according to science were Black? What does it imply about the human race?
2007-10-28 05:30:35 · 19 answers · asked by jxt299 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It implies that we are all spiritual beings, silly. Being created in the image of God has nothing to do with the packaging. That's a latitude thing, an adaptation to equatorial sun light. Or, another take is that diversity is pleasing to God.
Dear Paul (below me), apes and chimps have white skin under that dark hair. Black skin is a more recent adaptation when our ancestors moved out of the rainforests and on to the savannah..
2007-10-28 05:32:50 · answer #1 · answered by jaicee 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Science isn't always going to be true. Science says that we where created from monkeys and where not. You know that, right? So we don't know if the first humans were created black or white. We where created in God's image. It's not talking about skin color. It's talking about that God is basically like us, with the same organs and stuff like that. For example eyes and nose and things like that.
2007-10-30 14:09:23 · answer #2 · answered by Jade 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is stuffed with assumptions really.
Firstly, if God created the first humans in paradise, according to the old testament there was a protective cocoon covering the earth. This is theoretically super cooled thin sheet of ice that protected us from the harmful uv rays etc.
Thus there wouldn't be any need for melanin at all.
Remembering that the scientists never dug up the skin to tell you for a fact that they had dark sin.
Secondly, IMAGE does not mean duplicate.
For example, if I took a picture of you, that is your image.
Does it capture you as a duplicate?
ARE YOU FLAT?
ARE YOU MADE OF PAPER?
YOU DON'T BREATHE?
YOU DON'T EAT?
Do you have a date stamp on your skin?
Were you born in from an EPSON printer?
2007-10-28 05:35:58 · answer #3 · answered by bagsy84 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is spirit and underneath our outer shell (body) we all have a spirit. Our spirit is our Life force. It simply implies that we are spiritual beings underneath our bodies. No one knows where the garden of Eden was. Did you know that underneath the skin we are all the same? Same blood same organs? If a white person were is a car wreck & then needed blood A+ can be from a black person as well as a black person, our body orgaans also know no race, if a black person were to need a kidney it wouldn't make any difference if the skin color of the person giving the kidney were black or white.
2007-10-29 00:20:02 · answer #4 · answered by pamkayvan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, first you'll have to decide when the evolutionary chain reached a point you define as human. Then God might be Neanderthal or Homo Habilis or something else earlier than Homo Sapiens. Do you honestly believe God looks like a human being? An omniscient, omnipresent being, confined in a human body?
2007-10-28 05:34:26 · answer #5 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where in the bible does it say this? God created Adam and Eve and it went from there. Besides, we are ALL created equal and it really doesn't matter what color we are. We will know it all when we go to be with him.
I do Not believe a lot of what science says about creation. So much of it is absurd! I choose to believe and feel, "God said it, I believe it, and that settles it!"
2007-10-28 05:46:12 · answer #6 · answered by pj 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When God created man in his own image it means that He created them with a mind, a way of observing, means of communication, a way to respond to God, and a way to get around, etc. It doesnt mean that God has a body or that He is black. God is not a black man or a black woman. Nor is he from Africa.
2007-10-28 05:36:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Having the “image” or “likeness” of God means, in the simplest terms, that we were made to resemble God. Adam did not resemble God in the sense of God’s having flesh and blood. Scripture says that “God is a spirit” (John 4:24) and therefore exists without a body. However, Adam’s body did mirror the life of God, insofar as it was created in perfect health and was not subject to death.
The image of God refers to the immaterial part of man. It sets man apart from the animal world, fits him for the “dominion” God intended (Genesis 1:28), and enables him to commune with his Maker. It is a likeness mentally, morally, and socially.
2007-10-28 05:33:45 · answer #8 · answered by Freedom 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely nothing, since "the image of God" refers to our spiritual nature, not our physical appearance. However, the science of anthropology clearly suggests that the human race came into existence in Africa, and that the first humans had black skin, just like the species from which humans developed biologically.
2007-10-28 05:33:07 · answer #9 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Nothing. Because we weren't created in God's image at all. We are all humans and skin color is just a small variation, just like eye color and hair color. This stupid and racist notion of the first humans were black argument is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.
2007-10-28 05:40:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋