Why were Adam & Eve white?

Question

oh deary me.

IT WOZ IN THE BIBLE

IT WOZ IN THE BIBLE

Answer 1

Who said they were?

Answer 2

The Bible doesn't give a color to Adam and Eve, but if you look at the region in which the garden of Eden was placed you can determine their color/race very easily.

Please see Genesis 2:10-14 for the coordinates of Eden. Then look at a map that goes back as far as it can with the rivers listed on it, and if you can't, just know that the land of the cushites is placed in Africa. Cush was the son of Ham, Gen 10:6. Also notate that science even states that they suspect that modern humans came out of Africa.

This isn't a hard question to determine if you use your Bible coupled with scientific findings to arrive at your answer.

However, the reality of this is just that, people weren't address as a color, but as a tribe, thus all this racial profiling is man made.

Answer 3

I don't think it really matters but remember there weren't any humans until God created Adam and Eve so we don't know exactly where the Garden of Eden was. God intentionally left that out for what reason? So that no one race could claim superiority over another. Remember too that God destroyed everyone and everything except for Noah and his wife and their children and their wives. So, wouldn't it be that we're all descendants of Adam and Eve and Noah and his wife? All the more reason to get over the whole race issue in this country. We are all children of God. Period - end of discussion.

Yes, God had a reason for creating the different races but it's up to our interpretation to figure out when and why. According to Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מגדל בבל‎ Migdal BavelArabic: برج بابل burg babel) was a tower built to reach the heavens by a united humanity, all speaking a single language. God saw that humans would be able to do whatever they set their minds to, so he confused their unified language and scattered them. In later stories, God destroys the tower, as well. The story of the tower of Babel is set in the time after Noah's flood and before Abraham's covenant with God.

I have heard that when God scattered all the people and confused their unified language that is when the different races were created. However, that is just man's interpretation but God must have had a purpose since nothing in His creation is by accident. Notice that we were told to love our neighbors with all our hearts. We weren't told to only love our race but everyone so when will we get over this issue?

Answer 4

Were they????? While that is what many may want to believe, they both may very well have been black. We don't know, and it is all very much conjecture to say they were white, black, or green with pink polka dots, we don't know. By conjecture, based on the color of the people of that region, they were most likely black, an idea that I have little trouble with, even though I am Caucasian. It does need to be considered that based on world population that the Caucasian people are in fact the minority race. I include people of all color, other than the Caucasian. That Adam and Eve are pictured as white by various artists is strictly based on what they happen to believe, and nothing else.

Answer 5

I don't recall their race ever being mentioned in the Bible.
But these texts are over 6 000 years old and seem to originate from Mesopotamia. Because of its warm climate, the people who wrote them were probably of dark skin, although their exact ethnicity remains a mystery.
Christianity flourished in Europe, where people liked to imagine that all Bible characters were pretty much like themselves and most artists depicted Jesus and other characters in the Bible as white, but I doubt any of them (at least those that are historical figures) were Caucasian.

Answer 6

Were they?

Here I thought anthropologists had decided that if human beings started in one place, it was probably the central Congo, and the Tigris/Euphrates valley gig was a late comer... Sumerians, I think.

And yet we still keep seeing those two painted as white.

Whacky, huh?

Now, the Jesus or Cleopatra being black I don't buy at all. Even Nubians are colored more like Middle Easterners than like blacks.

But the Adam & Eve thing? Yea, I totally buy that. Unfortunately, I don't see them as real people, just allegory.

Still think portraying them as black would make more sense, anthropologically.

Answer 7

They probably weren't "white."

Most historical accounts indicates that the Garden of Eden (home to Adam & Eve) was located in the Middle East.

The Middle East geographically spans from Africa to Eurasia.

The Garden of Eden may have been located near Armenia, which borders Turkey & Georgia.

Answer 8

Check your bible dear, there is no reference whatsoever to what race Adam and Eve are supposed to have been. Where in the world did you get that from? The only way you could possibly even attempt to figure something like that out would be to establish where the Garden of Eden was, and discern from that what race of people come from that area of the world.

Answer 9

Because Christian mythology was created by white males. Thus, these are the people who wrote the myths of the bible down and translated them. Given that science has pretty much concluded life originated in Africa, assuming there was an adam and eve, they were not likely white.

Answer 10

They were created in God's image and in His likeness..They were perfect and clothed in the glory of God and had power and dominion over the earth until They did what God commanded them not to do, commiting high treason and being curse and bringing the curse upon everyone else born afterwards including this world in which we live. This is the reason God sent Jesus Christ, to give His life a ransom for the sin of mankind and by His blood we are cleansed and redeemed back to the Father being free from the power of sin, sickness and spiritual death, to them who call on His Name.. I don't think it really matter why Adam and Eve were white or not, In heaven or in hell, it will not matter there either...

Answer 11

I don't think that people know what their race were. Garden of Eden was said to be in Iraq according to some studies so they might also be middle eastern. But then again, no one knows. They are depicted as whites in the US by the media just to have one but I doubt that they are. Even according to science, first man might have came from Africa and has a dark color.