Biblically speaking, how did different races come about?

Question

Ok so say Adam and Eve were for example white. (or black, it doen't matter) So when they had kids, they are obviously the same race as them..and same as thier kids..all this blood would be connected, so...how did everything else come to be??
I'm so confused about this and I hope I'm asking the question the right way

Answer 1

You have to read the Bible Dear. If you want to be a race car driver you learn to drive, if you want to be a Chef you learn to cook. If you want to be a Christian you study the word of God. (Start with the New Testament Holy Bible). Your question started in the Old Testament (Gen.10:6-8), there was man Nimrod who was the grandson of Ham. The world was mad a crazy as it is today if not worse and God was sad that He made man from the dust of the ground and it grieved Him. However there was (1) one man who was obedient and found favor with God and his name was Noah. Noah was instructed by God to build a huge vessel (boat, Ark) to support (2) two of every living creature including his family (wife, three sons and their wives). Oh the towns people joked and ridiculed him day in and day out about the huge vessel on land. Then the day came when Noah was finished and boarded all the animals one male and one female. The animals were obedient and tame. The first rain began to fall , Noah boarded his family and himself and closed the door. It rained for 40 days a 40 nights flooding the who earth destroying everything. After that the Ark settled on Mt. Ararat and area in Turkey. Noah the animals and his family waited until the flood water receded and came off the boat. Every person on the planet earth today came from these people who were all the same. The three sons of Noah and their wives repopulated the earth. They were Shem, Ham and Japheth. Ham's grandson Nimrod son of Cush Ham's son, Noah's great-grandson was a mighty hunter in the earth and built the 1st stupendous architect the "Tower of Babel. This fool had in his mind that he was going to build a tower up to heaven and at that time everyone had one language and one speech. Respectfully it got God's attention. In Genesis 11: 7 "Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." (Us: Father, Son and Holy Spirit (Trinity) The Tower of Babel project ended and people were speaking all the languages you hear today. People went with the group they could understand and scattered throughout the world. Man came up with race but we are male and female. Hope this helps and sorry for being long winded.

Answer 2

Biblically speaking, there's no such thing as race.

Race is an invention of the European Middle Ages, when people believed all kinds of crazy nonsense like witches, fairies and etc.

The books comprising the Bible were written long before then.



Fact-based reality is that modern medicine debunked & disproved the fictional concept of race via DNA science.

But apparently some people and nations never bothered learning that fact since they still talk about race like it was ever somehow real.

Answer 3

Stavros properly describes the potential that the genome could result in different "races".



Whether that was the original purpose of God we do not know. After the rebellion in Eden, many things changed within the genome, including the most damaging, the ending of life due to aging and illness.



The isolation of groups would enhance certain characteristic, which become dominate in different tribes. The Cushites, from which the Ethiopians sprang from, were living far south of the other tribes is the most noted example. The tribes that moved further east, into India and China, too developed individual elements that make them stand out.



(Jeremiah 13:23) 23 Can a Cushʹite change his skin, or a leopard its spots?. . .

Answer 4

Adam & Eve were created with all the diversity needed to populate the entire earth with their progeny, and the progeny of their progeny, on down the line.



They were not 'this race' or 'that race' . . .

they were the SOURCE of the ENTIRE human race.



Racial divisions started after the Flood of Noah's day, when his grandson Nimrod --a warrior in opposition to God-- encourage the people then living to ignore God's command to disperse all over the earth. They decided to stay put, and follow Nimrod's disobedient course. So, God caused their up-to-then one language to become several totally different languages. No longer able to communicate about anything, the different family groups eventually headed off in different directions. Whatever the genes were in any give group, they became more & more dominant as generations came into being . . . which is how the various races of humankind came into being.



That this is entirely plausible can be seen from the fact that those who have caught & bred wild animals for their pelts, in only a few generations have witnessed various changes in the generations from inbreeding: coat color & texture changes; eye color changes; size changes . . . Whatever genes were in the gene pool started with became amplified more & more in each subsequent generation.

Answer 5

The Bible isn't understood, so iet's not go there. It should be obvious that the human species was engineered by the people mentioned in the ancient texts of the Sumerians, Mesopotamians, Babylonians, and so on. That history at this point is sketchy, but we see references to it in Genesis, where it makes obvious references to cloning or some kind of genetic engineering: In Chapter 2 it says that the "Lord God" (the one in charge of the engineering project) caused a deep sleep to fall upon "Adam," which was the name of the new people. A "rib" (some genetic material was removed) and "Eve" was created from that. The details of how the different races came about are yet to be found but biblically speaking, much information is lacking there ~ or being misinterpreted ...

Answer 6

Well, evolution failed used to say races were "evolutionary branches" so one-race more ape-like. See Hitler thought jews were mostly ape. Evolution failed of course as genetics shows too closely related exactly like Bible. Get a kjversion Bible and believe. See, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auygJmEcgLY and so on forever. But to answer your question. There is only two answers that I know of. One is some believe Adam since he was first man had all the data in genome for all races. Saw an example of a tiger having white cub and regular at same time. So data is there for example. I think it is simpler. We know not lie of evolution, they aren't apes or more ape. Read Tower of Babel. When people seperated, they moved across world in same race groups as well. If they were all same race, they would've had hard time finding correct group by talking to everyone and they may have worked at learning same languages again if all one race. So that seems most likely due to scattering and order by races.

Answer 7

Scripture answers...

In Genesis ch. 10. & 11

(Genesis 10:1) This is the history of Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Jaʹpheth. Sons were born to them after the Flood.

(Genesis 10:8) Cush became father to Nimʹrod. He was the first to become a mighty one on the earth.

(Genesis 11:1) Now all the earth continued to be of one language and of one set of words.

(Genesis 11:5, 6) Then Jehovah went down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built. 6 Jehovah then said: “Look! They are one people with one language, and this is what they have started to do. Now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be impossible for them.

(Genesis 11:8) So Jehovah scattered them from there over the entire face of the earth, and they gradually left off building the city.



This explains the previously un-explained great stone cities now abandoned...they were actually smarter than present day man in building in stone.



Even the Suez canal was built before but was abandoned...and then re-built in the mid 1800's.

Answer 8

Biblically speaking it was a bit of a poser for those who set down the first versions of the Creation myth adopted and adapted by the Hebrews. But bear in mind that such people, while they would have known of the different traits of people in different areas could not possibly have known of all the races that we know of. Tentative explanations exist in the fate of Cain, who went and dwelt to the east of Eden, (presumably after shacking up with James Dean). The explanation is of course genetic development over a very long period of time which leaves you with three possibilities:



a) you can marvel at the wonderful mechanism of evolution, (postulated), by which a deity or force in the Universe/Creation has seen fit to achieve his purposes.

b) you can totally reject anything outside of the scientific explanation because it falls outside the Universe of Discourse of scientific debate

c) you can insist upon the inerrancy of ancient writings, refuse to interpret them, cover your ears and scream until everyone goes away or they come and take you away.

Answer 9

Biblically speaking, "race" is not a Biblical concept. The scriptures speak of "nations" and "tribes" but the idea of skin color as an ethnic identifier is curiously absent.



If the Noah story was true, then Cain's line would have to have ended in the Flood, so the Cain / Canaanite connection is Biblically spurious.

Answer 10

So although the Bible was not written by scientists, yet it was correct in stating that “God . . . made out of one man every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth.”—Acts 17:24, 26.Both Darwin and most modern scientists agree that mankind has one common origin. As the Encyclopedia Americana states: “Mankind is a single biological species.” Science writer Amram Scheinfeld recently wrote: “Science now corroborates what most great religions have long been preaching: Human beings of all races are . . . descended from the same first man."

Answer 11

“A race is simply one of the partially isolated gene pools into which the human species came to be divided during and following its early geographical spread. Roughly one race has developed on each of the five major continental areas of the earth. . . . Man did indeed diverge genetically during this phase of history and we can measure and study the results of this divergence in what remains today of the old geographical races. As we would expect, divergence appears to be correlated with the degree of isolation. . . . When race formation took place on the continents, with the bottlenecking of thousands of populations in isolated gene pools all over the world, the gene-frequency differences we now see were established. . . . The paradox which faces us is that each group of humans appears to be externally different yet underneath these differences there is fundamental similarity.” (Heredity and Human Life, New York, 1963, H. L. Carson, pp. 151, 154, 162, 163)



(Thus, early in human history, when a group of people were isolated from others and married within the group, certain distinctive combinations of genetic traits were emphasized in their offspring.)

Answer 12

Biblically speaking, the different races come about when Noah, his sons, and their wives departed the ark in Genesis Chapter 10.

Answer 13

Well I'm not sure how long ago the bible says Adam and Eve were alive, but biblically speaking (even though I'm an atheist), their children would colonize Europe, Africa, Asia and so on.



Then over a long period of time the people in Africa living under the harsh sun would develop more pigments in their skin, making their skin colour darker. Its vice versa for people who colonized northern Europe, who developed less pigmentation in their skin and became lighter skinned.



So, if Adam and Eve were real, their children colonized other places and developed skin to live in that particular area.

Answer 14

Biblically speaking Noah is the father of mankind. As David N said above. It is said the world was flooded and those left was Noah and his family. They got busy and populated the Earth. I do wonder who the sons paired with when there was no other humans around all dead from the flood. So maybe it was a flood of consciousness and not water.

Answer 15

Scientists conclude that the first woman had to be black because any geneticist will tell you that that all the mitochondrial line of all women of women have a black genetic marker so if you go biblically speaking eve had to be black because a black woman can have a white child but a white or other race cant

Answer 16

According to the most recent DNA studies, there are no human races (or, if you prefer, there is only one human race). The entire concept of human "races" has been debunked.

http://dnatribes.com/sample-results/dnatribes-global-survey-regional-affinities.pdf

Since the concept of "race" was invented about 500 years ago (you can look that up), the Bible never mentions the concept of races. In light of that, it's obvious that the Bible also does not mention how different races came into being.



The Bible simply does not address this issue.

Answer 17

It's not necessarily personal computer to think about unique "races" associated with humankind. Including a great deal of creatures, mix multiplying may develop fertile young, just not in most single illustration. So many of us look at: "ALL adult men are made the same and therefore are gifted by means of their author with certain unalienable proper rights, along with between these are generally life, liberty, plus the hunt for delight. ".

Answer 18

I struggle with that question myself. I also wonder how all the different cats came from one cat ancestor since they vary so greatly in size and color. I guess we'd have to have been around all those years ago to see how it happened. I can only assume that the cat that walked off Noah's ark had all the different species inside its DNA somehow, just as Adam and Eve had white and black in them, I think. I don't know, I'm sure scientists can explain it better!

Answer 19

Dear Friend,



There is no such thing as 'races', only the HUMAN RACE, period.



And because God made all the colors of the human race a beautiful rainbow, all that matters is that we 1. Love God (by putting Him first in our lives). 2. Love our neighbor (which is everyone) and to love our enemies. All of which is to be the 'kind' of love that God displays, not mans.



Blessings,

Answer 20

"Biblically speaking, how did different races come about?"



The same way they came about, speaking as an atheist. Skin color changes a little bit every generation, and over time those changes add up.

Answer 21

I use to wonder the same thing, but I don't any more. God is not a respector of persons, neither does He show favoritism. He made/created humans in His own image and breath life into them. (Genesis 1:26,27) He is a God of choice and variety of people. He loves us better thananyone could,and give us a way to Heaven to be with Him, through His Son Jesus alone.

We are tied in race wars and color, statis, power, prestige and any other thing that has gotten humans into hangups and let downs

Answer 22

You're confused because you are looking to the bible for facts and logic. You won't find it there.



Genetic evidence from DNA obtained from fossils shows that the modern human species originated in sub-Saharan Africa, where it began diverging into different populations 180,000 years ago. By 100,000 years ago some of these populations had migrated out of sub-Saharan Africa and dispersed across Eurasia and North Africa. By 40,000 years ago the divergent evolutionary branching of the human species had produced five subspecies. The different races are often defined and named by skin color, but this system is based on only one genetic difference, when actually thousands are involved. In the more accurate system of racial classification, names assigned to the various races are based on geographical regions that are at center of their area of evolutionary development and origin.



1.The Congoid of southern Africa

2.The Capoid of sub-Saharan Africa

3. The Australoid of India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea and Australia

4. The Mongoloid of Northeast

5. The Caucasoid of Europe, North Africa and West Asia.



The diverse races of the human species all have their own geographical territory. Between most of these territories are clinal zones -- areas of contact between different racial territories. These areas of interracial contact create racially mixed populations.

Answer 23

Think of dogs. By dogs reproducing with other dogs that have similar traits these traits become more ingrained. We know this as breeding, and it has given us hundreds of breeds. The exact same thing happened with humans, whether you believe the bible or not. Human's naturally reproduce with those who are similar to themselves, generally because of geographical convenience.



Either way it certainly had nothing to do with the curse toward Caanan, as the black race descended through Ham's other sons, Cush (Cushites) and Put (or Phut). Hope this helps. :)

Answer 24

The isolation of groups would enhance certain characteristic, which become dominate in different tribes. The Cushites, from which the Ethiopians sprang from, were living far south of the other tribes is the most noted example. The tribes that moved further east, into India and China, too developed individual elements that make them stand out.

Answer 25

The tower of Babel! When man was scattered and began to speak different languages. The National Geographic Channel which could never be confused with deists ran a special that traced the origins of man to one place by the same anomaly on the "Y" chromosome of every man alive today. Per NGC man started in South East Africa and made his way to the Mesopotamian Babylonian Iraq area and then scattered across the Middle East and into Europe and Asia. So this is consistent with the recounts of the Tower of Babel story in the Bible. As they moved they slowly acclimated to the area in which they moved to endure the surrounding which is the reason for the different races today!

Answer 26

The races were invented in the 19th centuries by Western European slavers to justify enslaving other "races".



The Hebrew Bible does not recognize "race". It only recognizes tribes/nations -- which are porous - people can leave one tribe and join another.



About 30 years ago a number of anthropologists categorically proved that phenotypal "race" (ie: based on physical appearance) has no relation to actual relationships as found by examining neutral DNA markings.

A "white" person can be closer related to a "black" person than the "white" to other "whites" or the "black" to other "blacks".



The explanation from a modern anthropological point of view as well as a Biblical point of view is that certain physical types do better in certain localities -- so those types survive and become predominant while other physical types die out.



I can tell you from personal experience as a baby born in the extreme North of Russia -- the only babies who survived there naturally were "asiatic" looking. "white" babies only survived by being given a daily doze of vitamin D.



ie: the current scientific position is that humanity started out fully varied and then certain allelles died out in certain populations -- creating the appearance of different races.



Translate that into "Bible speak" -- the children of Noah carried all of the alleles necessary to eventually separate into the various "races".

and Adam and Eve were "red" (like asiatics and Natve Americans) -- this is clear if you read the Hebrew.

Answer 27

While the Bible doesn't support Macro-evolution (the gradual change of certain members of species into a completely different species) it does not disallow Micro-evolution (the adaption of species to their environment through change of certain features such as skin color). The development of blue eyes in cold climates (blue eyes help filter out certain types of light) or dark skin in hot, sunny climates is not against any Biblical law or principle.

Answer 28

It is not pc to consider different "races" of human beings. Like a lot of animals, cross breeding will produce fertile offspring, just not in every single instance. So we consider: "ALL men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Answer 29

Biblically, the different races originated with the sons of Noah: Ham, Shem, and Japeth.



Ham was the father of the Africans,

Shem was the father of the Middle Eastern race, and

Japheth was the father of the northern races (Europeans and Asians.)

Answer 30

Jehovah God the Creator of the first man Adam included in the genetic code the ability to produce variety in his offspring. Different shades in skin and eye color. Hair color and texture. Size and height. Genes can also skip generations and surprise us at times. Of course humans would limit their genetic pool by only having children with mates that are related or have similar features. Please read Acts 17:26 and visit jw.org.

Answer 31

God created all humans equal and we are related because the entire humankind came from the first man and woman Adam and Eve.



In the Bible is where we can only find the accurate origin of humankind, in Chapters 5 through 10 in the Book of Genesis, you can read the genealogy starting with Adam, then with Noah’s children.



God designed humans in a way that we could produce different races. God does not favor one race, nationality or language above another.





http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/genesis/10/

Answer 32

The Bible tells US why there are different races and languages'

The story OF the tower Babel Genesis 11:1- 9

Now all the earth continued to be of one language and of one set of words.* 2 As they traveled eastward, they discovered a valley plain in the land of Shiʹnar,+ and they began dwelling there. 3 Then they said to one another: “Come! Let us make bricks and bake them with fire.” So they used bricks instead of stone, and bitumen as mortar. 4 They now said: “Come! Let us build a city for ourselves and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, so that we will not be scattered over the entire face of the earth.”+

5 Then Jehovah went down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built. 6 Jehovah then said: “Look! They are one people with one language,+ and this is what they have started to do. Now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be impossible for them. 7 Come! Let us+ go down there and confuse their language in order that they may not understand one another’s language.” 8 So Jehovah scattered them from there over the entire face of the earth,+ and they gradually left off building the city. 9 That is why it was named Baʹbel,*+ because there Jehovah confused the language of all the earth, and Jehovah scattered them from there over the entire face of the earth.

Answer 33

scientifically speaking variations in colour specifically relate only to the activity of melanocytes in the skin; everybody has one melanocyte (pigment cell) to approximately 7 keratinocytes (skin cells) but black people have melanocytes with more activity and hence their skin is darker. so this is not such a big difference as it may superficially seem. Other than colour of skin, different races do have other differences such as bone density or different facial features etc but similarly so do different caucasians; theres an abundance of variety.

Although the bible mentions only adam and eve, I would suggest natural mutation and variation would have led to the many many differences between different humans of the world :0)

Answer 34

Since different races exist (contrary to what Genesis says), Genesis is not a reliable source of information.

Answer 35

Actually Adam (which is Hebrew for red) and Eve were more like our Native Americans. From them all races came.

Answer 36

All men trace their roots back to Adam and Eve they are the parents of every human being dead or alive. So it would stand to reason Adam had the ability to father the different races.

Answer 37

Gen. 5:1, 2; 1:28: “In the day of God’s creating Adam he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them. After that he blessed them and called their name Man [or, Mankind] in the day of their being created.” “God blessed them and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.’” (Thus all mankind are descendants of that first human pair, Adam and Eve.)

Acts 17:26: “[God] made out of one man [Adam] every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth.” (So, regardless of what races make up a nation, they all are offspring of Adam.)

Gen. 9:18, 19: “Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. . . . These three were Noah’s sons, and from these was all the earth’s population spread abroad.” (After God destroyed the ungodly world by means of a global flood in Noah’s day, the earth’s new population, including all the races known today, developed from the offspring of Noah’s three sons and their wives.)



As used here, race means a division of mankind possessing in characteristic proportions certain combinations of physical traits that can be inherited and that are sufficient to set the group apart as a distinct human type. It should be noted, however, that the fact that the races are capable of intermarriage and reproduction shows that they are actually of one “kind,” all being members of the human family. So the various races are merely facets of the total variation possible in humankind.



All men living today belong to a single species, Homo sapiens, and are derived from a common stock. . . . Biological differences between human beings are due to differences in hereditary constitution and to the influence of the environment on this genetic potential. In most cases, those differences are due to the interaction of these two sets of factors. . . . Differences between individuals within a race or within a population are often greater than the average differences between races or populations.



Will people of all races ever truly be united as brothers and sisters?

To those who would be his true disciples, Jesus said: “All you are brothers.” (Matt. 23:8) Later he added: “By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.”—John 13:35.

Despite human imperfections, that sense of oneness was a reality among early Christians. The apostle Paul wrote: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one person in union with Christ Jesus.”—Gal. 3:28.

Answer 38

Islamically speaking,God created Adam out of earth taken from seven different parts of the globe, gave him life and while he was asleep, took off a rib bone from Adam and created Eve and from the duo (Adam and Eve) created all of us. And after the grand flood of Noah, we were separated by water into nations (Continents) and tribes, as per geographical conditions of the Continents, being part of the 'Test of Faith' to see how we treat each other.



Hope that helps.

Answer 39

That's why even called Christian with their evolutionary theory are making God's word invalid



We all came from the same parent's not their ridiculous ideas how the differences of man came about

Answer 40

Acts 17:26: " God made out of one man (Adam) every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth."



So, reardles of what races make up a nation, thea all are offspring of Adam.

Answer 41

A "Universal Force" - A Way - All things moving in ALL directions at the same time.

And so it goes! Light as well as time moving in every direction.

There is your androgyny. In what direction are we moving in time at this moment. Or are we locked in Schroedingers Box with his cat waiting for Heisenberg to find out if we are here or there?

Answer 42

Nothing too complicated about it, once one knows how.



Jehovah God, our Creator, LOVES VARIETY. We see that in every part of creation. Flowers, of course. We see this too in all animals. Coming in every shade. Created with humanly perfect DNA, the capacity exists for reproduction of all races.



Today, our genetics are considerably more defective than 6,000 years ago. We have lost most of the ability to have children of other races. It makes national news when it does.



A few generations after the Flood, we can tell by where the families settled what races they represented. The family of Cush were darker race and settled around Africa. It was Ham, by the way, who was cursed and was not dark raced.

Answer 43

Despite the baser nature and un-natural desire for grossness of the average Christian, Adam and Eve's children had LOTS of people to choose from for spouses. And only an fool would say there were no other people. Sure there were, who else was Cain worried about? Where did all those people in Nod come from, you know the ones he chose a wife from?

Here, I will paste, even though I don't expect anyone to bother reading it here if they don't already know it's in the Bible.

Not incest, it's not even implied. Just wishful thinking from the common folks.

12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.



13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.



14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.



15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.



16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.



17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.





There is no such thing as a fugitive if there is no society to hide from. There is no need for God to "mark' Cain to protect him from his family, they, of course already know what he looks like and what he did wrong. When Cain leaves he takes nothing and no one, but he laid his wife and they had a bunch of kids together and there were enough other people already to form a city,

Reading is Fundamental. .

Answer 44

First, the Bible doesn't reveal Adam or Eve's color.

Second, testifying to man’s creation by Jehovah God, the apostle Paul told the Athenians: “He made out of one man every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth.” (Acts 17:26) Hence, all nations and races have a common origin.

Answer 45

Mr Religious studies teacher told us that the bible is not factual, and the first few chapters specifically are simply stories with moral meanings, so Adam and Eve are not actually the ancestors of all humans

Answer 46

Maybe at The Tower Of Babel when God confused the languages, maybe he not only created the different languages at that time but also the different races.

Answer 47

If Adam and Eve were both middle brown, they could have had sixteen children, all of a different color from black-black to white-white.



There is a herd of wild horses in China--thousands of them and they are wild and interbreed. There is everything there from black horses with black manes to white horses with white manes and everything in between. Interesting, huh?

Answer 48

Gen. 5:1, 2; 1:28: “In the day of God’s creating Adam he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them. After that he blessed them and called their name Man [or, Mankind] in the day of their being created.” “God blessed them and God said to them: ‘Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth.’” (Thus all mankind are descendants of that first human pair, Adam and Eve.)



Acts 17:26: “[God] made out of one man [Adam] every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth.” (So, regardless of what races make up a nation, they all are offspring of Adam.)

Gen. 9:18, 19: “Noah’s sons who came out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. . . . These three were Noah’s sons, and from these was all the earth’s population spread abroad.” (After God destroyed the ungodly world by means of a global flood in Noah’s day, the earth’s new population, including all the races known today, developed from the offspring of Noah’s three sons and their wives.)

http://m.wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101989257

Answer 49

I know there are records of Ethiopian people with a skin disorder not unlike Mr. Jackson had. They were able to have children and the children were recorded as having either skin color.

Answer 50

It is just as Mack said, there is only one race – the human race. We have heard that phrase a million times but it seems not very many realize what it truly means.



All people trace their origin to Adam and Eve if you follow the biblical explanation. It would not be reasonable, however, to assume that Adam and Eve were white. But they did have within them the genetic capability of producing all the variations you see today. Put another way, all so-called races are merely variations on a theme - the human theme. And the Bible does comment on the divergence of the human race, linguistally and geographically which culminated in a rather forced ethnic divergence. The account is in Genesis.



Interestingly, people can marry in and marry out the combinations of physical traits that you see. Put another way, white person marries black person; they produce children, the children marry white people, they produce children who marry white people. In that short time span, there will be little to no visible trace of “so-called black” in them because they will have coupled themselves with white people who have certain other physical traits in concentrated form. They have in concentrated form, thin lips, slim noses, fine hair, pale skin. Now reverse it, white person marries black person, they produce children who marry black people who produce children who marry black people. In that short time span, you will see little to no trace of “so-called white” in them. Now you may see full lips, full noses, thick coarse hair, sometimes tightly curled, brown skin, dark brown skin. Why? These physical characteristic traits are just that – physical characteristics that can come and go and they can end up being in concentrated form. But these physical characteristics are not exclusive of any one group. Thus black people do have blue eyes, grey eyes, green eyes, straight hair, wavy hair without any "white" parents. Some Aborigines (clearly not white) have naturally wavy hair, naturally blond hair. Some white people have full noses and kinky hair without any black parents or grandparents. I had a white co-worker who brought his son in to work one day. Everybody did a triple take. Why? This cute little tyke had his father's light blue eyes - huge and distinctive - but he had something else: blond hair that looked like kinky cotton. He was very obviously his father's biological son. There are no black people in the family. What's the point? Kinky, curly, cotton hair is not exclusive to black people. Never has been.



So what happened with black people? When man diverged linguistically, it forced him to diverge geographically. When that happened, those within a particular linguistic group (let’s say in our example what came to be known as black people) married only each other so that a bottle-necking occurred. This led to certain combinations of inherited physical traits (skin color, eye color, hair texture, eye shape) to become concentrated in that group. It happened with other groups as well but people tend to always focus on black people because they have striking physical characteristics that stand out from the white crowd.



It’s a little more involved than this on a genetic level but fundamentally, this is what happened. And fundamentally we are all the same.



Hannah J Paul

Answer 51

The Bible is ignorant of races, as was the entire ancient world. Jews were the Chosen People and everyone else was garbage.

Answer 52

There is only ONE human race. The different colours are trivial

Answer 53

Bob

Answer 54

Survival of the fittest......those born in very hot countries evolved with dark, thick skin and very thick hair to guard against the sun. We in the North European countries where it's cold....tend to be pale skinned and blonde with blue eyes.......Good old Darwin.....Mo Atheist

Answer 55

It s not a race. Enough of the competition division war foolishness.

Answer 56

God created Adam and eve who were like a deep beige. most people were this color until Ham and Canaan are curse and so all there descendents got darker skin

Answer 57

< races come about?>>



Seriously?

There's more to Genesis that merely the Creation Narratives!





< come to be??>>



Again, the answer is in Genesis, but it has NOTHING to do with 'Adam and Eve'.





< the right way>>



Book of Genesis, Tower of Babel.

Answer 58

Realistically speaking, there is only one race, human.

Answer 59

Read the article written here by a professor:

http://creation.com/noah-and-genetics



Close the audio/video pop up that occurs as the link opens and read the essay: Adam, Eve and Noah vs Modern Genetics.



Please do notice that so called scientists, evolutionists, also believe in Adam and Eve, scientific Adam and Eve as they call them: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/a-night-of-exploration/videos/scientific-adam-and-eve/

Answer 60

Within Adam and Eve were the genes that held all the different races of mankind, just as the 1st animals that were made 'according to their kinds' had the genes to produce variations within their kind. (Like fish, birds, dogs, etc.) (Gen.1:20-25) By the time Noah came on the scene, the variations of mankind should have reached quite a height considering the lineage. (Gen.5:3-32) And once the Flood was over and the world needed repopulating again, the genes had already been mixed to a high degree, and creating the races would be easier. (Gen.8:15 & 16, 9:1)

Answer 61

God loves color. Look around you and see for yourself. Who else would have thought to make so many shades, tones, iridescence, depth and variations? Life is beautiful because of color.

Answer 62

Doesn't explain how Asians were created? How did they get slanted eyes and smooth skin and small wieners?

Answer 63

Adam and Eve were the first WHITE people to be grafted.....Black,Yellow and Red man were already created before the white.

Answer 64

Adam and Eve is a PARABLE just like the prodigal son or the mustard seed.

Answer 65

IN THE BEGINING THERE WAS ONE LANGUAGE, AND THEY WERE VERY WISE PEOPLE ,THEY SAT ,AND DECIDED TO BUILD A BUILDING GOING UP TO REACH GOD, AND THEY WERE IN ONE ACCORD, SO THEY STARTED BUILDING THE TOWER OF BABEL, BUT GOD REASONED THESE PEOPLE ARE WISE AND THEY WILL REACH ME, SO HE WAITED AND WHEN THE BUILDING WAS TALL ,HE MADE FALL ,WHILE THEY WERE THERE UP, SO WHEN THEY FELL DOWN ,EACH ONE WALKED UP SPEAKING DIFERENT LANGUAGE OF HIS OWN, SO ,MANY RACES WERE FORMED.

Answer 66

As people migrated north the got less sunlight and lost their melatin

Answer 67

There is no other race but the human race m8.

Answer 68

The 200m race is twice as long as the 100m race. Always has been...

Answer 69

James uses that answer because he has no answer.



Ham, Noah's son, was supposed to have migrated into what is now Africa and since his descendent were cursed ( because Ham laughed at Noah being naked) that was one of the reasons they thought it was fine to enslave Africans. Shem or Japheth was supposed to migrate to Europe and Asia.



I am just saying this because this is what I have heard from Christians. It's horseshit of course.

Answer 70

The biblical explanation is inaccurate.

Answer 71

God placed within Adam a genome capable pf producing all the genotypes and phenotypes of the world



He's awesome like that!



Act 17:26 From one man God created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries.



see



http://christiananswers.net/q-aig/race-definition.html



http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/race-skincolor.html



https://answersingenesis.org/racism/

Answer 72

Hebrews are dark skinned.

Answer 73

Adam and Eve is actually a myth and so is the bible.

Answer 74

"And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the variations in your languages and your colours: verily in that are Signs for those who know." (Koran)

Answer 75

look outside

Answer 76

God used evolution to create our bodies.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf5ovSpS2GU

Answer 77

The Bible does not teach genetics.

Answer 78

genetic engineering.

Answer 79

The retarded answer to everything in the bible is 'magic'.

Answer 80

your guess is as good as mine

Answer 81

ALIENS?