Where did different races come from?

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1ofthem

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What are you seeing that I'm not?

Because this...



looks like happenstance by some "intelligent design" rather than God to me.

Same thing being taught at schools -- put a little amino acid in with inert substance, time + luck + chance, and poof! A living being!

And that living being is just a one cell animal, but more time + luck + chance, and viola! We have the ancestors of humans.

Then more time + luck + chance, and eventually we get around to homo sapiens.

And it takes me back to the days when teachers tried to teach me that in the growing process of an embryo, we have all species of animals take place -- from fish, to amphibians, to reptiles, to birds, to mammals all vying for the chance to be born. Because, after all, what is God but Time + Luck + Chance?
Just saying I can't see how anyone would have thought a sperm cell was an actual tadpole....lol:p

As far as the rest goes, I agree...Creation didn't start with Time + Luck + Chance...It was all God's design no luck or simple chance involved.
 

zeroturbulence

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I have recently decided to read the Bible front to back, to familiarize myself with Gods word. I still have my daily and nightly devotionals, this is just something I personally wanted to do. On to my question... when God flooded the earth the only human survivors were, Noah, his wife and his sons. Do we all exist because of noah’s Family? If so where do different races come into the picture. I’m not doubting the word, this was just the 1st thing that popped into my head. Any explanation would be greatly appreciated.
I don't know how they started but I noticed that people from northern regions like scandinavia where it is cold and they have little sunshine they almost all have blonde hair and pale skin.... And in regions where it is hot and dry like Africa they have very dark skin and black hair.... Regions where it is hot and humid like south america and the tropics have people with bronze tone skin and black hair... Places where they experience both cold and hot have folks with medium tone skin and varying hair colors...

So it seems that God designed it that way... but whether He gradually programmed people's DNA to be that way.... or whether Noah's kids were already 'designed' for where they would end up settling is really anyone's guess..... :rolleyes:
 

preston39

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I don't believe in evolution! I believe that God created Adam with the entire human genome and Eve, having been built from his rib also had the entire genome. All of the variations were manifest in Noah's children and and /children.

Adam's name means red; so presumably his skin had plentiful erythrocytes.
M...,

In what era did we conclude that the name Adam means red?
 

preston39

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Why isn't credence extended for the possibility that G-d created more than just Adam and Eve?

While The Bible is silent I believe it could be reasonable that G-d did and just didn't have it repeated in scriptures; ...and He created Hosea And Carlita....and He created Leroy and Maxine...and He created Akeno and Chen, etc.

His reference to Adam and Eve was for generic/multiple purposes including a basis for the first sin recording.
 

Magenta

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Why isn't credence extended for the possibility that G-d created more than just Adam and Eve?

While The Bible is silent I believe it could be reasonable that G-d did and just didn't have it repeated in scriptures; ...and He created Hosea And Carlita....and He created Leroy and Maxine...and He created Akeno and Chen, etc.

His reference to Adam and Eve was for generic/multiple purposes including a basis for the first sin recording.
“And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” Genesis 3:20

 
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Why isn't credence extended for the possibility that G-d created more than just Adam and Eve?

While The Bible is silent I believe it could be reasonable that G-d did and just didn't have it repeated in scriptures; ...and He created Hosea And Carlita....and He created Leroy and Maxine...and He created Akeno and Chen, etc.

His reference to Adam and Eve was for generic/multiple purposes including a basis for the first sin recording.
Because it's not God's word.
 

Bladerunner

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Why isn't credence extended for the possibility that G-d created more than just Adam and Eve?

While The Bible is silent I believe it could be reasonable that G-d did and just didn't have it repeated in scriptures; ...and He created Hosea And Carlita....and He created Leroy and Maxine...and He created Akeno and Chen, etc.

His reference to Adam and Eve was for generic/multiple purposes including a basis for the first sin recording.

The Bible is not silent..on this subject...Some people are just looking for a way to discredit the Bible. Yes, God made Leroy and Maxine....But Noah's Sons are the causes for the different races of peoples. NOrth and West (Japheth),, South and to middle east (Ham) and East.(SHem)....the Jewish people also have Shem as their ancestor.
 

Zmouth

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“And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” Genesis 3:20
You totally missed it. (See Job 27 & 28)

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding?
Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

Or maybe read Proverbs 23:25

Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.

But then again, as it is written, That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) John 7:39

But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: John 15:26

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

So have you met the Holy Ghost? (See Acts 19:2)

[video=youtube;yzqTFNfeDnE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqTFNfeDnE[/video]​
 

Zmouth

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Because that would take us into the realm of fantasy.
So you are an evolutionist then right? Because a male and female of with the same Dominant and Recessive pigmentation gene cannot produce a child of a different pigmentation is unless they have that Recessive pigmentation gene written withing their chromosomes. Thus, if the pigmentation gene is race [A][a] and the female is race [A][a], the child will be born with the pigmentation gene of [A][a].

While the physical appearance of skin color can vary in all individuals due to environmental conditions, regardless of pigmentation, yet the pigmentation gene a person carries is written from cell fusion and remains the same.

This is the reason the Bible is not written for the flesh but the spirit, since the LORD is the God of all spirits.
 

DiscipleDave

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The Bible does not specifically give us the origin of the different races or skin color in humanity. Even though there is only one race, the human race, within the human race is diversity in physical characteristics and skin color. Some speculate that when God confused the languages at the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9), He also created racial diversity at that time.
i agree with this assessment. i am one that also believes that when God confused the languages to cause this group of people to go that way, and that group of people to go this way, that race was a part of it as well.

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††† In His Holy and Precious Name, Jesus Christ †††

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Magenta

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You totally missed it. (See Job 27 & 28)
None of the Scriptures you gave have any relevance to the matter whatsoever. If you wish to deny that Scripture says Eve is the mother of all living, that is your choice.
 
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joefizz

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The Bible is not silent..on this subject...Some people are just looking for a way to discredit the Bible. Yes, God made Leroy and Maxine....But Noah's Sons are the causes for the different races of peoples. NOrth and West (Japheth),, South and to middle east (Ham) and East.(SHem)....the Jewish people also have Shem as their ancestor.
Ok now two people believe this weirdness?
Why and from what "actual scriptures" do you get this evaluation from?
 
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joefizz

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None of the Scriptures you gave have any relevance to the matter whatsoever. If you wish to deny that Scripture says Eve is the mother of all living, that is your choice.
Yeah really,are there moon spots on the sun again???:confused:
 
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joefizz

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I think I'll hang around in this thread awhile,every once in awhile I like watching "entertainment".
 

Ezekiel8

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Ok now two people believe this weirdness?
Why and from what "actual scriptures" do you get this evaluation from?
Genesis 10.

Which actually reminds me of a pretty pertinent verse at the end of the chapter which pretty conclusively answers the question as to whether or not all the races come from Noah's sons.

Genesis 10:32

[SUP]32 [/SUP]These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
 
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joefizz

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Genesis 10.

Which actually reminds me of a pretty pertinent verse at the end of the chapter which pretty conclusively answers the question as to whether or not all the races come from Noah's sons.

Genesis 10:32

[SUP]32 [/SUP]These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Yeah it's not hard to grasp an answer,but I was talking about the maxine and leroy gibberish...
 

Ezekiel8

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Yeah it's not hard to grasp an answer,but I was talking about the maxine and leroy gibberish...
Oh lol well I guess if I wade into that one then sure God made Maxine and Leroy too, but they are not the patriarchs of any races. Maybe of some modern clans though.
 
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joefizz

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Oh lol well I guess if I wade into that one then sure God made Maxine and Leroy too, but they are not the patriarchs of any races. Maybe of some modern clans though.
No idea,tried doing searches and there is no biblical scriptures about the so called leroy and maxine.