Religious people, how do you explain races?

Religious people =/= Christians. Christians are but one subsect of relgious people.

GQ. Here is something to chew on…If Adam and Eve existed, they were not Caucasian. Pale skin color is not found where Eden is supposed to have been. Attribute the fallicy to art work.

The story of Noah’s Ark was probably the first crack in my belief in Christianity. The people who wrote the Bible didn’t know about other continents. Land split up long before the Bible was written. People weren’t exploring other territories world-wide. They only wrote about what they knew or was passed on to them. It could also be a case of telling stories from a moral aspect.

As for drinking blood, there is a long history in that. I don’t find it cheesy. It is just part of a ritual that lives on today in several sects.

Despite pushing Christianity aside, a copy of the Bible is still kept within hand’s reach and is used regularly. It is a continuing resource for education.

Oh, let me see, THAT STORY IS NOT REAL! Try opening a science book instead of that relic.

I don’t need to explain races, Mr. Charles Darwin did it for me.

I have heard 2 explanations.
The first is that black people were the descendants of Cain.
The second is that black people were the descendants of Ham, Noah’s son, who and whose decendants were cursed to be slaves forever for seeing his wasted angry father naked.

Just because we all came from one couple doesn’t mean we are all alike.
Do you have sisters with different hair color? Or different eye color?
Keep an open mind and try not to automatically rule out whether it fits in the rhelm of possiblities.

@filmfann Actually eve was made from one of admas ribs so has the exact same DNA as adam so the amount of genetic variety is actually very limited. (And as eve has the same chromosomes as adam that would make her a man anyway).

I heard, albeit third hand, that someone who identified herself as a fundamentalist Christian, defended her aversion to immigrants on the basis that the devil caused people to speak “other” sinful languages when funding was lost for the tower of Babel.

Apparently in her world, English is the language of the Bible. Makes sense. That’s what she’s reading.

I think it all just depends on people’s surroundings. If you look, people from one place look specific. Africans, Asians, Caucasions, all come from the same place and look alike. It’s just evolution over time.

Why should I have to explain it? Each of us were made in God’s image. So maybe our many colors are just another example of God’s creativity.

The closest I can come to that is…if I’m not messing up here, anyone with Bible knowledge feel free to correct me. So apparently, people wanted to get to God, and started building the tower of Babel in order to do so. This angered God, who then gave all the humans different languages, so they couldn’t communicate with each other anymore, therefore greatly disrupting the construction of Babel. Everyone just left and became a country somewhere, leaving the tower abandoned. (I kinda recall God breaking it too, but I don’t remmeber)
I guess this explains more why different languages exist rather than races…but I’m not religious nor am I trying to explain anything. But I always thought it was an interesting story, although it’s been a hell of a long time since I heard it.

The premise is wrong. Adam and Eve were not the first people.

Adam and Eve were probably not caucasion.

There is no such race as African-American except in the minds of Black Americans. Black Africans do not recognize them. They are just more rich Americans as far as Black Africans are concerned. My son traveled in and worked with 17 different African nations.

I prefer to think of them as Americans.

In the bible it says Adam and Eve where the first humans, but it doesn’t say they were the only humans ever created. Cain got a wife. So that means there had to be other people who were not desendents of Adam and Eve. Or it would’ve said he married his sister.