What is the biblical perspective on the origin of different races?
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God has made of ONE blood ALL Nations of Men\n\nActs 17:26And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation (Gen.11:8-9 below):\n\n\nI believe that when the Lord confounded the language at the Tower of Babel (Gen.11:1-9 below),  what also  accompanied the confounding of the language would have been that with the many languages that were given, the skin pigmentation and features of the people changed according to the languages given, so that when the people were scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth (Gen.11:8-9 below), the skin pigmentation/features went with them to their respective regions of the earth?\n\nGen.11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.\n\nGen.11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.\n\nGen.11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.\n\nGen.11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.\n\nGen.11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.\n\nGen.11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.\n\nGen.11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language (Gen.11:9 below), that they may not understand one another's speech.\n\nGen.11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of ALL the earth (Gen.11:9 below): and they left off to build the city.\n\nGen.11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth (Gen.11:7 above): and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of ALL the earth (Acts 17:26 above).\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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First, race does not exist.  It is a made-up term, originating as pseudo-science in the early 1900's as an excuse to keep the European/American upper class white people in control of most governments.  Studied far closer after WWII, race has been found to be non-existent - the only biological differences between 'colors' are the levels of melanin present in the skin.  Otherwise, there are no biological differences at all.  Our ethnicities and religious beliefs are really what seperates us, the "us" and "them".  Now, there are certain genes that frequent different geographical areas:  for example, sickle-cell anemia gene is far more prevalent within Africans, but as a heterozygote (that is, one parent gives the gene FOR and one 'not FOR') these Africans are protected from malaria!  Amazing what the human body will do, what it will adapt to!
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African.\n\nThe human race evolved in East Africa.
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No one knows when, where or how human life began on this planet. It's all speculation. Some of the theories are based on scientific evidence, but everyone knows that they are just possible scenarios and full of gaps.\nSomeone lied to you by saying that "white people were allways apriciated" and that "black people...were the "sclaves" of white people. It just nonsense that racists use to assert that black people are sub-human or animals. \nIf you believe that Adam and Eve were the first humans ever, and that God created them, and we are all direct descendants, and no other humans can or have ever existed on this planet; then you're basically screwed because nothing in life will ever make sense.
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Does the Bible state certain people should not exist?\n\nSatan is brilliant when it comes to orchestrating deception. He has managed to persuade people to make problems when there need be none. No more effectively has He did this than with "race." Satan has deceived people into making "race" a problem by simply defining it as one. The premise usually goes something like this: "God never intended the mixing of the races." The inference is that there are four distinct races and that being in any group other than one of those distinct four "races" constitutes a genetic and aesthetic disadvantage. A person (influenced by Satan) makes the statement, convinces himself that it represents God's point of view and then connects "imagined" negative consequence to what he despairingly terms "race mixing." Since God is supposedly behind the argument, if you or I disagree with the premise, we are disagreeing with God! Who would dare disagree with God? Of course the Bible points out that many will come in Christ's name saying Christ is the Christ and deceive many (Matt. 24:4-5). And, they will kill you and think they do God a service. So, we had better ask ourselves if these ideas really represent God? \n\nThe holder of the argument goes about gathering "data" to support his premise. He usually finds what He is looking for. If evidence doesn't exist he can always "define" it into existence. "Look at the 'race' riots. Look at the 'racial' problems that exist all around the world. Blacks kill whites and whites kill blacks. Therefore, there is a race problem." The average non-thinking person usually swallows this argument. However, if it was pointed out that "blacks" kill "blacks" and "whites" kill "whites" that might infer that "race" was not the causative factor. Killing and hatred are not confined to "racial types." Japanese kill Japanese as do Germans kill Germans. Hatred it seems is not the exclusive domain of "race." Cain killed Abel. What did that have to do with "race?"
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there's a passgae in the bible that says "do not be unequally yoked together" (a yoke of oxen=2 oxen that are held together by a wooden harness.  There are some far right wing churches that would translate that to the point of races, when it actually continues to read "with unbelievers". The new testament doesn't really address inter racial marriage to my knowledge.\n\nIn the old testament there are several places that strictly forbid the Isrealites from marrying outside of their race, this was more of a religous reason than anything though.\n\nMost modern churches are very accepting of interracial marriages.
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If marrying outside your race was wrong, then Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, Esther, Samson to name the majors would all be found guilty. God so loved the "world" that He gave His only Son. It didn't say God so loved the whites only, the chinese only, or what have you. God created blacks and other nationalities in His image and likeness and God said it was good. It's not the color of your skin you should be concerned with, it's the contents and issues in your heart coming out of your mouth. So we might as well get over any inner racist feelings that are rooted down in there because you will have a big problem in God's kingdom where there are multicultures and mixed babies and people all in Christ, made in His image.
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It depends on what you mean by the origins.  There is the religious perspective (based on belief) and the would-be factual perspective (except there's also no actual proof).\n\nAccording to the Jewish and Christian Bibles (some of this is similar in the Koran), Jews began as a people with Abraham, whose son Isaac and grandson Jacob continued the tradition that eventually led to the Jewish people.  Jacob had 12 sons who became the 12 tribes.  Moses was the primary prophet, who led them out of slavery in Egypt to eventually settle the land of Israel.\n\nSome archeologists believe that there is evidence that a number of (possibly 12) different social groups combined to form the Jewish people and that the Biblical record is man-made.\n\nChristianity was founded by followers of a then-prominent Jew about 2000 years ago named Jesus.  There is some scientific evidence of his actually having lived, but it is not definitive; again, it is a belief.  Christians believe that their religion exists to replace and complete Judaism.\n\nIslam grew out of the teachings of the Moslem prophet Mohammed (different spellings exist).  His writings, inspired by God, became the Koran (ditto).  Moslems believe that theirs is the final religion, the culmination of the religions that came before it (Judaism and Christianity).
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I personally do not do not think God wants us to keep to or own color or race, after all we are all Gods children! I believe god is more concerned with the spiritual than the physical. What bothers me is when the children of mixed races get the brunt of racism or that they may be torn to decide what race they belong to and therefore feel ostracized by both. This is so sad.
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Christ started the entire charistian religous adventure. Would it be fair to say the Christianity is a religion and a race. A race that is poulated by blood descendants of jesus? Unlikely.\n\nOr, the first jew was Abraham who took the commandment from God outside of the cty of Ur, check out the old testament for this. Before that Abraqham was not a Jew, just like Christ was Jewish befor he converted to Christianity by his death by some charistians account. Therefore the only true members of the Jewish race would be blood descendants of Abraham. Again not a likely defintion or race event.\n\nBut to be precise here is the definition of race(noun)\na group of persons related by common descent or heredity.  \n2. a population so related.  \n3. Anthropology. a. any of the traditional divisions of humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics: no longer in technical use.  \nb. an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, esp. formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.  \nc. a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.  \n \n4. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.  \n5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.: the Dutch race.  \n6. the human race or family; humankind: Nuclear weapons pose a threat to the race.  \n7. Zoology. a variety; subspecies.  \n8. a natural kind of living creature: the race of fishes.  \n9. any group, class, or kind, esp. of persons: Journalists are an interesting race.  \n\nThe only definitions for race that come close are"\n 4. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.  \n5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc.: the Dutch race\n\nJews may or may not have developed from a common tribe or ethnic stock. If you believe they did, the 12 tribes of Israel...then Yes Jews are a race.\n\nIf you believe that jews are united by a common history...you are making a wek argumenbt as Jews can be found in many countries and cultures are are unrelated by a common history, language or culture.\n\nNo...jews only have a religion in common. They are a very diverse froup of individuals spread arounfd the world living within cultures and speaking diverse languages so they are not tryuly a race as such.
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I not know about a race, but most religions have simlar values and moral beliefs.  The might seem different but if you boil them down to their basics they are basically the same thing. So if God had a race he would have won a long time ago.
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When you trace Virgin Marry genealogy, you'll find that she's a descendant of Shem (son of Noah). Shem is the father of the Semitic races (Arabs, Hebrew & Persians).\n\nBlacks are descendants of Ham son of Noah, actually his name (Ham) means hot, burnt or dark. In Anthropology, Ham is known as father of the Mongoloid and Negroid races (Hamites).\n\nJapheth whose name means opened, enlarged, fair or light is known as father of the Caucasoid/Indo-Europoid, Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, or Indo-Aryan races (Japhethites).  \n\nSo Jesus (pbuh) was Semitic, neither Cucasian nor Black.
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Will come from Space with an alien race that will claim to have created us. Actually that alien race with their leader "satan" is the 1/3 of the fallen angels that rebelled against God.
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The Bible was written by ancient people who didn't have a clue as to what was going on in the world that they lived in. So now religion makes up excuses for the mistakes in the Bible (the Word of God).If we all came from Adam & Eve where did Black , Chinese, Hispanic Aborigines or other races come from. In college I was told to believe that Black people were the first race . I asked the professor where did Chinese people come from  The professor ( a Black woman) said that they came from the original black people. I asked, "Have you ever heard of a Black family that over the generations have  become Chinese?"  Don't believe everything that's in the bible because there are many mistakes that religions try to ignore.
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There was an interesting documentary on this a few days ago on Discovery Times on cable I watched the other day that explains it to my satisfaction at the time......When Adam and Eve were forged by God and cast out of the Garden of Eden and Cain and Able were born it is theorized there were other tribal humans living outside the Garden of Eden and when the groups intermixed the "Holy" families were born under one bloodline......Those folks were of somewhat African and Middle Eastern ancestry in the countries we know of as today.........And hence the variety of complexions in the human race today as we know it
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There is a story in the bible (forgive me b/c I forget which book it is in) but it talks about why God created different languages & why he set apart different people. It talks about race & how it was not something that was created but something that the world & the environment around us has evolved.  That is why people closer to the equater have darker skin & those farther away have lighter skin, etc.. It explains all of that so keep reading.. You'll get there.. Oh yeah & dinosaurs are in the bible as well.. Trust me..
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thats funny. but the truth of the matter is that jews are decended of the Isralites that lived in biblical israel over 2000 years ago and the father of both jews and most arabs is the Abraham of the bible. Both are refered to as semitic peoples. they are from the area but they are two compleatly different peoples.