I would hate for any child to have this question go unanswered! There is an answer - which is, as I said: we don’t know and it doesn’t matter. But if I had to guess, I’d guess Adam and Eve looked more like Hebrews, Jews, than they did Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but that’s just a personal assumption. We’re all human from the same source, with the same Creator.
Who is to say what color skin Adam and Eve had? The Bible doesn’t say - it simply doesn’t matter. We had the beginnings of races and nations. The ‘hidden’ genetics in these people became predominate and as a result, skin tone and shades emerged, as eye and hair color, etc. So it is not a stretch to understand that God placed specific genes within his creation - genes which would become predominate after these people grouped together, made homes, lives and started to marry. As believers, we surely realize that God foresaw this event (He is Omnipotent and All Knowing -Omniscience, if you believe the Bible). So we have the human race divided, by God, according to different languages. and then He “scattered” them throughout the world. They then divided themselves up according to what they could ‘understand’. God “confused” the language of the people and thus, they were divided up according to language. The tower of Babel (which we know God saw as evil) was the beginning of races, ethnicities. That tells us they were likely AaBb and who’s children would easily very skin tone, giving the world the lovely variety we now have… and yet, all related. And equally, if they had been aabb, the world would be much lighter skinned people. If their genes had been AABB, the world would be populated with dark skin people. And we can believe that He placed the varying genetics within each person for all skin tones.Įve was created from Adam and thus is genes. If we believe it is the inerrant Word, then we must surely believe God knew the history to come. If we believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, we know that we all came from Adam and Eve. The answer is: we don’t know exactly color their skin was, although most likely and factually, they were a mid tone. The author asked why the child thought they were white and the boy’s answer was, that was what he always saw in Bible story books.īeing white myself, that was something I never really dwelt upon! Good call, kid!īut, take heart, there is a reasonable answer and not one which should make anyone feel “inferior” as the author pondered. “Out of the mouths of babe’s….” as the saying goes.
I recently read a story in a Christian publication in which a 7 year old (*African American) boy asked a provocative question: “Since Adam and Eve were white, where did black people come from?”
“Since Adam And Eve Were White, Where Did Black People Come From”? He Asked
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