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Bible Question:
I
would like to know how the different races came about.
Bible Answer: After
the Genesis flood, Noah and his sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth)
left the ark and started populating the world (Genesis 9:18-19).
They would have had the same skin color since they had the same
parents. At the Tower of Babel, God performed a miracle. This
is where different races, cultures and languages were started
(Genesis 11:1-9). We are not sure why the people were attempting
to build a tower that would "reach into heaven" (Gen.
11:4). God allowed them to start building. At a certain point
He stopped them, scattered them to different parts of the world
and confused their language.
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Therefore
its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused
the language of the whole earth; and from there the
LORD scattered them abroad over the face of the whole
earth. (NASB) Genesis 11:9 |
People
could no longer talk to one another. They were segregated by
language and scattered to different parts of the world (Gen.
11:9). At this point the different races became a reality.
Conclusion: It
is interesting to note that scripture does not talk about races
in term of skin color. That seems to not be important. In fact,
scripture never anywhere mentions skin color. Scripture is color
blind, and we should be too. One of the great sins of our time
is that some of us have eyes that see skin color everywhere
they look. Praise the Lord! Scripture is color blind. |
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