Chapter 9.1
The Races
Where did the Races come from? – Two Creations
accounts in Genesis – DNA
The Races of Cain – The Races of Noah’s Ark –
Races of the Tower of Babel
First
Word
Anthropologists classify people into racial
groups, such as the Caucasoid (European or “white”), the Mongoloid (Chinese, Eskimo and Native Americans), the Negroid
(black Africans), and the Australoid (Australian Aborigines) and there may
be many different sub-groups within each classification.
I knew nothing about racism until I got to
high school when someone called me a “JEW.” I
responded that “I
wish I was a Jew; Jesus was a Jew”. I thought everybody would want to be a Jew; being
raised in a “practicing” Christian household, I just didn’t get it.
The Story of “the Good Samaritan” shows we should RESPECT people from
different regions, nationalities and racial background even if some are thought
to be the enemy. The end of the Good
Samaritan story brings HELP and COMPASSION and Jesus ends by telling us as followers
to
“Go and Do likewise”.
There are a number of teachings exploring
how the races came about which all but for one is in ERROR. Here are a few; 1) God
made the races in Genesis in the first creation account. 2) The races came
because of a curse on Cain. 3) Noah’s three sons had married women from the other
nations. 4) The races came about at the confusion of the
languages at the Tower of Babel.
I want to take all these apart so that when I
tell you the answer, YOU WILL BELIEVE IT.
#1 Races Created in Genesis
Some students of the Word believe that there are two accounts of creation in Genesis and in the
first account, all the nations or races of the world were created. This Two creation doctrine or theory has been
put forth most prominently by Pastor Arnold
Murray of the Shepherd’s Chapel.
There are two accounts of creation in Genesis with notable glaring differences between Chapter
ONE and that of Chapter TWO; namely the conflicting ORDER of
events.
Chapter 1 - First Adam – God CREATED the Animals FIRST then created Adam
SECOND. In this first creation all of
the non-white races were created.
Chapter 2 - Second Adam – The LORD God FORMED Adam FIRST,
then Animals SECOND. In
this second creation, Murray says the Anglo-Saxon or white race was formed.
Genesis 1:1-25 we find recorded the
accounts of the first FIVE DAYS of creation.
Genesis 1:26 on the SIXTH DAY God
created the FIRST Adam; meaning man or mankind
or human beings, depending on which
translation of the Book that you are using.
Genesis
2:1-3 –
The Book says God COMPLETED
His creation work by the sixth day and then on
the SEVENTH DAY He rested as His CREATION was FINISHED.
Genesis 2:4 - After the seven days of creation we find in the very next few verses that God then FORMED a SECOND
Adam from the dirt and then made Eve from one of Adam’s ribs and then prepared a
Garden for them to live in east of Eden.
Genesis 1:26 – States that God
created man both Male and Female.
Genesis 1:27 - Speaks of man with the
term “Eth Ha
Adam” meaning “these specific men”.
1st Creation Account all the races (according to Arnold Murray’s Belief
System)
In this First account; it’s about God’s
re-creation of the earth. God created
animals first then He created man both male and female at the same time.
(Bi-sexual)
Genesis 1:11 God brought forth seed bearing plants and fruit trees.
Genesis 1:20 God brought forth every kind of bird, fish and the great sea creatures.
Genesis 1:24 God brought forth small animals, livestock and wild animals.
Genesis 1:26 God made mankind (Adam), “Man” does NOT have the article “Eth”, making the
word “Adam” refer to not a specific man,
but to ALL THE RACES OF PEOPLE or NATIONS.
Genesis 1:27 is about a group of
people outside of the garden, before Adam was created both male and female.
The Hebrew word “Create” is used to
simply mean create.…
Genesis 1:28 EVERYTHING could be eaten, including the fish of the sea; there is no mention of
the forbidden Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Genesis 1:29 NOTE; these FIRST mankind were FISHERMEN and HUNTERS of birds and small animals and GATHERS of fruits and seed
bearing plants for food. – Hold that
thought -
Genesis 1:11-29 - First Creation Account: the
RACES; NATIONS
11 Then God said, “Let the land sprout with
vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing
fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which
they came.” And that is what happened.
12 THE
LAND PRODUCED VEGETATION—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and
trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the
same kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 And evening
passed and morning came, marking the third day.
19 And evening
passed and morning came, marking the fourth day.
20 Then God said,
“LET THE
WATERS SWARM WITH FISH and other life. Let the
skies be filled with birds of every kind.”
22 Then God
blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the fish fill the seas,
and LET THE BIRDS MULTIPLY ON THE EARTH.”
23 And evening passed and morning came, marking the fifth day.
24 Then God said,
“LET THE
EARTH PRODUCE EVERY SORT OF ANIMAL, each producing offspring of the same
kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.”
And that is what happened. God made all sorts of
25 WILD ANIMALS, LIVESTOCK, AND SMALL
ANIMALS, each
able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God said
26 LET US MAKE HUMAN BEINGS IN OUR IMAGE, to be like ourselves.
They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock,
all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the
ground.”
27 So GOD CREATED HUMAN BEINGS IN HIS OWN IMAGE. In the image of God he
created them;
male
and female he created them.
28 Then God blessed
them and said, “BE
FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the
sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
29 Then God said,
“Look!
I
HAVE GIVEN YOU EVERY
SEED-BEARING PLANT throughout the earth and ALL THE FRUIT TREES FOR YOUR FOOD.
2nd
Creation Account Adam and Eve (according to Arnold Murray’s Belief
System)
STRONG’S CONCORDANCE. “Adam”;
the Hebrew word meaning man, any man, mankind, men. “Eth Ha Adam” means a particular man Adam. Generally “Eth”
is used to point out a definite object.
In this case this is the specific sinless Adam, the bloodline that runs through King David’s genealogy down to Jesus the
Messiah.
The second creation scripture says formed, not created. The
meaning of the Hebrew word “Form”, is to
mold into a form, especially as a Potter. In this account, man was formed first,
then woman and then the animals which is opposite from the first account. It goes on to say that God created the birds
of the air, but in the first account God had already created them. Murray says this
has be a different Adam.
Genesis 2:5 until this time there
were no plants nor people to cultivate the soil.
Genesis 2:7 God formed Adam (Eth
Ha Adam) from the dust of the ground
Genesis 2:8 God made a garden and placed this second Adam into it.
Genesis 2:15 NOTE this specific man was a FARMER whose job was to tend to the Garden.
Genesis 2:18 God formed the farm livestock and animals and took
them to Adam to name.
Genesis 2:22 God made a woman from one of Adam’s rib. Now we have male
and female.
DID YOU SEE IT? In the First
Account, “man” was FISHERMEN,
HUNTERS and GATHERERS, in the second account “man” was a FARMER. Sounds
like two different “Adams” doesn’t it.
Genesis 2:5-22 - Second Creation Account;
ADAM and EVE
5 NEITHER
WILD PLANTS NOR GRAINS
WERE
GROWING ON THE EARTH. The LORD
God had not yet sent rain to water the earth, and there were no people to
cultivate the soil.
7 Then THE
LORD GOD FORMED THE MAN FROM
THE DUST of
the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man
became a living person.
8 Then the LORD God planted a garden in Eden in the
east, and there he placed the man he had made.
15 The LORD GOD PLACED THE MAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN to tend and watch over it.
16 But the LORD God warned him, “You may freely eat
the fruit of every tree in the garden—
17 except THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD
AND EVIL. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.”
18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the
man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
19 So the LORD GOD FORMED from
the ground all the
WILD
ANIMALS and all the BIRDS of the sky. He
brought them to the man to see what he would call them, and the man chose a
name for each one.
20 He gave names to
all the LIVESTOCK,
all the BIRDS
of the sky, and all the WILD
ANIMALS. But still there was no helper just right for
him.
21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a
deep sleep. While the man slept, the LORD
God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening.
22 THEN THE LORD GOD MADE A WOMAN FROM THE RIB, and he brought
her to the man. (NLT)
Races
of Genesis Conclusion. According to my BS, my Belief System
The First book of the Bible Genesis, has the same thing going on in two different
chapters; in chapter one, the BROAD
PICTURE IS PAINTED for us to see and then we are
brought back in chapter two where the FINE DETAILS of the PICTURE IS OVERLAID on the scene that has
already been painted, but in reverse order.
In the FIRST account the
descriptions of creation are looking forward
in time.
In the SECOND account the
descriptions are reversed looking backward
in time. That’s why the order of things
seem to conflict with each other. This “LOOKING BACK” reversal concept can be found in operation in other passages of the Bible.
The FIRST account is speaking of
man in general, “Adam”, painting the
BROAD picture and focuses on the development of heaven and earth
The SECOND account is addressing
the FINE DETAILS of the specific
man, “Eth Ha
Adam”, adding in the details and focuses on the development of man. There were NOT two creations in
Genesis, nor were there other races or nations created before Adam and Eve; the
two accounts are both the same picture overlaid on top of each other,[1]
but now painted in ULTRA HIGH
DEFINITION COLOR and 7.2 surround
sound audio.
HOWEVER THERE ARE TWO ADAMS; Jesus the Christ can
be traced back umbilical cord to umbilical cord to the
First Adam; Jesus Christ is the
Second Adam. In the First Adam
of the Old Testament, all come that are physically born of woman;[2]
in the Second Adam “JESUS” of the New Testament, all come
that are spiritually born of the spirit.[3]
God makes it clear for us in the New Testament; from
ONE man God created all the nations and races throughout the whole earth
and Eve is the mother of ALL who live; we all belong to Adam and Eve. [4]
BAM; There
were NOT two creations in Genesis, but two pictures of the same creation.
#2 Races of Cain
There is a teaching in ERROR that Cain was
turned BLACK by God for killing his
brother Abel. This was the first murder recorded in history; the
boys were not kids, but were full grown married men, and there were lots of brothers
and sisters and families. It would be
Cain’s fellow kinsmen that would want to avenge the murder of their relative Abel. The
atonement for MURDER was the
shedding of Cain’s
own blood. Cain was a dead man walking.
After Cain killed Abel, he did not say his iniquity was too great to
forgive, he said his punishment was too great to bear. Cain had No cry
of remorse, No cry of repentance, No cry for a pardon.
God marks Cain so no one would
try to kill him. WHAT WAS THE MARK? What if God marked Cain by making him a GIANT 9 feet tall? Some students say that Cain was marked with a
TATTOO, others; a disease of the mind, LUNACY, a maniac or perhaps he was CURSED with splotches of white; as struck with LEPROSY. Some students
say God turned
Cain Black. Why do we assume that Adam and Eve were white?
What if Cain was already BLACK and God turned him “a never
seen before” Albino WHITE, scaring the
tater tots out of anyone who saw him?
Understand this; Cain called out
to God for mercy. It was God’s compassion that Cain received “THE MARK” instead of DEATH.[5] Bloodshed pollutes the land. In my BS, my Belief System, I
see
God’s mark on the 144,000 Jews[6] as the seal of the living God signifying His OWNERSHIP and guarantee of their PROTECTION; I believe it was the same for Cain.
God’s mark on Cain was the seal of
the living God signifying His OWNERSHIP of Cain and his
guarantee of PROTECTION. God chose to NOT tell us how He marked Cain; but He did tell us THE MARK was of His mercy and love, NOT hate. Understand
this, Death is the prerogative of God alone.
To say that God, AS A CURSE, made Cain “BLACK” is allowing Satan to drive a wedge between the
races. Satan did the same thing with the
Jews and the Gentiles. Hate is sin and
gives a foothold for Satan in your life. THE MARK was NOT a CURSE,
but a SEAL
of protection. THE MARK of the seal
was ON THE MAN CAIN and NOT ON “A
PEOPLE.”
Then Cain went out of the Lord’s presence; NOTE; Cain separated
himself from God and there is no record that he ever came back.
BAM: The different skin colors of the NATIONS or RACES did not originate with Cain!
Genesis 4:12-14 – Cain said Abel’s
relatives would kill him
12 When you work the ground, it
shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
13 Cain said to the LORD,
“MY
PUNISHMENT IS GREATER THAN I CAN BEAR.
14 Behold, you have driven me today
away from the ground, and from your face I shall be hidden. I shall be a
fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and WHOEVER
FINDS ME WILL KILL ME.”
(ESV)
Genesis
4:15 – God’s
compassion marked Cain to protect him.
15 The LORD replied, “No, for I will give a sevenfold
punishment to anyone who kills you.” Then the LORD put a MARK on Cain to WARN anyone who might try to kill him.
(NLT)
#3 Races of Noah
Many
students
of the Word BS, Belief System is that the people groups or races came
from Noah’s three sons that had taken wives from other nations before the
flood; my BS
agrees, but hang on. Noah was the second great
progenitor of the human race, with Adam being the first. Noah was uniquely righteous; he believed God
and obeyed according to all that God had commanded. God commanded him to
re-populate the earth just as He did Adam.[7] God entered into a covenant with Noah’s
family of eight.[8]
Noah
had three sons born about a year apart.[9]
Shem
was born when Noah was 502; Shem would produce the Godly line of Abraham
and is the progenitor of the “Semitic” peoples of the East. (White)
Japheth is listed as the
middle son, who we believe was born when Noah was 503 and his descendants are
the inhabitants of Asia Minor and the sea people. (Yellow)
Ham his youngest son
was born when Noah was 504, about 24 years after Noah started the Ark building
project. Hams descendants would be “Egypt”
who would enslave the Israelites. His descendants became the Egyptians,
Canaanites and Africans. (Black)
Did you see it;
slavery was FIRST introduced by the Black
Egyptians, that for some 400 years enslaved
the White Israelites and that’s what
the Exodus was about.
Hold on to these thoughts
they will plug into the puzzle that is
yet to come.
#4
Races Tower of Babel
God’s instructions to Adam and Eve was to MULTIPLY and to fill the earth, this was also
extended to Noah and on more than
one occasion He COMMANDED them to BE FRUITFUL and FILL THE EARTH with a people that knew the Lord.
After the flood, the descendants of Noah, INSTEAD of
moving out and filling the earth, they migrated towards a place called BABEL
and there they concentrated their efforts to make a name for themselves and
build a tower that would be tall enough to keep them from ever drowning again
if a flood happened, plus it would be a good place to observe the stars and
worship their growing list of gods.
As a consequence
God confused their language so that they could not easily mix together except
within their own PEOPLE GROUP which FINALLY migrated to
fill the earth[10]
as was commanded by God in the very
beginning.[11]
The people grouped by language now became isolated
from the other people groups; marrying and having offspring primarily within
their own people group and developing their own culture.[12] Being genetically isolated over time, certain
physical traits became more prominent in each people group.
BAM: Hold
on to this thought;
Language does not determine skin color,
but it is another piece of the race puzzle.
#5
Races DNA Hereditary
DNA is the human blueprint written in a
very long chemical string language code. As people reproduce, the information
is copied generation to generation. DNA
has the information already present that determines and specifies that we will
be a human rather than an animal or vegetable, it also specifies how a person
will be built, not only the color of our EYES and the shape of our NOSE, but the length
of our LEGS, whether we will
be short or tall.
Genes come in pairs, two chains of DNA
that twist around each other forming a DNA double helix. When an egg has just been fertilized; one half
of the gene information comes from the sperm
of the FATHER the other half comes from the egg of the MOTHER; two sets of code instruction.
If a damaged gene is inherited from one parent
that might instruct your cells to produce a defective gene, it is most probable
that the second chain from the other parent would fill in the damaged cell and
continue to give the right instructions to the DNA.
Melanin, Eumelanin
and Pheomelanin
Everyone has melanin, the coloring
pigment that is in their skin. Melanin is the primary determinant of skin color as found in humans.
Melanin is a dark-brownish pigment that is produced in the cells of our
skin in different amounts. Some humans
have very little or no melanin synthesis in their bodies resulting in very
white or pink skin, a condition known as ALBINISM; they are
referred to as ALBINOS.
If we produce just a little Melanin we would be known as European WHITE and if we produced a lot of Melanin, our
skin would be very dark and we would be known as BLACK. Then there are certainly many shades in
between; so skin color is produced mainly from Melanin.
So when we speak
of color it is in relation to the different shades of ONE COLOR, Melanin.
There are two forms of melanin
1)
Eumelanin which is brown
to black in skin tone and
2)
Pheomelanin which is red to
yellow in skin tone depending on their proportion.
Pheomelanins impart a pink to
red hue, depending upon the concentration.
Pheomelanins are particularly concentrated in the lips, nipples, glans of the penis, and vagina. When a small amount of brown eumelanin in
hair, which would otherwise cause blond hair, is mixed with red pheomelanin,
the result is orange hair, which is typically called "red hair". Pheomelanin is also present in THE SKIN, and redheads consequently often have a more
pinkish hue to their skin as well. (Wikipedia)
Melanin
is found
in hair,
and in the pigmented tissue underlying the iris of the eye. Some DNA genetic traits
are instantly visible, such as the eye color; interestingly, the Asian and
Caucasian eye both have FAT around them, but the typical Caucasian eye
has less fat surrounding it than the Asian eye which has much more, causing
their eye to have a more almond appearance.
Melanogenesis which causes the skin to darken, is initiated by exposure to UV radiation. Melanin is an effective absorbent of light;
the pigment is able to dissipate over 99.9%
of absorbed UV
radiation. Because of this property,
melanin is thought to protect skin cells from UVB radiation damage. People who live near the equator need darker
skin to help protect them from the intense sunlight. The darker skin significantly lowers their
risk of getting skin
cancer, whereas people that live in higher latitudes have lighter
skin because there is less intense sunlight.
Those who STAY in their
perspective regions REPRODUCE these same characteristics.
The various isolated people groups over
the generations would have developed certain characteristics that distinguished
them from other people groups such as straight of curly hair, thick or thin lips. You will find that favorable characteristics would be advanced in the gene pool while
the less favorable characteristics would tend to fade away.
If a very black person
marries someone that is very white, their offspring will be mid-brown;
known as mulattos.
When two mulattos marry each other, their
child can virtually be ANY “color,” from very light to very dark.
We
are not genetically born with a FIXED amount of melanin, but a
genetically fixed potential to produce a certain amount; this
amount increases as we are exposed to sunlight.
Did you see it? Adam and Eve
were created fully grown and were most probably created with a middle brown mulatto’s
skin color. Eve was taken directly from
Adam, so she would have EXACTLY the same skin color as Adam. This means that their many descendants would
have the widest range of skin color variation from the very lightest to the
very darkest.
BAM - There you have it;
All the people
groups in the whole world came from Adam and Eve.
Red, Yellow,
Black and White, they are all precious in His sight,
Jesus loves the
little children of the World.
The
Take Away
The Book distinguishes people by tribal or
national groupings and languages with no emphasis on skin color or physical
appearance, however there are groups of people who have different skin color in
common that does distinguish them from all the others.
The actual differences between the various races is very small, but the
most noticeable difference is the skin color.
Jesus was likely neither black nor
white, but somewhere in between, perhaps olive in complexion as was the
Hebrews.
The Big Question; WHICH RACE DID CHRIST DIE FOR? The Book says
we are all of ONE BLOOD even though there are certainly ethnic and
cultural heritages that we can celebrate and honor.
The New Testament speaks of three
people groups;
1)
The
Jews who
were born within Jewish families,
2)
The
Gentiles (Greeks) who were born
outside of Jewish families and
3)
The
Church; those who are Re-born through their Faith in Jesus Christ which
includes both Jews AND Gentiles of
every nation, language and COLOR.
The Book teaches us that
all human flesh comes from a solitary single human couple, [13]Adam[14]
and Eve[15],
who were created by God himself. The
Apostle Paul said that “FROM ONE MAN GOD CREATED ALL THE NATIONS throughout the
whole earth”,[16]
all men are of ONE BLOOD.
Everyone
descended from Adam and Eve who in the very beginning rebelled against God and
brought the curse of sin into the world SEPARATING us from God. We inherited that curse which is DEATH.
God sent His son into the world to provide THE WAY[17] back to Him so that we could defeat death. God has NOT provided any other way!
As a student of the Word; in my BS, I
have NOT found ONE single passage
where pigmentation is used as a distinction between the races; red, yellow,
black or white. There is only one race
and that is the human race. It’s in the Book
We will NOT be judged on the SINS of our parents,
nor will we be saved by our parents FAITH.
Our Salvation is based solely on our own personal belief and acceptance
of Jesus Christ as our Savior and Redeemer, regardless of skin color.[18] Jesus died and paid the price for our
redemption at the cross so that WHO-SO-EVER would
believe might be saved. [19]
The choices we make on this side of life have eternal consequences.
IT’S IN THE BOOK
[1] Romans 10:12 – There is no distinction made between anybody
[2] Acts 17:26 - He has made from ONE BLOOD EVERY
NATION OF MEN
[3] Galatians 3:28 – There is neither Jew
nor Greek, for you are all one in Christ Jesus
[4] Genesis 1:26-27 – God created man in his
own image; male and female he created them
[5] Genesis
4:15-16 – God’s mercy put a mark on Cain to protect his life then CAIN WENT OUT
FROM THE LORD'S PRESENCE
[6] Revelation 7:4-8 – God
marked 144,000 JEWS
for
protection - Revelation 7:2-3 – The
Angel of THE LIVING GOD PUT A SEAL ON THE FOREHEADS OF THE SERVANTS
[7] Genesis 1:28 – ADAM command; be fruitful,
multiply, fill the earth -- Genesis 9:1 – NOAH
command; be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth
[8] Genesis 6:18 – God
established His covenant with 8 people
-- Genesis 7:7 – Only eight people on the Ark; NOAH and HIS SONS and his WIFE and his SONS' WIVES
[9] Genesis 6:9-10 – Noah had
three sons SHEM, HAM and JAPHETH
[11] Isaiah 11:9 – Prophecy; earth filled with people that know God -- Isaiah 27:6 – Prophecy; Jacobs descendants
will fill the earth
[12] Jeremiah 23:24 – It is God that fills the earth with His people
[13] Acts 17:26 - All the races came from Adam and Eve -- Genesis 1:27 – God
created humans male and female in His image
[14] Genesis 2:7 – God formed the first man from the dust
[15] Genesis 2:21-23 – God made the first woman from the rib of the first man
[16] Acts 17:26 – HE HAS MADE FROM ONE BLOOD EVERY NATION OF MEN
[17] John 14:6 – Jesus Christ is the ONLY WAY back to the Father
[18] 1 Corinthians 15:22 – EVERYONE DIES BECAUSE WE ALL BELONG TO
ADAM, EVERYONE WHO BELONGS TO CHRIST WILL BE GIVEN NEW LIFE
[19] John 3:16-17 – Who-So-Ever believes in Jesus Christ will have eternal
life
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