For those Christians who believe in the historical
reality of Adam and Eve, or that God created all humanity from only one
original couple, this question comes to mind eventually.
Liberal theologians, who believe in divinely
induced evolution, would answer that God created several human couples at the
same time, of different races, which later, through intermixing and habitat
conditioning, changed even further through natural causes into the different
races we have today. This may seem a good answer, but it clashes with the
principle of Original Sin professed by Christianity.
If God would have created several human couples to
start the human proliferation on the planet, the fall of one of them into sin,
would not have affected the rest of them who were not their direct descend, and
would contradict the teaching of Scripture that says:
“From
one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth”
(Acts 17:26)
And also:
“Therefore,
just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so
death spread to all men because all sinned”
(Romans 5:12)
So, if indeed God created all humanity from one
original couple, how did races develop?
HOW
For the development of different human races within
the human species, it was necessary that Adam and Eve carried within their
genes, all the characteristics of three main human races, from which all other
variants later appeared: Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid.
Before the Great Flood, these racial
characteristics must have developed further as people started to intermarry with
different degrees of these racial variants in themselves. By Noah’s time, the
racial variants may have become more evident, and thus were transmitted to the
rest of humanity, especially if we considered that by that time, Noah, his
wife, sons and their wives may have been all of marked racial variants
themselves.
After the Tower of Babel, as God intended humans
to separate and travel the planet, it is not surprising that as He confused the
language of a single human nation for this purpose, God may as well have accelerated
the racial dissemination natural process. When humans became separated from
each other by languages, and these major groups into minor tribes according to
families, this segregation caused naturally the isolation of the genetic racial
features of these sub groups, and through further intermixing within
sub-groups, the racial genotype of these human groups became clearly distinct
as we have today.
Omar Flores.
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