7 Deadly Questions Question 5.

Question 5 Acts 17:26, Genesis 11:9 Did God color me?       

Race is a wall we build to keep others away!

“That is why the city was called Babel, because that is where the LORD confused the people with different languages. In this way he scattered them all over the world.” (Genesis 11:9 NLT)

“From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries.” (Acts 17:26 NLT)

We live in a world of amazing diversity.  The word cat brings thousands of pictures to our mind.  The same can be said for dog, chicken and many other animals.  Though we are not animals we shouldn’t be surprised at the difference in people.

The history of humanity is often seen as different nations against each other.  As time progressed we have seen an increase in racial division and warfare.  Is there a difference between people of different races?

In our scriptures we are told that God created all nations from one man and woman.  Every person ever born is from this one set of parents.  Adam and Eve are the father and mother of all humanity.  We are one family, one blood.

With the advent of evolution as the center of our view of the world the belief in one blood was cast aside.  We now hold that humanity is an accident of nature formed by death and destruction over aeons of time.  From this came belief that humanity could and should be made pure by the removal of “lesser” creatures. 

The concept of Eugenics (forming a purer humanity through controlled breeding and culling) can be seen in the growth of African slavery, eradication of American Indians, eradication of Aboriginal tribes in Australia on to Nazism and Communism. 

Why are there differences in human beings?  After the fall and the flood humanity came together in an early attempt at Eugenics.  They attempted t elevate humanity to reach God by coming together to build a tower.  God saw the terrible destructiveness to come from this and set up distinct groups and dispersed humanity into peoples and nations.

The dispersion and separation of people was to protect us from ourselves and is a sign of God’s protection and love.  It is not a sign of any groups superiority or degradation.

It might surprise you to know Adam and Eve were probably not white but more medium in color like the people of the Middle East.  From them would come darker and lighter people based upon where they lived and their conditions.  God colored us because we are all really the same “color” of melanin and the amount of melanin we have determines the darkness of our skin.  But our different shades , like the rainbow, shows God will go to tremendous lengths to spare us rather than destroy is, or even let us destroy ourselves.

The only “color” that destroys is the darkness of our heart which we create by our own choices and decisions!  From that darkness comes racism.