The mormons believe dark skin to be the curse of Cain. They have the same idea regarding Native Americans (descendants of Lamenites.).
Course, The Book of Genesis says that the children of Adam and Eve went to live with other people in other cities. Who are they? And, where did they come from?
I believe its generations of being in a particular climate/part of the world. The melatonin adapts to the enviroment. Africa, mexico and other central coountries have dark skin because of the sun beating down on them. They grew darker and darker over time to counter the suns effects.
Asians, whites and other countries further from the equator were lighter. Eskimos are so bright you cant look at them.
Tower of Babel, i believe. God was mad at peeps for creating their own god, so he split them up into different nationalities.
[–] trucking_foal 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
The bible was written by men to control tribes. At the time, there wasn't any issue with other races because the Bedouins & tribes at the time were all the same people. the main focus of the bible is to control behavior, and ensure the people breed within their own tribes. This was essential for survival.
Each culture has some story of how people came to be. The Japanese Kojiki has some fun stories, the Native American Indians have some really cool stories too, each tribe had a different one. the Apache, the Cherokee, The Hopi, the Navajo, etc..Why anyone would believe the biblical story of creation, over any of the others is a complete mystery to me. Furthermore, why anyone can somehow shoehorn logic into any of the stories and believe them is astounding, especially at a point in time when we have massive archeological evidence that completely shreds them.
[–] voat-ist 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
First, the bible doesn't explain this. The bible is a book written to answer the question "how can man have a relationship with God." It is sufficient for answering that question but there is lots of information int the world that isn't needed to answer that question so the bible doesn't cover everything. This is why it makes a poor textbook for most classes.
Most Christians believe that the Tower of Babel caused races to appear. We believe that when the languages were confused people spread out across ththe earth. When people went to different places darker and lighter skin tones were better suited to the environment and in this way race evolved.
Super simple solution and if I am not mistaken apart from Babel, this is what modern science teaches. The good thing is that if science comes up with some other explanation that makes more sense Christianity can role with it. It's not dictated in the text so whatever science says will be fine..
[–] daskapitalist ago
You shouldnt assume they were white.