The common use of the word "race" is used to describe different people groups in the world.
How many times have you been requested to check a box on a form you need to submit asking for your particular race? I can understand giving information that fits your particular description when needed to describe your appearance. But, is it appropriate to freely use the word race to describe a person? Read or reread the paragraph under the first page "Biblical Overview of Origins" titled "Righteous Lineage from Genesis 10." In that paragraph, I am attempting to make the reader aware that we all descended from one man and one woman - Adam and Eve. Eve was called "The Mother of all living."
Sometimes when we refer to others or ourselves by using the word "race" aren't we really attempting to refer to culture, ethnicity or point or origin? It is valid to say culture, ethnicity or point of origin? Culture, ethnicity or the point of origin (native country of birth) don't coincide with the word race. Many believe in using the word race to say "human race" as well as using the word race in a plural fashion (races of humans). Why use the word race at all? If we all descended from one man and one woman approximately 6000 years ago, why not say the human family - the one human family at that? By the way, we could not have descended from goo (primordial soup?) or from a rock (minerals?) and especially not from lower forms of life (monkeys?). Some call it "molecules to man." The text from Genesis, chapters 1 and 2 make it abundantly clear we are created in the Image and Likeness of our God-Creator (Elohim). No other forms of life have that uniqueness of being created in God's Image and Likeness except for man.
Check out this link from Answers in Genesis for discussions about melanin and how we got our skin tones:
Adam and Eve - all skin tones?
Here is another one from Answers in Genesis about races:
Are there really different races?
Another one also from Answers in Genesis with a short video:
We Are All One Race.
Melanin determines skin tone. Please read this article if you want to see the scientific description:
Melanin.
How many times have you been requested to check a box on a form you need to submit asking for your particular race? I can understand giving information that fits your particular description when needed to describe your appearance. But, is it appropriate to freely use the word race to describe a person? Read or reread the paragraph under the first page "Biblical Overview of Origins" titled "Righteous Lineage from Genesis 10." In that paragraph, I am attempting to make the reader aware that we all descended from one man and one woman - Adam and Eve. Eve was called "The Mother of all living."
Sometimes when we refer to others or ourselves by using the word "race" aren't we really attempting to refer to culture, ethnicity or point or origin? It is valid to say culture, ethnicity or point of origin? Culture, ethnicity or the point of origin (native country of birth) don't coincide with the word race. Many believe in using the word race to say "human race" as well as using the word race in a plural fashion (races of humans). Why use the word race at all? If we all descended from one man and one woman approximately 6000 years ago, why not say the human family - the one human family at that? By the way, we could not have descended from goo (primordial soup?) or from a rock (minerals?) and especially not from lower forms of life (monkeys?). Some call it "molecules to man." The text from Genesis, chapters 1 and 2 make it abundantly clear we are created in the Image and Likeness of our God-Creator (Elohim). No other forms of life have that uniqueness of being created in God's Image and Likeness except for man.
Check out this link from Answers in Genesis for discussions about melanin and how we got our skin tones:
Adam and Eve - all skin tones?
Here is another one from Answers in Genesis about races:
Are there really different races?
Another one also from Answers in Genesis with a short video:
We Are All One Race.
Melanin determines skin tone. Please read this article if you want to see the scientific description:
Melanin.
Race Mixing
This is an interesting article from creation.com that was linked from an email via Creation Ministries International in Australia. It shows what the scientists at creation.com say about races and overall gene degradation. This is a response to a comment made by a reader.
I am not saying I am for or against “Race Mixing.” The reason for including this article here is to show how the Bible can be misused to attempt to prove a point and I am particularly interested in the response given by CMI’s Keaton Halley. If you want to read the article posted on Creation.com, here is the link:
http://creation.com/race-mixing
For a more in depth study of our origins, click on this article:
http://www.soundchristian.com/man/
This is an interesting article from creation.com that was linked from an email via Creation Ministries International in Australia. It shows what the scientists at creation.com say about races and overall gene degradation. This is a response to a comment made by a reader.
I am not saying I am for or against “Race Mixing.” The reason for including this article here is to show how the Bible can be misused to attempt to prove a point and I am particularly interested in the response given by CMI’s Keaton Halley. If you want to read the article posted on Creation.com, here is the link:
http://creation.com/race-mixing
For a more in depth study of our origins, click on this article:
http://www.soundchristian.com/man/