If adam and eve were white . why are they black people?

Because they are fictional characters.

* face hits keyboard *

The correct answer is that the Bible is a work of fiction and irrelevant. But if you go by the Bible, there is a real case to be made that Adam and Eve aren't the only people divinely created. When Cain kills Able in Chapter 4 of Genesis a strict reading would suggest that only 4 people exist in the entire world, Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel. But when God exiles Cain for the crime, he is afraid that if he goes out into the world he will be killed. Well, if there are no other people, who is going to kill him? Then it says he sets out for land of Nod where he meets his wife and has children. Again, if there are no other people how the heck is there a place called Nod with people in it?

There are a couple ways to explain that, but the easiest is to say that there are other people that are created by God, but their stories are not specifically told. That is not inconsistent with the way the Bible is written, which only follows the bloodline relevant to the story from Adam to Abraham. The stories of the others children of Abraham's descendants, the the children you presume they also have, are not told because they are not essential to the plot.

So when were these other people created? Well, it could have been any time, before or after Adam. I like to think it was before because in Chapter 1 on Genesis God creates man and woman together on thr 6th day. But in Chapter 2 he creates Adam, and than Eve later. Since it never says a day passes before he takes the rib from Adam, this could just be a more specific telling of the events of the 6th day. But it is also possible that the people created on the 6th day are the people living in Nod, and possibly other places. Adam could have been created later specifically for the Garden of Eden, sort of like God's pet. Nowhere in Genesis does it specifically say Adam was the first person ever created. This could explain different races.

The problem with this is that God killed all those other people in the Flood. When he resets the world after the flood, only 8 people exist, Noah, his 3 sons, and their four wives. But it never says where the wives of his sons come from, so an easy explanation is to say they are just a very multicultural family, each with a wife of a different race.

Another explanation, and this one doesn't require you to believe any of the above, is that after the Babel incident, when God scatters everyone about the world and makes them speak different languages, he may have also changed their races. It does not specifically say that, it only says language, but it is a great way to explain why specific races are found regionally around the world.

The thing about the Bible and Genesis is that it is like the writings of Nostradamus, it is so vague that anyone who is looking for something specific can find a way to interpret it to fit what they are looking for.

The city and tower of Bable brings up 2 other great question that I like. If the explanation for everthing bad that people do is God grants free will. Why would he actively stop people from building a city and tower, and goto the drastic step of spreading them throughout the world and making them speak different languages? Sounds like he robbed them of their free will.

Second, if God knows and sees all that is and will be, didn't he know they were going to build all this? If he is going to actively stop them anyway, why not stop them before hand? But what God says when he sees them building it is "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun do this, nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them". Well shouldn't God have know already it was not only possible, but going to happen? Shouldn't he know everything they are planning to do? Why would this be a thought or concern for an all knowing God?

Oh ffs...

If all people came from Africa, why are they white people?

most biblical illustrations and documentaries refer them as white skinned

Sounds like it could be a line from Mean Girls.

Biblically and culturally speaking, it has sometimes been suggested that blackness is either due to the mark of Cain or the curse of Ham. Ofc, that is only speaking from a viewpoint traditionally adopted by Christians, Jews, and Muslims to explain the presence of blacks; scientifically speaking, Negroids are suggested to have predated the other major races.

But in all seriousness, we know that Adam wasn't black; have you ever tried taking ribs from a black man?

We don't know what color Adam and Eve were nor do we know what color God is, and it doesn't matter to me. Black is just as good as white. I don't believe black is the "mark of Cain". If it was it should have been destroyed in the flood of Noah's day, when all the wicked, which should have included Cain and his descendents were drowned in the flood. Human DNA has an innumerable number of combinations, just like a kalaidescope when you turn the end and look thru the lens. It never makes exactly the same image twice.

OP had better post a punchline to this joke.

1st off, Adam and Eve probably weren't pure white, and neither was Jesus.
Secondly, there are those who believe that dark skin originated from the mark of Cain; when God promised him he wouldn't let others hurt him, he probably altered his appearance to set him apart.

Alright, I'll bite... who say dey be white?

No one said they were white. Just like there's no way in hell that Jesus was white.

They're the spawn of Satan.

One may ask how the OP knows that Adam and Eve weren't Black. Well, have YOU ever tried taking a rib from a nigger?

I don't think it matters cause there's no way to know anyway:)

Not sure if someone posted this yet, but I will tell you how Christians rationalize blacks.

You see, long ago there were two brothers, Cain and Abel. Cain didn't like Abel, so he killed him. So God was like, "Yo, Cain. Not cool bro" and Cain was like "Pfft, whatevs bitch, I do what I want! #thuglife #yolo #swag".

So God punished Cain by marking his skin and sending him to a land devoid of life and vegetation.

Now, let's think for a second. Skin is marked, land is dry and dusty... Africa! The bible states that all blacks are descendants of Cain.

Now, if we reference Beowulf, Gilgamesh is also a descendent of Cain, which means that Beowulf killed the king of all black people. Without their king, they don't know what to do, which is why Baltimore happened.

Satan's children.

Im not referring to the bible directly ...Google Jesus . you see the refer him as white skinned

They probably weren't

After manny hours of painstaking research I have discovered the truth behind the origins of the first man. Adam (Adamantius borathatic) and Eve (Evetrion homocratis) where in fact cosmic beings devoid of all color. Together they had many children Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, and Australoid. As follows a few origins of the first man volume one.

Caucasoid was picking wild berries one day. When suddenly a wild boar burst from the bush of too many berries. This scared European. Scared him enough to turn his skin a ghostly white for all eternity.

Mongoloid was fascinated by the sun rise. Where does it come from? where does it go? he wondered. Every morning he would squint his eyes and look to the east. After many years of squinting his face eventually got stuck that way.

Negroid set off to build his home in the south. Shortly after arriving at his destination he knew it best to make a good strong hut to protect himself from predators. But soon after lunch he was effected by the dreaded "Itis". He decided to sleep off the "Itis. Hours he slept in the hot sun his skin darkened and baked.

Australoid also moved south. A close brother to Negroid. Australoid crossed an ocean to find his home. But all he found was a wasteland and immediately regretted that terrible decision.

Thus concludes volume one of The Origins of Man: Children of the Cosmos.
Chapter 2 Sub races: Afghans, Europeans, and Samoans.

Yah it doesn't say in the Bible what color they were. Also, the Bible is not to be taken literally. Whether you believe God made us or the aliens!!!

IF I might answer your question with another question; If the moon is made of cheese why aren't we mining it for our hamburgers?

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Is this a real question?

First of all, the bible Adam and Eve were the FIRST people, but not he ONLY people, nor did it say they were white skinned.

Second, people, like all spiral life, change to adapt to their environment, it's called evolution.

Third, if you believe everything the bible tells you to your a dumb-ass.

Fourth, do you really care? It's 2015, kid. Does anyone here really care?