CHRISTIANNEWS.COM.- Skin colors are not a problem in the Bible. Skin colors are also not a problem in the human genome.
All races are basically the same in mental, emotional, and physical makeup. Skin color is cosmetic only.
Some suppose that the queen of Sheba who visited Solomon was black because she was from the country of Sheba. But Saba is not in Africa. She was from Abyssinia, which is located in southwestern Arabia at the eastern end of the Red Sea (1 Kings 10:1-13).
Others have taught that Solomon’s first wife was black because she mentioned her “dark skin”, however she refers to her being badly sunburned from working outdoors in the fields.
Others have taught that the Ethiopian eunuch who was baptized by Philip in Acts 8 was black. The Bible never says this. We just assume he was black because he was from that African nation. He was probably black, although the Bible never says so.
The Bible does not use skin colors as racial affiliation.
The premise that “people with a skin tone other than white appeared for the first time in the Bible, as an indicator of racial or ethnic affiliation,” is false. The Bible never uses colors or skin tones as indicators of racial or ethnic affiliation.
The table of nations is listed for us in Genesis 10. By the way, this list of nations (read races) occurs before the Tower of Babel story of the dispersion of the races, as recounted in Genesis 11. The order here it is of little importance. The list is given and then the following chapters detail how the migrations began.
In the list we see that the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, migrated to different parts of the world after the Flood subsided.
Sem spawned the Semitic peoples who consider themselves Jews or Arabs.
Japheth spawned the Japhethite peoples who moved north into Turkey and Russia and then migrated to Europe and throughout much of Asia.
Ham spawned the Hamite peoples. His descendants settled from Canaan south to Egypt and Africa.
race benefits us
Skin color is never a curse. Skin color is mainly due to the presence of a pigment in the skin called melanin. Melanin gives skin its color.
Dark-skinned people have more melanin than fair-skinned people.
Another reason why skin colors vary probably relates to the human need for vitamin D. The lighter the skin color, the faster vitamin D is absorbed.
The lighter the skin color, the faster vitamin D is absorbed. Since higher latitudes get much less sun than the tropics, light-colored skin allows people to quickly absorb vitamin D.
This is another reason why dark skin is advantageous in the tropics and light skin is a boon for those who live in the Arctic.
Article written by Roger Barrier in Crosswalk
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