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NASB | Acts 17:26 and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 17:26 "And He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands and territories. |
Bible Question: why did god make people black is it a specific reason he did so or not. does the king james version tell us why. |
Bible Answer: Greetings Huey, Welcome to the StudyBibleForum! I will use only the King James Version in this post.. The concept of "race" is biological, not Biblical. There is no mention of different races, as such, in the Bible, nor even of the very concept of a "race." The testimony of the Bible is that all men who have ever lived in the world are descendants of Adam and, therefore, are of essentially the same race- the human race (Acts 17:26). Also, all people presently in the world are also descendants of Noah, after the Flood (Genesis 6:13; 7:21; 9:1,18,19). But even though the Bible does not mention races, it does have a lot to say about nations and languages (Revelation 7:9; 21:24). The most distinguishing characteristic is not skin color, but language. Communication is of paramount importance for understanding and harmony, and language is certainly the most basic element in communication. After the Flood, when "the whole earth was one language and one speech" (Genesis 11:1), men disobeyed God's command to scatter and fill the earth, preferring to remain together to erect a single great world empire, with its capital at Babylon. God saw what man was doing and "scatter them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth," through "confounding their language, that they may not understand one another's speech" (Genesis 11:7,8). When God did this, this must have been some kind of physiologic miracle, an instant change in those centers of the brain controlling speech, so that each family suddenly found itself identifying various objects and actions with different words and tones than other families used. This confusion and incoherency within society finally resulted in each family or group to go its own way, eventually to establish its own national and linguistic identity. Since physiologic changes were necessarily involved in this sudden confusion of tongues, it may well have been that still other physiologic changes were also induced by God at the same time, in order to hasten the establishment of each group distinctly. However, whether or not this is the case, it is certainly true that the development of specific national, or even what we call "racial" traits, could not take place as long as men lived together and inter-married freely. A certain amount of isolation and national inbreeding is genetically essential for the establishment of particular characteristics in a nation or race. Even apart from the above, such characteristics could have developed quite rapidly, assuming that the different genetic factors were present in the ancestral stock, and that isolation and "selection pressures" of some kind- whether by climate or social- operated in favor of certain characteristics in each group or tribe. However, these are all basically superficial and could never have resulted in a new "kind" of man. All men were created equal, and all men are alike in that they have need of a Savior. All are alike in that all can come to the Savior if they will (John 3:16). Blessings to you, Makarios |
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