Question: Painting 7: Please do another more accurate creation story with a more accurate picture. PLEASE, especially the picture.
Answer: If you have looked at the pictures that I have painted, the one this person is referring to is of the Seven Days of Creation. The sixth day and the seventh day show Adam and Eve as Black. Even though the person is not specific and seems to end the comment in the middle of their sentence, I believe they are probably referring to Adam and Eve being portrayed as Black, because they are not the first to comment on this.
I realize that everyone has their taste in art and they have a right to their own opinions, and I respect that. I do wish that people would be more specific when making comments because these can be helpful. However, could I defend the painting? The reason I painted Adam and Eve in this painting dark skinned is because I wanted people to see something besides how Adam and Eve have most often, if not always been portrayed, as White.
I am sure there are some paintings out there that are of Black Adam and Eve, but I have not seen them. I believe the reason for this is because the first printers were European and they printed pictures that appealed to their people. Mixed people pictures were not often drawn, because some thought this was wrong for them to intermarry, even though the Bible does not say this. In fact, in the case of Moses with his Black wife, God defended him.
Nowhere in Scripture does it say what color Adam and Eve were, so I felt it was high time that someone set the record straight. Why should we assume that they were White? Two thirds of the world’s population has more color than white. Adam was formed from the dust of the ground, is it too much of a stretch to say that he had more color than white? The Hebrew words seem to indicate color: “Adam is probably related to the verb ‘adom, to be red, referring to the ruddiness of man’s complexion. ‘Adamah, “soil” or “ground,” may also be derived from this verb.” (The Spirit Filled Bible)
We need to get over the stereotypes that we have from seeing pictures in Bible story books and Sunday school materials that may not always be accurate. I am not really dogmatic on what color Adam and Eve were because the text does not say; however, I would say it is very narrow minded to think that neither of them could be of color. How then did we get so many variations of brown in the world?
By the way I have painted another picture and this one is number 20, in it Adam is lighter skinned with red hair and Eve is black. This may have been the way it was also. We do know that genetically you do not get Black people from White people. However, you can get White from Black in the case of Albinos. I do not know what color God created Adam and Eve, but I do know that everything reproduces after its own kind genetically, so why would it be any different for people? “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.” (Acts 17:26)
Ken Ham, a well known Christian and a scientist, on his site Answers in Genesis (one of our links) says that: “It is thus easily possible, beginning with two middle-brown parents, to get not only all the ‘colors,” but also people groups with stable shades of skin color.” “.The other possibilities mean that five levels of melanin (shades of color) can result in the different offspring of such a marriage.If three gene pairs were involved, seven levels of melanin would be possible. Thus a rage of ‘color,’ from very light to very dark, can result in only one generation, beginning with this particular type of mid-brown parents.” http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/races18.asp
Maybe in the future I will paint this type of Adam and Eve.
One of my reasons for painting Adam and Eve with color was to challenge people to think deeper thoughts about the word of God, and not to necessarily rely on the pictures they have seen of Adam and Eve in the past.
Thanks for the comment; I do hope that there are some pictures that you like.
In Christian love,
Gary T. Panell
For more information email me.
Wrong. Adam was a black man and Eve was a blonde girl.
Hi Mark, Do you have a Scripture verse for that? Brother Gary
Who told u Adam was black Eve blonde
Hello Lewis, I don’t think I ever said Adam was Black and Eve was white. They do have to be some color, and, no, the Bible does not tell us. However, genetically they may have both been a darker brown color or one black and one white. You have your pick, because the Bible does not say. I hope this helps, Gary
Have you seen dust? It’s black. The scientific racist theory of degeneracy keeps you guys following Satan.
Hi Amore, I understand what you are saying, that is why I wrote the article. Thank you for your comment. You might look at our paintings as well on Bible-Christian.org. Brother Gary
The races were created on the 6th day for those who really read the bible. And Adam on the 8th. Adam was created for thorough him and his family Christ would be born. So what does the description of the redness in the complexion say or not about them
Belinda, there is only one creation of man, please read Acts 17:26. Chapter one is a summary and Chapter two goes over more details of what happened on the 6th day. I hope this helps, Gary
Both where white. African and Negroid races and mongoloids where the original peoples of the earth. Genesis is about the creation of a new race of people.
No, there is only one ‘race’ of people and that is the human race! Acts 17:26 Gary
Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it. Gary
Sorry my friend. There is just one Human Species but different races, unless you are a race denialist. And the variation amongst people is more than just a little bit of melanin. Adam and Eve were mostly ruddy/Olive tone. Yes they had alleles for melanin, but with inbreeding, there children would not be darker than them. After the dispersion of Babel is when darker skinned populations emerged.
By the way I have painted another picture and this one is number 20, in it, Adam is lighter skinned with red hair and Eve is black. This may have been the way it was also. We do know that genetically you do not get Black people from White people. However, you can get White from Black in the case of Albinos. I do not know what color God created Adam and Eve, but I do know that everything reproduces after its own kind genetically, so why would it be any different for people? “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.” (Acts 17:26) KJV
Ken Ham, a well-known Christian and a scientist, on his site Answers in Genesis (one of our links) says that: “It is thus easily possible, beginning with two middle-brown parents, to get not only all the ‘colors,” but also people groups with stable shades of skin color.” “. The other possibilities mean that five levels of melanin (shades of color) can result in the different offspring of such a marriage. If three gene pairs were involved, seven levels of melanin would be possible. Thus, a range of ‘color,’ from very light to very dark, can result in only one generation, beginning with this particular type of mid-brown parents.” http://www.answersingenesis.org/Home/Area/AnswersBook/races18.asp
If Adam, Jesus, Moses or any other person has to be white or Black you are going to miss heaven anyway.
Like most people you we get a chance to see the color of satan.
Hi Earnest, I’m not sure what your point is, but I will tell you that the important thing is not skin, but sin. Jesus died for everyone, repent and receive Him if you haven’t. By-the-way Saint Paul in the book of Acts says that there is only one race. That is the human race. Gary
There is no way that Adam and Eve were white, remember all Races came from them. All genetic coding was implanted in Adam when he was created. He was created from the dust of the ground. Not on the dust, by the dust, but from the dust. The problem is, the question is always asked are Adam and Eve of the white race or are they the mother and father of all the other races, as if there was two different races. There is not, there is only the human race.
Hi Big, It makes me kind of sad when people don’t read the article, but still comment on it. If you had read the article you would see that Adam and Eve were not just white, but a mixture of colours. Please read it for yourself and then write us. Thank you, Gary
Iam beginning to Believe Christianity is a hoax, no one seems to have a specific answer.
I think the book was written in order to control and scare a human being from doing evil things by assuming thier is life after death and that will be judge according to what you did whilest you were alive on earth on judgement day.I dnt think they ever be judgement day.
Anyway let me not take it far but i guess someone somewere will think about it.
God bless you
Hi Alex, if you want to really know if God is there, give him a challenge. You might say something like, “God if you are really there please show me.” Don’t tell Him what He needs to do, just talk to Him and wait and see what happens. Your friend, Gary
It’s just a matter of the atmosphere it hadn’t rained the earth was watered by dew therefore it was completely different. People or Adam and Eve didn’t need menonine to protect themselves from the sun and wouldn’t have any skin color that is why Adam was red his skin was translucent!
Hi John, sometimes people make up things, because they don’t want to believe that God created people with the colors that He wanted them to have. Brother Gary