God believers: Why have so much diversity?

Question

I just read a question about why god created black people, it was highly racist and i didnt agree with it but it did make me wonder.

If god is real and all that they say he is, why create anyone with a different skin colour?

Surely an omnicient god would know that having some people a different colour to others was going to cause them problems down the line.

And if your god did make the earth why bother creating people with different skin tones?

There is a scientific explanation as to how and why, but if you think the world was made about 15-10 thousand years ago and is going to end pretty soon it dosent make sense to have the diversity.

Answer 1

He created it because of the reason that it would cause problems. He wants us to learn that we need to put aside races, religion and all of that and just get along together no matter what. He did it to show us a lesson and to teach us to respect eachother no matter what.

Answer 2

God IS Black so why Wouldnt He create His Own Kind?

Answer 3

There is a lot of things God does that he will never explain to man so that they who truly believe will stand to the end however to answer your question this is my belief.

...God wants us to learn to love...and the true criteria for Christianity is how much you love others. Well a love that is easy is no love at all. It is easy to love your friends, your family and others who are like you but to love someone of different skin tone, different skin color, other culture and backround takes a person whos love for other is true and deep....it takes a real Christian...not a phony balony surface Christian.

....so if this is the true test of Christianity it has to be a test with some substance.

Mother Theresa once said that God hides himself sometimes in the most hideous and terrible disguises to see if the people who call themselves by His name could truly recognize Him.  

Answer 4

God is not a dull creator. Imagine if all flowers were the same color. How much more should his people vary. It would be dreadful if we all had blond hair, blue eyes and were 6 feet tall. With sin in the world there will always be hate and fighting.

Answer 5

The key to your problem is the phrase "make sense." That's why you are having a difficult time.

The fundamentalist view has no interest in making sense. It has one song only: the bible says it, I believe it, and that settles it.

In their bible, if you read the chapter immediately after the Flood, you will notice that Noah gets drunk, his son Ham sees and mocks his nakedness, and when Noah sobers up, he curses Ham and all his descendants. Then, we get to what we in the Bible scholarship biz call "the Table of Nations." The descendants of all of Noah's children are laid out, and the nations they founded are named after these grandsons and greatgrandsons of Noah. The descendants of Ham are nations which comprise people with dark features. The dark skins was known as the mark of Ham. It is a sign (according to the Bible) of the ongoing curse of Noah, and it shows that this individual is a descendant of Ham, and therefore under the curse of Ham.

The Table of Nations is interesting in that it does not discuss the many nations that existed in that time, but were unknown to the writer. No mention of Japanese or Chinese. No mention of the Australian Aborigines.

If you continue to look closely at this story, you will notice that the crunt of the curse actually falls on Ham's son Canaan. And here we see the reason for the whole story in the first place. It is an elaborate myth designed to explain why the Canaanites are intended to be the slaves of the Israelites. That is what the story is actually about, surprisingly enough.

Of course, if you wish to talk common sense, then you look at this story as one more effort on the part of this ancient people to make some sense out of the world in which they found themselves.

Answer 6

He made all things for His pleasure and for His purposes.

Answer 7

Because the idea of god doesn't make sense

: )  

Answer 8

God did not create them; they became. And it makes sense. There's beauty in variety. Only man makes diversity without unity. Don't blame God for that; it's not His fault.

Answer 9

Bio-diversity.  

The genetic makeup of the first man, Adam, was such that extensive variety could develop among his offspring—in such things as skin color, hair color and texture, body size and facial characteristics. This variety was increased by language and geographical differences.

According to the Bible, all humans descend from Noah, through his three sons Shem, Japheth and Ham. Genesis chapter 10 lists 70 descendants of Noah saying: “From these the nations were spread about in the earth.” (Genesis 10:32) One of the many ways in which these nations have been classified is with reference to skin color. In the skin of all normal humans is a blackish brown pigment called melanin.

, We can appreciate the view of mankind’s Creator as to the different races. Under inspiration of God’s holy spirit the apostle Peter, himself a Jew, said: “I now realize that it is true that God treats everyone on the same basis. Whoever fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him, no matter what race he belongs to.”—Acts 10:34, Today’s English Version.

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Not all scientists agree, the emerging picture points to the conclusion that all humans have a common genetic ancestor. The two records of genealogy surrounding the account of the Flood—Genesis chapters 5 and 10—connect the entire human race with the first man, Adam, through Noah’s three sons. Assyrians, Chaldeans, Hebrews, Syrians, and some Arabian tribes, are descendants of Shem.

Ethiopians, Egyptians, Canaanites, and some African and Arabian tribes descended from Ham. Indo-Europeans are descendants of Japheth. All humans are related, and all are born equal before God. (Acts 17:26)

In the book "After Its Kind", Byron C. Nelson says: “It was man that was made, not the Negro, the Chinese, the European. Two human beings whom the Bible knows as Adam and Eve were created, out of whom by natural descent and variation have come all the varieties of men that are on the face of the earth. All races of men, regardless of color or size, are one natural species. They all think alike, feel alike, are alike in physical structure, readily intermarry, and are capable of reproducing others of the same character. All races are descended from two common ancestors who came full-formed from the hand of the Creator.” This is the testimony of Genesis 1:27, 28; 2:7, 20-23; 3:20; Acts 17:26; and Romans 5:12.

The Genesis account also locates the beginnings of the dwellings of the different branches of mankind, stemming from the three sons of Noah—Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Says Dr. Melvin G. Kyle, of Xenia Theological Seminary, Missouri, U.S.A.: “That from a central point, somewhere in Mesopotamia, the Hamitic branch of the race migrated to the south-west, the Japhetic branch to the north-west, and the Semitic branch ‘eastward’ toward the ‘land of Shinar’ is indisputable.”

Says Luigi Cavalli-Sforza of Stanford University: “The differences between people of the same races are so large that it’s ridiculous to think of races as different—or as even existing.”

Many believe that because races possess different physical characteristics, certain races are superior intellectually and others are inferior. However, Montagu calls such thinking “man’s most dangerous myth.” Other experts agree.

Morton Klass and Hal Hellman explain in The Kinds of Mankind: “Individuals do differ; in all populations there are geniuses and imbeciles. But, after all the research, responsible scholars have not seen evidence they can accept of genetic differences between populations in respect to intelligence or ability.”

This truth must affect how we view and treat others.Your recognizing that all races are equal in the eyes of God can have a dramatic effect on the way you view yourself and others. It can move you to treat others with dignity and respect, to appreciate and admire their differences.

respectfully,

Simone

Answer 10

Christians have free will to do what they want and god knew all along that they wouldn't get along and that they would deny him. their god is sadistic

Answer 11

Well Africa is where mankind begin...I believe that as man branched out all over the world his skin color and hair and color of eyes evolved over time to be suited to the environment he moved into...That's why creationism vs evolution is a false augment. God created evolution but not for one specie to evolve into another specie but rather for man and all other creatures to evolve to be suited to their environment for the survival of the specie in any particular  environment...

Answer 12

Probably for the same reason we have so many different kinds of food available to us.  Variety is the spice of life.

Answer 13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTrkVE18C...

Answer 14

"If god is real and all that they say he is"

Who ""they"? I say that God didn't make humans.

Answer 15

So that people could learn to respect people's differences, seriously having a different skin colour SHOULDN'T be a problem.