02-24-2017, 03:31 PM
(02-24-2017, 03:27 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:(02-24-2017, 03:23 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(02-24-2017, 03:20 PM)Mikebert Wrote:(02-24-2017, 03:34 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I'm guessing that I missed saying something. If God made Man in His Image, then because the first humans were black, so must be God.
No. The first humans were black if you assume that humans appeared first in Africa and that the world is more than 6000 years old. But if you are a bibilical literalist, then humans first appearred in the region around the Persian Gulf about 6000 years ago and were white. Thus, God is White just like Santa Claus.
But this conclusion depends on the "literalist" interpretation of the Bible, which itself is a modern notion and which scholars show was not the interpretation among those who wrote the Bible. It also depends on a literalist interpretation of "God" as given to us by atheists, which we don't have to accept either. It can also be thought that God worked through evolution, and that evolution is a creative and not a mechanical process.
Which is why he gave the first option as well.
Some Biblical literalists are Young Earth Creationists (who say the Earth is 6000 years old, as Bishop Ussher calculated), but other literalists are not YECs.