Were Adam and Eve black?

The Adam and Eve story was a myth that tried to explain how death, toil and other woes came into the world; and like the Greek Pandora myth, a woman is blamed (and by extension, in a patriarchal society, all women). It also explains why people consider snakes as enemies.

They will have been imagined to resemble the peoples who devised the story, then those who adopted and adapted the story. The story goes back at least to the Sumerians, so there will have been several versions of the myth in the middle East and Mesopotamia before the Genesis one. The people who originally devised the myth, and those adopting it later, won't have had the concept of evolution or that the different races were all part of the same species that adapted to different climates, so the idea that Adam and Eve would have originated in Africa would not have occurred to them.

In Sumerian and Babylonian mythology, Adamu was the first man. The gods tricked Adamu and his descendants out of immortality - not wanting man to be immortal like the gods - by telling him that the magic food of eternal life was poisonous to him, and as such Adamu didn't eat it and so didn't become immortal.

... are you asking something or... Well anyway, christians do think as evolution as a possibility. There are some protestant sects that don't. But primarily, Catholics and Christians do... Here's the proof for at least the catholics part:

http://io9.com/does-the-new-pope-believe-in-evolut...

and about Adam and Eve being black. They took place in genesis, and genesis was the beginning of the world. Since we take evolution as a possibility that would means that we don't absolutely think they were real and had to be taken with more of a symbolic meaning. But if... they were actually real... nobody said they had to be white. They were painted that way, yes, but we don't know for sure if they were white. Just like we don't really know that the firsts humans were black. They could have been black, or not. I also take it that you weren't asking me, or anyone in yahoo news a question. But I decided I wanted to respond for anyone else that was interested.

They were probably brown-skinned, as were their descendants until after the Flood, and many creationists teach that. For some reason, Christian artists and illustrators haven't caught up with that idea, which is sort of frustrating. But to be fair, the secular media has the same problem, as evidenced by the casting of the upcoming Noah movie.

Where is your so called proof that the first people to walk the earth were black?? You are using an assumption from archeologists that believes the first man and women were in Africa. According to the Bible, the Garden of Eden was in the middle east (many believe somewhere in what is current day Iraq). That would probably mean they were olive skinned.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ruddy

The name Adam is the masculine derivation of the Hebrew root Adam ('dm and 26). The feminine derivation adama (adamah) indicates the ruddy earth found in the Middle East and means acre, ground, land.

The words Adam (adom, adem) indicate the typical red color of that earth.

If you don't believe in evolution then you'd probably have to believe that God made black people black and white people white, that he created the races separately.

I don't mean to tell Creationists what they believe. I'm sure they have some way of explaining race. I've heard the 'Children of Issac/Children of Ishmael' argument, both sons of Abraham, which leads me to wonder what color Abraham was. 8^)

In my own mind, Adam and Eve are allegorical characters, so i doesn't matter what color they are. What color is the Statue of Liberty? She's an allegorical character, and she's GREEN! You can't even tell whether she's French or American!

Where's the proof? No one really knows what colour the first humans were. Just because science or religion says something does not make it true.

no. only to those who believe the fertile crescent narrative that ancient egypt and africa is where it all began and culminated...

the name adam means 'red'. who named him that? it was God! why? because of the dust he was formed from. eve in turn was made in adam's image. wo-man = of man. so they both most likely looked like red people.

btw you're a racist if you accept the evolutionary theory.

no

Hebrew "adam" means red/ruddy

he was the colour of the clay from which he was made

The Bible doesn't say. It's not a matter that's of spiritual significance, though.

Peace be with you.