Thank you for the question on the racial color of Adam, “Is Adam from the Bible black?”
I am so thankful to God that in his wisdom he did not to reveal the racial pigmentation of Adam and Eve. When God decided to create man and woman, he wanted them in his own image and likeness. It is the image and likeness of God in humans that gives him or her one’s significance and self worth, not one’s appearance, position in life, the possession one has in life or even one’s pigmentation.
The Apostle Paul in writing to believers in Christ Jesus says this in Galatians 3, “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (A searchable online Bible in over 150 versions and 50 languages). Bible citations are from the New International Version.
Racial discrimination or racial superiority is banned for believers and for churches in Christ Jesus. Everyone stands equally at the foot of the cross and before God. God does not play favorites due to one’s pigmentation nor should the followers of Jesus Christ. Every believer is a child of God and part of the family of God.
Having said that, the question seeks to discover the racial pigmentation of Adam and Eve. As one reads Genesis 2, the Scripture states this, “7 Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being” (NIV). As one reads about God creating the animals and the birds from the ground, so Adam was formed from the dust of the ground. It is important to note that God didn’t make all the animals of one pigmentation but with a variety of colors on their furs or feathers while with some animals they were mostly one color. That’s just my opinion. If God was able to formulate the genes of animals and birds with color, then it is possible that God could have made humans with that potential being affected by the environment.
From what I read and I am not an expert in this field, so I will defer to others who are more knowledgeable than me. The present theory for pigmentation is this: “It is made up of a substance called melanin, which is produced by pigment cells in the skin called melanocytes. According to the established theory of body pigmentation, these melanocytes bud off from the spinal cord at an early foetal stage and then migrate to the skin where they remain for the rest of their lives” (Skin’s Pigment Cells Can Be Formed From Completely Different Cells Than Previously Thought). The effect of environment and diet may affect one’s pigmentation, in particular the sun. Thus with the Flood the earth’s atmosphere changed as well as the environment which would eventually lead to a difference in the melanin.
Based on that theory, it is highly unlikely Adam was black or white but more so of a brownish pigmentation. That is just a speculation, conjecture on my part.
SUMMARY: It is unlikely Adam was with black pigmentation at creation.
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