Biblical Principles about Race: Creation Let’s now go back through the Bible and better understand how race came to be. It is important to note that the Bible does not explicitly describe the origin of the different races of mankind. One possibility is that when God confused and differentiated languages at Babel, He may have also made some racial/physical differentiations as well (Genesis 11:1–9). Alternatively, the very act of God’s creating human languages may have caused the peoples to disperse and become ethnically and racially distinct. Either way, this divinely created confusion was to divide and disseminate their rebellious unity against Him. According to the Bible, then, all of humanity comes from the very same family tree. In both Adam and Noah, we all have a common ancestry. Isaiah the prophet proclaimed, “You Lord, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter;
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