“The Origin Of The Others”

Saturday, April 06, 2013

Were Adam and Eve the first Jews and monotheists?  If not, who was the first race, and when did that one race start believing in many gods?

Sincerely,
Race To The Start

Dear Race To The Start,

We all come from Adam and Eve (Gen 3:20).  Therefore, we are all of the same race – the human race.  Racism, bigotry, racial pride, etc. are all manmade ideals and have nothing to do with Biblical principles and teachings.

Adam and Eve were not Jews.  The Jewish nation began with a man named Jacob (Jacob was also named Israel – Gen 32:28) and his twelve sons.  The descendants of the twelve sons of Jacob became the nation of Israel (Gen 49:28 – twelve sons = twelve tribes).  It is that nation that was first known as the Jewish nation.

As for when people first started believing in multiple gods… the Bible doesn’t tell us when it started.  It may have started as early as the tower of Babel (Gen 11:8-9), but we do not have a Biblical (or secular) record of when polytheism began.

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