Japheth is white. Genesis 9:27

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The entire world population descended from Noah’s three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth

The name Japheth means white, beautiful, and "God will enlarge him":

Genesis 9:27 MAY GOD ENLARGE JAPHETH, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and may Canaan be his servant.

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There's an old heresy that starts here. It's called Apartheid.
 
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I thought white skin didn't exist until it snowed...

No really,this is what they taught in school...that white skin is an adaptation to living in snowy places...up north. And I am under the impression that, in the beginning, the entire earth was a lush garden and that it didn't snow until sometime after the flood.
 
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No really,this is what they taught in school...that white skin is an adaptation to living in snowy places...up north. And I am under the impression that, in the beginning, the entire earth was a lush garden and that it didn't snow until sometime after the flood.
lighter skin is an adaptation to living in environments with less UV light , that’s all. In latitudes away from the equator , less light causes problems with bone density because it affects vitamin D production .
 
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lighter skin is an adaptation to living in environments with less UV light , that’s all. In latitudes away from the equator , less light causes problems with bone density because it affects vitamin D production .

So then,it would've risen after the tower of Babel when people were dispersed?
 
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I have no idea when lighter skin color changed in H sapiens but it was fairly recently. ( just to lazy to
Google it right now) The variable skin color genes themselves we had because other great apes also have them and we just inherited those
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As you can see skin color depends on where your ancestors came from . In the America’s dark skin re- evolved in some tribes as American Indians originally came from what is now Russia and China
 
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:) Hmm...so if you were to die today.. then go to the Father.. what COLOR do you think you will be? Your spirit is? I can lol just see the Father.. hand slap right to the forehead.. really? This is where they get stuck
 
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Jepheth doesn't mean "white". A possible etymology (it's not actually clear) is from the root יפה meaning "beautiful", "lovely", "fair", "pretty". יפה does not mean "white".

Also, the whole idea of trying to race races to the children of Noah is inherently ridiculous for a lot of reason, not least of which being that the whole concept of "race" is a modern cultural construct. From a strictly biological perspective there is no such thing as "race", there is simply a wide diversity of phenotypes across human populations. One phenotypical expression is skin color, skin color is determined by the amount of melanin in the skin, a high amount of melanin results in a dark skin color while a lower amount of melanin results in a lighter skin color. Melanin is important because it protects our skin from UV radiation, as such populations closer to the equator, where there is a higher exposure to UV is likely to result in darker-skinned populations, whereas the further from the equator one is the less exposure to UV is received, and so populations further from the equator tend to have less melanin.

I'm "white" because my ancestors are primarily from northern Europe, not because Japheth is my great-great-great-grandpa.

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It is odd that the false idea of race is defined by colour.. Yet they are All mankind.
Why not define them.by lip size ....if ya must haha...
 
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It is odd that the false idea of race is defined by colour.. Yet they are All mankind.
Why not define them.by lip size ....if ya must haha...
humans have always has a problem with putting people into “castes” . Blaming God for it and trying to justify abuse is a big problem with religion. It’s happened with the persecution of other religions, subjugation of women , the pseudoscience of racism , the mistreatment of homosexuals, and just about anything you can name to label certain people as bad Others
 
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The entire world population descended from Noah’s three sons Shem, Ham and Japheth
The name Japheth means white, beautiful, and "God will enlarge him":
Genesis 9:27 MAY GOD ENLARGE JAPHETH, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and may Canaan be his servant.
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The name יפת/Japheth does not mean white. The Hebrew word for white is לבן/leben.
 
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humans have always has a problem with putting people into “castes” . Blaming God for it and trying to justify abuse is a big problem with religion. It’s happened with the persecution of other religions, subjugation of women , the pseudoscience of racism , the mistreatment of homosexuals, and just about anything you can name to label certain people as bad Others
Dont leave out the established churches murdering torturing drowning flogging and burning alive any who would not adhere in submittance to thier denomination.
 
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I have no idea when lighter skin color changed in H sapiens but it was fairly recently. ( just to lazy to
Google it right now) The variable skin color genes themselves we had because other great apes also have them and we just inherited those View attachment 257954
As you can see skin color depends on where your ancestors came from . In the America’s dark skin re- evolved in some tribes as American Indians originally came from what is now Russia and China

So skin color is due to movement. The lighter the skin, the most traveled...the darker, the least traveled.
 
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:) Hmm...so if you were to die today.. then go to the Father.. what COLOR do you think you will be? Your spirit is? I can lol just see the Father.. hand slap right to the forehead.. really? This is where they get stuck

The appearance of certain angels (e.g. Daniel) and the Word of God Himself (Revelation) are described in the bible canon - eye color, what their arms and legs look like, their hair, their "clothes" - in great detail.
 
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So skin color is due to movement. The lighter the skin, the most traveled...the darker, the least traveled.

Maybe that's why it's called "race"...some are marathon runners...and others are sprinters...
 
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But do you contest the idea that Japheth is the Great great great ancestor of Europeans?
I wasn't talking about grandfathers. I was talking about the meaning of two Hebrew words.
 
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