26. And Elohiym said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have "dominion" ....
27. So Elohiym created man in his own "image", in the "image" of Elohiym created he him; male and female created he them.

---

We are going to do a survey of the Bible. Our purpose here is to find what physical features if any, as the Bible may reveal, that the Creator has. If we are successful, we may then move forward to seek creatures on Earth that have exactly the same or similar features. All such creatures may then conclusively be called "Man", "Humanity" - 'male and female' because they 'mirror' the Creator or in His own words, they are in His "Image".

23. And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

---

Elohiym has a 'face', 'hand', and 'back parts'.

6. His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

---

The Prophet Daniy'el reports that Elohiym has 'body' the color of 'beryl'; 'face' like 'lightning', color of extreme white; 'eyes' like 'flames of fire'; 'Arms and feet', in color like 'polished brass'. He also has a 'voice';

9. I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: ...

---

This time, the Prophet Daniy'el reports that Elohiym (the Ancient of days) has a 'head' and 'hair' in color like pure 'wool'. Elohiym 'sits'.

14. His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
15. And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters
16. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

---

Here the Prophet Yahuwchanon reports that Elohiym has a 'head' and 'hair' in color like 'wool', 'white as snow'; 'eyes' like 'a flame of fire'; 'feet' in color like 'fine brass'; a 'voice'. Elohiym 'stands'. He has a 'right hand' and therefore, a 'left hand' is implied.

12. For the eyes of Yahuwah are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of Yahuwah is against them that do evil.

---

Here, the Shalia (Apostle) Kepha reports that Elohiym has 'ears' that 'hear'.

15. Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O Yahuwah, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

---

34. At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;

---

The Prophet Daniy'el reports that Elohiym has 'dominion'. And to ensure that the 'Man' He creates will be like Him in every way, He gave 'Man' 'dominion' over all the Earth. See Bere'shiyt (Genesis) 1:26-28.

Because, He commanded, we will not display anything as an image of Yahuwah! It is transgression.

4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth:

---

Divine Features | A Summary

• ☞ Head
• ☞ Hair
• ☞ Eyes
• ☞ Nostrils
• ☞ Ears
• ☞ Mouth and Voice
• ☞ Body
• ☞ Arms
• ☞ Legs
• ☞ Feet
• ☞ Complexion
• ☞ Wears clothes - 'garment'
• ☞ Has Dominion

27. So Elohiym created man in his own image, in the image of Elohiym created he him; male and female created he them.

---

19. I call Heaven and Earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,

---

14. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

---

We can approach the process of finding the Creature on Earth which is in the image of Elohiym the Creator. It will require considering all living things and itemizing their features to see if there are any similarities between the Creator and each Organism. Whichever creature has the same features as the Creator we must agree is the one made in His image. Surely, that level of rigour is not necessary. We can begin with the human. After all, the Bible says that He looks like a 'Man':

1. ... As I sat in my house, with the elders of Yahuwdah sitting before me, the hand of Yahuwah Elohiym fell upon me there.
2. Then I looked, and behold, a form that had the appearance of a man. Below what appeared to be his waist was fire, and above his waist was something like the appearance of brightness, like gleaming metal.

---

We can approach the process of discovery by itemizing the features of Humanity by looking at the features of a typical human. We can then compare the Creator's features with those of the human in search of similarities. If at least 95% of the features agree, we can then conclude that the Creator made Humanity in His image.

Graphic Representation of Visible Human Features

Human Features | A Summary

• ☞ Head
• ☞ Hair
• ☞ Eyes
• ☞ Nostrils
• ☞ Ears
• ☞ Mouth and Voice
• ☞ Body
• ☞ Arms
• ☞ Legs
• ☞ Feet
• ☞ Complexion
• ☞ Wears clothes - 'garment'
• ☞ Dominion
• ☞ Free Moral Agency - Intellectual capacity and a memory. Responsibility for Agency actions. Makes "Choices". Pays the price for every "Choice".

5. I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clothed in linen, with a belt of fine gold from Uphaz around his waist.
6. His body was like beryl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

---

The Creator's:

• ☞ Face color: Lightning White
• ☞ Body color: Beryl
• ☞ Eye color: Flames of Fire
• ☞ Hands & Legs color: Burnished Bronze

How now do we categorize our Creator's "race"? Is He white, black or colored?

Lightening white face; beryl-colored body and bronze-colored legs and feet.

Since His Face has no similarity among us, let's consider His body and legs. What are the colors of 'beryl' and 'burnished bronze'?

With an aged appearance, "Burnished Bronze" has a medium-brown tone with a subtle coppery-red shimmer. The Creator's hands and legs are medium-brown in color! Dare we say He is "Black-ish"? Surely, we can all agree that He is "Colored"! The Creator's face has no parallel among us. His eyes are like flames of fire. Again, these have no parallel among us. But, we can also consider His body.

The King James Version of the Bible (Daniy'el 10:6), describes the Creator's hands and legs as "Polished Brass" in color. As shown in the graphic above, it changes nothing. The Creator of the Heavens and the Earth is a Person of "color".

The Creator's body is described as 'beryl-colored'. His body is NOT "White". But we see that the color "beryl" is a spectrum of colors. We cannot now be dogmatic as to which end of the Spectrum the Creator's body color is in. Maybe the 'golden beryl'? Or the 'greenish beryl'? We cannot be sure. But we can be sure that as far as color of body and limbs go, our Creator, Yahuwah Tseva'oth, is a Person of "color" and not "White".

14. The hairs of his head were white, like white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire,
15. his feet were like burnished bronze, refined in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar of many waters.

---

The Savior's:

• ☞ Hair color: White as Wool, Snow White
• ☞ Eye color: Flame of Fire
• ☞ Hands & Feet color: Burnished Bronze

All that we saw of the Father, Yahuwah, apply to Yahuwshuah, the Son as far as skin color and race go.

Culled From: Answers Calvin Smith, the Executive Director of Answers in Bereshiyt (Genesis) Canada, gave to many key questions about race and racism

I constantly keep hearing about this term, "systemic racism". There's a system that teaches racism? There is. It's called the public school system, teaching the story of evolution as fact and science. If we were to look at the Bible and ask this question of how many races are there, well, let's go to scripture.

1 Corinthians 15:45 ESV says,

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving Ruach (spirit).

OK, there was a first man. And Bereshiyt (Genesis) 3:20 ESV says:

The man (Adam) called his wife's name Chavah, because she was the mother of all living.

In Acts 17:26 ESV,

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the Earth, ...

Are we getting clues to how many races there are on the planet Earth? Just with what we've seen here so far, how many races are there? There's one race, the human race, because we're all descended eventually back down to our original parents, Adam and Chavah.

When the Human Genome Project was finishing up in 2000, here was a conclusion from the study where it said,

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health recently announced they'd put together a draft of the entire sequence of the Human Genome and the Researchers had unanimously declared, there's only one race, the human race.

Isn't that interesting? That science finally caught up with the Bible.

Where did Qayin (Cain) get his wife then, if we all come from two people? You see, there's two objections built into here. In order to answer these two, we're going to look at biblical history and we're going to look a little bit at science. Let's look at the concept of DNA itself.

DNA is constantly replicating. It's constantly making copies of itself. But unfortunately, we live in a sin-cursed world, so like everything else, wearing out like a garment, it doesn't copy perfectly. If you inherit half your DNA from mom and half from dad, one of them has a bad gene, the machinery usually knows to express the good one. But the closer related you are to somebody, the more chance you have this same defect and you get two mutated genes. The machinery can only choose from that and that's when you get big problems.

You marry someone closely related to you, you could have severe birth defects. Before the fall there would have been no mutations. Why would there be errors in the first two people that Elohiym created? Everything's very good. There's no problems with DNA, but very quickly, of course, we know about the account of the fall. That's where sin and the curse happened and over the next extended period of time mutations are going to start to build up in the human genome. They're not just gonna flood in.

Even today we get incremental additions of mutations and over time, over time, over time mutations increase to the point where 2500 years after the creation, that's where we get Elohiym mandating in his law that there will be no more close intermarriage from that point on. But previous to that, close intermarriage was normal. Likely because the mutation rate hadn't reached the point where it was going to be a problem. (See Wayiqra (Leviticus) 18:6-18).

if you married someone closely related to you or not. See, in the beginning, these two objections wouldn't have been an objection. I mean, would there have been a problem marrying someone closely related to you? No. And how about the law? Who gets to make the law, folks? Elohiym, not us. That law was instituted much further on down the road. So Qayin (Cain) likely married a sister. If you're going to get the human population off the ground with two people, you're going to have to marry a close relative. We're all related here today.

Now people will say, yeah, but Cal(vin), don't. I can see different races, right? They'd look at an audience like this and say, but I can see different races. Where do we get our different shades of skin color? Well, it's actually very complicated, but we know one factor is Melanin. And to just keep it simple, let's say we've got an A type Melanin and a B type Melanin. Let's say you get the uppercase A gene, remember you're getting hair at half from mom, half from dad. So let's say you've got the big A gene, that's gonna produce lots of that type of Melanin.

But if you've got the little a, that just produces a little amount of Melanin, the same with the a or the b type. So when you start to think of the combinations you could get, you start to see how you could get different skin colors based on different combinations. So if we can imagine what Adam and Chavah might have been like, like what would their skin shade have been? We would say they were probably medium brown skin shade because they would have had an equal balance of that big A, little a, big B, little b collection.

They called them "the rainbow family" in the article I saw in the Daily Mail. And you can see dad's got very dark skin and mom's got very light skin. Look at the kids. It's like a color gradient from light to dark and dark to light. Isn't that interesting? This based on what they inherited from mom and dad.

Here's another example. I want you to imagine you see these two girls walking down the street and they're chatting with each other. Most people would look at them and say, Oh yeah, they're two different "races". They're actually twin sisters. Same mom, same dad. How could they possibly be two different "races" if they have the same mom and the same dad?

Folks we're all just variations of the same color. There's not different colors, it's just more or less of the same stuff. We're all one race, one blood. Exactly what the scripture says. Which means if you're a biblical creationist and you're logical, you can't be racist. Because who would you be racist against? Is that not a unifying message from the word of Elohiym?

Of course, it's not just skin color that people try to define race. We get different eye shapes and all sorts of variations within humankind. What's interesting though is in all the people groups we see around the world, we always see every now and then a combination where in this people group, we usually see this eye type or this skin shape, but over here we see, oh yeah, and it shows up. For example, this lady here from Africa, what's the first thing you notice? Well, except for the pipe. She's got Asian looking eyes, but she's from Africa. The concept of racism is completely non-biblical.

It has no basis in reality. Now, it is true that we see these specific people groups all around the world. Does the Bible give us any insight as to how that might have happened? Absolutely. We can look at Bereshiyt (Genesis) 11, talking about the Tower of Babel. Now, the whole world had one language and a common speech. As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. So, they all spoke the same language at this point in history, okay? Bereshiyt (Genesis) 11:4 ESV,

Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole Earth.”

Again, this is in rebellion to Elohiym's word. Bereshiyt (Genesis) 11:5-7 ESV,

And Yahuwah came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. (Bere'shiyt ( Genesis) 11:5)
And Yahuwah said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. (Bere'shiyt ( Genesis) 11:6 ESV)
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.” (Bere'shiyt ( Genesis) 11:7 ESV)

Yahuwah scattered them over the Earth and they stopped building the city. That's why it was called Babel, because there Yahuwah confused the language of the whole world. From there Yahuwah scattered them over the face of the whole Earth.

(NB - inserted) It was at this time that Elohiym made the Continents as we know them today. See Bereshiyt (Genesis) 10:25. Also see the this page for details. Before this date, the Earth was one a single land mass and had a single Sea or Ocean. The Earth was a single Continent.

I mean if somehow miraculously right now, you group of people who could only speak one language and your group of people could only speak one language etc etc, etc. Who are you gonna start marrying if you can only communicate with a certain group of people? You're gonna start marrying people from that group that you can understand. Scientists know that if you take any large group of freely inter-breeding creatures and you separate them somehow geographically or through different means you start getting specific physical traits in that group because they can't inter-breed and get more of the variation.

So when we think about that, applied to the Tower of Babel, you can see that as these languages get separated from each other and they start traveling around the world, we get these specific traits and that's how we explain the different people groups. Not different races, same race, one race, the human race with variations. But don't we see variation within all the kinds created on the planet Earth? If we had a dog show, would all the dogs look the same? No, I'm not comparing people to dogs by the way, but all the creatures have variation.

Why is it racist to make monkey noises towards somebody with darker skin? Where did that concept come from? Right there, where dark-skinned, hairy apes turn into Caucasian, black people turn into white people, and the further down the rung you are, the less 'evolved' you are. That is racist to the core, and almost every child in the West has seen that diagram promoted. Even giants in the evolutionary community like Stephen Jay Gould openly admitted it.

He said biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory. As an atheist and an evolutionist, he admitted that. When he mentions that date, 1859, he's talking about when Darwin published Origin of Species. He talked about the law of natural selection, survival of the fittest. And he didn't talk too much about human origins, but he did touch upon it and said in the distant future, light will be shown on the origin of man and his history.

And then he wrote another book called "The Descent of Man". Now look what he wrote in that book talking about human evolution supposedly. He said at some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races. At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes, that's the apes that look like people, will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will be wider even than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon. Instead of now between the Negro or the Australian and the gorilla. Do you see what he started to do?

He started to categorize things, right? We got apes and then we got apes that look like people and then we got Negroes and we got Caucasians and he started to rank races along an evolutionary scale. And this started in a sense to get codified in science. As a matter of fact, the same year he published "The Descent of Man", Thomas Huxley was known as Darwin's Bulldog. He championed Darwinism.

As an atheist, he said no rational man cognizant of the facts believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. Huxley described Whites as bigger-brained and smaller-jawed. Racist to the core. They'd abandoned the authority of the word of Elohiym... Again, you can look up the research. By 1907, Scientific American was now describing Pygmies this way.

The personal appearance characteristics and traits of the Congo Pygmies say they're small, ape-like, elfish creatures. And then biology textbooks here in your country(USA) started describing the races along a scale. This is by 1914 here in your country(USA). This is a very popular biology book in the school system. And they identified five races of man, Ethiopian, Malay, American Indian, Mongolian, and finally the highest type of all, the Caucasians represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.

You can actually go to YouTube and you can see some of the Nazi propaganda films that they use to lace these racist ideas to accomplish what they accomplished during the Holocaust. Here's one of the quotes from one of those videos, that says, "all weak living things will perish in nature. In the last few decades, mankind has sinned frightfully against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life. We've even allowed it to multiply".

Sometimes they would show Jewish people with mental disabilities and they'd show rat scurrying and they made it into people's heads like, look at these vermin, we've got to get rid of them. I'm not saying evolution is the root problem behind this. You know what the root problem is, folks? It's sin. Sinful mankind latches onto bad ideas to justify their sinful behavior. I constantly keep hearing about this term, "systemic racism". There's a system that teaches racism? There is. It's called the public school system. Teaching that evolution is fact and science.

Bereshiyt (Genesis) 1:27 said Elohiym created man in his own image in the image of Elohiym He created them male and female He created them. We're image bearers. All of us, one race, the human race. We've got atheism rising in our cultures all over the world. I know in Canada we do. Why is that? Because it's constantly being drilled into people's minds. As a matter of fact, in 2004, an anti-Elohiym series called testing Elohiym, that was the name of the series. And in one particular episode called killing the Creator, the narrator says, but why have we turned out the way we are? Once we believed we were unique, blessed with a soul and lovingly created by Elohiym in his image. Today, evolution says we're just a product of natural selection, the descendants of primitive bacteria, not the children of Elohiym. You think that affects the way people think? Folks, think about university. What are you doing when you go to university? You're studying the unity in diversity. That's what university is. Now, years ago in our universities, the unifying factor was the creator Elohiym of the Bible.

So if you studied medicine, you shall not administer an abortive medicine to that child because it's created in the image of Elohiym. Today, what's the unifying message? Evolution is fact. Get rid of spare cats, you get rid of spare kids, it's not really human, etc., etc. I don't know about you, but you know what I do when I get a lot of bacteria in my house, on my counters, I wipe it out. And there's a lot of people on this planet Earth today that believe that there's a lot of people that need to get wiped out. Population reduction, etc. The evolutionist know how damaging the story of evolution is to the biblical worldview.

This is taken from a debate where we've got a Christian supposedly defending the scripture, but he actually believes Elohiym used evolution to create. And the atheist said, "the most devastating thing that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam and Chavah never were real people, the central myth of Christianity is destroyed. If there never was an Adam and Chavah, there never was an original sin. If there never was an original sin, then there's no need of salvation."

And if there's no need of salvation, there's no need of a savior. And I submit, that puts Yahuwshuah, historical or otherwise, into the ranks of the unemployed. No Adam and Chavah, no original Adam. Why do you need a last Adam? It all breaks apart. Even Christianity today, this is a debate in the Christian world now in our colleges, seminaries, etc., etc. And they depicted Adam as an ape man. This is a debate in Christianity now. Was there really a first man Adam? Was he just an ape man?

Galatians 3:28 ESV:

There is neither Yahuwdiy (Jew) nor Goyim (Greek), there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Mashiyach Yahuwshuah

It's a unifying message, but it relates to the Gospel. You see, Romans 5:12 (ESV) says,

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned —

Sin came through one man, Adam. Romans 5.18(ESV) says,

Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.

Look at this, the first Adam and the last Adam. The last Adam was Yahuwshuah. Yahuwshuah is our kinsman-redeemer. Yeshayahuw 59:20 talks about the redeemer coming and Hebrews 2:14 says he shares in flesh and blood, right? He's fully Elohiym, fully man. Acts 17:26, he made from one man every nation of mankind. Only the descendants of Adam can be saved by our Savior Yahuwshuah haMashiyach. So if there's separate races not related to Adam, see, this is a gospel issue.

1 Corinthians 15:21 - 22 ESV,

For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, so also in Mashiyach shall all be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:45 ESV,

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving Ruach (spirit).

1 Corinthians 15:47 ESV,

The first man was from the Earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

You see how important this is? This is a gospel issue.

Natsariym (Christians) should be at the forefront of the anti-racist movement; biblical creationists, especially because we don't believe there're separate races. There's only one race, the human race.

---

A Technical Look at Skin Color Determinant

What Is Melanin?

Answer:

Melanin is a fascinating pigment produced by cells called Melanocytes. It's the primary determinant of skin color and exists in two main forms: Eumelanin (brown to black) and Pheomelanin (red to yellow).

Here's a bit more detail on how it works:

How it is Produced:
Melanocytes produce Melanin in organelles called Melanosomes. These Melanosomes are then transferred to the skin cells, or Keratinocytes.

Distribution:
The amount and type of Melanin in your skin determines its color. For example, a higher concentration of Eumelanin results in darker skin, while a higher concentration of Pheomelanin results in lighter skin.

Genetic Influence:
Yes, the production of Melanin and the specific type present in an individual are largely determined by genetics. Various genes influence the activity of Melanocytes and Melanin production, resulting in the diverse range of human skin tones.

Environmental Factors:
While genetics play a significant role, environmental factors like exposure to sunlight can affect Melanin production. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the Sun can increase Melanin production, leading to tanning as the skin tries to protect itself from damage.

Variability:
Different people have different amounts and types of Melanin. For instance, people with 'albinism' have a genetic mutation that affects Melanin production, resulting in very little or no Melanin and consequently much lighter skin, hair, and eyes.

Melanin isn't just for skin color; it also provides protection against UV radiation, which is why people with darker skin have a lower risk of skin cancer compared to those with lighter skin.

Isn't it amazing how something as small as a pigment can have such a big impact on our appearance and health?