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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Could I ask you, do you believe that God meant for everyone to have the same kind of skin, hair, eyes, or facial bone structures? Will people in Heaven have different aesthetic appearances? Or did God's image originally want everyone to be one color?

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

God's means of shaping humans is evolution. Evolution implies that God wants people to be optimized for their environment, and therefore people should vary. The Old Testament rejects the idea of Heaven and Hell (Ecclesiastes 3:18-22).

The creation of mankind is first mentioned in Genesis 1:27 which I would translate from Hebrew differently. I would translate it as "So God created mankind in His own image; He created it in the image of God; He created them male and female.". Of course the image of God is kind of meaningless since it is never described. So the idea here is just that God and mankind have something in common, not that all original people were clones.