Thank you Alamo Girl for your clarification of this issue. I do study from the Companion Bible which is just a KJV with notes by a wonderful scholar, E.W. Bullinger. If racist people use it to further their beliefs then so be it. They use anything they can. Satan also uses the Bible and twists scripture. The only way we can know them is to know the Bible ourselves and be certain of His word.
There were other men existing on earth before Adam as God tells us in Genesis - mankind. Adam came about after God had rested, on what I assume to be the 8th day. Nowhere are they said to be just another animal. Quite the contrary as God said, after their creation:
Gen.1:27So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created he them.
28.And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
Two things we find there. One, if anyone can interpret that to mean they were as other animals they have a twisted mind. Two, God said to "replenish", not plenish earth. What did that mean? There was a creation, an age, before they were created and it had been done away with, destroyed and they were to replenish it.
But racists wield this belief to mean that all but Adam (presumed to mean ‘white’) are inferior. Adamic man should not interbreed, yada yada.
Adam does mean: Strong's #119, to flush, to turn rosy, etc. Also see 120, 121, 122..
So...to me that states that the Adamic race, from whom Christ came are part of the white race (rudy complected/blush). As far as the rest of "mankind" that were created on the 6th day. Mankind means ALL races.
But racists wield this belief to mean that either the nation of Israel or the descendants of Isaac deserve no special respect from Christians – or, that the Jews are inferior and to be shunned, yada yada.
Hopefully, if anyone has read any of my posts they know that I have always said that the Jewish people are our brothers and sisters. I mean that quite literally.
Thank you again.......Ping
Adversus Haereses (Book I, Chapter 30)
Doctrines of the Ophites and Sethians.
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103130.htm
This should sound somewhat familiar to what you have been mislead into believing