Question about different races and languages.

[J.C.]

When witnessing to some one and they ask,"If everything started with Adam and Eve, then how can there be different races and languages?" I have never been really able to answer them. I am just asking for help on how to answer them.

Thanks,

J.C.

[Ovedya]

Tower or Babel.

[Guest Fisherofmen]

Yep. When all of their children, and all their childrens' children had families they would split up since there was so much room. So they grew apart, more and more. And when they tried to build a tower to reach Heaven, God twisted their speech and made it impossible for them to understand one another. Everyone spoke a different language. So when they spoke to their children growing up, they just adopted it since that was what they grew up with. And they taught their children, and theirs, just like we do today.

[J.C.]

Ok, what about White people, Black people, Asians, etc... Where did different races come from? Was this also at Babel?

[Crusader4Christ]

I believe the different races could have come from the three sons of Noah, Shem Ham and Japheth. I'm not positive, but I'm guessing that this is where the three primary races started. There may have been only one race before the flood, and then after the flood, the three primary races that we know of today started with the three sons of Noah. This is just speculation however on my part. Also, due to the Tower of Babel, many languages were created.

[sail2awe]

Hello,

Let me see if I can help with this subject of much not discussed and mostly mistranslated and misrepresented concept.

1st, let us agree that God confounding languages does not result in different color peopled, nor can different color people, races and nations come from the same color, or race of people. Ever one after their own kind is how God creates everything.

We have in Gen 1:26 the creation of man[kind]. Why do I say that? Well, first of all, the article; meaning the identifying word "the" is not present. In the first 5 days, the creation, including animals are concluded, each after its own kind.

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So, man is made, in general. These are the races. Did God say it was good? No, God did not say that. God said it was VERY GOOD!!!

It is a little more complex, but for the purpose of introducing the answer, let us move to Genesis 2:1, where we see:

Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

Now this word "host" is a multitude in the Hebrew. So, God rests on day 7 in verse 2, then we continue to move forward in time, where God decides to "form", not create, the man Adam, with the article. In Hebrew it is rendered "eth haAdam", or the man Adam. It is this man whom the seed would bring Christ into the world. Most teachers will tell you that ch2 is a parenthetical, but that is not so, and anyone familiar with Dr Ginsburgs work will know that ch1 and ch2 are a continuance, not a retake of what was already stated.

Furthermore, in Genesis 2, the animals are created after the man Adam, which is the opposite of the sequence of ch1.

So it is this one man Adam who God forces, takes, catches up, into the garden which God makes.

this should get you started into the deeper studies regarding the creation sequences.

Mankind "created" on day 6, and it was very good; the man Adam created following the 7th day, where "host"s of man[kind] is already on the earth.

Now you know how Cain could have found a wife after his expulsion from the presence of Adam and Eve. Cain married one of the woman from the 6th day creation.

Edited September 23, 2004 by sail2awe