Why do people think the races were introduced at the time of the tower of Babel?

Question

Genesis 1:26 God created all races on the sixth day.
Genesis 2:2 God rested on the seventh day.
Genesis 2:5 God "...and there was not a man to till the ground."
Genesis 2:7 God created man (Adam='adam {aw-dawm'}).
Don't forget to keep the subject, Gen 2:5,"...and there was not a man to till the ground."

Genesis 11 is when God divided the languages only, because the people wanted to build a tower up to Heaven; they wanted salvation in their own way.
Keep the subject, Genesis 11:4.

Think about it.

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Source: King James Bible

Answer 1

The races with which we see today we're not started by the Tower of Babel. It was only the beginning of the different languages.

Answer 2

I've never heard anybody say that the races were introduced at Babel. I have heard people claim that the races began to be sorted then; in other words, all people were a sort of middle brown until then, and then, when people separated, some groups tended toward lighter skin and some tended toward darker skin.

As far as your Genesis 1/Genesis 2 breakdown, chapter 2 is a recap of day 6, with a focus on man; it wasn't a new day. Adam and Eve were created on day 6, not day 8.

Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Genesis 3:20 ¶And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Answer 3

A) Anyone who still, after all the research and data, reads the first chapters of Genesis and takes it for a literal retelling of historically accurate events doesn't deserve to be enlightened.

B) That being said, those who confuse this issue are simply attempting through their desperation, to take that which wasn't in Scripture and hook it to something, ANYTHING that is. After all, if your belief system is hanging by the thread of literalism, then well.........

C) Racial disparities are the direct result of genetic mutation as a response to varying climates, weather conditions, nutritional availabilities and procreative habits of the individuals involved.

D) Linguistic differentiation probably began at the same time as language first developed. Since by then, the various groups of humans were physically distanced one from another, it's no wonder that each group specified a different sound for a different concept or object. Now if only Alexander Graham Bell had been around then, he might have prevented this differentiation, but sadly, he had to wait for several thousand more years before making his appearance and inventing his long-distance talker, thereby beginning the reunification of language.

Answer 4

Race was not actually created at the tower of babel, that was just the action that caused people to disperse. As a result of geographical dispersion, coupled with the changes in the Earth as a result of the flood and the beginning of continental drift which further moved people apart, people began to experience the removal of unfavorable DNA from their gene pool. This would have taken a few generations after the tower or Babel.

Answer 5

About the 20th century B.C.E., contrary to God's command to spread out and "fill the earth," humans made an effort to control all society at the Plains of Shinar, in Mesopotamia, and began building the religious Tower of Babel. Language diversity originated when God confused their common language, thwarting their dangerous and hurtful plans.—Genesis 1:28; 11:1-9.

Answer 6

(OK... thinking about it, as instructed.)

Ahhh... the basis for the story of the Tower of Babel is the Biblical view of the universe, in which all that exist are the earth and heaven, which are separated by a solid 'firmament', and upon which the sun, moon and a few thousand stars are hung. In other words, the firmament is the SKY... and heaven is on the other side of the sky.

So, people started to build the tower of Babel in order to reach heaven (on the other side of the sky) and confront god. God became fearful that they would actually succeed in encroaching upon his domain, and so he confounded their speech so the could not succeed.

The most revealing thing about this story is NOT the fact that people had such a bizarre understanding of what he universe was like... it is that God, the creator, is such a dumbass that HE is not even aware of the configuration of the universe that he, himself, created. This bone-head deity, just like the creatures that he created, thinks that he lives on the other side of the sky.

Answer 7

basically a small history lesson will coach that if the Tower of Babel existed, it exchange into in Mesopotamia, the Mesopotamian human beings have been referred to as the Sumerians, the Sumerians have been Polytheistic i.e. that they had many gods. So very rapidly we see that this could properly be a faux and plagiarized biblical account. there exchange into no 'one' god. Like maximum thoughts interior the bible, a the tale is the thank you to describe the obtrusive, the place did distinctive languages come from in this actual delusion, the hebrews ought to teach how "stable" their god exchange into as properly as provide a proof for languages. The learn of languages easily debunks the tower of babel tale. If the tower of babel tale have been authentic, of course all languages could be considered to have pop out of one single vital section. that's lots removed from actuality. surely, we see the exchange in languages as communities of humankind grew to alter into geographically remoted from their unique custom. you may see the similarities in root words with consistent shorted or lengthed-broadened or cut back short. that's certainly documented and basically people who're completely cheating with real information could have faith otherwise.

Answer 8

My bible doesn't say anything about God creating all races on the sixth day. It also doesn't say that they were made at the tower of Babel. It does say that God created man in his image and that people talked in different languages at the tower of Babel.

Answer 9

Gen. 11:8 "Accordingly Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth, and they gradually left off building the city. 9 That is why its name was called Ba´bel, because there Jehovah had confused the language of all the earth, and Jehovah had scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth."
After God confused their languages, he scattered them all over the earth. No doubt they had to marry their relatives, and some of the genes got passed around in each little group creating different looking groups of people. Over time, members within these groups kept marrying eachother and having children and so on until there were races that developed.

Answer 10

""Genesis 1:26 God created all races on the sixth day.""
Could they not be all the same and still be unified as ALL RACES?

It is most logical to think that Race and Language be tied/associated.