in case you have already made up your recommendations to have faith what you like then do not worry examining any extra. evaluate on the tower of Babel there became a inhabitants of say one hundred,000 human beings (hypothetically speaking). whilst God at a loss for words everybody's language evaluate that there have been not one hundred,000 diverse languages, permit's say there have been 20 new languages. hence one hundred,000 divided with the help of 20 is 5000. So each and every team of 5000 human beings spoke the comparable language yet could not understand people who spoke some thing diverse evaluate that the Bible became not written with the help of all 20 diverse language communities, it basically took one language team to jot down that one journey. even though if it became written in all 20 languages it could nonetheless be the comparable journey in 20 diverse languages. i for my section do not see any difficulty or contradiction. The Bible is inspired with the help of God, infallible and inerrant. The Bible became not written to non believers, it became written to believers who understand that God created the heavens and the earth in six literal days, there is not something unusual or extra stable for God to confuse languages.
2016-11-24 20:17:48
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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Among the major “families” listed by modern philologists are: Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Afro-Asian, Japanese and Korean, Dravidian, Malayo-Polynesian, and Black African. There are many tongues that till now defy classification. Within each of the major families there are many subdivisions, or smaller families. Thus, the Indo-European family includes Germanic, Romance (Italic), Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Greek, Celtic, Albanian, and Armenian. Most of these smaller families, in turn, have several members. Romance languages, for example, embrace French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian.
According to language academies, about 3,000 tongues are spoken today throughout the earth. Some are spoken by hundreds of millions of persons, others by fewer than a thousand. Though the ideas expressed and communicated may be basically the same, there are many ways to express them. The Bible history alone explains the origin of this strange diversity in human communication.
The Genesis account describes the uniting of some part of the post-Flood human family in a project that opposed God’s will as stated to Noah and his sons. (Gen. 9:1) Instead of spreading out and ‘filling the earth,’ they determined to centralize human society, concentrating their residence on a site in what became known as the Plains of Shinar in Mesopotamia. Evidently this was also to become a religious center, with a religious tower.—Gen. 11:2-4.
Almighty God gave their presumptuous project a setback by breaking up their unity of action, accomplishing this by confusing their common language. This made impossible any coordinated work on their project and led to their scattering to all parts of the globe. The confusion of their language would also hinder or slow down future progress in a wrong direction, a God-defying direction, since it would limit mankind’s ability to combine its intellectual and physical powers in ambitious schemes and also make it difficult to draw upon the accumulated knowledge of the different language groups formed—knowledge, not from God, but gained through human experience and research. So, while it introduced a major divisive factor into human society, the confusion of human speech actually benefited human society in retarding the attainment of dangerous and hurtful goals. (Gen. 11:5-9; compare Isaiah 8:9, 10.) One has only to consider certain developments in our own times, resulting from accumulated secular knowledge and man’s misuse thereof, to realize what God foresaw long ago would develop if the effort at Babel were allowed to go unhindered.
Thus, after God confused their language, not only did the builders at Babel lack “one set of words” (Gen. 11:1), one common vocabulary, but they also lacked a common grammar, a common way of expressing the relationship between words.
Language research provides evidence in harmony with the preceding information. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica says: “The earliest records of written language, the only linguistic fossils man can hope to have, go back no more than about 4,000 or 5,000 years.” (1985, Vol. 22, p. 567) An article in Science Illustrated of July 1948 (p. 63) states: “Older forms of the languages known today were far more difficult than their modern descendants . . . man appears not to have begun with a simple speech, and gradually made it more complex, but rather to have gotten hold of a tremendously knotty speech somewhere in the unrecorded past, and gradually simplified it to the modern forms.” Linguist Dr. Mason also points out that “the idea that ‘savages’ speak in a series of grunts, and are unable to express many ‘civilized’ concepts, is very wrong,” and that “many of the languages of non-literate peoples are far more complex than modern European ones.” (Science News Letter, September 3, 1955, p. 148)
2006-09-03 12:42:40
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answered by Jeremy Callahan 4
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