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NASB | Genesis 10:32 ¶ These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations; and out of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 10:32 ¶ These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their descendants, by their nations; and from these [people] the nations were separated and spread abroad on the earth after the flood. [Acts 17:26] |
Bible Question: My Aunt asked me a question that I can't answer, so I bring it to you all... After the flood, it was only noah and his family, so where did all the races come from? I know that God confused the people at the tower of bable with languge... but I don't how to give anymore of an answer than that. |
Bible Answer: Hello msbbic, And welcome to the Forum. The only logical answer (if one is not a racist) is that the diversity of human beings started with our first parents. We have bodies, right? just like other warm-blooded creatures that share the environment in which God made us to live. Man’s uniqueness is not his body but his soul. “And God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, man became a living soul.” (Gen. 2:7) With no other creature did Jesus do this. Our soul is the stamp of the image of our Creator. Although Man himself is not an animal, (which in our day this must be said very strongly) Man’s body is mammalian, and thus we share the characteristics of mammals including the diversity within each “kind.” (Gen. 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25) In the dog “kind” we call that diversity breeds; in mankind we call it races. If God had not destroyed all mankind, except for eight people, in the Flood there probably would have been a greater diversity of races today. As it is, we only have the diversity that came from the eight who remained after the Flood. In my opinion, again, this is the only non-racist, biblical answer. Racist try to find human diversity in the “mark of Cain” (Gen. 4:15) or in the curse of Canaan (Gen. 9:25), but these explanations don’t square with the universal grace we find in the Gospel of Christ, nor the wonderful diversity of mankind we see today. Acts 17:26, 27, “and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us….” Col. 3:9-11, “Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices, and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him-- a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all.” Peace, |