Tower of Babel Quotes

“other words, the gospel must first be preached to all nations — that is, to some representatives of all nations, not every single person from that day until today.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“that is, to some representatives of all nations, not every single person from that day until today.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“For example, John Dunphy in The Humanist magazine states: I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects the spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort . . . utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level — preschool, day care, or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new — the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with all its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“The language of the Jews was not called Hebrew but instead what is translated as "Judean." It was also used in 2 Kings 18:28,11 2 Chronicles 32:18,12 Nehemiah 13:24,13 Isaiah 36:11,14 and Isaiah 36:13.15 In all fairness, however, what is known as "Hebrew" today is likely this Judean language.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“The first mention of Hebrew as a language is in John 5:2,10 which was originally written in Greek, and some translators say this reference should be to Aramaic. However, the root word is Eber, signifying it probably is Hebrew.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“However, nowhere in Genesis 11 is Hebrew stated to be the "mother tongue," so Mozeson's presupposition is lacking at a foundational level. In fact, the first mention of Hebrew in the Bible is with Abram (Genesis 14:139). But it does not refer to language — instead, it says that Abram was a Hebrew (descendant of Eber). In fact, every mention of Hebrew in the Old Testament refers to a person being a Hebrew, rather than to Hebrew as a language.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“If one language survived, the most likely scenario would be that it was a Semitic language, since the Hebrews, who were Semites, were blessed by God.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“there is a possibility that Noah's descendants could easily have read previous documents passed down from patriarchs back to Adam. The presence of the 11 toledoths in Genesis, and the fact that Genesis 5:1 says, "This is the book [cepher, the normal Hebrew word for "book"] of the genealogy [toledoth] of Adam" (brackets mine) is strong evidence that when Moses compiled Genesis into its present form, he was working with existing written documents passed on from the patriarchs.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“As well, it would be difficult to believe that God, who places such an emphasis on His written Word (e.g., Mark 12:261) as well as the Living Word (e.g., John 1:142), would be so negligent as to forget such things as the creation of writing to those who are made in the image of God (Genesis 9:6”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“Furthermore, there was a real person named Hercules found in Greek genealogies who was a Greek king ruling over Lydians in Asia Minor. His wife's name was Dejanira. He died 11 years before the Fall of Troy, which was during the time of the Judges. This was during the Heroic Age of the Greeks when the last few people who were seen as gods were still living.15 So this transference was applied to an ancestor who was elevated to a god-like status.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“The most glaring example of this is the Greek account of Samson. The mythos of Hercules parallels the life of Samson, a heroic judge who lived before the Kings of Israel. Biblical commentator Adam Clarke researched the subject of Hercules and the connection to Samson. He wrote in summary of extended comments: The conformity between these adventures of Samson and Hercules is self-evident, and proves beyond a doubt that the fable of the one was composed from the history of the other. The remark of Herodotus respecting the impossibility of this last adventure, according to the Greek tradition, and the folly of attributing it to the Egyptians, serves to confirm the truth of its having been borrowed, and of its being but a disfigured copy, whose original must be sought for elsewhere. In fact, it appears that Samson, judge of the Israelites, particularly mentioned in the book of Judges, and by Josephus, Ant. lib. v., c. 10, is the original and essential Hercules of fable; and although the poets have united some particulars drawn from Moses and Joshua, and have added their own inventions, yet the most capital and considerable belong to Samson, and are distinguished by characteristics so peculiar to him, as render him easily discernible throughout the whole.13 One might argue that the Greeks had little connection with the history of the Judges of Israel.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“This Jewish thought was likely due to Jews having been influenced by the pagan cultures, and this was their response (recall how often they fell into practicing Baal worship, who, as pointed out above, was Belus or otherwise Nimrod). It was extremely common for nations to adopt the beliefs of the conquering nations or people assimilating with them. After Judah and Israel were conquered by nations like Assyria, Babylon, Persia, and Greece, their paganism started to permeate the culture.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“What it was in their view was that fallen, ungodly angels and women married and produced these evil superhuman demi-gods called nephilim, who were naturally giant in size. This view has had a resurgence in recent times among Christians, and though I love and respect these Christians, this author must respectfully disagree.2 It is important to note that Answers in Genesis does not take an official ministry position in the debate over who or what the nephilim were, outside of rejection of the now oft-repeated "alien view.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“Looking at the ages of people born after the Flood, the ages experience a sudden drop but are stabilized at about 450 years or so: 1 Arphaxad 438 Genesis 11:12–13 2 Shelah 433 Genesis 11:14–15 3 Eber 464 Genesis 11:16–17 So the ages seem to drop significantly where Shem, who was born prior to the Flood, lived to 600. After the Tower, ages suddenly drop from about 450 years to about 235 years or so for three generations: 1 Peleg 239 Genesis 11:18–19 2 Reu 239 Genesis 11:20–21 3 Serug 230 Genesis 11:22–23 Even two generations after this, Terah lived to only 205.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“So, early generations after the Flood, like early generations after the Garden of Eden, saw marriages between people who were close relatives. Of course, such close intermarriage was not forbidden until the time of Moses (Leviticus 18). Regardless, this bottleneck saw the loss of genetic information from the gene pool of those who died in the Flood.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“So I suggest that the 78 is a minimum number of language families (that is a tally of those listed in Genesis 10 subtracting Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth, and Peleg).”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“Dr. John Gill suggests that people have reasoned that Ham's actions in Genesis 9 may have involved castration or something that rendered Noah impotent (Gill mentions a number of claims that have been proposed). He further relates that this may be the reason for the widespread mythologies of Jupiter castrating his father Saturn, and Chronus his father Uranus.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“But this author has been curious as to why Noah's wife was absent during all of this in Genesis 9. It seemed strange that it was the responsibility of Shem and Japheth to cover their father, unless Noah's wife was gone or perhaps had already died (perhaps the very reason for Noah's state of drunkenness).”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“Language families can help to a degree, but unless the exact history, migrations, and genealogies are known, some big pieces to the puzzle may be missing.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“Spanish chronicler and historian Francisco Colin draws a connection between the Malay (Malaysia), the Filipinos (Philippines), and the mainland region of Malaca: Of the nature, languages, and letters of the Filipinos: In accordance with the origin which we ascribed to the civilized nations of these islands in chapter four, so also are their capacity, languages, and letters. They are descendants of the Malays of the mainland of Malaca, whom they also resemble in their capacity, languages, and letters. From the shape, number, and use of the characters and letters of this nation it is quite evident that they are all taken from the Moro Malays and originated from the Arabs.5 This was likely the result of Islamic expansion into the islands after Muhammad. Colin suspects that the Pacific islands are a mix of people who were Japonic (of Javan), Chinese (of Sinites of Ham), and Indian (of Joktan). Colin also suggests that Filipino Indians came through New Guinea and all have Malay descent.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“The name Tanasi is very similar to Tanais, which was the old name for the Don River north of the Black Sea. Tanais was associated with the people of Tubal originally and may be a reflection of his name. Many of Tubal's descendants (Iberians, Siberians) were moving to the region of Siberia, which is in the direction of the Bering Strait land bridge to the Americas. This is one of the most probable groups to make it to the Americas by land bridge.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“In Louisiana, there is a city, swamp, and region that has the name Manchac but is pronounced "Meshech." Could this be a connection to one of the biblical Meshechs listed in Genesis 10? It is possible.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“The Medes, Parthians, Persians, and some others who spoke the same language like in Bactria, combined were deemed the Aryan people. And the language of Darius the Mede was called "Aryan."39 This is likely the name of the language of the Medes (or possibly the old Persian language) that dominated much of the area. Map of Asshur and his descendants What is interesting is that the term Aryan was adopted by the Nazis and Adolf Hitler in the early 20th century to describe a people group they deemed as purely Germanic (must be of one people group) and more "evolved" than the rest of European peoples and the rest of the world. And yet, the true Aryans were one of the most famous groups of people who were of mixed descent.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“Josephus, a Jewish historian living at the latter part of the first century, points out that Armenia (and hence, the Urartu people) are descendants of Hul, the son of Aram, the son of Shem, the son of Noah.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“The Uraratu people (spelled "rrt" in Hebrew, the identical spelling of Ararat in Hebrew)2 settled in this region, and their name was essentially given to this range of mountains. Moses, having been educated in Egypt, was aware of this people group, and these mountains that were named for this people group. So when editing Genesis together, he used the name "Ararat.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“How long would it take for people to travel to the Americas? Oard suggests: Sixty years is a crude back-of-the-envelope calculation to estimate the minimum time it would take to reach South America. The actual migration would likely have been more complicated and slower. Migration could have happened in spurts. Some tribes could have settled for a while in a location before moving on22 [emphasis Oard's].”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“Though continental division and shifting in the days of Peleg appears feasible from a superficial reading of Genesis 10:25 in isolation, this concept has some major problems associated with it: 1. When Genesis 10:25 is read within the context of the whole of Genesis 10, the four other verses (5, 18, 20, and 32) speaking of the division clearly emphasize that this was a linguistic and family division of all post-Flood people into different lands (geographical locations). 2. Had the division of continents occurred during the days of Peleg, then the associated catastrophism would have resulted in another worldwide Flood, in violation of God's specific promise to Noah. 3. Had the division of continents occurred during the days of Peleg, then the ark (with Peleg's ancestors) would have had no place to land, as the mountains of Ararat produced by continental collisions would not have yet existed. 4. There is tremendous fossil and geologic evidence for continental division having occurred only during the Flood. We, therefore, gently and lovingly encourage our brothers and sisters in Christ to refrain from claiming the division of continents occurred during the days of Peleg. The phrase "for in his days the earth was divided" in Genesis 10:25 needs to be kept and read within its context of Genesis 10 to give the statement its correct meaning.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“Creation scientists and Flood geologists do not deny that these continents may have been connected to one another in the past as a single supercontinent in light of Genesis 1:9. Actually, it was a Christian geologist named Antonio Snider in 1859 who was the first person to publicly comment on this jigsaw puzzle fit of all the continents, except that he believed the spreading apart and separation of the continents occurred catastrophically during the Genesis Flood.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“The total minimum number of languages that may have come out of Babel according to Genesis 10 may have been at least 78, assuming Noah, Ham, Shem, Japheth, and Peleg did not receive a new language. This excludes some descendants of Shem who are given slight mention in Genesis 11:11–17; they may have also received a language”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel

“Take a look at the changes in Matthew 6:92 over the course of about 1,000 years (this does not take into account accents and shifting in sounds). Beginning of Matthew 6:9 Date Our Father who art in heaven and/or Our Father who is in heaven Late Modern English (1700s) Our father which art in heauen Early Modern English (1500–1700) (KJV 1611) Oure fader that art in heuenis Middle English (1100–1500) Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum Old English (c. a.d. 1000) One thousand years ago, English looked somewhat German. But to make things worse, English is actually classified as a Germanic language, along with languages like Swedish, German, Norwegian, Dutch, Afrikaans, Austrian, Icelandic, and so on.”
― Bodie Hodge, Tower of Babel