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Christianity is truth, baby. Just that people don't delve deeply enough. I just do my best because u can't always explain God anyway. His supernatural acts sometimes beat logic and when i cant proof that, I'll leave it. But on lil issues i'm convinced about...i'll spill it.

Have i asked u to look at internet stories? Can i ask u to go to an internet site nearest to u? Hope u read my post well.

Here it is again o!

layi:
You don't have to be supernatural to go there. Just google search the nearest branch to u and prolly take a stroll down to see facts.

WesleyanA:
can you highlight the main points of your essay? summary? what ever you're trying to proove? because that post's way too long for me to read.

Urs was long too and u highlighted nothing.

Anyway dont always look for summaries. U'll make mistakes cos half-baked info is no info. I've not made that post to argue wit u but to educate you. Learn to read. No knowledge is lost. Read it when you're more disposed.

Nah, I'm someone not something

WesleyanA:
modern languages evolved from old ones (some are completely erased)
let's use the english language for example. the old version of it sounds/ looks nothing like the modern one because it evolved over time.

U still havent answered the question. If they evolved from old ones. where do the old ones come from? Evolve from thin air?

U May Need To Read This

As far as the great proliferation of different languages among men is concerned, the Biblical account is the only satisfactory explanation. If all men came from one ancestral population, as most evolutionary anthropologists believe today, they originally all spoke the same language. As long as they lived together, or continued to communicate with one another, it would have been impossible for the wide differences in human languages to have evolved.

Therefore, if anthropologists insist on an evolutionary explanation for the different languages, then they must likewise postulate extremely long periods of isolation and inbreeding for the different tribes, practically as long as the history of man himself. This in turn means that each of the major language groups must be identical with a major racial group. Therefore, each "race" must have had a long evolutionary history, and it is natural to assume that some races have evolved more than others. This natural association of racism with evolutionary philosophy is quite significant and has been the pseudoscientific basis of a wide range of racist political and religious philosophies that have wrought untold harm and misery over the years.

On the other hand, it does seem obvious that all the different nations, tribes, and languages among men do have a common origin in the not-too-distant past. People of all nations are all freely interfertile and of essentially equal intelligence and potential educability. Even the "aborigines" of Australia are quite capable of acquiring Ph.D. degrees, and some have done so. Even though their languages are widely different from each other, all can be analyzed in terms of the science of linguistics, and all can be learned by men of other languages, thus demonstrating an original common nature and origin. There is really only one kind of man-namely mankind! In actuality there is only one race among men--the human race.

The source of the different languages cannot be explained in terms of evolution, though the various dialects and similar languages within the basic groups are no doubt attributable to gradual diversification from a common source tongue. But the major groups are so fundamentally different from each other as to defy explanation in any naturalistic framework.

Only the Bible provides an adequate explanation. Originally, after the great Flood, "the whole earth was of one language and one speech" (Gen. 11:1). Because of man's united rebellion against God, however, refusing to scatter throughout the world as He had commanded, and concentrating instead in the vicinity of the original Babylon, "the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth" (Gen. 11:9).

Presumably about seventy families were involved in this dispersion, as suggested by the enumeration of seventy original national groups and tongues in the so-called Table of Nations in Genesis 10. These were represented originally by perhaps a thousand or so individuals, divided into three main ancestral family bodies, the Japhetic, Hamitic, and Semitic. "These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood" (Gen. 10:32).

The rebellion at Babel was not some impossible undertaking, such as attempting to reach heaven with a man-made tower, as one might infer from the King James translation of Genesis 11:4. The words "may reach" are not in the original; the correct sense of the passage apparently connotes the erection of a great temple-tower dedicated to the worship of the "host of heaven," uniting all mankind in worshiping and serving the creature rather than the Creator (Rom. 1:25). The most effective way of halting this blasphemy and of enforcing God's command to fill the earth was that of confounding their languages.

If people could not communicate with each other, they could hardly cooperate with each other. This primeval confusion of tongues emphasizes what modern man often fails to realize: the real divisions among men are not racial or physical or geographic, but linguistic. When men could no longer understand each other, there was finally no alternative for them but to separate from each other.

If anyone is inclined to question this explanation of the origin of the major differences among languages, then let him offer a naturalistic explanation that better accounts for all the facts. No one has done so yet. Obviously a miracle was involved, but the gravity of the rebellion warranted God's special intervention.

Although the major language groups are so different from each other as to make it inconceivable that they could have evolved from a common ancestral language group (except, as noted above, by such a long period of racial segregation as to cause the corresponding races to evolve to different levels themselves), the very fact that all the languages can be evaluated by common principles of linguistics, and that people can manage to learn other languages than their own, implies an original common cause for all of them. Noam Chomsky, who is one of the world's foremost linguists, is convinced that languages, though completely different on the surface, reflect an underlying commonality related to the fundamental uniqueness of man himself.

No doubt the Tower of Babel is merely a figure of speech to Stent as well as to Chomsky, but the figure is appropriate precisely because the miraculous confusion of tongues at Babel does provide the only meaningful explanation for the phenomena of human languages. Thus the "phonological component" of speech (or its surface form) is the corpus of sounds associated with various meanings, through which people of a particular tribe actually communicate with each other. Each phonology is different from the phonology of another tribe so that one group cannot understand the other group. Nevertheless at the "semantic" level, the deep structure, the "universal grammar" (the inner man!), both groups have fundamentally the same thoughts that need to be expressed in words. It was the phonologies or surface forms of languages, that were supernaturally confused at Babel, so that even though all still had the same basic logic and understanding of experience, they could no longer work together and, thus, finally they could no longer stay together, simply because they could no longer talk together.

It is significant that traditions similar to the Babel story exist in various other ancient nations and even in primitive tribes. Although not as frequently encountered as traditions of the great Flood, many tribes do have a tradition of a former age when all people spoke the same language until the languages were confused as a judgment of the gods.

Thus there is good reason to accept the Biblical record of the confusion of tongues at Babel as the true account of the origin of the different major language groups of the world. Evolutionists certainly have no better answer, and the only reason why modern scientists tend to reject it is because it was miraculous. To say that it would have been impossible, however, is not only to deny God's omnipotence but also to assert that scientists know much more about the nature of language than they do.

No one yet adequately understands the brain and its control of human speech. Therefore, no one understands what manner of physiologic changes in the brain and central nervous system would be necessary to cause different groups of people to associate different sounds with any given concept. Perhaps future research will throw light on this phenomenon but, in the meantime, there is no better explanation than that it was God who did "there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech" (Gen. 11:7).


..culled from several sources

You dont have to be supernatural to go there. Just google search the nearest branch to u and prolly take a stroll down to see facts.

Do you have a better explanation for it. Mere evolution? Who did "whoever started one" speak with?

WesleyanA:
as i said earlier, it's real only on TV and stories

...why dont u go check it out? At least u'll be sure its only on TVs

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Thats "Thank You" In Ibadan-yoruba.

Oooops Sorry, u mean in edo? I dont know.

Ecks - Eckankars. Still don't know them?

I want to proove its existence.
U want to proove its non-existence.

That will settle it. By the time u r taken on soul-travel, u'll believe in the supernatural.

Yes I believe the story of the tower of babel. Archelologists say the tower stands in babylonia/southern mesopotamia in Shinar (a land extending into the persian gulf). The event occured shortly after the great Deluge. Believe the deluge/noah's flood too because archelogists have seen fossils of acquatic life on mountain tops -this means the world has once been submerged in water and the mountains became sea beds.
Back to my point. The story has to sound like a folk tale because its GENESIS -beginning . All folk tales try to explain the beginning of things albeit wit lies just for entertainment purpose. Reason why the tower of babel story sounds like one too.
Same wit the story in Eden which could end in "thats why men and women marry today".
Thats not enough reason to discredit the bible.
Take the book seriously because there's power in it.

allonym:
The bible indicates (among other things which I will look up and post later) that slaves should not run away from their masters, women should be seen and not heard, and man should not labour (ie work for pay or personal advancement) on the Sabbath. For the most part, Christians do not agree with these laws (or at least they don't live like they do). So, I ask, why?

Why is it that some things in the bible should be taken literally and others, we can ignore? If I will condemn someone for sexual sin, should I also condemn my ancestors for striving to escape slavery? Why is it that it seems people pick and choose which parts of the bible are relevant to today's life. (Slavery and homosexuality are major examples for those in the USA).

Simple! Christians do not Live by laws but LAW (of love). The Bible is a movement from Judaism (old testament) into Christianity(New testament...which in fact actually starts from The book of Acts).

The bible isnt some keypoints or nuggets thats summarized. neither is it medication where u take 1 shot/verse in the morn, 1 oin the afternoon and expect it to start working right away. It don't work that way.
U've got to read the bible in its entirety to understand it fully. Never take words out of context. Sometimes Stuff in Genesis are explained in John.
I don't need to put down much here. Lets see where your argument is specifically. Clarify your post.

Its my question not urs. u didnt answer it.

Anyway, just go to the nearest Eck temple and attend their meeting for a month. ur life will change. I'm not eck but it would do no harm since u dont believe in the supernatural.

This thing is crap. I've seen twins who r opposites character-wise.

Will u take up a challenge just to proove its non-existence.

Hottie...do u speak owo language?

Wes.. u dont believe in supernatural powers exist ?

Hottie. The list is already on top of this page. Na wa o

nike4luv:
MARCH
......... Loves peace and serenity.
Easily angered. ..........Revengeful.

its funny..all the things are soo me

How do these go together. U love peace and yet revengeful lol
R u sure that u Demi ?

@omogenikky
lol love must be colourful then lol

lol

I'm from the Center of excellence.


wes , when did u leave Nigeria and how often do u come home?

Its ok bof of ya. This is painful to errone. Lets trash it...  but i still insist. Things like this shouldnt bee happening.We have great minds. What can we do? I still don't believe nothing can be done.

U'll look better if u grew up in d better countries. The weather and stress here is killin (uglyrizing).


I cant get my hand on his picture. His name is Walter sha. Top Nigerian Models know him. I dont really know where he is now.
He made me believe a man can be pretty

Dancing In the Sun - Onyeka Onwenu

snazzydawn:
Kadejayi!Kadejayi!Kadejayi!but seriously,are you sure its his real pic because that pic looks too good to be true.Anyways,he sure is goodlooking.

What is too good to be true? U nor expect say nigerian fit fine like that? U dissapoint me. Come to modela in lagos and see fine bobos/models. Walter...(the top model that got the highest bid at Girls night out) is hotter than kay. Those who grew up outside always look better anyway. Add the half caste thingy what do u expect?

I feel u kay..reason y i pasted your pic.