Jane,
H. G. Wells may have been a pagan but lets look at what the Bible says about the birth of language.
After the flood God blessed Noah and his sons (Ham, Shem and Japheth) and said to them "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth" Gen. 9:1. This means that with there wives and future offsprings they were to spread throughout the world and not remain in the area. But after 300 years they still had not gone on there ways but instead of filling the earth they established a ancient city of Babylon, a city founded by Nimrod a grandson of Ham. This is obvious modern day Iraq. Scripture specifically tells us that Shem was still alive at this time and that he did not die until several hundred years later at the age 600, 500 years after the flood, Gen.11:10-11.
These descendants of Noah said to themselves, "come let us build a city and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth" Gen. 11:4. In other words they made plans to deliberately disobey God's command to disperse throughout the world. Angered by this, God declared the name of this place to be called Babel, because it was there that the Lord confused the language of the whole earth, and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth, verse 9.
Thus, Biblically how the world got there different languages.
Puddinhead
P.S.--Jane, do you know yet? |
