GENESIS 10

Between moving house and settling in to a new city I haven't really had time to keep up on my blogs, not to mention trying to decide whether to write about some particular passage which seems to have no baring on anything... perhaps skipping them so I can get to the real juicy chapters of the bible but, that wouldn't be very thorough. Perhaps I can eek a little insight out of even the most boring of verses in this book, so it begins with all the begatting...

When I was younger this was the part in the bible I thought was a real page turner; it was so boring I just kept turning the page until the next chapter. 

GENESIS 10

THE TABLE OF NATIONS

1 This is the account of Shem, Ham and Japheth, Noah’s sons, who themselves had sons after the flood.

THE JAPHETHITES

2 The sons of Japheth:

Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshek and Tiras.

3 The sons of Gomer:

Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah.

4 The sons of Javan:

Elishah, Tarshish, the Kittites and the Rodanites.

5 (From these the maritime peoples spread out into their territories by their clans within their nations, each with its own language.)

THE HAMITES

6 The sons of Ham:

Cush, Egypt, Put and Canaan.

7 The sons of Cush:

Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah and Sabteka.

The sons of Raamah:

Sheba and Dedan.

8 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who became a mighty warrior on the

earth.

Wait... Nimrod? Seriously?

9 He was a mighty hunter before theLord; that is why it is said, “Like Nimrod, mighty hunter before the Lord.”

10 The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad and Kalneh, in Shinar.

11 From that land he went to Assyria, where he built Nineveh,Rehoboth Ir, Calah

12 and Resen, which is between Nineveh and Calah—which is the great city.

13 Egypt was the father of the Ludites, Anamites, Lehabites, aphtuhites,

15 Canaan was the father of

Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites, 

16 Jebusites, Amorites, Girgashites, 

17 Hivites, Arkites, Sinites,

18 Arvadites, Zemarites and Hamathites.  Later the Canaanite clans scattered 

19 and the borders of Canaan reached from Sidon toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and then toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboyim, as far as Lasha.

20 These are the sons of Ham by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.  The Semites

21 Sons were also born to Shem, whose older brother was Japheth; Shem was the ancestor of all the sons of Eber.

22 The sons of Shem:

Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram.

23 The sons of Aram:

Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek.

24 Arphaxad was the father of Shelah,

and Shelah the father of Eber.

25 Two sons were born to Eber:

One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

26 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, 

27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, 

28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba, 

29 Ophir, Havilah and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

30 The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

31 These are the sons of Shem by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.

32 These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.

Blah, blah, blah.  I know this goes someway towards explaining, biblically, the genealogy for all the races in the world etc, but... but it doesn't actually explain how our species got all the races of the world in around 6,000 years.  From all the information I have to hand we have adapted (evolved) to suit the kind of climate we settled in over the last 195,000 years, which is a sod of a long time!  I'm sure it can be said that we can't relate to any length of time over 50-60 years from which is borne an argument from personal incredulity, a logical fallacy.  This logical fallacy can be so much a part of the believers believing in an invisible man in the sky that, despite mountains of growing evidence to the contrary, they can't accept that their adopted form of dogma is both pointless and wrong...yawn.

  I used to be spiritual, heck, I used to be a christian so I know what I am talking about.  When we find something that makes sense of the senseless you will try to take any small thing and make it a proof, or a grasp at straws, of your own beliefs.  At some point you have to just man up and accept the evidence put before you.  Hard, solid evidence.  Problems are more easily solved with science so invoking some supernatural being to be the answer you can't find is an uphill battle fought by lazy thinkers, inventive but lazy. 

  In short, I have nothing against believers, each to their own.  However, when a believer does something stupid in the name of, or because of, their god,  I have a problem.  Anyone can have an imaginary friend, I have no problem with that, it's a little kooky but, whatever.  If their imaginary friend tells them to do things, shit will hit the fan... and medication should be considered.  

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Justin