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What language did Adam and Eve speak?
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Pegg
Jehovah our God is One
Hebrew.
I say this because of the bibles account that, at one time, all the families of the earth spoke one language. At the tower of Babel incident, God put new languages into the minds of the people who wanted to build the tower.
The only family who did not participate in the building of Nimrods city was the family of noah and his son Shem. So there is no reason to think that God gave Shems family one of these new languages. And if he didnt, then Shems descendents are the ones who are still speaking the original language of mankind.
Breathe
Hostis humani generis
I've never heard this before; who says this?
This is really sad ...
Pegg
Jehovah our God is One
the account in the bible at Genesis 10 lists the sons of Shem Ham and Jepheth (Noahs 3 sons) and their children:
10 And this is the history of Noahs sons, Shem, Ham and Ja′pheth.
Now sons began to be born to them after the deluge.
2 The sons of Ja′pheth were Go′mer and Ma′gog and Ma′da·i and Ja′van and Tu′bal and Me′shech and Ti′ras.....
6 And the sons of Ham were Cush and Miz′ra·im and Put and Ca′naan....8 And Cush became father to Nim′rod. He made the start in becoming a mighty one in the earth. 9 He displayed himself a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah. That is why there is a saying: Just like Nim′rod a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom came to be Ba′bel and E′rech and Ac′cad and Cal′neh, in the land of Shi′nar.
21 And to Shem, the forefather of all the sons of E′ber, the brother of Ja′pheth the oldest, there was also progeny born. 22 The sons of Shem were E′lam and As′shur and Ar·pach′shad and Lud and A′ram.
Of these 3 family groups, Shems sons produced the line that led to Abraham...it has always been this line who have remained as servants of the true God...thats why God promised Abraham that he would make a great nation out of him, ie the Nation of Israel. The nation of Isreal still speak Hebrew and their holy writings are written in hebrew...so naturally Gods servants of the past were hebrew speaking because Shem & his sons was not involved in building the tower...only the descendents of Japheth and Ham did so they are the descendents who had their languages changed from hebrew into other languages.
We can also see from the account how these sons were distributed:
Of Nimrod the account says: 11 Out of that land he (nimrod) went forth into As·syr′i·a and set himself to building Nin′e·veh and Re·ho′both-Ir and Ca′lah 12 and Re′sen between Nin′e·veh and Ca′lah: this is the great city.
13 And Miz′ra·im became father to Lu′dim and An′a·mim and Le·ha′bim and Naph·tu′him 14 and Path·ru′sim and Cas·lu′him (from among whom the Phi·lis′tines went forth) and Caph′to·rim.
15 And Ca′naan became father to Si′don his firstborn and Heth 16 and the Jeb′u·site and the Am′or·ite and the Gir′ga·****e 17 and the Hi′vite and the Ark′ite and the Si′nite 18 and the Ar′vad·ite and the Zem′a·rite and the Ha′math·ite; and afterward the families of the Ca′naan·ite were scattered.
these were all the nations surrounding Israel who were always at war with Israel.
jarofthoughts
Empirical Curmudgeon
Swedish! :fight:
Terrywoodenpic
Oldest Heretic
If they were the first people who taught them a language.???
This question will probably have varying answers depending on which religion's perspective one is speaking from.
I think that many people are inclined to view certain religious concepts, such as "God's preferred language," for example, from a culturally influenced angle.
I think that many people are inclined to view certain religious concepts, such as "God's preferred language," for example, from a culturally influenced angle.
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
I'm pretty sure it's english since the bible is written in english and also god loves america the most.
LOL I could see Adam and Eve being like, 'Yo god where ya at dawg?"
Good point, waitasec. :yes:
I don't see how it would be possible to have any language without some sort of dualistic value system.
If nothing else, adjectives would be out of the question.
waitasec
Veteran Member
dunka...Good point, waitasec. :yes:
I don't see how it would be possible to have any language without some sort of dualistic value system.
If nothing else, adjectives would be out of the question.
a world without adjectives would be a sad world indeed and on top of that, there would be no words to describe it
Having given this much thought (I have no life), since the world was created ca. 4,000 BCE (tongue firmly in cheek), that means the language of the area would have been Proto-Afroasiatic, which includes what are now the Semitic languages... Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, Ancient Egyptian, Arabic and almost 400 more langauges. So, Adam and Eve probably spoke Proto-Afroasiatic.
Since it is a symbolic story to me, then Adam and Eve are symbolic of early men and women- cavemen, maybe. I don't know what language they spoke- either does anyone else.
More than likely I think A&E would have spoken Hebrew.
One English teacher taught that Hebrew is a very comprehensive language.
Since God created the gift of language it would seem logical to me God would choose a comprehensive language.
Until the time of Genesis [11 v 1] the whole earth was of one language/one speech.