This is our weekly installment of this great series on Genesis by KD Manes. Enjoy
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.” – Genesis 10:32
You may read Genesis 10 here: Gateway Bible
The title “table of nations” is given because it tracks the connected beginnings of several people groups, all descendants of Noah’s three sons.
Chapters 10 and 11 record the division of nations that develop into individual cultures. The Tower of Babel described in chapter 11 is first referenced in chapter 10 with Noah’s descendants separating into nations.
Noah’s Descendants
Japheth (10:1-5)
This is the shortest section and lists fourteen of Japheth’s descendants that split into two groups. The group that settled in Europe became the coastline people that the apostle Paul later shared the Gospel with. The other group landed in India (Asia Minor). Bible nations that formed from Japheth are…
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Truth in Palmyra 
August 2, 2015 at 16:38
I thought this was excellent. I always find biblical geneologies hard to follow.
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August 2, 2015 at 16:40
I have to say KD is doing a great job with this Genesis study; that is why I am reblogging it every Friday. Yes, and you are a lawyer, it should be easy for you to follow! Imagine how the rest of us feel!
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August 2, 2015 at 17:24
Of course, you know that the story of Noah’s Flood is simply fiction, of course, yes?
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August 3, 2015 at 10:23
Why be so narrow minded in your delusion? It was a massive and cataclysmic upheaval of the waters above and the waters below. Flood indeed, but let’s be honest here. It was more than a flood.
But a stone god holding a cork against the avalanche of truth in God’s word is well, not too smart. Greater minds have all come up empty against the word of God, and stronger men have been reduced to insignificant weaklings against God Himself.
Oh how God is patient in the midst of people who are blind to His obvious handiwork.
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August 3, 2015 at 10:09
After three days in ‘moderation’ over at the original site, I thought I’d re-post my comment here:
“Too bad this story doesn’t line up with actual human migration. The Genographic project has produced a pretty good video of the paths and timelines of this migration mutually supported by a host of physical evidence in many fields of study as well as compelling genetic and linguistic evidence (note: it could have lined up with Genesis but, unfortunately for biblical well-wishers, factually does not).”
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August 3, 2015 at 18:40
Tildeb take a look at ColorStorm s comment. That’s more than enough for you to ponder. Not deleting your link but be warned this is not your forum to preach your rebellion.
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August 3, 2015 at 20:56
Do you wonder why you spent three days in moderation over there? Sheesh. Note your last comment is gone? Since you have so much to say, why don’t you get a blog? Because you aren’t saying it here. If you actually wanted conversation, I am game, Heck I even talk to Ark. That should tell you something Tildeb. Conversation is two way, not one way rants.
I also includes answering questions when asked, which you adamantly refuse to ever under any circumstances do.
So, again. How has MY faith harmed YOU specifically. I ask that because you make this very personal, and any reasonable person would assume that I specifically have harmed you specifically. Which of course is ludicrous, as I have not. But see what you can do with that, in less than 20,000 words. By the way, that was a little hyperbole, but you get the point.
Tell exactly how I specifically have harmed you specifically in concise quantifiable words or don’t bother coming around here any more. See how that works? Few words, clear point, It’s easy and you can do it, I promise.
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August 3, 2015 at 22:40
Okay.
Final comment to you here.
Throughout our ‘dialogue’, you have intentionally maligned my character repeatedly by making assertions about atheists that are false. That’s the reason why I comment. I’ve explained how and why you are incorrect and why they promote harm. I have explained how and why various comments and posts you make are lies, about how your comments and posts malign the character of atheists generally and me specifically by asserting that our ability to be moral and ethical agents equal to (and often of higher quality) to believers. I have criticized you repeatedly for casting aspersions about our motivations to do actions, about how you misrepresent our ethical standards you assume to be other than what they are and I’ve explained how and why, misrepresent and even lie about our ability to have meaning and purpose where you assert we cannot for lack of agreeing to your so-called ‘objective’ religious standards and I’ve explained how and why. Every explanation I make you treat as a rant and of too many words and never as a legitimate means to have an honest and open and respectful dialogue.
You don’t want a dialogue, Wally; you want to believe what you believe, surround yourself with and echo chamber, and to hell with anyone who might be harmed by the promotion of your beliefs.
Your adjectives repeatedly malign my character specifically, malign my motives specifically, malign my intentions specifically. You then either lie about it or pretend your justification is some perceived tonal quality you don’t like – ie. the truth; instead, you pretend there’s been some misunderstanding on the part of atheists. You then misrepresent what has been written, what has been meant, what has been explained. You only pretend to want dialogue while you preach at me, while you repeatedly excuse and praise others who join your ‘team’ and intentionally malign me and my character. You don’t correct them. You don;t find their tone offensive if it’s aimed at an atheist who dares criticize your bad ideas. You don;t hold them to the same standard of behaviour you hold me. You constantly and erroneously accuse me of rants that are in fact detailed explanations answering specific questions asked with clarity and detail. I clarify repeatedly to aid you in your amazingly poor comprehension skills while you pop up at different sites to bear false witness against me and accuse me of all kinds of malicious intent. You then have the colossal arrogance to pretend to correct me for my own good, to warn me about my tone and the offense it may cause to some member of your extended flock, to supposedly expose me and my nefarious motives to these other authors.
And still I try to explain to you repeatedly where you and your thinking has gone so badly astray, how your beliefs mislead you into being such an odious piece of work towards your treatment of me, and how you allow your gullibility and faux-stupidity and pseudo-naivety to falsely advertise your beliefs to be equivalent to knowledge even after I reveal why so many of your religiously inspired beliefs are not just incorrect errors but baseless assertions, empty assumptions, and erroneous attributions that are pernicious in effect.
I have treated your malicious commentary towards me as ideas – poorly formed and widely espoused – worthy of my criticism and I have tried to demonstrate to you how and why these anti-scientific, denialist ideas you promote enhance ignorance, bias, bigotry, and lies TO HARMFUL EFFECT.
You just don’t care.
You don’t engage with the points I raise but immediately take offense not because of any lack of merit but strictly and wholly because of the source . You avoid thinking. You avoid facts. You avoid taking responsibility for your actions. You never yield these vapid accusations even after I fully expose them for what they are. You never try to learn, try to have an honest dialogue, try to become a better person, try to follow a line of reasoning, try to become more intellectually honest. You do not treat me with the same level of respect I treat you but assume airs of superiority where none is warranted or deserved. Your opinion of yourself and your ideas are immune from any arbitration other than what you believe.
I think you have a very long way to go to become the kind of person worthy of any intellectual respect. That’s why you’re such a fine poster child of what religiously inspired beliefs do to a perfectly good brain and what should be a good heart demonstrated to be twisted by religious thinking.
Because it’s so darned efficacious, I’ll pray for you, Wally. In the meantime, when you’re ready to think and get rid of all this bullshit you like to champion, I’ll be around to cheer you on and welcome you back to reality.
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