FAQ #Noah's Family

A quick look at why some people thought modern humanity emerged from Noah.

The title the NIV gives Genesis 10 is “The Table of Nations.” Are the descendants of Shem, Ham and Japheth the founders of nations?

Don't the ‘young earth’ theorists say there is time for all the different races of people – Asian, African, Oriental, Aboriginal and European etc. - to get their specific racial features from the time of the Flood, when Noah’s three children started to repopulate the globe?

I’d like to go back to the subject of how death entered the world please. Did God make creatures that would eventually die or did the creatures themselves do something to merit their own death? And why did men start killing animals to eat?

Going back to the subject of men not eating meat before the Flood: When God spoke to Noah after the Flood, in Genesis 9:3, he said, "Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything." Wasn’t God referring to Genesis 1:29 which says, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food"? So men didn’t eat meat until after the Flood when God gave them permission to eat meat.

Did God destroy every living human being on planet earth in the Flood?