FAQ ID # 2977 - Is there an origin of language?? What was the first language spoken? Did God intend to have multiple languages? Thanks for you help.

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Is there an origin of language?? What was the first language spoken? Did God intend to have multiple languages? Thanks for you help.

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Language is a divine gift. It originates with God. God spoke and created the world and everything in it (Genesis 1:3). Language for human beings began as soon as God created Adam. God spoke to Adam and the Genesis account tells us that Adam named all the animals (Genesis 2:16-19).

Genesis 11 gives us the origins of different languages. Henry Morris comments: "This faculty of human speech and language is truly one of the most amazing attributes of mankind. The evolutionist is utterly unable to explain the unbridgeable gulf between the chatterings of animals and human language. This unique and fundamental essence of speech in the very nature of man is underscored in the revelation of God to man through His Word. Christ Himself is the living Word! "God has spoken to us by his Son" (Hebrews 1:2). It is not too much to say that this was the very reason man was created able to speak and to hear; that is, in order that there might first be communication between God and man and, secondarily, between man and man. But when men began to prostitue this divine gift in order to cooperate in rebellion against their Maker, in a most apropriate judgment God confused their tongues and thereby forced them to separate from each other." (Henry Morris, The Genesis Record, P. 267, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids MI, 1976).

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