A few questions

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1. If no-one objects to the date I have given for the flood (and I don't
remember reading any objections), then can anyone explain the existence of
cultures (Egypt/ Mesopotamia/China) through that time without break? 

 2. On a similar note, Genesis 10:25 says the Tower of Babel happened at the
time of Peleg, which gives it a date of between 2226 BC and 1987 BC (if you
will excuse me using my dates again).  How come the Chinese spoke a
different language to the Jews and Egytians and all the other cultures
before that date?

3. Numbers 13:28 says the descendants of the Giants lived in the land the
Israelites were going to occupy.  The only Giants I know of before that were
in Genesis 6:4 which was before the flood.  How did they have descendants?

4. Following on with my obsession with Genesis, can anyone tell me the
meaning of this statement in Romans 8:20
TEV: 'For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will,
but because God willed it to be so.  Yet there was hope'

RSV:'For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by
the will of him who subjected it in hope;'

KJV: 'For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by
reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope'

  This seems to me to be saying that God willed The Fall to happen. This
lays squarely at the door of God all the suffering that has occured in the
world. Where is the free will?  

5.  And, on the subject of Free will, where is the doctrine of Free Will
mentioned in the Bible?  I am still learning The Bible, but I have come
across a few references to God 'hardening peoples hearts' in the Old and New
Testament, but I haven't found the Free-Will that Xtians say we all have.

Thanks
Fil

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