The Genesis Site

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The Genesis Site contains the history of mankind from the very beginning till about 2250 B.C. The site began with some ideas about Genesis 11. In 1994 I started a study on the origin of languages. I was wondering whether the Chinese characters could be related to other written languages. I decided to start my search in the Old Testament Babel, for there it was where languages originated. As soon as I started reading some myths about the tower, I began to realize some tremendous disaster was involved with the abandoning of Babel. I decided to focus on this catastrophe.

As soon as a summary of my findings was placed on the WWW (in January, 1999), I realized the impact of the Babel disaster on creation science and our view on the flood of Noah. So Genesis 1 and 7 got involved. And the Genesis chapters in between, well..., they were placed in between. They had to be, to complete the survey of those first ages of human history. And to understand our present, as well as the future. Some pages were written because of e-mail reaction.

Of course there can be written much more about Genesis 1 - 11 as done here, but The Genesis Site as a whole is now portraying a good view of the dawning of mankind.

As said, I started this study in 1994 (for those who want to know: I became 40 years old that year) and I'm still working on it. Since 1994 my wife, my son and my daughter missed me often. So I think this is the right time and place to give them a big THANK YOU! Without their support and understanding my study and this website (meanwhile developed into The Trilogy and supplemented with a newsletter) couldn't have been this far.

Reason for starting my study was the existing of a lack, as far as I know, in good christian books. Science, history and myths are some kind of contradiction. But comparing this three with the Bible seems an impossibility. Of course I know there are some good and trustworthy books about creation and about the flood of Noah. But what about the days of the confusion of tongues? What about the time of Job? (About Job you can read on The Days of Job.) What about the Exodus and the days of the Judges?

So I put my energy and leisure on the subject of the confusion of Babel. And as you might have seen I found some astonishing facts. Nations all around the world carry some kind of memory about these days. Often with details which are difficult to accept. I tried to arrange all these stories, make sense of them and put them together to a complete story about what really happened. However, my startingpoint was they had to fit in a biblical context.

I know a lot of people have hard times trying to accept what I've been writing about Babel. The whole story seems so incredible. But let me give you a point. Try to compare it with what the Bible tells us about the days before the returning of Jesus. This isn't a very peaceful story too! The Book of Revelation talks about all kind of disasters on earth and in our solar system. Is this hard to accept? And if you can accept, why not also accept the disasters in the days of old Babel? Isn't there some kind of comparison with the returning of Christ and the descending of God?

However, as I said before, my study isn't finished yet. Perhaps some details in my opinion may change. But about one thing I'm sure. We have to think seriously about the relationship between God and mankind. For He is taking this serious too. And as He once interacted in Babel, He will interfere again some day. Maybe soon.

Cees van Arnhem.
Nieuwerkerk a/d IJssel,
The Netherlands.
E-mail: GenesisSite@gmx.net

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