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Okay, folks, you know the real scoop. There is nowhere in the tanach where it says, "HaShem created the universe using the Hebrew language, which has never changed since then". It is simply a myth, a legend. Every race teaches that their own language was used, whether Japanese, Hopi or Maya. This is not speculation, simply historical fact. There are many universalities across virtually all cultures. It simply doesn't say "B'reshith bara Elohim et hashamayim v'haaretz, balashon haivrit." In the earliest references to the language, in the tanach itself, it is called the "language of Cana'an". It wasn't called Hebrew until much later. This does not take away from the sacredness of the scriptures, but you guys must recognize that hebrew developed from earlier languages, like any other, over thousands of years. We do not know what language God used to speak to Moses, or what language Moses wrote in; try to dispute that! Even the written characters were learned from the phoenecians; this is fact, not speculation. Even English and French have changed remarkably over the last 500 years. Hebrew has irregular verbs, female nouns with male plurals (and vice versa). There are words used to write the torah that were archaic or obsolete by the time of the later writings. There are archaicisms, such as the vocative ending in names like "Eliahu", which was almost gone by the time the torah was written down. Hebrew has not changed as much as most "western" languages, only since it has been written longer,notwithstanding the higher educational standards that the Jews have always held. If anything, you are making yourself more vulnerable to missionary attacks by believing in non-biblical mythology.
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