Genesis 10: The universal love of God found in the genealogy of Noah

Genesis 10: The universal love of God found in the genealogy of Noah

The Blessing and Command Given to Adam - "Be fruitful and multiply" - Continues with Noah after the Great Flood

The blessing and command given to Adam to "be fruitful and multiply" was continued with Noah, who was tasked with establishing a new order for the world after the great flood. Among Noah's descendants, the name that particularly stands out is Canaan. This is a name that we are often familiar with in a negative light. But in truth, from the very beginning, there was no such distinction as "gentiles." All of humanity are descendants of Noah, and tracing it back even further, we are all part of the one family that originated from Adam.

If the blessing and instructions given by God to Adam were maintained in their essence until the time of Noah, then we come to an important realization. Those referred to as "gentiles" are also the objects of God's unwavering love. Within God's unchanging providence, all of humanity stems from the same origin and are recipients of the same love. As long as they do not name and worship other gods besides the one true God, there are no "gentiles," only people.