It is blasphemy to deny that 4,130 years ago “the whole earth was of one language and of one speech” (Gen. xi., 1), and the whole science of philology is therefore a delusion and a snare. As “they”—the whole earth—“journeyed from the east,” they “found a plain,” and made up their minds to build “a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven” (verses 2 and 4). It is blasphemy to deny that god—who at that time appears to have known little about the laws of gravitation or the difficulty of breathing, say, five miles up—thought they might succeed, and, being omnipresent, he changed his place, and “came down to see the city and the tower which the children of men builded.” In order to prevent the appearance of the top of the tower in heaven—heaven being above the firmament, the firmament having the stars set in it, and the nearest fixed star being 5,480,490,000,000 miles away, so that if they had directed their tower towards this star, and had built at the rate of ten miles a day, it would have taken them more than 1,501,504,109 years to reach heaven, that is, they would have had to build for 1,501,599,979 years onwards from the present time—god being afraid that they would storm his realm, took the trouble to confound their language, so that they might not understand each other’s speech. When we read of the Titans trying to storm heaven, we know that the story is a myth; but the same fable is “Bible truth” in Genesis, and it is blasphemy to deny it, foolish as it is.
It is blasphemy to deny that when Terah was 70 years of age he begat Abram (Gen. xi., 26), and that he died when he was 205 years of age (verse 32); it is blasphemy to deny that Abram was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran and went into Canaan (Gen. xii., 4, 5); it is blasphemy to deny that Abram stayed in Haran until after his father’s death (Acts vii., 4); that is, it is blasphemy to deny that the 135 years of Terah’s life are of exactly the same length as the 75 years of Abram’s life. Anyone who believes not that 135=75 will be damned. Moral, parents should not allow their children to learn arithmetic, for by so doing they imperil their immortal souls, and risk their committal to gaol by the tender mercies of Mr. Justice North.