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Independent Baptist News
King James Bible Believing
QUARTER IV 2020 ISSUE www.independentbaptistnews.com

From the Dispersion

to the Continent of America

After the tower of Babel, the Americas, along with the rest of the
word, eventually became inhabited by man. During this migration period,
America began to receive migrants which came most likely through vari-
ous land bridges. The sea level was most likely lower then (much like the
Bering Strait). They could have also come by boat.

We know all these people collectively as American Indians or Na-
tive Americans. These American Indians are known as the first inhabi-
tants of America, but some of these Indians claimed they conquered the lands which they lived on from
the hands of other inhabitants of which some were described as giants and wicked. These conquests
probably took place about the time when Joshua and the Israelites were conquering the wicked inhabi-
tants of the land of Canaan, of which some were giants.

The Romans have recorded that they traded with the people of the Americas. More evidence of
people reaching the American continents exist today. Some historians believe that Leif Ericson, a Viking
from Scandinavia, sailed to North America about A.D. 1000. However, with Christopher Columbus’
discovery of America, knowledge of America began to be known through-
out Europe and multitudes thereafter immigrated to America.

Christopher Columbus called the Native Americans “Indians” because
he thought at first that he had landed in India. They had dominant fea-
tures of reddish-brown complexions, high cheekbones, and black hair,
although various traits could be noticed in various tribes. They lived in
tribes, hunted, fished, and farmed. Different land regions caused tribes
to live different ways. Each tribe had a common religion, most of which included a Supreme Being, yet
they had become highly pantheistic. As a whole, they left the truth of God, and mixed truth with error.
They began to worship the creature rather than the Creator, and some became involved in witchcraft.
Because the Native American Indians forsook the Creator, God allowed others to conquer the lands of
the Americas just as he had allowed the Native American Indians to conquer the inhabitants that lived
in America before them.

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