if you dont know what the tower of babble is; it is story in the bible where people tried to build a tower to heaven, god god man and destoryed the tower and made everyone speak different languages. (yeah i know it sounds crazy) but anyways
to those of you who believe that story. Doesnt that tell you how insainly stupid people were back then. What kind of people would put together a plot to build a tower 100 miles straight up. STUPID ONES! and those where the people who had visions and wrote the bible. trustworthy source to huh?
2006-11-04 13:59:01 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
type: God got mad and made everyone speak different religons
2006-11-04 14:05:48 · update #1
It tells me that after all this time, we havn't changed all that much.
2006-11-04 14:03:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't 2000 years ago, it was way back a few hundred years after the Flood, maybe 4 or 5000 years ago.
They were building a tower to the heavens, not to heaven. Big difference. "To the heavens" means high up.
They wanted to build the tower to satisfy their egos, to make a name for themselves, and they made God take a back seat. This primitive culture had the technology for an ultra-high tower, so they weren't all that stupid.
They were Babylonians, so they did NOT write the Bible. Moses wrote Genesis much later, which is where the story comes from.
Sacred Tradition was as important to the Hebrew people as was the written word, and truths were carefully preserved there as well.
The bible is not a history book, but it does contain history. The Bible paints historical portraits, it does not give historical accounts. Big difference. It teaches truths, and it doesnt matter that nit-picking little details dont always historically match up.
2006-11-04 14:23:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently we still have issues based on the rampant spelling errors everywhere. That aside, the tower of Babel is no different than David and Goliath or Noah's Ark. They are stories created in an attempt to learn and spread knowledge. We as a human race have evolved only because we have the bible, art, written works in general, architecture, science, etc. We learn from previous generations and hopefully advance on what they did. This is the reason you have a computer to use and a TV to watch. Insulting the long dead who scribed the Bible and gave the human race purpose to advance is silly.
Read a bit of history on the times and try to empathize with their life and the realities they faced. Living to 30 was an accomplishment, having all your children survive past the age of 1 was an accomplishment, finding clean drinking water was an accomplishment...I could go on and on. You just need a good history lesson and maybe a sociology primer to understand the importance of the Bible. It's obvious you're not religious, so I won't even go there.
2006-11-04 14:18:54 · answer #3 · answered by Griff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems people in 2006 are not all that great either!!
"the tower of babble"?? How about the Tower of Babel?
"2000 years ago"?? How about more like 4500 years ago??
Yes, Nimrod bar Cush was a bit stupid. God had promised He would not again destroy the earth with water; yet Nimrod decides to try to build a tower high enough that they could climb up it rather than getting drowned in another huge flood. Nimrod wanted to do things "his way" rather than "God's way". Guess people haven't changed much in some 4,500 years!! Still "insainly stupid" and "insanely stupid" too.
I suppose you haven't ever seen those towers either?
2006-11-04 14:08:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stupid? No. Uneducated? Yes. They didn't have, 2000 years ago, the same technology or knowledge we have today. They were small, insignificant people in a huge and vast world (not even including the cosmos - add that and they're even smaller and more insignificant) and trying to make sense of everything they had no comprehension of. What makes the earth shake and rearrange the landscape? They blamed Gods, demi-Gods, and even super-humans because the mere concept of tectonic plates wasn't even a dot on the horizon yet. Why does a drought sudden occur? They didn't have any kind of comprehension that a volcanic eruption over 100 miles away could effect the climate where they are. They weren't stupid, they were living as best as they could in a world of mystery, miracles, and mayhem, and doing a damn fine job of it, in my opinion (except for the whole God thing). Besides, they knew how to spell, "B-A-B-E-L".
2006-11-04 14:29:12 · answer #5 · answered by Deus Maxwell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't tell us much about people 2000 years ago because it happened about 4500 years ago. BTW it is "Babel"
Interestingly I was at a meeting at the University of Western Onatrio in which a group of scientists were discussing the cost of space travel and stating that the most expensive part of it is geting the spaceship the first 5 miles up into the air, after that it is realtively inexpensive. One serious option they were discussing was the idea of building a hugh tower up into the sky which would elevate the spaceship to the edge of space and they could decrease the cost of space travel by billions. STUPID ONES!!
2006-11-04 14:09:46 · answer #6 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sin is man trying to be divine. And if you think today we are without sin, look again. The over 4000 year old account of the Tower of Babble states that man trying to be divine has its consequence. And is man any different?
Since you like the bible, let's focus on John 8:2-11. The conclusion is "go now and leave your life of sin". Of all the sinners, only one stayed. She could have slipped away after every other sinner had left, but she stay knowing that she could be condemn to death. She stay and waited to see if the last person would condemn her. I don't want to ruin the ending, but
Jesus declared "Then neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin."
Jesus did not forgive her sin, but ask her to leave her life of sin. And that probably what each of us should try to do.
Do you think man has changed? Do you think we are any different? Are we less likely to judge? To live rigidly to a code of conduct? Nothing has change since Adam and Eve left in the garden.
2006-11-04 14:29:33 · answer #7 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Tower of Babel is the model for the present day United Nations.
People never learn.
2006-11-04 15:41:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If this story was part of Greek mythology, and it was Zeus who destroyed the tower and made everyone speak different languages, then the Christians would think it a stupid myth too.
Why do we need this mythical story to explain why there are so many languages? New languages have been created in recent times -- consider Creole. Languages evolve, like life evolves. Diversity in languages is as natural as diversity of life.
Oh wait. Christians deny evolution of life too, so of course they deny evolution of language too.
2006-11-04 14:12:35 · answer #9 · answered by Jim L 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Better read your Bible again. They weren't trying to build a tower to the literal heavens. God gave man the instructions to spread throughout the earth and populate it. People came to a valley plain as they traveled eastward and settled there, and the people said to one another let us build a tower to the heavens, just a tall tower to the sky, to keep the people together so they would not spread through all the earth, God destroyed the tower and gave all the peoples different languages so they could not understand each other and they would spread throughout the earth and populate it.
2006-11-04 14:02:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Are you intense? The bible is God's be conscious or regardless of and once you're saying "properly do no longer basically study that reason it won't make experience study the pupil's writing too" then you definately're saying the bible won't make experience and you need to no longer ought to study any pupil's writing's to comprehend the bible. The bible is meant to be the words to stay by skill of and in case you need to extra comprehend it with pupils writing's then you definately know on your heart the bible is organic crap.
2016-11-27 19:34:01 · answer #11 · answered by maza 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋