If you believe in the bible: Why did God confuse the humans? (see below)?

Question

I mean, with the languages at the building of the Babel Tower. I know, he didn't want them to touch the sky where God is (but isn't he everywhere?). But what was wrong with that? Isn't it what we all want? Everyone working together on one big project? And in peace, too? Why did God put an end to this?

Answer 1

If the building of a structure was what God did not want, He would have done something when we started to build skyscrapers. It is almost certain that many of our skyscrapers are taller that the tower of Babel was.

It must be that there was something else in what they were doing at babel that made God confuse their languages. Babel was to become a world centre of false religion in opposition to God, with the tower as it's centre piece, and the people were unified to support it. God set their presumptuous project back by making sure they could not commicate at that time. This action did not harm them. it was still possible to comunicate, but it would take time to learn each others' languages. In the mean time, the project would fail.

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Answer 2

Thank you for reminding me of that.I can use that when someone asks why I'm not a Christian.We now know God is not in the sky,therefore,he wouldn't have interfered.I mean,even if God were in the sky,he would know that no one could actually reach him.If that's more than just a nice little story,wonder why he didn't do anything with the advent of air travel,not to mention space travel?

I think it's silly to think that God would invent different languages because people are actually playing nicely together.He could have stepped in when they were building a better bomb...

Answer 3

It was not the time for space exploration, which was what the tower of Babel represented. That was(is) reserved for the time of the end, which I believe is the present generation.

God wasn't interested in a "Borg" collective that was unified intellectually but spiritually dead. Same as today.

There is always a contraindication to confusion with the fallen race of man. It is not God's will that man make war with his brothers, but it is still a consequence of the fallen human nature that through greed and misunderstanding he engages in selfish behavior.

Answer 4

The Tower of Babel stood for mankind attempting to become equal with God. The people attempted to build a temple into heaven. God did not like the direction He saw man headed in, so He made them speak in different languages. This led to a dispersion of mankind across the Earth. The "tower of Babel" is only mentioned once in Scripture:

(Genesis 11:4,5), and then as incomplete. It was built of bricks, and the "slime" used for mortar was probably bitumen. Many scholars believe the the building was destroyed soon after its erection. Even after the Tower had been crumbling for many years, the Greek historian Herodotus visited it and was very impressed. Herodotus was a Greek Historian who lived between 484 - c.424 BC.

Herodotus wrote in 440 B.C.
"It has a solid central tower, one furlong square, with a second erected on top of it and then a third, and so on up to eight. All eight towers can be climbed by a spiral way running around the outside, and about halfway up there are seats for those who make the journey to rest on."

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Tower of Babel-Ancient Babylon Ruins Inscription

Modern day Tower of Babel ruins (on the outskirts of ancient Babylon-current day Iraq) are currently 150 feet above the plain with a circumference of 2300 feet. "The Greeks used the word Borsippa, which means Tongue-tower." 1

Inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar on Tower of Babel (Borsippa) ruins reads:

I have completed its magnificence with silver, gold, other metals, stone, enameled bricks, fir and pine.

The first which is the house of the earth’s base,

the most ancient monument of Babylon;

I built and finished it.

I have highly exalted its head with bricks covered with copper.

We say for the other, that is, this edifice, the house of the seven lights of the earth, the most ancient monument of Borsippa.

A former king built it, (they reckon 42 ages) but he did not

complete its head.

Since a remote time, people had abandoned it, without

order expressing their words.

Since that time the earthquake and the thunder had dispersed

the sun-dried clay.

The bricks of the casing had been split, and the earth of the interior had been scattered in heaps. Merodach, the great god, excited my mind to repair this building.

I did not change the site nor did I take away the foundation.

In a fortunate month, in an auspicious day,

I undertook to build porticoes around the crude brick masses,

and the casing of burnt bricks.

I adapted the circuits, I put the inscription of my name in the Kitir of the portico.

I set my hand to finish it. And to exalt its head.

As it had been in ancient days, so I exalted its summit.

Tower of Babel-Genesis 11:1-9

1. Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

3. They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth."

5. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. 6. The Lord said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."

8. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9. That is why it was called Babel--because the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Answer 5

Same reason he hates the United Nations.

When we're all getting along like that, we're competition to god.

I agree - it's a silly story with a horrible moral point. But christians will likely come in here and twist the logic in it like a party balloon. Read the story, in context, and you will see though, he didn't want them building a tower, "to the heavens" and so he messed with em.

Sad little god with the morals of a toddler.

Answer 6

Humans are Gods SPECIAL (as in retarded) little creatures!

Some Humans even believe that the Earth is only 6000 years old...

GOD (The UNIVERSE) allegedly gave MAN free-will...

BIG MISTAKE - Take a look a look around you, the majority of Humans (Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, etc...) are idiotic lovers of shiny things (Diamonds, Gold, etc...).

Answer 7

One of the Great Signs of the Almighty, is the differences in the languages, and the skin-colour of the Humans... they all have the same blood-groups, can marry any one, but can not understand a different language without learning it. God is Great. Allah o Akbar !

Answer 8

He didn't, the Church did. For thousands of years it's been a scapegoat for men to get rich and doing so by playing on peoples fears of what we don't know. To this end it's teachings are very different to those of Christ. Even today the teachings of the church and what it stands for vary considerably to what was written in the Bible.

Answer 9

They wanted to be thier own God..Like today people dont feel they need God but they sure are able to blame Him for all the bad going on in this world..

Answer 10

I dont need to see God to know he is real or build a tower to reach him to know he is real. I know in my heart that he is.