He said that if me and my friends tried to build a tower to heaven we would get struck down and god would make us speak different languages. He was acting very serious, is this true?
2006-11-25 11:25:32 · 25 answers · asked by Good S 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He must have been drunk
2006-11-25 11:26:48 · answer #1 · answered by TBone 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what your Pastor was trying to tell you, but there is a story in the Bible about the Tower of Babel where a king felt that he was equal to God and began to build a tower to heaven. God saw this, became very angry and struck the King down, destroyed the tower and caused all of the people to begin speaking in different languages. These people scattered and grouped together in like language groups and scattered around the then known world. This is where the word babble came from.
2006-11-25 11:37:27 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try it and see what happens. Learning another language couldn't be all that bad.
But first you ought to do some measurements. Just how high would the tower have to be to reach heaven. Since we have satellites in orbits of as much as 24,000 miles around the earth, I have to imagine that "heaven" is beyond that.
So can you build a tower that is over 24,000 miles high? How tall were the Twin Towers in New York?
And how are you going to build it above about 15,000 feet when the oxygen starts to thin out? By the time you are above 25,000 feet you will need oxygen masks to do any work. Above 30,000 feet you will need pressurized suits.
And we have sent rockets to beyond the orbit of Pluto and Neptune. They are a lot further away than even the moon, which is aroudn 225,000 miles away. And if you did build this tower wouldn't you run into danger that it would hit the moon as the moon went around the earth?
Your pastor is a very ignorant person and not to be trusted with important issues in your life. He is giving you bad information.
2006-11-25 11:40:01 · answer #3 · answered by Alan Turing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's giving you the example of the Tower of Babel in the bible. I do not believe that God would strike you down seeing as he doesn't kill people like he did in bible years.
The reason they started talking in different languages is because God told them to scatter about the face of the earth, but instead they all joined together to build a great building. This is what created all the different ethnic groups and different languages.
You would simply just be building a very high building because heaven isn't necessarily up. Just as hell isn't necessarily down. Both are two places with unknown locations. People just associate heaven up and hell down.
2006-11-25 11:28:48 · answer #4 · answered by Emily 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well you have to understand the basics. In the bible a group of people decided to build a tower so high up that they could in a way be higher than God, but God did not like this because He does not want man being higher than Him. So with the motive of being higher than God in your mind yes He would not like that but im not sure if he would strike you down. He probably make it not possible for the human body to get to that point kind of like he actually did. Have you noticed people cannot go that high without the body malfunctioning?.
2006-11-25 11:34:49 · answer #5 · answered by Guru 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it happened before...in the Bible.
People were building a tower to get to Heaven and God made them all speak different languages...thats how Asian, English, Spanish, French, etc all came about. God didnt want them working together like that so he made them speak different languages so it would be harder, if not difficult, for them to communicate.
God will being you home to Heaven when HE wants you.
2006-11-25 11:28:05 · answer #6 · answered by da_nikkster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well yeah it already happened. Along time ago they did try to build a ladder to heaven and God smacked them down and as a punishment he made us speak different languages. Besides i really don't think u and your friends can build a tower to get there.
2006-11-25 11:33:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ahhh yes...the biblical explanation as to the formation of the languages. As I recall, the people were placed in different areas of the world where alternate language was already being used. Thus God did not create these languages-people did. The bible is people's interpretation of God and one group's understanding of Jesus. I am not a member of any church, and I do not want to be. I have my own understanding of history. You should learn about different religions and choose your own path instead of the jaded one with which you stand before.
Peace.
2006-11-25 11:32:57 · answer #8 · answered by James S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are without delay coming near Babel II besides. (Even in the English language, some variations of it are transforming into incomprehensible to different clientele. you in basic terms ought to go searching some questions right here) As further and extra understanding generates further and extra technical and specialized language, the style of human beings who can surely talk with a minimum of one yet another is dropping. by no ability strategies the proliferation of acronyms and abbreviations. "i will purely fetch a RPG" a salesperson mentioned to me some years in the past, to my ask your self. I knew 2 RPG's: place-enjoying pastime and Rocket-Propelled Grenade. yet as for the tower: an area-elevator a l. a. Arthur C Clarke may be a spectacular element, yet i do no longer think of even synchronous orbit counts as heaven to any extent further. inspite of the undeniable fact that, this type of super challenge could desire to nicely be divisive, if one united states of america builds it. a spectacular element to squabble over, and it would be the main glaring terrorist purpose in the worldwide. Casus bellum certainly.
2016-10-17 13:17:52 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wonder if YOU are serious... anyway, your pastor speaks of the story of the tower of Babel in the book of Genesis. Chapter 11.
I don't know if you are serious, I don't know if your pastor was serious, but I do know that God was serious....
2006-11-25 11:30:10 · answer #10 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you shouldn't believe anything told you byba person who hasn't actually graduated from a reputable divinity school or acheived a bachelors degree in religion, your pastor is a moron, you can't build a tower to heaven, since it is on a totally difeferent plane of existance.
2006-11-25 11:30:02 · answer #11 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋