I know the bible story, so please don't re-tell it.
I am wondering why God did not simply let the people try to build the tower high enough? They would eventually have to accept defeat. Was God afraid they were going to reach him?
Honestly, this story sounds to me like something a bunch of nomads made up back in the Bronze age, as a way to kill two birds with one stone. (1)explains different languages (2) explains there are consequences if people try to physically find god. Who believes the story as it is told in the bible?
2007-02-01 05:55:58 · 26 answers · asked by ÜFÖ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess it was only because the people were presuming to be able to reach the heavens their own way, instead of by God's way. So he punnished their conspiracy by seperating them and confusing them.
Do you think that people back then would have understood it if God said, i made them migrate to different lands, and as a result they started to adapt different languages and characteristics due to their surroundings? Or is it just easier to candy coat it. I don't get all scientific when my daughter asks me how the tv works. I give her the jist of it.
2007-02-01 06:02:55 · answer #1 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
re: "scared that God won't answer as quickly as he did last time because I feel like I only turn to God when I need him" Dont avoid doing something good, simply because you know theres something better. Do good in any way you can. Turn to God in prayer at any chance you can. And stop with the mindless, thoughtless, verbatim crap. Guess what, God knows your prayers by heart... maybe he'd like to hear from YOU sometime. Tell him openly about your problems, speak to him like a real person who is really listening. Pour out your heart and frustration and gratitude and everything. Stop holding back because you feel guilty. That is a tactic of satan, not God. If you want to reconnect, do it. Keep trying, dont get frustrated if you dont get a beam of light from heaven after a conversation or two. And when you have done this, just be quiet and still for a little while. Give him the chance to respond through inspiration after. When you have a conversation with someone you dont just yackyackyack and then walk away. You let them respond. Give him that opportunity too. I can promise you, life will get infinitely harder for you beyond grades and boys someday. Your relationship with God will make more difference in your life during those times than you can imagine. Its something worth fighting for.
2016-05-24 02:24:08 · answer #2 · answered by Margaret 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in the mood to give you a sarcastic answer: God runs a closed shop. Like the people answered before me, the workers were not unionized so God destroyed their building. This also explains why God hated Esau and the Edomites, because they were not in the union either. For information on what he did to their building projects see Malachi 1:4. I'll tell you he takes that union stuff seriously.
P.S. I'm really one of those orthodox Christians who
doesn't want to give you a real answer because you would simply mock it: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." Sorry if my answer insulted you; you should violate God because he just called you a "dog" and a "swine". Oh Snap. God that's just not right; I'm telling on you....What do you mean you're sovereign and don't care.
2007-02-01 06:20:26 · answer #3 · answered by Ron P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You know you should ask a Rabi, It is Jewish culture not Christian. Like Jos.10...God made the sun stand still. Ask some Christians they'll tell ya...Yes God made it stand still, then you ask how then did it make a difference in the length of a day,because the earth rotates. the sun does not go around the earth. They will answer you and say you have a devil.
This is a historical fact.
Ask a Rabi He will tell you"It means it was a long day" , now who you going to believe?
This is why we Christians are not to even think to convert Jews. It is their bible, we are just grafted into their world through the loving kindness of God. when it comes to the new testament that's ours, we have authority in the new, through Jesus Christ,ask us anything on that matter we will answer.
God Bless you.
2007-02-01 06:05:49 · answer #4 · answered by Mijoecha 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ding!
Congratulations.
It's a lot like when Yuri Gagarin made his first orbital flight of the earth and then proudly reported to Stalin that God could not exist because he didn't see him up in space.
Yes, that really happened.
It's really remarkable that this sort of "God with physical/spatial qualities" argument actually held water for a cosmonaut.
All the best,
Lazarus
2007-02-01 06:17:59 · answer #5 · answered by The Man Comes Around 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Remember that god is separated from us by the firmament which is certainly something that you could reach with a high enough tower. After all, you can climb a ladder up to heaven so it can't be that far.
I would agree with your two birds and add a third. I think it was a way for a nomadic tribe to feel a bit less inferior when viewing or hearing about the wonders of Babylon or Egypt.
2007-02-01 06:01:04 · answer #6 · answered by Dave P 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
I want to know why God has prevented the Babel fish from spawning successfully in American fresh water lakes. I also always wondered whether a babel fish gave you the ability to read other languages, as well as hear them. A babel fish would come in handily with some of the questions and answers that are allegedly written in English on here.
2007-02-01 06:03:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
The OT god wasn't quite the omniponent superman that he later became in Judeo-Christian mythology. If you read the story, he's quite concerned that they'll actually DO it, build a tower high enough to get into heaven and become as powerful as he is.
This story makes sense if you're a primitive fellow who thinks that there might just be something above the clouds, since that's all the farther you yourself can see. It's rather another thing to think that this story is anything but fantasy in an age of powerful telescopes and space shuttles... We've pierced the sky kids, God wasn't up there, sorry...
2007-02-01 06:05:15 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
As many other stories in the Bible, this one is just a story made up to give an answer for the diversity of languages. The people who heard the story (heard; because it was a told story for many years bfore it began to be written) knew that the story was not a fact. The story says that God is Great, above all and we ought to be humble in his presence.
2007-02-01 06:03:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anthony Zammit 1 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Well it seams that Heaven was a lot closer back in those days and God was afraid people was going to reach it ahead of time. So he had to put a stop to that of course. So he made every one babble in a different language. Oh he worked out all the different languages in a snap of course. Then he kept the good ones speaking English so they could call of the work an go home and teach their family how to talk their new language. You see?
2007-02-01 06:03:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
I think that God was annoyed that they didn't spread out and repopulate the entire Earth as God had told them to.
Confusing their language didn't just stop work on the tower, it also caused them to spread out as God had asked them to in the first place.
2007-02-01 06:14:20 · answer #11 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋