when there are now more people speaking single languages then even existed at the time of the tower. Shouldn't he have continued the language splitting? Why don't we see it today?
2007-02-19 04:03:14 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is still splitting today.
If it were not for mass media there would be several different languages just in America.
2007-02-19 04:28:31 · answer #1 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Tower of Babel is based on actual events (outlined accidently by a very non-religious person, Guillarmo Algaze in his book "the Uruk World System"). The book confirmed most of the Genesis account without ever mentioning the Bible at all.
The writers of Genesis accidently preserved several historical facts:
1) The world had only a single language with few words (that being the written pictoral language used in Uruk). There were a total of 300 words (1200 if you count the combinations).
2) The empire of Nimrod has been demonstrated as accurate and existed about 4000-3500 BC, included the cities of Uruk, Babel, Susa, Nineveh, Brak and several smaller sites in Syria and Iran.
3) The problem of the language barriers between villages over such a wide area is actually the easiest detail in the Bible to believe.
You might also want to treat yourself to some Mesopotamian writings dating from about 2500-2100 BC. The description of the Tower in the Bible is nearly identical to the Mesopotamian descriptions of their own cities.
2007-02-19 12:29:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some places, languages are still splitting, it's just done on a much smaller scale. In america, for instance, you can go to different regions, and hear totally different versions of the same language. It's still considered english, it's just used differently, with different accents, and different ways of saying things.
The reason why the people were given different languages and scatter about was because they were being disobedient to God's command. God said to be fruitful and multiplay, and to pretty much cover the earth, but what these people were trying to do was build a city, so that they can stay in one place, and not cover the earth. God had to confuse them, so they could do what He commanded.
2007-02-19 12:27:52 · answer #3 · answered by LENZ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God commanded the people to populate the world, but instead, they stayed together and tried to build a tower to heaven (which we now know is impossible). God confused their languages so that they were forced to split up and populate the world.
2007-02-19 13:01:39 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋