Why did God create all the different languages---?

Question

This seems like he was trying to slow down the message of
christianity in later days?

Why would he do this if spreading the WORD is so vital?

Answer 1

Genesis Chapter 11 explains this. Man wanted to create a tower that reached to the heavens to worship the Sun, Moon and Stars, despite God forbidding this. To thwart their efforts he mixed up their languages. Since they could not understand each other, they could not complete the tower.

This was not meant to slow the word, it was meant to stop people from worshiping an idol, like the Golden Calf. Though it is vital to spread the Word, it was also important to show His power so the people had proof that He is God above all others.

Today it is easier than ever to spread the Word. There are millions of bilingual people through which the message is spread. And, if a language is not known, there are missionaries willing to learn the language in order to translate the Bible. There is a missionary and his wife at my church who have learned the language of an African people never before reached. They've created a written language for them and have Translated the Bible in order to reach these people.

There is even a picture of a man (at the top of the page) standing next to the base of the tower.
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Answer 2

The story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible is essentially the answer. It was a tower built to reach the heavens by a united humanity with one language at the time. Man's pride became too much and he wanted to build this to show they were a great and powerful people.

God did not approve of this pride & idolitary and destroyed the building and scattered the people, causing confusion by giving different languages.

In later days, I believe that God had enough resources to use to spread His Word. He has given certain gifts or skills to people who can pick up languages very quickly and/or people who can translate them.

English is now becoming an almost globalised language, the world today has bibles written in every language and there is also the Christian channels reaching millions in many countries in many languages.

God has ways and means of doing ANYTHING!

Answer 3

God didn't create the languages, humans did. In every region there are different methods of communicating with each other. Back in the early days, one couldn't easily communicate with someone from a different region so they wouldn't have to worry about understanding one another across the globe. As a result, we get all these different languages making communication even more difficult.

Answer 4

Babel: A place where people tried to build a tower up to God.
Tower of Babel: Genesis Chpt. 11: The whole world had one language. All people spoke it. They moved east, and found a broad valley in Babylonia. There they settled.
They said to each other, "Come, let's make bricks and bake them well." They used bricks instead of stones, and used tar to hold them together.
Then they said, "Come, let's build a city for ourselves, and a tower to reach into the sky. And we will make a name for ourselves."
But the Lord seeing their city and tower, said "They are one people, with one language. That is why they can do this. Now they will do anything they plan to. Com, let us go down and mix up their language. Then they will not understand each other."
And the Lord, scattered them over the face of the earth, mixing their languages.
It was a lesson in man's place in the world. To build a tower to reach the heavens. was to build their own egos. They may have considered themselves, as godly.
Different languages isn't a barrier as to the spread of the word of God. Those within their own languages, spread with in their own, and learn other languages to continue to spread it. Which is more vital? Man knowing his role, or man thinking he could become Godly?

Answer 5

At the time when Christ appeared, the Roman Empire was near it heights. It had spread the Greek (and later Latin) language over a larger portion of the world then any other single language in history. Add to that the "Roman Peace" which made travel relatively safe, and the Roman love for roads that made travel easier then any time before in history, you have the earliest moment in history were the message could survive.

Answer 6

The tower of babel story says that the people were using their common language to spread evil. To protect people from the evil, he created all the different languages.

Answer 7

Cmon your smarter than this. God didnt create languages - stop looking at God like he is a man. Think of God as conscious energy we become a part of after we die, since energy never is created nor destroyed...except that life isn't like mechanical energy or any of that - it is conscious energy....which is what makes it interesting, and makes for proof of heaven. The negative energy stays on Earth, whom are ghosts. The major religions are either made-up completely fictional, or was written by good-intentioned people to explain this theory to extremely simple minded people in 1 A.D.

Answer 8

There was a an old story about people trying to build a tower to reach the heavens and God did not like that so he changed the languages so that they couldnt build up any closer.

That is one of the stories i have read

Answer 9

Read Genesis 11. It tells how God divided the languages because man was to busy serving himself.
Then read Acts 2. It tells how God merged the languages so the gospel could go out to all the world.

Answer 10

Languages were created by people. Each language has its own history of origin. Some origins are too complicated to explain here. Do a little research of your own.