Does this mean that the author of the bible believe you can get to heaven if you build a huge tower.
God basically destroyed their project because he was threatened they could somehow reach heaven by a tower.
Well why are we free to build Towering buildings and free to space travel without God doing something as he did back in the bronze ages
plus, i don't think the bronze ages had a chance of even towering into the clouds using brick and mortar.
2007-06-16 04:10:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's better than that - ask 'em if they believe that the current world languages came from that event.
Someone brought this up a couple of months ago, and we learned that there are fundies who believe that God came down and turned those Babel workers into Spanish speakers and French speakers and German speakers and Russian speakers and English speakers. Seriously.
2007-06-16 04:14:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
in the start there develop into basically one language, basically God knows what that first language might have been. it ought to have been Adam's, Sumerian, Phoenician or maybe Hebraic. properly in some techniques God has intentionally dealt with NASA. the area trip application will in no way accomplish this is preliminary directives. The Apollo application hasn't performed very plenty as a results of fact this is preliminary lunar touchdown. And the area application specifically is boost this is debt to China interior the trillions. American government might bypass away the youngsters of u.s. interior the destiny with an extraordinary debt. Revelation 13:11-18. an exceedingly unhappy curse. In a feeling the heavens meant to the ancients the sky additionally in an exceedingly conventional way too. the reason of the destruction of the Tower of Babel, develop right into a the direct mocking of God appropriate after the flood. They designed and equipped their very own savior in case you will. the purpose of establishing the tower develop into that God does not be able to ruin them via a flood anymore. yet they had to thumb their noses to God in heaven to honestly say we are interior the heavens too.
2016-10-09 08:07:45 · answer #2 · answered by mcgahan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some apologetics suggest that God was mad that they were building a ziggurat for false idols. That stuff does not come from the Bible, though. The Bible says God was mad because he didn't want them to find heaven. The story is obviously an ancient myth. The only explanation I've ever heard that I can understand is that it is just a metaphor to discourage pride or hubris. I feel embarrased for people when they try to explain it as a literal fact.
2007-06-16 04:19:32 · answer #3 · answered by Graciela, RIRS 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He wasn't afraid that they could reach heaven. He was concerned for the welfare of the people themselves. That is, he was concerned that if they worked together they would be able to accomplish great things and it would go to their heads. They'd think they could get by without God.
In order to keep them humble he scrambled their languages and they scattered.
It's obviously an explanation for the variety of languages we find among humans, which could seem odd considering we all started together in the Garden of Eden. Whether it's an historical event or simply a story that explains the human condition is an interesting question.
It has elements of a true story in that it identifies the specific location where the events took place. That is, it appears as if it's trying to be historically accurate.
In any case I don't think God has to worry about all of us getting together and doing anything these days. We're always bickering about something.
2007-06-16 04:27:26 · answer #4 · answered by Craig R 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 11 - The Tower of Babel
1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
2007-06-16 04:20:09 · answer #5 · answered by akaallice 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The people of that time, all spoke the same language and the land masses were connected. The problem was, they were united and they used this to Unite to accomplish evil.
God judged they would join together to destroy the human race, before the appointed time of the Messiah. So in order to stop this,he changed their languages and seperated them.
2007-06-16 04:23:44 · answer #6 · answered by Eartha Q 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm...interesting. To answer your question though, people speak different languages probably based on their country of origin and culture.
2007-06-16 04:15:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
read the rest of the bible dumbass
2007-06-16 04:15:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
http://www.blueletterbible.org/cgi-bin/comm_read.pl?book=Gen&chapter=11&verse=9&Comm=Comm%2Fdavid_guzik%2Fsg%2FGen_11.html%230%26*David+Guzik%26&Select.x=21&Select.y=7
2007-06-16 04:42:47 · answer #9 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋