What exactly was the purpose of the Tower of Babel, and what exactly did it accomplish?
2007-07-02 15:26:05 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just another fable told in an effort to explain our many languages.......
2007-07-02 15:32:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The purpose of the tower of babel was to reach the heavens to be equal to God.
God caused their speech to be confused and they all went away with new languages. They could not all work together because they could not understand the languages
There effort failed to reach God. The people seperated by language.
2007-07-02 15:35:30 · answer #2 · answered by j.wisdom 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He wanted to show that he is God , not the people, they wanted to show that they were equal to God by building a tower to reach him. It's like a little kid trying to rise up against his parents and say he is smarter and better than them. The Tower of Babel was ment to reach heaven, obviously we know heaven isn't up, because we already been to space.
2007-07-02 15:32:46 · answer #3 · answered by kvmairforce 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The tower of Babel was a ziggurat. A temple tower. It was a large tower with a temple on top of it. God destroyed it because it was for worship of false gods.
2007-07-02 15:31:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This "story" as with many stories the ancient hebrews wrote, was meant as a way to instill that their "God" was superior. In this story peoples were building the Tower to reach heaven but God confounded their language because of their vain attempt. As we all "know," ANY "superior" God would have known that the feat was an "impossible" one and would not have punished anyone for being STUPID, but then that's the humor in all the hebrew stories which relay how ignorant their logic WAS and REMAINS "of" a God who is just as stupid as the religion is..............
2007-07-02 15:40:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the story, people decided to build a tower so they could get up to heaven. God confounded their language so they could no longer communicate to finish the job. This is a myth used to explain why there are many languages in the world.
2007-07-02 15:30:57 · answer #6 · answered by Linda R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tower was man-made as a temple to a different god. God dispersed the people because being together with one mind wasn't working; instead of all lifting each other up to Him, they distracted and deceived each other.
2007-07-02 15:30:21 · answer #7 · answered by Amanda B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God wanted something on the Seven Wonders of the World list.
2007-07-02 15:28:49 · answer #8 · answered by S K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man's arrogance in believeing /thinking that he was better than God.
By confounding the language of man and causing the races to spread around the world.
2007-07-02 15:36:06 · answer #9 · answered by coffee_pot12 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several things. One nation were started in its wide diversities. Two, it kept man from killing themselves, because the higher they went, the thinner the air was, and eventually they would have killed themselves. Also, it kept one nation from being greater than another, because they knew in parts.
2007-07-02 15:32:19 · answer #10 · answered by itsjustme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋