2007-07-16 11:17:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To prevent their church from burning down during an electricial storm.
Most large buildings have lightning rods.
Some churches have the lightning rod in the shape of a cross.
Pastor Art
2007-07-16 11:23:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because lightning tends to strike objects that are taller than the surroundings, and because many churches have steeples, they also have lightning rods to try to reduce the possibility that lightning would strike the steeple and catch the building on fire.
2007-07-16 18:28:52 · answer #2 · answered by JenV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they do not want the church to be struck by lightning and to burn down. There is this thing called nature. God created it. Sometimes, when it rains, lightning occurs. Lightning is dangerous. It can kill people. It can burn buildings
When God created nature, He did not say that He would suspend these laws at will. That would go against the very thing He created.
2007-07-16 18:23:57 · answer #3 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
According to the Dictionary of Word Origins by John Ayto, the origin of the English word "steeple" comes from a German word "staup" meaning a high place or high tower. I am often amazed when tracing English word origins that the roots of many modern church words seem to bring back remembrances of Scriptures in the Bible like the following:
Woe, woe to you! says Yahweh-that you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street. You built your high places at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry! Ezekiel 16:24,25
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph. 6:12
2007-07-16 18:40:01 · answer #4 · answered by YUHATEME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tall steeples. If lightening strikes them it will ground it. We have them on the barn for the same reason
2007-07-16 18:24:02 · answer #5 · answered by foxfire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason they have fire doors: building codes.
2007-07-16 18:22:59 · answer #6 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Becuase God asked us to be stewards of what He has given us, and we have a head on our shoulders...
2007-07-16 18:21:29 · answer #7 · answered by JG-OR 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because those who don't lose their steeple.
2007-07-16 18:20:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋