Exodus 11 tells the story of Babel, and how God saw men building a great temple, and decided to hit them with different languages. He says:
"If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
This story makes it appear as if God doesn't want mankind to progress and abhors human education? He purposely scattered mankind, because they were communicating well. That action would have created wars, due to misunderstandings, and mistrust brought on by lack of communication.
Why does God hate humans?
2007-07-26 02:28:28 · 14 answers · asked by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Beauty,
That was a message given to Jeremiah to give to the Israelites, not given to mankind. God hated the Gentiles during Jeremiahs time, in fact, he spent the entire OT keeping the Jews separated from, and killing entire towns of Gentiles. God really didn't say anything about pride, in the babel story, he said that he was afraid that mankind could achieve anything with communication, and wanted to stop it.
Also Who was he talking to in that statement. "Let us"?
2007-07-26 02:42:22 · update #1
Fury.
Didn't God know that with the technology available at that time, the tower would eventually collapse in on itself? Didn't he know if they overcame the technology that, eventually they would reach space, and never reach the heavens?
If he is truly omniscient, then he did know that, and scattering the human race was just a vindictive act of pride, which did cause conflict and war, and God, initiating it, must be responsible for it. Correct?
That isn't an act of Love.
2007-07-26 02:46:25 · update #2
God was angry watching humans build tower to reach him.
So heaven is 20000 feet high.
Hmmm, easy!
And God got angry... as if he never knew they were going to build it.
Tells you more about omniscience of god.
2007-07-26 02:32:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't hate us!!!! God loves us more than any human being can love! The reason why God decided to confuse the people was because they wanted to reach heaven. Genesis 11:4 says:
"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."
If I were God, I would have done the same thing.
2007-07-26 02:37:15 · answer #2 · answered by Neilio 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Then He would not have given us curiosity and ability to learn in His image. He values education very highly. Progress is not the problem.
Nimrod and Babel were in "opposition to God" as Nimrod killed many of God's faithful people. Babel was constructed to be the equal of a obscene gesture to God. That is why God took action.
2007-07-26 02:53:53 · answer #3 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No God doesn't hate humans, and No God does not want to stop human progress. Look Up Jeremiah 29:11 in a Bible sometime.
2007-07-26 02:34:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-09 10:01:10 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually I believe he stopped them because they would attain immortality or omniscience if they were successful and god didn't want the competition so as any good dictator would do..... he cut his people down in their prime to keep them from attaining the power that he had.
Sounds like a real douchebag if you ask me.
2007-07-26 02:32:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't hate humans! in fact he loves us so much that he gave his one and only son Jesus. God changed their language because he was mad of man's pride!God is not pleased with the tower of babel that's why he did it
2007-07-26 02:35:32 · answer #7 · answered by hadassah_119 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If that was the case, then:
- NASA would never had a successful launch.
- Airplane travel would never work.
- Mt. Everest would be insurmountable.
Apparently, God is only a vengeful jack@$$ in the Old Testament.
2007-07-26 02:35:22 · answer #8 · answered by Professor Farnsworth 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, IF the Christian faith was correct (it isn't), then God must be a very selfish person. He wants us to spend billions of dollars constructing grand cathedrals in his name and on varius church-related things, even though there are billions of people in poverty.
2007-07-26 02:35:27 · answer #9 · answered by The Rationalist 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
By this question and the answers I have read, it is clear that you need to re-read the whole Bible again because you seem to have forgotten the reason the Bible stated we were created.
2007-07-26 02:59:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋