Help me out with the tower of babel, please?

Question

I may have this wrong but here is my reading of the tower of babel.

God (R-Heaven) is all-loving and wants us to love him too. So some people who really loved god got together and built a tower to try to be closer to God (since they loved him so much). But all this love angered this all-loving God so he struck down the tower and as punishment he cast humanity (which he loves) into separate tribes - more or less sentencing them to spend the rest of history killing each other in senseless wars.

Answer 1

They built this tower out of pride.....not love for God.

They wanted to be equal, if not, "higher" than God.......and it wasn't happening any time soon

Answer 2

During the days of Noah the majority of the descendents of the covenant people apostatized and adopted ways of gross wickedness. Then the Lord sent a flood that destroyed the unrepentant. In the aftermath, a covenant was made with Noah and his seed to reestablish the people of God. on the earth ( Gen. 9:11) But afterwards people began again to rebell against God.

(Gen. 11:5–7). Before the tower, “the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech” (Gen. 11:1), but the building of the tower brought the Lord’s decision to confuse the tongues so the people could “not understand one another’s speech” (Gen. 11:7), preventing further defilement of the Lord’s true worship. The curse, in addition, resulted in the scattering of the people “upon the face of the whole earth,” a phrase given three different times for emphasis (see Gen. 11:4, 8, 9).


Early Jewish and Christian traditions reported that Nimrod built the Tower of Babel, referred to as a pagan temple, in an attempt to contact heaven. Among the Jews, Nimrod’s name has always been a “symbol of rebellion against God and of usurped authority”:

The account in Genesis provides further insight regarding the significance of the building of the tower. First, the impetus in building this temple was to make themselves a name (see Gen. 11:4). In other words, Nimrod was proposing that they build a temple to receive the name of God doing it in a way not directed by God, in the way they wanted to do it using their own contrived ceremonies without doing it in God's way. Second, they wanted to build this tower as a place to gather so they would not be “scattered” (Gen. 11:4)

Answer 3

The Tower of Babel was taken from an earlier legend, probably Sumerian or Akkadian, but similar stories are all over the place. It's sort of like the Noah story in that sense. Any Jewish interpretation would have been added onto the original idea.

The usual theme is to contrast the ancient hero, Abraham, with one of the first great literary villains, Nimrod.

Answer 4

Nimrod was not a worship per of God. He was called a "mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah" Gen. 10: 9

The tower of Babel was not built to worship and praise Jehovah, but was dedicated to false man made religion, with a motive of making a "celebrated name" for the builders.
Gen. 11: 4

Jehovah saw because they all spoke one language that they were up to no good. "Look! They are one people and there is one language for them all, and this is what they start to do. Why, now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unattainable for them. Com now! Let us go down and there confuse their language that they may not listen to one another's language. ....That is why its name was called Babel, because there Jehovah had confused the language of all the earth and Jehovah had scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth." Gen. 11: 6-9

Confusing the language also encourage them to scatter and fill the earth as they were suppose to do.

Answer 5

That sums it up pretty well. Did you ever see that movie about the tower of Babel? When the tower was so high, they discovered the sky was solid. It took them forever, but they dug and chiseled and finally broke through the solid sky only to be at the bottom starting the tower.

Answer 6

think of what is going to ensue if during the internet, interior of 50 years each and every person would be talking one language and which will final for a pair of generations till the previous languages are forgotten. then comes a cataclysm and destroyes the internet, besides as present day delivery. human beings grow to be remoted returned and reinvent their languages :) it particularly is form of like the tower of babel.

Answer 7

That's just about it... although it's useful to keep in mind, in trying to understand this story, that they regarded the 'sky' is a physical object... the 'firmament'... an actual dome that covered the earth... and God lived on the other side of the sky. That's what had god so worried... he didn't want a bunch of boorish humans tracking mud all over his gold-paved streets, up there on the other side of the sky.

Answer 8

God destroyed the tower out of fear that man can accomplish anything... It made the all powerful being feel as though he had created a being that would one day rival his own, so he went and ****ed it all up for job security.

Answer 9

it's all an allegory for the collapse of the internet that existed on the home planet before it was hit by an electromagnetic wave and the people had to escape in a spaceship led by captain noah and his 3 sons.

Answer 10

Is funny, or tragic ,that when people use the free will given by God the same god punish them.

My opinion they were great engineers.

Answer 11

They didn't build the tower to be closer to God because of love they wanted to prove that they can reach heaven *without* the help of God