2007-10-04 02:12:26 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is interesting that some of you point out that God's intent was to confuse us. This helps keep the "Freedom of choice" illusion alive! If we understood everything without doubt, then we would realize that it is all predestined to be.
The reason for the initial confusion, was not because of man's pride, rather because God, a collection of all spirit including yours and mine, was looking for a vacation from knowing it all! It kinda gets boring, you know?
So God, a collection of Creation/Creator materialized circumstance, one more complicated than the next to make Life interesting and somewhat disorderly as a challenge for the divisions of God's self in life. It is really not that complicated when you think of it!
2007-10-06 05:58:37 · update #1
Maybe you mean "Babel" but I think I understand what you are saying.
It is true - There is division and controversy about almost everything in and about the Bible! Go to a "Christian" bookstore and see how many different opinions there are about this or that!
But I always remember what someone said long ago:
In essentials, there must be unity
In non-essentials, there can be diversity
In ALL things - there must be love.
If Christians can live THAT way, we are fulfilling the Lord's commands.
god bless
2007-10-04 02:22:19 · answer #1 · answered by happy pilgrim 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People use it to divide us from each other.
6 And the Lord said, "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. 7 Come, 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.
My question is this: when God says "Let US..." who is he speaking to? Athene? Athene always gets my vote... but as the Goddess of wisdom, I would think that she would object to this idea of God's.
Edit to the guy below: Bible does not come from babble any more than men came from monkeys!!! They may have a common linguistic ancestor (sound familiar?) - although current theory says "babble" came from the Middle English babelen, probably of imitative origin in the 13th century. The word Bible comes from "biblio," which is Latin for "book."
2007-10-04 02:27:52 · answer #2 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Bible" comes from the word "Babble" which means something like "Speaking" ... so "Bible" means "The word was spoken" ... Tower of Babble in the legends is the place where everyone started speaking a different language, one of which no other could understand... and then the city of Babylon was made there in the memory of this happening.
2007-10-04 02:28:01 · answer #3 · answered by Geist König 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Just some quotes to share with you:
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand." - Mark Twain
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means." - George Bernard Shaw
2007-10-04 02:19:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not....
The tower of Babel is where all of our known languages & races came from........God brought confusion to those people because of their pride & sin.
The Bible is not confusion
2007-10-04 02:16:15 · answer #5 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is a kind of question which confuse the stupid brains.
So, your question is Babel
2007-10-04 02:31:23 · answer #6 · answered by gabuzo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both are myths without any significant evidence.
2007-10-04 02:18:38 · answer #7 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Explain?????
2007-10-04 02:15:27 · answer #8 · answered by JonB 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not.
2007-10-04 02:22:46 · answer #9 · answered by LaptopJesus 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋