Okay, so I'm wondering why god is such a HATER? Why would a god want to divide people? A people with one language who were working in unity to get closer to a being that is supposed to love them. Why would any loving god want to destroy that? And why have we been allowed to make seemingly LARGER buildings now? Hell, we've made it to the moon. Why is god suddenly impotent?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel
2007-10-26 06:22:27 · 8 answers · asked by ►solo 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If your explanation is going to take the they-were-all-against-him route (as if THAT were even possible), then take the time to explain what's changed. What's different now?
2007-10-26 06:33:16 · update #1
Especially considering that the Egyptians built large scale pyramids within several years after the proposed time for the "tower" and various other cultures built massive structures as well.
It does seem strange for a spiritual god to be worried that man would be able to reach heaven by a physical means, and then not be worried about it or man's arrogance when we went to the the moon.
2007-10-26 06:31:52 · answer #1 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is it possible that an entity that is an enemy of God responsible for doing all of that can also be claiming to be God in order to make people believe that God is evil?
In post-World War II Ukraine, an army of insurgents based in the Eastern Carpathians fought against the occupying Soviet forces into the mid-fifties. The testimony of a former NKVD (the precursor to the KGB) agent responsible for the operations described below revealed that Soviet forces would regularly disguise themselves as rebel soldiers, and then go into villages and slaughter people to make people believe it was the insurgents, so that the populace wouldn't support the uprising. Given this empirical example as analogy, then, IS IT POSSIBLE???
2007-10-26 06:36:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is certainly NOT against unity. His Word has such things as:
Psalm 133:1 -- (A Song of Ascents. Of David.) Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!
It's not that they were unified, but that they were unified AGAINST God and his teachings. Nor was it a matter of the height of the building, but that they were building it to bypass God's route to "heaven."
2007-10-26 07:41:37 · answer #3 · answered by BC 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well that's a unique perspective. The point is that a) they were violating God's direct instructions and b) if you'd read the actual account you see that the leader of the city-builders was Nimrod, "a mighty hunter in opposition to God". They were not building the tower to get closer to him, they were building it to openly defy him.
2007-10-26 06:29:35 · answer #4 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They were working together under Nimrod, a satanist and a figure of the antichrist to come ahead of us. Nimrod was uniting people in rebellion against God.
God is merciful and spread out the people to stop Nimrod, and squelched the rebellion.
2007-10-26 06:26:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because it wasn't time yet for that kind of unity. God has perfect timing for everything.
2007-10-26 06:31:52 · answer #6 · answered by sisterzeal 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, the people were trying to reach all the way to Heaven, and God was worried that they might get there. So he had to do what he had to do.
2007-10-26 06:25:48 · answer #7 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
don't be hatin...god....
2007-10-26 06:25:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋