If god scattered humans after the tower of babel?

Question

Why is there no mythology, from any culture in the world that mentions their ancestors being teleported about the globe by god?

Genesis 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth

Kenan, that is not what the bible says, see above.

Phiyah-again that is not what the bible says, the bible says the lord scattered them.

Answer 1

Hello (((((((Friend)))))))


But there are other accounts.. :)

http://www.answers.com/topic/tower-of-babel

This article is about the Biblical story. For other uses, see Tower of Babel (disambiguation).


Other traditions

Various traditions similar to that of the tower of Babel are found in Central America. One holds that Xelhua, one of the seven giants rescued from the deluge, built the Great Pyramid of Cholula in order to storm Heaven. The gods destroyed it with fire and confounded the language of the builders. The Dominican friar Diego Duran (1537-1588) reported hearing this account from a hundred-year-old priest at Cholula, shortly after the conquest of Mexico.

Another story, attributed by the native historian Don Ferdinand d'Alva Ixtilxochitl (c. 1565-1648) to the ancient Toltecs, states that after men had multiplied following a great deluge, they erected a tall zacuali or tower, to preserve themselves in the event of a second deluge. However, their languages were confounded and they went to separate parts of the earth.

Still another story, attributed to the Tohono O'odham Indians, holds that Montezuma escaped a great flood, then became wicked and attempted to build a house reaching to heaven, but the Great Spirit destroyed it with thunderbolts. (Bancroft, vol. 3, p.76; also in History of Arizona)

Traces of a somewhat similar story have also been reported among the Tharus of Nepal and northern India (Report of the Census of Bengal, 1872, p. 160); and according to Dr Livingstone, the Africans whom he met living near Lake Ngami in 1879 had such a tradition, but with the builders' heads getting "cracked by the fall of the scaffolding" (Missionary Travels, chap. 26)

The Estonian myth of " the Cooking of Languages " (Kohl, Reisen in die 'Ostseeprovinzen, ii. 251-255) has also been compared.


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Answer 2

Genesis chapter 10, verses 5,20 and 31 describe Noah’s descendants spreading out over the earth “by their clans and languages, in their territories and nations.” How is this possible since God did not confuse the languages until the Tower of Babel in Genesis chapter 11? Genesis chapter 10 lists the descendants of Noah’s three sons; Shem, Ham, and Japheth. It lists their descendants for several generations. With the long lifespans of that time (see Genesis 11:10-25), the genealogies in Genesis chapter 10 likely cover several hundreds of years. The Tower of Babel account, told in Genesis 11:1-9, is a “flashback” to the point in Genesis chapter 10 when the languages were confused. Genesis 10 tells us of different languages. Genesis 11 tells us how the different languages originated.

Answer 3

Because the Tower of Babel is the Bible's version of a "Just-So" story, explaining why everyone has different languages. It's a charming story, and a fairly common one from ancient times, but how it found its way into the Bible is anyone's guess, especially since a chapter earlier (Genesis 10:5) the Bible states that people already spoke in different languages before the Babel story supposedly took place.

And nowhere does the Bible even imply that the story of Babel is a "flashback". The story simply appears, presumably because the author(s) felt it fit the timeline, and is never mentioned again.

Answer 4

Kenan is right, Jesus MythSuperStar.....

No one could understand one another, so they gathered together with those who spoke similarly and went their own ways....

By the way, the Tower of Babel is/ was in Babylon...Babel is the Hebrew word for Babylon....

It was possibly a Ziggurat whose ruins may still exist.....It is possible that the temple-tower (ziggurat) that is being referred to is the giant ziggurat built to honor the Babylonian god Marduk...It stood at the center of Babylon (Babel).

Edit:
It says they were scattered by God because in effect they were scattered by...It is possible they dispersed out of fear over what happened or they dispersed out of fear of each other because they could not understand one another...It could be neither or both maybe possible.

Either way, it was a result of God's actions and, so, in that vein, they were scattered by God....

Answer 5

It does not say teleported in the Bible it says scattered.

the 2 verses before this states that because of mankinds rebellion against God he said let us (the plurality of the Godhead) confound their languages which had been of one language and then they were scattered. As God said earlier, let us make man in our image.

Does God have to tell you 10,000 times before you will believe Him?

To the sceptic-a person determined not to believe something, no fact will change their mind, unless they are willing to be honest at some point in their life.

I was a sceptic for many years, and would have ended up separated from Jesus forever in hell. Instead I believed the truths of the promises of the redeeming Messiah Isaiah 9:6 and chapter 53 too. Perfect proofs of Jesus salvation predicted 700 years before He came. Still in the Jewish bible, who as promised in that chapter along with you and me ="He will be rejected and lay down His life to make atonement for our sins"
David the sweet pea, in Jesus my savior and best friend

Answer 6

People weren't teleported. God just changed their languages. After that, people scattered themselves out of the frustration of not being able to communicate to each other. God changed the language hence the reason it is said the God scattered them.

Answer 7

Your sarcasm only serves to make you look foolish. God confounded the language of men, and they were scattered to different corners of the Earth. Not teleported as you so childishly claim.

Answer 8

Because that didn't happen. He supposedly mixed their languages. They "scattered" because they couldn't talk to each other.

Answer 9

Maybe,God,couldn't keep track of who was scattered!

Answer 10

There are so many ancient stories that we believe without corroboration.