I thought the tower of Babel incident was totally unfair, they said the people making it were really evil but I couldn't see where they got that from the bible.
Here is EVERYTHING the bible has to say about that incident:
(Genesis 11:1-9) 11 Now all the earth continued to be of one language and of one set of words. 2 And it came about that in their journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valley plain in the land of Shi´nar, and they took up dwelling there. 3 And they began to say, each one to the other: "Come on! Let us make bricks and bake them with a burning process." So brick served as stone for them, but bitumen served as mortar for them. 4 They now said: "Come on! Let us build ourselves a city and also a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves, for fear we may be scattered over all the surface of the earth." 5 And Jehovah proceeded to go down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built. 6 After that Jehovah said: "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. 7 Come now! Let us go down and there confuse their language that they may not listen to one another’s language." 8 Accordingly Jehovah scattered them from there over all the surface of the earth, and they gradually left off building the city. 9 That is why its name was called Ba´bel, 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.
There is no reason to believe that they were evil, they were, in fact UNITED.
God did confuse them because they were evil, he confused because: "They are one people" And because: "there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unattainable for them."
In short, God saw them succeeding, so he cheated again.
The WTS claims that Nimrod was evil because of this:
(Genesis 10:9) 9 He displayed himself a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah. That is why there is a saying: "Just like Nim´rod a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah."
That does not meen that he was a tyrant, or even a dislikable person, it just meens that he was in opposition to god. What's wrong with that? Isn't that the WHOLE POINT of letting humans rule themselves?
Plus, I can't find any other translation that says he was in opposition to god, most of them say: "He was a mighty hunter before the LORD" or rarely: "He was a powerful hunter in the sight of the L ORD ."
Saying he was in opposition to Jehovah is completely arbitrary, and an excellent example of how bad the NWT is.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2010:9;&version=9 ;
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