all i can say is Bin Landen is god right hand on earth
people dont learn, tall towers are not good, period.
btw Bin is more effective than his boss in getting people confuse and make them flee from tall towers
Can someone explain to me the story of the tower of Babel?
by tippysock 80 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Valis
Respect!
"god turned dare lingo into "babble"" 1 hat one bells, da whole earth spoke da same lingo. 2it so happened dat as dey moved hout hof da east, dey came upon da plain in da turf hof shinar an' settled down. 3they said to one anotha, "come, let's make bricks an' fire dem well." dey used brik fe stone an' tar fe mortar. 4thun dey said, "come, let's build ourselves da turf an' da towa dat reaches heavun. let's make ourselves famous so we won't be scattered in da house an' dere across da earth." 5god came down to chek ova da turf an' da towa those peeps had built. 6god took one chek an' said, "one peeps, one language; why, dis iz only da first step. narr tellin wot they'll spitz up wiv next--they'll stop hat naffink! 7come, we'll go down an' garble dare speech so dey won't feel each uva." 8thun god scattered dem from dere all ova da world. an' dey had to quit buildin da turf. 9that's how hit came to be called babel, coz dere god turned dare lingo into "babble." from dere god scattered dem all ova da world.
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Satanus
Well you see, there was a great challenge raised in eden that man could do ok without god. In this place, it looked like people would actually succeed. 'Course that would have made god the loser. He can't have that. So he sabotaged the human race. When you are god, you see, you can play it the way you want, to make sure that you win.
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noko59
Paul writtings reflects the almighty nature as this:
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all chruches of the saints. 1Cor 14:33
Seems a bit contrasting from Genesis does it not? Then again who is God of this world? The US in chapter 1 of Genesis and Jehovah in chapter 2 is also reveiling.
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Leolaia
There is some evidence, both in terms of Sumerian/Akkadian sources for the story and the structure of the story, that Genesis 11 conflates two originally separate traditions: one in which men build a city to keep the world's population together in one place, and another in which men build a tower to reach heaven. The exilic period would have been a time when both traditions could have merged, as Babylon was both the capital of a world empire and home to an enormous ziggurat.
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googlemagoogle
However, God expected His chosen people to exercise better judgment.
there's no talk about "chosen people" in the torah prior to israel...
those legends simply try to explain things people then didn't understand - why doesn't a snake have legs, why do we die, why do rainbows appear, why do other people have another language...
other cultures have explainations why monkeys exist, why rabbits have short tails, whatever...
before the invention of science, fables explained everything!
like someone else on this board said before: as soon as you see the bible (at least genesis) as what it is - a book of legends - everything makes perfect sense. -
xjw_b12
If god had not confused the languages, would we have all of the turmoil and suffering that has resulted from centuries of cultural, religious and political differentiation?
Blame god.
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gumby
God seperated people with language barriers,,, yet look what has resulted anyway.
We have massive cities, skyscrapers taller than what was started at babel, languages being taught to any who wish to learn, calculators that translate into our own language. Damn.....What's god gonna do when he steps in this time.......seperate us to different planets?
Gumby
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Frannie Banannie
Yes, I can explain it. The Tower of Babel story is a legend (story) used to explain the difference in spoken and written forms of communication, since some ppl couldn't figure it out for themselves. It's been entered in the "holy" scriptures as the God's honest truth, when it's simply a myth or legend passed off as the truth. Most nationalities and/or religions have their own legend which differs from this one, which is peculiar to the Christian nations.
Does it really make sense to think that an omnipotent deity would actually worry about its creation gaining power because they spoke the same language? We humans learn other languages and have translators today and things are progressing toward world peace, believe it or not....well....as soon as they can get rid of religious differences it will come. Medical science all over the world is working to cure fatal diseases and debilitating diseases, hunger and famine and aging. This, of course, is with the almighty dollar in mind, but the end result will be the same. Whoever has the most power (money/favors owed) will have the control over these things.
If a supreme deity were worried about abuse of power or the usurpation of its own, it would have thought of a way to destroy our means of trade (money/finances/authority over one another).
More than likely, the whole of the bible was gathered from ancient scrolls and banded together, translated in a way to please whoever was doing the translating or transcribing, in order for those in authority,.....to remain in authority........of course, that's men.....are we surprised?
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funkyderek
Interesting article on the subject: